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Ada

@ ada @piefed.blahaj.zone

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  • European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams

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  • I mean, matrix is similar. So many official features aren't supported by various clients, and then there are non official features that the clients do support, that aren't supported by the official clients.But matrix or XMPP, that problem is easily enough avoided at the "government rollout" level by standardising on a particular client and server combination

  • I had emergency surgery and as a result it looks like I will be zonked out on oxys for the next week. Never had these, what are some good movies to watch in this condition?

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  • When it happened to me, I had a 1000 song countdown of the best songs by Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.

    Not sure I would recommend it...

  • Darktable 5.4.1 is released 🥳

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  • Who said there was big news?

  • COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 Roadmap

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  • Oof, Epoch 3 for HDR. They were hoping to have it soon after their first stable release :/

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  • I can't speak to the early days of the internet, but for the early days of the web at least, the fediverse is the closest thing we have to the "spirit" of the old web. Everyone running their own things, no central portals, web search was diverse (but not that great). Communities existed not so much on social media platforms, but in the form of webrings, mailing lists and usenet (none of which were centralised).

    Web pages were less javascript and css, and more straight html. So pages tended to be static. Images loaded line by line, and often the whole web page would jump around as images loaded if the html didn't pre-emptively set the image size, because the browser had no idea what size the image was going to be until it finished loading it.

    But importantly, a significant amount of content was generated by people, not companies. Communities and pages were driven more likely to be created by people with an interest in that specific thing than a company trying to make money, because SEO wasn't a thing.

    But AOL, yahoo, google, they all got the idea that there was money to be made by making the search page the gateway through which everything else was found and accessed. And that was a sign of what was to come. Centralisation, predatory trapping of users via the network effect, enshittification... All of it... ALL of it, driven by companies chasing the advertising dollar, rather than passionate nerds making content for other passionate nerds.

    It's why I say the fediverse is spiritually the closest you will find to that time period. Communities are driven by passionate nerds, shaped by people interested in whatever it is that they're interested in, and building communities without relying on a centralised platform to provide the infrastructure.

  • I'm going to run marathon!

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  • With my background, I probably could have gone faster, but with running season almost here, 4 months brings too high a risk of injury to scale up my mileage that fast. And 16 months is a bit slower than I'd like, but short of crossing the equator, my options are basically 4 months or 16 months :)

    Are you adding any 5/10k races in your build up for the half?

    I run parkrun every single weekend, so I don't do 5km races. I could do a 10km, but I don't have anything specific planned.

    We'll see how it goes :)

  • I'm going to run marathon!

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  • I started slowly building up in November. The goal is a HM this running season. But the plan now is to not stop there, but keep going!

    I've never truly stopped running in the last 10 years, but my distance has radically cut down. For much of it, I was only doing a 5km parkrun every 2 or 3 weeks as my only run. So barely running, but still running :)

  • So many successes

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  • What I'm getting at is that your "but" made it sound like you were challenging her findings, rather than images incorrect summary of her findings.

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  • Crusader Kings II, or possibly III, I don't actually know...

  • So many successes

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  • Broadly, what you said was "Power to her, but what’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe". The "but" in that statement is that issue, as it sounds like you're challenging her findings with a correction, but your correction was just to summarise her actual findings

  • Need help setting up Immich to index my pictures on another drive

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  • Share the volumes section of your docker compose file

    Also, just in case, for pre-existing image collections (rather than one you will manually upload to immich) you need to use the "external libraries" feature in the admin settings. You should be pointing that feature at the docker mount point you have listed in your compose file

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    Trans athlete of Lemmy, how do you manage the locker-room transition ?

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  • In Australia, it's not the same issue it is in the US. Trans rights are protected here, and so, trans folk are legally allowed to use the locker room that is right for them, and on top of that, locker rooms in Australia generally don't involve people getting naked around each other either to change or to shower. Locker room showers are generally in individual stalls, each with its own small changing area as part of the stall (something like this). That is where the majority of people change. There is a public area with lockers, but people in that space after a shower are mostly either already dressed, or in their underwear.

    From my own personal experience, when I was a roller derby player before COVID, it was a non issue. Of course, roller derby is perhaps the most trans inclusive sport on the planet, so I'm not sure it's a good example. Public swimming pools haven't been an issue because of the shower design I mentioned above. And as a runner, I don't really use public change rooms

    tl;dr - It's only an issue because transphobes choose to make it an issue

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I think it was two years or so for me now, but honestly, it's going great. I've got alternatives for the windows only apps I used to use, and my games run smoothly.

    Every time I have to use a windows computer for some reason, I'm reminded of why I stopped using that OS...

  • So many successes

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  • Originally, banjos post read like the line about Vera Rubin was outright incorrect, rather than simply being a case of the OP in the image making a poor summary of her contributions.

    It sounded like Banjo was challenging Vera's relevance in the list, rather than clarifying what she actually did

  • So many successes

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  • What’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity

    This is actually the bit that Vera Rubin discovered. The summary of her discovery in the quote is the issue :)

  • Searching Hosted Images by Star Rating (Immich, Photoprism, etc)

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  • Immich can search by star rating, but you need to enable the feature as it's not enabled by default. Go to Account Settings / Features / Star Rating.

    After that, it appears in your search options/filters

  • Fediverse Instances for Digital Nomads and Travelers

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  • I don't need the instances (we host pretty much the same ones), but I'll be joining a lot of those communities!

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    Places to increase a image's quality (without using AI)?

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  • Seems like you can’t download a image without getting it on a terrible quality anymore.

    I'm a little confused as to what you mean by this?

  • Why do criminals always dress / act / talk / look the same?

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  • I find the things all the time, so I’m definately missing a lot. That’s not really what I’m talking about though.

    Which makes your question "Why do a specific subset of criminal folk, that I've defined as looking and acting in a specific fashion, look and act in a similar fashion?"