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Otter

@ otter @lemmy.ca

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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death

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  • This was actually an important point in the article, I should have included it in the post

    Dror Baron, an NCSU professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, wrote on X, "A professor I know died following various investigations. I know the people mentioned here, and call for a transparent and independent investigation."

    So far, that investigation has not been forthcoming. University spokesperson Mick Kulikowski declined to comment to The Technician about Brain's death or the allegations. To date, the university has not issued a public statement about Brain's death.

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

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  • Could it help with internal tasks, like self-hosted services or a business that transfers files around a lot?

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  • Cool :)

    Fontsource is a collection of open-source fonts that are packaged into individual NPM packages for self-hosting in your web applications. This documentation outlines the benefits of using Fontsource and how to get started. Advantages

    1. Performance - Self-hosting fonts can significantly improve website performance by eliminating the extra latency caused by additional DNS resolution and TCP connection establishment that is required when using a CDN like Google Fonts. This can help to prevent doubled visual load times for simple websites, as benchmarked here and here.

    2. Version Locking - Fonts remain version locked. Google often pushes updates to their fonts without notice, which may interfere with your live production projects. Manage your fonts like any other NPM dependency.

    3. Privacy - Commit to privacy. Google does track the usage of their fonts and for those who are extremely privacy concerned, self-hosting is an alternative.

    4. Offline - Your fonts load offline. This feature is beneficial for Progressive Web Apps and situations where you have limited or no access to the internet.

    5. Additional Fonts - Support for fonts outside the Google Font ecosystem. This repository is constantly evolving with other Open Source fonts. Feel free to contribute!

  • Lissen: Audiobookshelf client (Clean Audiobookshelf Player)

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  • Sounds similar to the case with Jellyfin & Findroid (and likely Swiftfin)

    The official Jellyfin app has full functionality, but it feels clunky. Especially for casual users.

    The native third party app is smooth, intuitive, and visually nice, but is missing a few features (ex. Admin dashboard).

    What I've seen recommended was:

    • Findroid (and likely Swiftfin) for daily use
    • Keep the official Jellyfin app installed for when it is needed

  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • [Question] Any Good Black Friday Deals?

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  • Is there a community where I can get news about technology as in science, as opposed to "drama involving tech companies"?

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  • It's not supposed to be since the rules say

    Things that don’t fit

    • Minor app updates
    • Government legislation
    • Company news
    • Opinion pieces

    I'll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn't see it yet

    This seems like an area where there's demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning

  • What's your current favorite browser for Android?

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  • uBlock Origin is the main one

    Search by Image and Web Archives are two others that I like to have on mobile

    I'd love to learn some more as well :)

  • Is there a community where I can get news about technology as in science, as opposed to "drama involving tech companies"?

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  • I linked the wrong community earlier and then changed it

    If the lemmit one also looks empty, it could be because you are the first person in your instance to come across the community. If you subscribe, it should start pulling the contents so you can see it.

    It doesn't look like lemm.ee blocked it so hopefully the stuff above is the cause

  • What's your current favorite browser for Android?

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  • Firefox with a handful of extensions for day to day use

    I keep Brave with custom configuration ready for when extra privacy is needed. Firefox based browsers on Android are currently missing site isolation so that's what privacy guides recommends for the time being.

    https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/

    It might be cool to see something like Zen on Android, but I'm not sure what changes I'd like to see aesthetics / features wise. Brave looks fancier, but I find it annoying to use for a number of reasons. Off the top of my head

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    Mirror Mastodon content on Lemmy

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  • While possible, I think it ends up being a bit of a janky setup. The problem is that Lemmy doesn't let you follow individual users, whether they are on Lemmy or Mastodon.

    You could try out mbin. It's similar to Lemmy, but has a microblogging feed that you can use to follow people

    https://joinmbin.org/servers

    Personally I keep a separate mastodon account since I find the formats to be separate

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  • Yup, the vast majority of the posts weren't worth reading even before generative AI was this accessible

  • Is there a community where I can get news about technology as in science, as opposed to "drama involving tech companies"?

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  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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  • In a recent court proceeding, WMF’s legal team offered a supposed middle path, proposing it take the unusual step of serving summons to the editors itself, thereby revealing their identities only to the court, not the wider public. Wikipedians, however, do not see this as a compromise—it’s capitulation. Last week, Wikipedia editors published an open letter to the Foundation, urging it to protect its volunteers’ privacy regardless of the outcome. It reads in part

    only to the court, not the wider public

    Would this really be that much better? Once the information is out, it's impossible to hide again

    And the consequences would not end with this case. Compliance may discourage contributions from editors worldwide, not just those under authoritarian rule. WMF submission could encourage other governments to make similar demands, putting Wikipedia in an untenable position and reducing its influence where free knowledge is needed most

    This bit also seemed important

  • Lemmy right now

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  • DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

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  • Too much for me, I'm out 🏳️

  • DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

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  • I think they should sell it to me.

  • What do you like to do during a power outage?

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  • Agreed, the map made it seem like a lot of separate incidents were all happening at the same time. I'm impressed with how efficiently they're working through it all

  • What do you like to do during a power outage?

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  • We're good! It came back on for us earlier. The crews are working hard out there