I’d argue that Lemmy is a type of Internet Forum. At least far more so than Discord is. It’s just far more distributed and less focused on a specific topic, while still maintaining the ability to hold longer form individual conversations that are indexed, open to the public, and searchable.

[A comment I posted 9mo ago]

I fucking hate Discord and how it’s absorbed what should be forums.

When I’m creating a discussion online about a particular game or project, I’m looking to hear from the broader community over a longer term; not just limited to whomever happens to be online on this one specific platform at the time of posting.

People have different schedules, we’re not all online together at the same times; especially when you factor in timezones. Discord however makes it massively frustrating if not impossible to hold a discussion unless everyone you want to talk to is present and ready to read and reply now. Otherwise your conversation gets burried in the mess of other people having their own conversations and nobody wants to scroll through thousands of messages in the history of when they last logged on.

You can break out conversations into their own rooms, but that only goes so far and at that point you may as well just have a damn forum; that’s what they are for.

Then you get into the problem of repetition and searchability. People often run into common problems or ask the same questions; but with Discord, you’ve got to re-explain the same things every time they’re brought up, instead of just pointing the user to an old forum post that already solves their problem (they may have even found it themselves through a web search, saving them from even having to ask and waste people’s time. Discord isn’t indexed by search engines so old conversations/solutions are lost).

A group chat platform is not an acceptable replacement for a forum and I will die on that god damn hill.

Deepfakes combined with a romance scam. Pretend to be someone with a legitimate background that you father can verify himself, legitimised with synthetic images and voice (video isn’t quite there in terms of reliable quality, so they stick to static images), some of which will even contain current dates/events and even his name written out, all to make it seem like a real person.

The scammer is playing the long con, building a relationship and slowly working towards a situation where your father wants to give them money, or even slips up and provides them with some sort of access to his accounts. It’s not going to be sudden or obvious. They may not even ask directly, but craft a scenario where your father offers himself.

https://youtu.be/srr0rRgF2Fw

https://youtu.be/ACijyfS3ya4

I wonder just how much would absorb that way… Literally swimming in cocaine?

Skin contact + sweat to disolve it. Breathing in airborne powder. Whatever makes it into your mouth/eyes…

You’re not comming out of that bath sober.

Something tells me the people that drop these off aren’t entirely sure what they’ve got, just ‘random metal object I don’t need/want’.

I doubt people think a recycling center should have/know what to do with explosives…

Not a bad view of Okanagan Lake.

Long-press on the auto-rotate quick icon in the notification tray:

(This was coming back to the store, not leaving)

Do you mind if I ask what bank issued those? Why? Does the chip+pin also tap or are they features on totally separate cards?

I’ve never heard of a separate tap to pay token (outside of perhaps transit passes or like, arcade cards), and never a card based tap transaction that asks for a pin.

Wire that thin is usually insulated with an enamel coating. I’d guess it’s either unaffected by acetone, or just tougher to breakdown. Allow the card to dissolve, but remove and dry asap, don’t let it linger longer than necessary.

Veritasium demoed this a few weeks ago while discussing tap-to-pay security and a vulnerability with apple pay+visa.

You could put the rubber bands in between the phone and the case, so it’s not on top of the screen.

I try to be in the habit of making a full image onto a demonstrably working spare card every couple weeks.

That’s a whole lot of writing to an sd card, wearing it out. It may fail by the time you want to read it. You also destroy each previous backup by creating a new one.

Each of my rpis backup to my main server nightly using dd via ssh. The server then keeps historical backups of those .img files via Borg so I can pull any version from any day of the last year or so.

I’m 30 today. I’m supposed to be all wise and responsible now…

That’s how that works right? Now I know things?

Who gives out the knowledge sheet…? I don’t think mine showed up.

JFC. 🤦

My dumb ass forgot ponys exist. I’m sitting here staring at this thing wondering why that dog looks so much like a horse…

I’m baffled at my own stupidity and had to share.

Now for someone to unknowingly press it and torpedo this persons career while burying them in lawsuits…

Having never had tinnitus, I’m going to assume the correct answer is:

There’s no mention of a gun rack; I think she just had it loose in the back seat…

I use Emby instead of Plex or Jellyfin; mostly because it has an Xbox client, and I’ve already got a lifetime licence. One of my most active users only watches via Xbox.

Really don’t like Plexs centralised user system or the overall direction they’ve been headed for years, so I moved away from that long ago (8+ years ago at least). Jellyfin wasn’t up to par at the time (though they’ve made leaps and bounds of progress in that time), and Emby has always supported more types of devices\clients. Their device limit (the client count limit with premeir) has never come into play for me, but I know there are larger user bases out there where that is a problem.

Embys development is extremely slow though, taking YEARS to implement simple features or even address major concerns. Plus their support sucks without the community stepping in and providing it on behalf of the staff. Luke (the main dev) is better at copy+pasting candid responses than he is at actually interacting with human beings.

Installed a new keyboard yesterday and that’s what auto filled… (See my post history if you don’t believe me) Fixed

They definitely do; while interesting, unfortunately a good chunk of that video was basically an advertisement full of half truths. It’s also over 7 years old.

‘These breakdown over time, but it’s perfectly fine, you could take a bite out of these chews one on camera’ … Sure buddy.

You could replace a good chunk of those with a floating barge type thing made of solar panels though, keeping the sun off of the water and collecting the energy.

You’ll still need something dynamic around the edges, to deal with the rise\fall of the water changing the shoreline, but there’s lots of room in the center.