In a way that it allows me to salvage any burnt bread by simply unroasting it? Or a time machine that will take me back to the dinosaurs but I’ll arrive dead and crispy?

I never did, but I also don’t know any other Lemmy user in person, so I guess it’s pretty pointless to share my profile.

From my perspective Lemmy by far isn’t as user-centric as Mastodon. In Mastodon you mainly follow people whereas in Lemmy you subscribe to communities.

I had a HP Veer, a HP Pre 3 and a HP Touchpad and they were all great devices at the time, all running WebOS. If HP hadn’t ditched its development, it might have turned into a successful competitor for Android and iOS, definitely better than Windows Phone.

Congratulations and good luck with your publication!

If you want to avoid conflicts maybe drop a short message to one of the mods upfront but otherwise I wouldn’t worry too much! :)

Anyone knows how that fingerprinting might have worked here? Unless you used a very specific combination of browser extensions, I can’t get my head around how it could track you… Or do they maybe use external services like Google Analytics to identify users? But even that would require that you logged in somewhere else before with that same browser.

If you don’t have a problem with second hand, I’d recommend to check out Vinted. If you live in Germany you can also check Kleinanzeigen.

I got several pairs of barefoot shoes in good condition there for relatively cheap.

I had shoes from Leguano, Wildling, Merrell (US) and vivobarefoot.

It’s like living in medium sized town

I really like that analogy and think it fits quite well! There are by far too many users to know them all, but as you scroll through your feed and all, you keep recognizing users who you once had a discussion with or who keep posting or commenting interesting stuff to your favorite communities.

I just browse all from time to time and if I recognize interesting / funny content from a community several times I subscribe.

Regarding your specific example, there pretty good reasons not to use AI if there’s an adequate alternative, so I can absolutely understand people arguing against that.

AI is resource intensive and thus bad for the environment. Results usually aren’t deterministic, so the behavior is no longer reproducible. If there is a defined algorithm to solve the issue in a correct way, AI will be less accurate. If you use cloud services, you may run into privacy issues.

Not saying there aren’t any use cases for LLMs or other forms of AI. But just applying it everywhere 'cause it’s fancy, is not a good idea.

In general, I appreciate if people question my work or come up with proposals for improvement as long as it’s polite and the person is at least qualified to some degree. However, that does not mean that I change my mind immediately and follow their advice.

I use the regular KeePass 2 and love it. It looks a bit oldfashioned but is a very powerful tool once you get used to it a bit. As there are plenty of addons you can also easily extend the standard feature set with further options.

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Appreciate your work and support for the Fediverse although I personally don’t miss the AI-based recommendation algorithms from the big platforms. If you keep watching ‘your interests’ it also hardens your personal media bubble. I prefer ‘dumb’ algorithms like ‘most upvoted’, ‘most controversial’, ‘newest’ etc.

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I guess in many companies that’s the reasons why policies were intentionally made less flexible lately. They lower remote work because they want a certain percentage of employees to leave. During COVID many tech companies had a huge peak in demand and hired a ton of people. Now, as demand lowered, they’re looking for cheap ways to get rid of the staff again.

IMHO it’s not a smart tactic because you tend to lose the best employees first as they easily find a better opportunity elsewhere.

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I still use Firefox on PC and Fennec on my mobile. So far I have no plans to change that.

This sounds like a very weird policy to me. The mails to my account are 99.9…% mails from other services. Registrations, newsletters, order confirmations, password resets etc. If you filter out such mails, the account would be pretty meaningless to me. And if it unlocks automatically, also scammers can wait a couple of days between account creation and using it.

Do I understand correctly that a third of all servers went down in a single month? Is that a normal situation because of people self-hosting and losing interest again? Or should we be alarmed?