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Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] nix@merv.news 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Waterfox is a good fork to move to

User icons in voyager in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 8 months ago

Praying this also means the Profile button will merge with the Settings button so the middle button can be a Create Post button so creating user content is much easier especially for new users

Where do people make friends online today? in c/casualconversation@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 8 months ago

Instagram and discord

The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Little Brother is amazing. Its a novel that takes place in California after a terrorist attack and Homeland Security uses the attack as an excuse to go full fascist and start tracking and arresting people on terrorism charges with no trial.

It includes mention and use of a ton of real technologies (tor, torrents, linux, pgp key signing parties, etc) and the main characters are teens that use a jailbroken gaming console to create a p2p network/community of hackers to fight back against fascism. It shows how communities can organize and share files and information, how communities can be infiltrated, how people can avoid surveillance using technology and even simple things like placing a pebble in your shoe to avoid gait recognition (which the cameras in their schools use to track each student).

I highly recommend it! Homeland is the sequel and it looks like theres a new book as part of the story. I haven’t read any of the other books other than parts of Walkaway which I want to finish when I have time. Walkaway is a story about people who essentially leave society to build an open source society/commune

Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not even the CIA believes it was the fault of Cuba “In January 2022, the Central Intelligence Agency issued an interim assessment concluding that the syndrome is not the result of "a sustained global campaign by a hostile power". Foreign involvement was ruled out in 976 cases of the 1,000 reviewed”

Also the embargo started way before 2016 so what weird point you have there to try and justify the richest government in the world punishing one of the poorest countries while it also bombs countless other countries.

Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How does it hurt Cuba’s economy that people can’t do business with them? How does it hurt Cuba’s economy that the most powerful country with the most influence over the world doesn’t let people do business with Cuba? How does it hurt their economy that its a pain in the ass to travel there? You must be joking

Voyager 1.43.0 now supports spoilers in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah its a platform most people already use so it makes it much easier. the more options for people to donate the better

Voyager 1.43.0 now supports spoilers in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Wow thats amazing! Please create a Patreon!

Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

But it ruins their economy which makes it harder to afford food

US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From the documentary “Killing Gaza” 2018

Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 109 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Its still absurd Cuba is under sanctions. The foreign policy of the US is so horrendous

Mistral bot now joins my family of AI bots on Lemmy in c/chatgpt@lemmy.world
[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world What month and day would this mini corn dog day be?

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Do we have enough coders to collaborate on an extension like this? (merv.news)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by nix@merv.news to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
21 comments fedilink
 

EDIT: the extension now supports Lemmy comments!

https://lemmy.world/post/9401361

Youtube comments are historically terrible so this Reddit comment for YouTube is a great extension to never have to read YouTube comments. I no longer use Reddit though and would love to have a similar extension using Lemmy comments that also work on piped/invidious and maybe be compatible with any website/link

Do you think this could be crowdsourced as a collaboration by the Lemmy community to make this an AGPL extension? If so how do we get started? (Idk how to code)

(The extension in the picture is an extension that adds Reddit Comments under a youtube video https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-comments-for-youtube/ )

Source code: https://github.com/Xyl-AU/Reddit-Comments-for-YouTube

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Lemming shares the story of meeting their wife on Omegle (lemmy.world)
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Ability to subscribe to a thread? (merv.news)
 

I know its not possible on Lemmy itself yet but it would be great to be able to subscribe to threads. Sometimes theres a thread im interested in keeping up with any new comments (like how we did on forums). So it would be great to be able to subscribe to a thread and get notifications on any new comments.

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anyone know ios shortcuts wnough to fix the avert paywall with archive.is shortcut? (merv.news)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
2 comments fedilink
 

There’s this great ios Shortcut called Avert Paywall With Archive.is that has been working for years but as of ios 17.1 it no longer works because the safari browser that pops up gets stuck halfway.

Does anyone here have enough experience making Shortcuts to fix it? It would be really helpful. Here’s the link to it: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/81c670b532e340e38a35cc62e3e9397d

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How to download mega links without quota? (merv.news)
 

Is there a way to bypass mega's transfer quota with paying for a vpn or anything?

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why dont any lemmy apps have a Create Post button? (merv.news)
 

All the apps make it very difficult to create a post. You have to know what community you will be posting to, search for the community, click the three dots, click create post, click whether it’s a photo/link/text and then start posting.

Why not just have a Create Post button with the title field, url field, body text field, and a button to upload a photo and then a choose community button

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Have any of you used Tailscale's AirDrop alternative Taildrop? (tailscale.com)
 

I just discovered it today and I'm considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don't use TailScale so I'm not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to send any photos etc to my pc when I'm not home and have them their when I arrive sorta like I used pushbullet in the past.

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Drivers Co-op is doing a kickstarter to expand their Uber alternative thats owned by the drivers. (www.kickstarter.com)
 

I remember seeing this app a couple months ago and being excited about a team finally doing this. They've been available in New York City for a while and now they're trying to raise money to expand to more places. Hopefully they open source the app\server in the future since it would be great to have more co-op apps for the other "gig economy" style apps.

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Suggestion: Apps should automatically show all comments from crossposted threads and threads with the same link (merv.news)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink
 

It would be much more convenient to have a thread have all the comments that are on crossposts and threads with the same link. They could have a little indicator mentioning the title of the thread it's posted on with a link to the thread. This would also help people come across new communties.

It could look something like this

clicking on the link to the thread could open it within the app allowing you to then easily browse the community in case you want to subscribe to it

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[Solved] How to backup an entire blog hosted on medium.com? (merv.news)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
10 comments fedilink
 

Using Archive.org doesn't work on medium posts and ideally I want to archive every post. The blog I'm trying to archive is https://itsairborne.com in case the posts go down. Googling how to backup medium posts only gives me articles on how to do it if it were my blog. I found this extension called Monolith of Web that allows you to backup a website using the Rust tool Monolith and I just went to each article and clicked the extension and saved them all one by one

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Unifree - Migrate Unity projects to Godot (github.com)
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Stream any torrent in sync with your friends (github.com)
 

Multiplex, an app to watch torrents together. It provides an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party, except for any torrent instead of a specific streaming service. Thanks to WebRTC, it doesn't require a server to sync playback, and can use a gateway if a viewer can't use BitTorrent. It's written in Go for GNOME; check it out on GitHub https://github.com/pojntfx/multiplex

made by @pojntfx@mastodon.social

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