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  • Once in a while I search for communities I might like and subscribe to them. I then only browse my subscribed communities, so I don't have to block communities. I think of it as white listing my Lemmy feed.

    Browsing all and then blocking communities I don't like seems like black listing. It seems like it's a lot more work.

  • I've also been the one on the opposite side of the classroom. I was lab based, so we didn't use Turn it in.

    With a reasonably sized class, you can easily spot which students have worked together because their reports tend to be shockingly similar.

    I agree that you get a feel for them with informal conversations and you can see how their submissions tie up with your informal conversations.

    I used to tweak the questions year on year. I've suspected there is a black market, an assignment exchange, or something because I caught students submitting work from previous years. They were mainly international students that were only there for their masters year.

  • Why do you believe podman is more secure than root-less Docker? Please educate me.

    I run root-ful and root-less Docker daemons at the same time on the same machine because there are limitations to what you can do without as root privileges. So where possible, containers run in root-less Docker and the lucky few that require root privileges run in root-ful Docker.

  • I know it's technically correct but it still hurts a little inside to admit it each time.

    I know the reason is because giga is an SI prefix but all the way through my education, 1 GB was taught to be 1024 MB, so I always want to use this instead of what is correct.

    To be fair, the tech industry has been naughty with things like this. I know of two. I wonder how many others there are?

    I believe that:

    • The style of characters a user can choose is called a typeface. I think every piece of software calls it a font. I remember hearing it came from Apple/Steve Jobs.
    • I believe the use of setup is incorrect. Setup is a noun, so it refers to an existing configuration. It tends to be used when running an OS or program for the first time though, which I believe set up is the correct term. Set up is an adjective and refers to the act of creating the configuration.

    I've wondered if these were done due to screen space constraints or aesthetics.

  • Lemmy should have shined when the API kicked in, but we had a number of users being shouty ass hats that probably helped to drive users away. Fortunately they seem to have quieten down since for one reason or another, but Lemmy adoption doesn't seem to have increased again yet - maybe one day.

  • I wonder when the invites will be sent out. I'm curious how much a share will cost and I'm curious about who these 75k loyal users could be. Will it be the same group that got the free NFTs, as they were only given to the top contributors weren't they?

  • It's all of the data or just the data that associates content with you, the latter if the company has a genuine reason to keep the content, which a forum generally does.

    If the content cannot be associated with you then does it matter if the content is present on the website?

  • "If you search for a community first time, 20 posts are fetched initially. Only if a least one user on your instance subscribes to the remote community, will the community send updates to your instance. Updates include:

     
            New posts, comments
        Votes
        Post, comment edits and deletions
        Mod actions"
    
    
    
      

    So you create a single user and subscribe to all communities of interest.

    I probably downplayed the difficulty of setting up a Lemmy instance that will come if you do something out of order or don't quite have the host set up correctly or something. Although I do think it's easier than pigging about with web crawlers.

  • Do you use your email addresses on websites? I find it hard to believe you don't see this when you look at it in the security page of Outlook if you use your email address for more than just emailing friends and family.

  • Whilst true about anyone can scrape data off Reddit, I think it's more of a pain since before the API updates the rate limit was 2 API calls per second. You also have to find or create a scraper. With Lemmy, you follow the instructions (copy and paste) on join-lemmy.org to create your instance and you're done. Both methods you have to configure it to subscribe to communities, so they're about the same.

    In the EU at least there is a right to be forgotten, so yeah, Reddit and other platforms are forced to delete the data on request. I'm not sure how the same can be applied to a distributed network like Lemmy.

    There were publicly available archives of Reddit. The last time I checked, you couldn't find the latest submissions and comments. Maybe things have changed, maybe newer alternatives have appeared.

  • FDA approved stainless steel (316L) doesn't actually rust. Otherwise you'd have sprinkles of rust in your food and drink from production, and you'd have to buy new utensils and a kitchen sink because they've rusted.

    There are different grades of stainless steel with their varying properties.