[-] nix@merv.news 51 points 8 months ago

This article was removed from r/wallstreetbets by the mods…

[-] nix@merv.news 46 points 9 months ago

“Lost”. its still growing, gaining more features, and more users. Its a growing protocol thats in its infancy while activitypub is 6+ years old. Theres such a weird elitism coming from mastodon/activitypub people like can we chill and improve activitypub instead of constantly trying to shit on the atProtocol?

[-] nix@merv.news 70 points 10 months ago

Maybe instead of invading the US should stop arming cartels? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/stopping-toxic-flow-of-gun-traffic-from-u-s-to-mexico/

Maybe the US and their DEA should stop funding and working with cartels https://world.time.com/2014/01/14/dea-boosted-mexican-drug-cartel/

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/us-mexico-war-on-drugs-garcia-luna-calderon

Maybe the US should stop israel from selling tools like pegasus which are used to hack and attack journalists https://web.archive.org/web/20240116033152/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/world/americas/pegasus-spyware-mexico.html

Or maybe the US should stop doing coups across latin america and putting dictators in power (too many to link)

[-] nix@merv.news 66 points 10 months ago

Yet he’s still holding the same position for some reason… its baffling he hasnt been replaced

[-] nix@merv.news 61 points 10 months ago

The risk of long covid is cumulative so every infection increases your chance. But also just having covid increases your risk of heart attacks and strokes for up to a year https://nyulangone.org/news/study-helps-explain-how-covid-19-heightens-risk-heart-attack-stroke

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by nix@merv.news to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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submitted 1 year ago by nix@merv.news to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

[-] nix@merv.news 57 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah the far left that is in power in… what country?

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submitted 1 year ago by nix@merv.news to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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submitted 1 year ago by nix@merv.news to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

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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submitted 1 year ago by nix@merv.news to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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

[-] nix@merv.news 59 points 1 year ago

Unity does not respect their users at all

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submitted 1 year ago by nix@merv.news to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I’ve tried asking on the Mediawiki Support Desk but haven’t gotten any help.

EDIT: It looks like the issue with images comes from using Short URLs. After uploading the image through the Upload File section I get a 404 error but if I add /index.php?title= to the url I can visit the uploaded files. Not sure how to fix this though

So basically my issue is mediawiki thinks the links to my files are /File:filename.png but they're actually at index.php?title=File:filename.png

[-] nix@merv.news 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s way easier to get people to move by just showing screenshots or a link to a lemmy instance

Have you been on join-lemmy.org? No one is hearing about lemmy for the first time and deciding to join based off of it. The entire website is all tech speak, and literal lorem ipsum with zero screenshots that actually show off the platform, and zero screenshots of any of the apps (which is how a ton of people browse reddit)

90% of redditors who go there will be confused and never go back. It says “a link aggregator for the fediverse” in big which, 99% of people will just be confused because whats a link aggregator? And for most people, whats “the fediverse”? Join a server? Run a server? What?

Then it says “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform” people know what some of those words are but definitely not in that order.

Then its screenshots of some code on github? Then its more code saying lemmy is open source?

Then it says “blazing fast” with a screemshot of lorem ispum

Then a bunch if paragraphs and then a small screenshot of more lorem ipsum with teeny tiny vote buttons and more tech words

[-] nix@merv.news 47 points 1 year ago

I think since it’s a piracy related app it’s best not to risk it. It happened to YouTube-dl

[-] nix@merv.news 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it’s not lol

Their political leaders are billionaires, the workers don’t own any means of production, there’s terrible workers rights, etc.

[-] nix@merv.news 50 points 1 year ago

Artists and scientists can make a living of their work without copyright. CC BY SA and creative commons in general doesnt prevent you from selling your work and people can support art/science without it being behind paywalls. We need to move to a culture where we don’t try to enforce everything with the threat of jail/punishments and move to a culture where we support things we love because we want the creators to be able to continue creating without worry

[-] nix@merv.news 62 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has had such a crazy month and a half. Insane growth, XSS injections, DDOS attacks, admin takeover, domain name seizures. What a wild ride

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