Corgana
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
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Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@programming.dev•How to minimize pain of Windows in work environment?4·8 months agoChocolatey and Windhawk
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says2·8 months agoIf they were smart they would find a way to paywall all the years-old posts where someone is like “hey how do I fix this specific part on my 1992 sewing machine” and it has a single reply with the answer.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.2·8 months agoBing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results.
Not accurate, actually!
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Open Source@lemmy.ml•US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek1·8 months agodeleted by creator
The moderator to user ratio on the fediverse is orders of magnitude higher than commercial platforms. Even Lemmy.world (a large, loosely moderated Lemmy instance) has again, orders of magnitude more eyes on its content than reddit.
This means that even if a chatbot gets invented that is impossible to distinguish form a human, mods will more readily be able to tell if it is pushing a narrative/shilling products.
Save yourself some clicks: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research4·9 months agoIf the article doesn’t define what “AI” means then the article doesn’t actually mean anything. Market research studying what people know about a vague and undefined term like “AI” can ultimately only produce undefined results.
It’s like asking people their feelings on “woke” or “god”. If everyone is talking about something different then nobody can have more or less understanding of it.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence15·9 months agoActivitypub accounts are portable actually. Lemmy is not as slick as Mastodon with this feature yet but will likely get there.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops11·9 months agoThe kickstarter is official too, Daniel tooted it recently.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes2·9 months agoIs something finally going to federate with bluesky?
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard8·9 months agoFrom an e-waste perspective not having a battery is really cool. The article doesn’t mention this, but the plastic appears recycled too. I wonder how it types?
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost11·9 months agoI’m surprised nobody has yet jail-broken Samsung and LG TVs and made a custom Tizen ROM
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down23·10 months agoTruly amazing how many journalists have drank the big tech kool-aid.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish72·10 months agoI don’t get why people are so interested in the fediverse.
Because Mastodon is Twitter without the possibility of an Elon Musk and Lemmy/Piefed is Reddit without the possibility of a Steve Huffman. You clearly feel that you can do better than the collective efforts of the ActivityPub devs so I am rooting for you!
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish101·10 months ago“Lemmy” is actually not a platform like Reddit, it’s software and the network of instances running that software is decentralized (Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol) meaning each instance is operated by a different person (or group). There are also other similar softwares like Piefed and mBin that work pretty well with Lemmy. That is all to say that if an Admin or Mod is “getting fascisty” you can block that instance, join another, or even create your own. That’s the beauty of ActivityPub!
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal17·10 months agoI’m with you. Tiktok is about as “healthy” as vaping. There are other just as bad (if not worse) apps out there, and the reasoning is stupid and has some first amendment concerns. But I won’t die on the protecting Tiktok hill.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark3·11 months agoBluesky takes advantage of self hosters for more distribution and reliability, but still maintains centralized control over content and user management.
This is what I don’t understand, why would anyone choose to host when there is zero advantage? I sort of feel is by design so they can claim “decentralized” while still having full control over the data.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark10·11 months agois decentralized
It’s not.
I assume someone else can just create a server and join the network of BlueSky?
They can’t.
in reality at the moment its controlled by only one big company.
…yep.
My hope is that they will one day cooperate with Fediverse.
ActivityPub existed before BlueSky did and they chose to make their own, incompatible thing. So I don’t have high hopes for this.
Sorry just seeing this, looks like there is a Home Assistant addon yes. Yunohost is very similar but seems to be more popular, so I’d say try both and see what you like.