Props to Oleg/hoverzoom for maintaining and updating this list for all to read. It's my first time seeing any document of this kind really. Quiet chilling

I am too, and new to Infinity overall. I was patiently awaiting Sync but became sadly disappointed with how aggressive it was monetized. Infinity does what I need:

1. searching for posts over all communities (*and instances!)

2. inline find function for the comments

3. preview before commenting

I am simple. Infinity is fast. Go. Lemmy. Go.

This is the best vim meme I've ever seen. I'm dead

Not to mention, it's opt-in by default.

This is a nice idea. It's not splicing different words together but paying tribute to conceptual meaning. Simplifies syllables. Can be represented symbolically (e.g. ℵ₀). And it makes me think of the movie pi (aleph nought).

I'm not a Hebrew speaker, so it's easy for me to read "alpha" when skimming "aleph". I wonder if others do this. Then again, read any modern tech headline and pretend you're someone in the 70's and you'd be struggling to understand what the hell even half the words are trying to convey.

It's worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there's many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It's an OG for sure.

Wait a minute, is FLOSS home automation really this robust? Having avoided most wifi enabled gadgets, I'm pretty out of the loop here

I can't stand Google maps now. You have to fight it to show the actual map. The map, too, is now swarmed in Wall-E levels of marketing trash: bubbles, home businesses, auto play review videos, promoted fast food and coffee 8 miles away when I'm in a dense walkable area. The user reviews and navigation are still valuable, but literally every other aspect has went to shit.

This is the first I've heard this perspective. It's worth keeping in mind the remainder of the year. Thanks for that

I'm in the same boat as you, re: having moved from Sync to Infinity. The fact Infinity's interface made it possible for me to figure out quite naturally, and within ten seconds, how to go from the front page to finding this instance + community alleviates so many of the headaches from the past two months of mobile web lurking.

Seeing all the different instances by people's usernames is so cool. It shows off, slyly, a lot of power within the lemmy/fedi platform. Very impressed.

Thanks for the clarification. That claim seemed really off.

I've assumed that what you see publicly is basically what's synced. Obv. your instance can have a few more meta details on you, like IP, device info, possibly all the exif they've stripped from uploaded photos, but these things aren't in the ActivityPub outbox

You've hit the major notes that made the biggest difference to switching in the early days. Worth mentioning too that in order to sow that field, chromium, then billed as an open source project, lifted much of those never IE power users out of Firefox specifically as well.

Similarly, if you want patrons to tell others what's great about your new restaurant, give them at least three good things to evangelize for you.

Fast. Freebies. Friendly.

Back then, Chrome crushed it. Today, it's equivalent to a joint being oversaturated with lazy managers taking advantage of gullible, unskilled teenagers and wondering why the whole place's gone to shit.

Firefox outperforms in all the key areas IMO. It's honestly a pretty cool space.

It also rewrites the URL slugs on every click, making it hard to leave the page the lazy way

It's baffling to me why this blood ratio is circulating so much in the news. Did the Las Vegas shooter kill the American equivalent of 1.8 Israelis?

literally just taco meat and peppers ig

I would wear this on a T-shirt.

I rocked tt-rss for 8+ years, self hosting. Very configurable for me and it was basically my youtube homepage. However I'll say that on more than one occasion the update was not trivial.

They are a net gain to the site owner IMO. Years ago you could make a case for cutting into ad revenue, but in this day and age it's hard enough to be discoverable to generate any in the first place. Sites with high SEO are swollen with ads and fluff and useless. Nowadays I'm just glad to see something I wrote about or compiled spur healthy interactions and on page 1 of search engines.

That includes making third party dissemination easier. Perhaps I come away knowing and remembering more because of a bot's concision. Maybe that makes me more likely to share your unique idea with others IRL. I dunno

It could happen to any of us

What I love about your comment is that you are using more or less the same methods that were around when the RPi3 came out.

I didn't consider weighing the storage penalty vs the cost of processor upgrades when keeping an SD or 720p version of files around. I know some people run two instances of radarr/sonarr/jellyfin for this reason. Like many, my connection is asymmetric, meaning the best I can probably serve is 1080p over WAN at maximum luck, or a few simultaneous streams mixed between 720p and 480p.

Example: Asteroid City is 18.5 GiB in 4k and 3.5 GiB in Web 720p, a roughly 5x's file size difference. If we estimate SSD cost is ~$50/TB, 5TB of 4k content costs an extra $50 to keep 720p around for WAN streaming.

That to me justifies not upgrading processing, using instead an RPi3 for low power storage maxxing, and eating the cost in file duplication. I simply won't be able to get on-the-fly hardware transcoding capability anywhere close to this price point.

Ngl, I was pretty bummed about the realities the previous commenters enlightened me to in this post I'm very grateful to their wisdom. But, you have given me so much new hope!