This incident made me realize not to use an admin account for my primary lemmy account in my personal instance. I setup another account for instance admin purpose (with 2FA enabled) and keep it logged out, then remove my primary account from the instance admin list.

Aliko Dangote seems to be a real classy guy:

If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.

What do you expect? All sensible people are probably already left the sub at this point, as evidenced by all those comments in the post you linked.

Tesla and SpaceX must be full of smart people if they can succeed despite Elon Musk shenanigans.

Right now deepfakes doesn't work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible. It also doesn't work well when something obstruct the face, so ask them to put their hand in their face. It also can't seem to render mouth right if you open it too wide, or stick out your tongue.

I base this from a deepfake app I tried: https://github.com/s0md3v/roop . But as the tech improves, it might be able to handle those cases in the future.

Edit: chance that the scammer use a live deepfake app like this one: https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive . It also supports using the Insight model which only need a single well lit photo to impersonate someone.

Back in the day, we tried to get Reddit unblocked in our country, which blocks porn websites. No amount of arguments can convince the government agency in charge of the block list that Reddit is not a porn site. They probably got tired of us pestering them and send back a whole bunch of screenshots of porns in Reddit to justify the block.

I guess Reddit is a porn site.

In the other hand, I'm impressed with zoomers ability to produce contents with nothing but their phone. A 30-something old fart like me is stuck with the mentality of anything productive like video or image editing require the use of desktop, which apparently not true anymore.

Don't forget that time when installing steam on Linux Mint would prompt you to uninstall gnome, and Linus (of Linus Tech Tips) got burned because he didn't read the confirmation message.

Let's see. Reddit right now has:

• NFT
• real time chat
• image and video hosting (imgur used to handle these). needs manpower to make sure they're not hosting something illegal like cp
• various one-off functionalities (r/place, polls, etc)
• react-based frontend (and the mobile counterpart)
• mobile apps for Android and iOS (seemingly a separate codebase)
• ads/marketing departments that case around big companies to place ads on Reddit
• various virtual goods (gold awards, profile pics customization)
• probably a community team that monitor what's reddit users currently up to, like banning subreddits that breaking TOS or insulting spez.

and perhaps many more I'm not aware about. With those whole sets of "features", 2000 seems to be quite reasonable IMO. The marketing stuff is especially all about numbers.

Me as a junior dev writing 1000 lines of spaghetti code everyday: "Let's go!!!"

Me as a senior dev writing 5 lines of code everyday and spent the rest of the day reviewing thousands LoC commits from my juniors: "I didn't sign up for this. I should've learn carpentry instead."

Who need GUI apps when you can do these things on CLI:

• view image: imcat my-image.png
• watch video, even YouTube: mpv --vo=tct "https://youtube.com/watch?v=BBJa32lCaaY"
• browse the web using modern Firefox engine: browsh
• listen to your Spotify playlists: spt play --name "Your Playlist" --playlist --random

and perhaps many more I'm not currently aware of...

Went to hackernews the other day. Tried to upvote a comment, then it asked me to login. Put in my login, hit the button, and boom, it redirected back to the original page, and the comment I was attempting to upvote is successfully upvoted! I was expecting I'll need to press the upvote button again, but I don't even need to do that. My mind was blown. Wish more websites do this.

I was wondering when Red Hat enshittification would began the moment IBM announced the acquisition. Turns out it begins today.

You might not be aware of it, but in India (and SEA), using whatsapp video call is a lot more common than calling using your carrier's phone service. No one would think twice when receiving a whatsapp video calls there.

As long as the backend is stateless, it can be scaled to handle huge amount of users, at least in theory. IMO the main issue right now with Lemmy deployment is pictrs not being stateless. It uses a filesystem-based internal database called sled. Not only this make pictrs not stateless, you can't even run multiple replica of pictrs in the same host because sled would crash if the database file lock is already acquired by another replica. Someone with some rust skill should consider donating their time to add postgresql support to pictrs soon, which will greatly help making Lemmy scalable. Too bad I know nothing about rust.

I'm sure those enterprising game devs on steam will publish a whole bunch of hentai games that works with the suit as soon as the suit released.

So that's why the old unix programmers call their program a daemon

Life is even more tough for Lemmy devs, putting out fire left and right in the past few weeks. My concern is are they still able to earn a living when the majority of their time is spent fixing bugs in Lemmy?

Meanwhile redditors on /r/piracy kicked their own mod for continuing the protest. I think their Lemmy migration to lemmy.dbzer0.com is a bit too effective and now only loyal redditors left at that sub.