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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

That kinda does exist it's just that you and I lack either the knowledge or patience to connect to it.

Bing AI performing at its peak once again... in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Google ended up giving up the fight on SEO to save money and let their own search tools degrade in quality.

I really miss when search engines were properly good.

Trump team fires back at claims that ex-president ‘smells’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

"Donald Smells" is actually a better fit than "Donald Trump smells" and is probably clear enough with the context of th rest of the song. You could easily include a line about how "Trump" is longstanding British slang for "fart" though and then you get both names in.

Story of Cruz in c/4chan@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Just because the right likes to screech about how your centrists are extreme leftitists doesn't change the fact they aren't leftists. It's just a smokescreen for the rightwing to cover just how extreme they've become.

Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

You're not wrong!

Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I could but I'm not the person who cares enough to want to look into it. I'm telling the person who does that doing so is a good idea.

Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I think we need to start reframing it as some sort of combined right to freedom to speak and freedom to not listen. Right now the majority of the time I hear someone talking about freedom of speech is when they want the authority to force people to listen to them.

Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah the sad reality is that the entire situation is a mess and there isn't really a good guy to root for beyond innocent civilians caught up in it. (Though you can certainly argue about who is the worst bad guy... That doesn't make their enemy not also a bad guy.)

Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

I expect you need to look in the Lemmy.World moderation log to see to what degree lemmy.ml users were or were not problematic (I've no idea either way.)

Phones should have FM radio again in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Just double-checked. My current smartphone that I partially picked for it's 3.5mm socket does have built in FM radio that works great and only functions with earphones plugged in.

Phones should have FM radio again in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 76 points 11 months ago

One reason is that every implementation I've ever tried relies on using the wired earphones as an aerial and Apple magically convinced everyone that having a 3.5mm port is somehow a bad thing.

But my WiFi is just fine! in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If all the food in my fridge is warm I don't immediately assume my electricity has been cut off rather than something is wrong with my fridge.

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Increase in undetected phishing emails since the hack (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Piers@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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As in title. Just wanted to report this in case somehow the Lemmy.world devs somehow aren't already well aware of this. I've had a new, not detected by my email provider (so probably fresh) phishing email on the address associated with my Lemmy.world account almost daily since the hack. While there's always a possibility it was grabbed somewhere else, I assume that means the hackers grabbed the user email address's of the Lemmy.world users to flog cheaply to spammers. Not much Lemmy.world can do retrospectively but might be worth looking at ways to avoid that being as easy in the event of another lemmy software security issue (could the addresses be stored encrypted possibly?) and, if possible, confirm that this has actually happened then issue a PSA to users so they are alert to be wary of suspicious emails to the account they registered with.

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NSFW content becoming uncensored (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Piers@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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I've noticed that on the main feed that sometimes when the post at the top has an image or animated gif, when it's bumped down by a new one that also has an image or animated gif, the first post's image or gif is sometimes displayed instead for a short time.

The issue is that I just had a NSFW animated gif post at the top of the feed (blurred out) that got bumped down by a SFW animated gif post but temporarily that second post had the unblurred NSFW animated gif from the post below it in place of it's own.