[-] mars@lemmy.ca 84 points 4 months ago

Modern social media: Feed algorithm bots curating and serving up bot-created content for other bots to create fake engagement on so that advertising bots can find the real humans that still exist in the desolate wastelands and market them bot-created ads.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 34 points 5 months ago

Using the wrong version of "its" is pretty hamas there, bro.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

Personally speaking: Fuck adding another app to my phone. Go visit justwatch.com

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago

The short answer is: Because the Northern states that we share a land border with currently observe Daylight Saving Time and we've been waiting literally years for the States to figure their shit out.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago

You're thinking about "device-bound passkeys". Bitwarden and any other third-party credential manager leverages "synced passkeys" because they don't control the hardware.

Synced passkeys are actually called out in the FIDO Alliance's FAQs as preferred since they more closely align with the desired replacement of traditional passwords.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

It's an interesting thought to consider that without access to centralized distribution platforms like app stores, something incredibly similar is created in its place: The so-called "super-app" (e.g. WeChat, Alipay).

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago

How the people of Saskatchewan keep these clowns employed as their leaders is a mystery. The province is rapidly becoming the Mississippi of Canada.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

Don't get me wrong, this is a win and worthy of setting a legal precedent, however I am skeptical of the first line in the article:

Earlier this year in Halifax, a former sex worker won a precedent-setting case.

If this was Small Claims court, are there examples of rulings from this court actually setting precedent for other courts (e.g. Lower or Superior courts)?

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Doc saw his opportunity to diversify out and pursue his lifelong desire to be a preacher 😂

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

I, for one, welcome our new Supreme Rulers of Truth and Fact!

They do a damn fine job and after all, we can't resist. They told us!

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

IMHO Titanfall 2 has one of the best campaigns for a SP FPS.

[-] mars@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Several folks hold the opinion (here's a recent one) that the Lemmy devs, acting as primary moderators for the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances, have ignored moderation of pro-CCP, pro-communist discussion threads on those instances. This ends up being detrimental for Lemmy's reputation overall, as:

  1. Those instances have some of the highest membership numbers, and as word-of-mouth spreads will mean a lot of newcomers to Lemmy will land into those large instances
  2. If the devs don't moderate their instances a certain way, what are their motives that might bleed into the development direction that Lemmy itself will take? e.g. The devs' opinion on how to implement a slur filter

My own personal opinion here is that as long as the devs aren't building anything malicious or overly political into Lemmy, I don't really care what their personal beliefs are. I work with devs all the time that have different ideological or political beliefs, that doesn't change the quality of the code. Open-source software can be forked and modified if the Lemmy devs cross the line, and by design each instance can run their own version of the underlying software. How the Lemmy devs moderate their instances is only a reflection of their ability to act as effective moderators, which is why (again, by design) choosing your "home" instance is the most important aspect of engaging on Lemmy and the wider Fediverse.

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Intro Guide to Lemmy [x-post] (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mars@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1204463

Discuss it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/623204

I wrote a guide to help users with their migration to Lemmy

This guide will help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy ~~subreddits~~ communities

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submitted 1 year ago by mars@lemmy.ca to c/electriccars@lemmy.ca

Hi folks,

Just found this community and curious about what everyone is either using as a daily driver or have got their eyes on in the EV space.

I'm from Vancouver, and a few years ago my partner and I bought a new Chevrolet Volt PHEV as a "bridge" car to get us through the next while as charging infrastructure scales out. We get about 100km of electric range in the warmer times and 70km in the winter. Perfect for our needs around Vancouver, while still giving us flexibility to drive out to Whistler or Banff for our vacation roadtrips.

So what are you driving?

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mars

joined 1 year ago