That’s awesome, I haven’t seen many family software projects before.

Looking forward to seeing how it develops!

Very cool, it’s on my list of things to try out at some point

my family and I’ve been working on

I’m curious what this has been like, if you don’t mind sharing 😄 What is each person working on?

I like the colors, and also the font on the large keys

Also if there is someone on Bluesky that you want to follow from your Mastodon account, there are methods to “bridge” the content over.

I haven’t done that myself, but others here can probably recommend a service/method

Neat!

I didn’t know about kolf. It was fun, even if it looks a little dated.

Likely related

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft has since denied this, but they haven’t released much info on what they say happened instead.

https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-services-international-criminal-court-president-american-sanctions-trump-tech-icc-amazon-google/

A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”

Khan’s email disconnection has sparked Europe’s fears that Trump could flip a “kill switch” to cut digital services through American tech giants, as the continent seeks to become less dependent on U.S. technology. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others dominate Europe’s cloud and digital services sectors.

Microsoft declined to comment further in response to questions regarding the exact process that led to Khan’s email disconnection, and exactly what it meant by “disconnection.” The ICC declined to comment.

They also said that they’ll be adding legal clauses that would stop them from doing that, but I’m not sure how much that actually helps in practice.

Snack compartment

I can confirm, we banned that user and set it to remove their content from lemmy.ca

You were one of the 7 users that got messaged when we were looking into a report about it

Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the split

programming of physics joke

Yes

It’s possible that their accounts were grandfathered in and already marked as “different people”. During the next little while (the exact period is unknown, but let’s say 6 months), any new accounts from that IP may get banned, but especially those that are deemed “suspicious”.

We don’t know the exact details because Reddit doesn’t release the details. You might find someone here who can tell you about workarounds, but most likely you’ll get the advice to move on and find something new. Most people are here because they no longer want to use Reddit, and I’d say the vast majority is here because they chose to leave and not because of bans

Your device has an ID, and there are various other metrics that they can use

A demonstration:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

How does tracking technology follow your trail around the web, even if you’ve taken protective measures? Cover Your Tracks shows you how trackers see your browser. It provides you with an overview of your browser’s most unique and identifying characteristics.

Is the only way to evade the ban to dodge your online fingerprint? (new phone, new email, new ph number. Etc)

Not easily. If Reddit isn’t getting enough data from you, and they can’t figure out who you are, they will often just ban you again

That is possible

To get a link post with a custom thumbnail, you add the link and put the image in the thumbnail field.

To get an image post with a link, you make an image post and put the link in the post body.

KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.

Oh nice!

I also didn’t know it could do unit conversions lol

There are exceptions to all of the points below, but generally:

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

Everyone is here trying to build something better. The developers are actually prioritizing transparency and user choice when making the software. Since the instances aren’t after profit, there’s no financial conflict of interest. It’s actually possible for instance admins to prioritize user experience and a healthy community instead of making a profit.

I love seeing all the different organizational structures emerging; some instances are nonprofits, some are co-ops, some are benevolent dictatorships. I think in the long run this will produce a fairer and more representative online platform.

Also my interactions feel human. If I get 5 upvotes on Lemmy or 5 likes on Pixelfed, it feels like I connected with 5 real people. On Reddit, I just can’t tell anymore.

What do you miss from Reddit?

Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.

Also, as a mod, we could still use better moderation tooling.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I think over time it will become more like Reddit. As the user base grows, the average will shift closer to what Reddit is like. Also, at the end of the day, a number of the issues are because of how groups of humans interact and not the platform itself.

However, the reason I’m here instead of the many other Reddit alternatives is because of federation. I believe that as long as we maintain a healthy balance in the fediverse (and not let one entity control too much), we can avoid the enshitification while centralized social media becomes unbearable for more and more people.

In the future, something like this could tell you if anyone else is having the same issues

https://downdetector.com/

!world@lemmy.world has a rule against United States internal news, which is a nice balance for me, but it can still be dominated by news about ways that the US is affecting things around the world

Taps ‘View Map’

Allow deflock.me to use your location?

I get why it’s helpful, but this might discourage the target users from using the tool. Maybe it could request location only if the user taps a ‘locate me’ type button?

It’s still helpful for messages. The social share/thumbnail isn’t always available

A user is more likely to click on

https://unfamiliar.site/c/cats/192837/my-cat-napping-in-the-sun

compared to

https://unfamiliar.site/post/192837

I’m not saying that this should take priority over all the other things the developers are doing, but I’d still like to see it implemented at some point

From what I understand, React is still very popular and it’s the usual recommendation for those who are learning web dev frameworks.

React Native is not as popular for new projects though, and I usually see people recommending Flutter