MimicJar

joined 2 years ago
[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Also the source is "one user".

but one user asked their Grandfather -- who only get their news from Facebook -- what was going on, and the relative echoed conspiracies about moon creatures attacking with brainwaves.

That's the same level of journalism going on here.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Really hoping for real API access and third-party apps.

I mean that's the only way it will have any success. I don't expect it to happen, but that's historically how any of these sites have grown and flourished.

It would be funny if Digg was able to successfully reboot and take users away from Reddit, however I don't expect it to actually happen.

Also, stating the obvious, time would be better spent improving Lemmy.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree, but it's more common than you'd think.

I used to work at an organization that used Chromebooks, which replaces the caps lock key with a search key (same shape, different behaviour). I was surprised at the number of people who struggled with their passwords because they would hit the "search" key, enter a single letter, and then hit "search" again. It took me a little while to figure it out because... Who does that?

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.

The first complaint is that "lemmy.world" shouldn't exist, because websites should be dot com. That's not a UI/UX issue, that's just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can't have a dot app website!

The second argument is worth looking at, but it's unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you're looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is wholesome. A family in the film even stops to watch the miracle of life.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a quick test, 300 words of "Lorem Ipsum" compresses down to about 900 bytes (using gzip).

So I've got about 300 or so words worth of storage, probably more of I get clever.

Now I can't natively decode gzip, but the header is unique enough that I'll figure out how to decode it pretty quickly.

That's more than enough to explain to myself what's going on, what I've tried and anything else I'd want to know.

If we add other people then that's basically infinite storage.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first step is buying devices from reputable vendors and trustworthy resellers to minimize the likelihood of malware being pre-loaded from the factory or while in transit.

Given the size I suspect this is also a common attack vector.

Also,

Android TV devices should have their remote access features disabled if not needed, while taking them offline when not used is also an effective strategy.

Is this a thing? Why would a TV have remote access features?