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Otter@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Safe from AIEnglish
1·6 minutes ago
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.
2·4 hours agoIt does if one of the options leads to a successful compromise. Based on the comments on this post, it seems that this solution has worked for a lot of households
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.
31·8 hours agoWell rather OP is pointing out that there is a third option that both parties nay consider to be a fair compromise, and thus be more likely to agree to.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
7·9 hours agoI’m not sure why this comment is downvoted, it’s not incorrect and also acknowledges that generative AI is a bad source.
Nearly every type of source, no matter how good it is, has an official way to cite it. There are even guidelines on citing in person conversations, social media posts, tiktoks, etc.
People are allowed to cite it, but that doesn’t mean they should be. Especially in an academic setting lol.
imo another big concern is that half the search results are now LLM slop. Someone might be trying to avoid generative AI and still end up citing a slop article that they didn’t realize was AI.
Sources:
https://guides.library.ubc.ca/GenAI/cite
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/personal-communications
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.
16·9 hours agoI think the user meant to say “lid down”
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seat down: easy for one group, slightly inconvenient for the other, unhygienic when flushing
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seat up: easy for one group, slightly inconvenient for the other, unhygienic when flushing
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seat and lid down: slightly inconvenient for both parties (but if it’s consistent then you can build muscle memory), and hygienic when flushing
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Otter@lemmy.cato
Fediverse@lemmy.world•What's the etiquette for posting #mastodon or other federated posts on some of the other reddit-analogues? From what I see you can just mention a #piefed or #lemmy group in a post and it will create aEnglish
61·3 days agoThere are lots of good suggestions already. If you want to explore how the different threadiverse platforms display your posts, look into Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB.
kbin.socialno longer exists but the project has continued as Mbin. For fediverse discussion communities you have !fediverse@lemmy.world (on Lemmy), !fediverse@piefed.social (on Piefed), !activitypub@community.nodebb.org (nodeBB)
Otter@lemmy.caOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Findroid v1.0.0 with a complete redesign is hereEnglish
1·3 days agoI’m looking forward to seeing if it snaps onto the play button after opening some content, that’s the main issue I had on Android TV
Otter@lemmy.cato
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google?
14·3 days agoSo interestingly, slight misspellings will show the pokemon with a “Showing results for Sharpedo”, but if you click on that link the results will disappear. I also can’t find any other blocked examples with different made up words.
It’s weird, like it has been manually blocked
Someone should send this post to some tech news/blog and have them look into it 😄
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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System@lemmy.ml•Findroid v1.0.0, a Native Android Client, Is Here With a Complete RedesignEnglish
6·3 days agoNice! This is still my favourite android client for Jellyfin. Fladder is still too new, and I hit issues whenever I try it.
Otter@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific CalculatorsEnglish
11·3 days agoThere are emulators of a lot of old calculators online. Is this one yours?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF ToolkitEnglish
2·4 days agoI only used Stirling briefly before I learned about BentoPDF, so I don’t think I can give a fair comparison. I picked Bento because it felt faster and “simpler”, and I prefer not having to worry about accounts/upload/storage.
Other concerns with Stirling:
- their new license
- analytics in the past: https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-stirling-pdf-with-this-self-hosted-pdf-toolkit/
The video I found is from Twitter and some people avoid it, so I left in the description
I’ll reorder it though
I looked up “robot kicks man” and found this
The video:
https://xcancel.com/CyberRobooo/status/2005437313837576321
The article:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/humanoid-robot-teleoperator-kicks-himself-where-it-hurts/
The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to perform particular movements or entire tasks, with the robot mirroring the movements in real time.
But teleoperation clearly carries some risks, especially if you get too close to the robot you’re training.
But the teleoperator then turns slightly to perform a big kick. Unfortunately for the teleoperator, the robot, mimicking his movements, performs the same kick, catching the guy right where it hurts.
He drops to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain as he falls. Of course, the robot falls to the ground too. If it’d been equipped with speech capabilities, we’d have likely heard a yelp, as well.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF ToolkitEnglish
6·4 days agoNice, and thanks for posting here! We have a lot of discussion about projects, and it’s helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄
I saw the update on GitHub about the goal of working on it full time. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF and I’m excited to see where this project goes. Best of luck :)
Otter@lemmy.caOPMtoLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.ca•2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now openEnglish
8·5 days agoThat’s fair!
can’t see a reason you need that info
We don’t need it :)
Since the community on the fediverse is smaller than other social media platforms, the main goal of the census has been to create some graphs that people can look at. Since Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms in general) avoids collecting any data that isn’t necessary for basic functionality, the census allows people to voluntarily share what they want to.
For example, when we first ran the census, we saw that the average user here is indeed older than on other platforms. Or how we have more users from British Columbia than we would expect based on population.
Then over time we adjusted the questions, and generally added more questions based on feedback that people were curious about more areas.
You can see some of those posts here:
I can also understand that people are generally cautious about giving out information these days, and we’re always open to adjusting things based on feedback. Maybe we can add a question near the beginning to let people choose which sections to display?
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sh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•“Infinite” scroll not working for others?
4·5 days agoAnother Lemmy mobile app
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Technology@lemmy.world•GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright ClaimEnglish
101·6 days agoRelevant bit
The DMCA filing states that several files in the Rockchip MPP repository are derived from FFmpeg’s libavcodec sources. It lists AV1, H.265, and VP9 decoder files, and claims the copied code is clear because of matching structure, comments, and commented-out calls to FFmpeg functions with their original names.
Much of FFmpeg, including libavcodec, uses the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. This license allows reuse, but only if certain rules are followed. These rules include keeping copyright notices, giving proper credit, and ensuring any shared code remains under an LGPL-compatible license.
The DMCA notice says Rockchip broke these rules by removing the original copyright and author details, claiming the copied code as their own, and sharing it under the Apache license, which does not meet LGPL requirements here.
Otter@lemmy.caOPMtoLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.ca•2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now openEnglish
2·6 days agoIf you can open the console, are there any error messages? I found this old (closed) issue on their GitHub that sounds similar. If you get an error message, that might help us investigate what’s happening.
https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/issues/964
Otherwise if you’re comfortable with us being able to associate your lemmy account with your responses, I can DM you the questions for you to fill out manually, then mix them into the final result :)
Otter@lemmy.caOPMtoLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.ca•2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now openEnglish
4·6 days agoYou can choose all answers on multiple choice questions, including choices that are mutually exclusive.
I’ll have to add that to my review checklist for next time. At least one of those was an error (ex. It doesn’t make sense to be in multiple levels of school currently). For others, it would be clearer to have a single selection with an option for “both about equally” (ex. Desktop vs. mobile usage).
a lack of definitions of terms. Is a town with 150 people “urban” because you have a street address and most people don’t work in another town/city, is it “suburban” because you need to go to a different town to buy groceries, or is it “rural” because that’s how most people who live there self-identify?
Many of those questions are intended to be self-identification, but we could have said that explicitly so that people aren’t uncertain. The reasons we didn’t have set definitions:
- People disagree on which definition/method is most appropriate, and we haven’t had the capacity to properly weigh the options / determine what value each definition might provide over the others.
- It seems that people are more curious about the self-identified groupings than the exact details. Both factor in to what the online experience is like, but the self-identification would play a larger role?
- Privacy. We want people to feel comfortable answering questions, without worrying that someone will figure out their real identity by aggregating the answers. It’s much harder to do that if it’s uncertain on why the user answered the way that they did.
Still, we are open to adding definitions to questions where it would make more sense to do so. For example, we added the fast.com and census/gov Canada links this time. Otherwise we can explicitly say that users should answer based on self-identification.
I appreciate the feedback! I’ve noted this down for next time
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