Deebster

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[–] Deebster 1 points 40 minutes ago

Brilliance also has a page on that site - that image looks familiar, was it on the box cover?

[–] Deebster 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't think you can now. I really dislike the new three-dots menu, now it's hidden a bunch of functionality behind the "More" submenu solely to give an overly large amount of space to other options.

btw for others, If you don't see the "Secret Settings" section, you can enable it by tapping on the Firefox logo a few times (it's in About Firefox).

 

Original IFF Deluxe Paint images from back in the day, courtesy of the Amiga Graphics Archive.

This is the one that always makes me think of DPaint:

source

[–] Deebster 4 points 21 hours ago

I would like to see more finely-grained feedback than just "no". Particularly as it forces the voter to justify why they're downvoting.

Some posts/contents are bad because they're spam, abusive, or against the rules, or in the wrong place - downvoting these is useful crowd-sourced moderation, particularly for things that don't warrant a mod report.

Some are just indisputably wrong and it's a useful signal that the poster is talking rubbish. Then there's the grey area.

Sometimes it's just that the poster's opinion is unpopular, and people are downvoting to suppress views they disagree with - I think that's not a good thing for a discussion and encourages echo chambers. I like the idea of one of the downvote options being "I disagree" and that basically not doing anything.

[–] Deebster 8 points 22 hours ago

I believe Piefed let's you restrict downvotes to people that are subscribers. I think that's a good solution to idiots downvoting from all just because they're not interested in or understanding the post and/or the community it's in. I also wonder if people even understand that they're not training an algorithm, just dragging people's posts down.

[–] Deebster 12 points 2 days ago

Maybe in a week or two, TheButton Redox, once you've had time to make your tweaks and a bit of word to get round.

[–] Deebster 13 points 2 days ago

It's not asking for your password, it just needs you to tell it your username and server so it can send you a magic link. It's technically logging in, but it needs to know who you are so you can press the button (and use the chat).

This is how this kind of event always works on the Fediverse. It's not putting your account at risk and I don't really see the problem.

[–] Deebster 3 points 2 days ago

It did occur to me that perhaps the site itself had localised it. That would be odd for a science site given that science is usually done in metric, but as the New Scientist is pop sci they might have thought it would help grow US readership.

Was it really difficult?

Assuming this is referring to my comment about making life difficult, you had to either do the maths or use a conversion tool. You made it (now fixed, thanks) so that half (I expected a higher %age tbh) of the people reading it had to do that.

[–] Deebster 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a breaking change in this: Spotify can no longer be used to fetch images (or anything - did it do anything else?)

From the commit message:

Remove the built-in Spotify adapter from Navidrome due to Spotify's change in API usage policy. Since March 9, 2026, all Spotify Development Mode apps require the app owner to have an active Spotify Premium subscription, making it impractical to maintain as a built-in integration.

Deezer is a good built-in replacement for artist images, and it works out-of-box, no need for extra configuration. Users can also use artist-nfo-metadata as the first agent option to override any incorrect images. For those who want Apple Music integration, the new Apple Music plugin is available as a drop-in replacement using the plugin system.

[–] Deebster 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's 9.1°C, according to the title on the site.

@Innerworld@lemmy.world Did you change the title to have it in Fahrenheit instead? You could have just added the conversion so it had both, instead of making life difficult for the majority of the world that works in Celsius.

[–] Deebster 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's beautiful, I might struggle through with a translation app since my French is too woefully inadequate to do it myself.

[–] Deebster 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, they used female as an adjective when describing their friend. I agree it's unpleasant when people talk about "females" but that's not what happened here.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Deebster to c/chrisspargo@feddit.uk
 

My favourite bit is this from the comments:

I wrote "please do not deliver this letter" on a correctly addressed and stamped letter once, it never arrived. A thrilling day indeed.

 

I love Doom Bar and I'm not alone since it's among the bestselling cask ales in the UK, but it seems that the US owners are going for a quick payout by closing and asset stripping what's left.

I wonder how long until they start building houses or an industrial park on the old site?

 

This video covers Great Ormond Street Hospital, Quality Street and copyright special cases.

 

A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.

Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)

 

An Australian YouTuber got invited to a NATO wargame and made this very interesting video about it.

The section that starts at 3m30s (10 minutes long) discusses the military history of wargaming which I found fascinating.

The rest of it is also well worth a watch.

It's not new (it sat in my watch later list for a month since it's 65 minutes long) so apologies if you've already seen it.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deebster to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
 

My personal domain has hundreds of aliases - one for each site I deal with. This is great for identifying the source of spam, and I retire any aliases that get spam.

haveibeenpwned.com lets me add a domain, but wants 3912 USD a year to actually tell me which addresses leaked. This is obviously an insane price for a nice-to-have.

Is there an alternative for free or very cheap? A self-hosted tool that would pull down lists would be great, but I suppose those lists aren't public.

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Tricky one today

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