Looks cool! I’d love to see local buynothing groups have a Fediverse alternative.

Out of curiosity, is there any standard or common format around location data for Fediverse platforms?

I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons

Wow that is nice, is it released anywhere for others to modify/extend?

Fox, who also oversees Apache Maven, a popular Java build tool, explained that its repository site is at risk of being overwhelmed by constant Git pulls. The team has dug into this and found that 82 percent of the demand comes from less than 1 percent of IPs. Digging deeper, they discovered that many companies are using open source repositories as if they were content delivery networks (CDNs). So, for example, a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next. This is unsustainable.

GitHub added rate limits for unauthenticated users last year

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/

Read and spot clues: The AI looks at your posts and pulls out little hints about you. Things you that are part of your personality. Like it can see that this person talks a lot about coding games in Python, loves Marvel movies, complains about school in Seattle, and types with a certain style.

I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack.

Some places already ban physical ads. There are better sources than these but this is what I found so far:

• https://medium.com/@Kyoto_After_Tokyo/kyoto-banned-outdoor-ads-what-it-gained-was-deeper-than-silence-c1ba8d8b40eb

• https://blog.wego.com/what-happens-when-a-megacity-bans-ads/

Digital ads would be harder to get rid of. At the individual level, it’s relatively easy to disable an adblocker if something breaks. That’s harder to do if you block it city wide.

A PSA campaign might work better to get people to turn on adblockers

It would be best to ask on !meta@lemmy.ml

Lemmy in general

Lemmy software doesn’t block VPNs, this is done by individual instances as a way to handle bots / attacks.

Your instance blocks VPN & Tor users: https://lemmy.world/post/11967676

UBlock helps to stop that script.

Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

The “AI” help boils down to humans asking it to find patterns?

“Initiatives like developer verification, mandatory pre-review checks, and testing requirements have raised the bar for the Google Play ecosystem, significantly reducing the paths for bad actors to enter,” the company’s blog post explained, adding that its “AI-powered, multi-layer protections” have been “discouraging bad actors from publishing malicious apps.”

Google noted it now runs over 10,000 safety checks on every app it publishes and continues to recheck apps after publication. The company has also integrated its latest generative AI models into the app review process, which has helped human reviewers find more complex malicious patterns faster. Google said it plans to increase its AI investments in 2026 to stay ahead of emerging

I think they meant the physical device

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en

They can be a bit pricy if you’re young and on a budget.

If you’re trying to read on your phone only, I’d recommend these apps:

• Readest: The app is on both mobile and desktop, it’s a nice experience, and it’s free/ open source. I found it to be stable but I’ve seen comments about bugs: https://github.com/readest/readest
• Moon Reader: It’s paid / proprietary, but well known and customizable: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Moon%2B&hl=en-US

As for sourcing the files

• see if your library does any digital lending
• check out free sources like Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive

Some comments brought up a home server, but you don’t really need that if you’re starting out with the hobby and it’s just for yourself. That’s more for managing large libraries of books and access by many users.

Unfortunately a lot of parental controls aren’t that helpful, and they’re more of an afterthought

https://theconversation.com/parental-controls-on-childrens-tech-devices-are-out-of-touch-with-childs-play-257874

I agree with parenting in general though

I’d love it if platforms would implement a toggle to switch from infinite scroll to pagination

I’ll take it 😌

Meh, I’d rather let this copypasta be forgotten. It turns cool points into “bad” ones while exaggerating the rest. For example, it’s COOL that this animal evolved specialized digestive organs to process a food in a biological niche that other animals can’t exploit. There’s great variety among animal brain shapes / textures, and having such a complex brain doesn’t guarantee that all humans are that “smart”. Other animals are also sedentary or sleep a lot (sloths, cats) and this is seen as being efficient. Other animals also do things that are pretty gross when viewed through a human lens.

On top of all that, it feels like justification for everything humans are doing to endanger the population.

You could also post in existing communities, since the user base is smaller here

!imadethis@lemmy.zip and similar communities?

I appreciate the guide!

I haven’t tried this, but it might help anyone that’s having trouble with this?

https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/app.eduroam.geteduroam

I remember seeing articles about people leaving their doors open or windows down in places with lots of smash and grabs

It feels like being back on the playground

“nuh uh, my laser is 1000% more powerful”

“oh yea, mine is googleplex googolplex percent more powerful”

This is so detailed, especially the ISP bit. Thank you!

Feel free to cross post to !canada@lemmy.ca :)