QuadratureSurfer

I’m guessing it’s not a Samsung.

I sure as hell am never going to give him up.

Instead of recommending OpenStreetMap.org, I would suggest Cartes.app as the Google maps replacement (uses OSM data). It contains most features that Google Maps users are used to and will feel familiar to them. OpenStreetMap is more of the backend for mapping apps rather than a direct replacement for Google Maps.

Cartes for most features (satellite view, reviews, shareable links that work for anyone, etc.) and CoMaps for offline/driving directions.

This is happening on the mobile version of Edge where users are being offered a referral scheme. If you can get a friend to switch to Edge via a referral link, you’ll receive 500 Microsoft Rewards points (with the ability to accumulate up to 7,500 points per month if you’re feeling ambitious).

You can redeem a $5 gift card for Microsoft for 5,500 points, or a $5 gift card for Amazon for 6,500 points.

So basically they’re giving you $0.39 - $0.45 per referral with a maximum of $5.77 - $6.81 per month.

Same thing for castles/forts in Portugal.

There’s no point acting all surprised about it. The plans and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri for over 50 of your Earth years. If you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.

Lemmy might not support this, but PieFed does (without the need for a browser extension). There are some instructions here on setting it up:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs/09_Theming_Guide.md

The custom CSS/JS/Jinja needs to be submitted and approved first, but then a moderator could add it to the community as the official theme.

On the play store, it’s usually possible to download old apps even long after they’re no longer offered.

In the play store: Click on your User icon -> manage apps & device -> manage Then change the “This Device” selection to “Not Installed” and scroll to whatever app you had installed at one point.

PieFed supports this, it would be great to see Lemmy support it natively as well.

Interesting, but I don’t think this allows mods to customize a community’s HTML in the way that I have seen done on reddit (custom backgrounds, upvote/downvote icons, etc).

It should be just as easy as following this account here: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

I’m having some issues with my account (likely an issue with requiring users to have a profile picture uploaded before following). I can at least see one other PieFed.zip user who was able to get it working successfully.

You’ll start to recognize the larger instances after a bit. The domain/instance name sometimes has a hint as to what kind of platform it is.

Lemmy gets along well with “Threadiverse” (Reddit-like) instances: Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin. Searching for Communities (subreddits) will automatically fetch the community list from the other platforms and you can join/subscribe like you would on Reddit. So, it should be easy for you to access those.

If you’re on PieFed, they take it a little further and allow you to combine similar communities across platforms into a single “Feed”. A few 3rd party apps for Lemmy allow you to do something similar. Just keep in mind that different instances will usually have slightly different rules/mods for similar communities.

Lemmy doesn’t interact too well with Mastodon (Twitter-like) instances. But those users can see our activity and comment on posts at will. You can reply to them just like any other user once they’ve commented on a post that you can see.

Mbin instances support a little bit of peeking into the Mastodon side, and PieFed supports it a bit more. For instance, following users will pull their posts into a catch-all “Microblogs” community that other users on the threadiverse can interact with. Ex:
!microblogs@piefed.social

There are even some “bridge” accounts that have the potential to link up Mastodon and BlueSky users… But as far as I’ve seen on the threadiverse side, only PieFed users have recently been able to take advantage of that.

You likely won’t see too many users from Threads. A decent number of instances block Meta and any Threads user would also need to enable something in their account settings to see outside of their bubble.

The article never mentioned LLMs. LLMs only make up a small part of all AI tools. The AI in this sense is referring to machine learning models used to help digitally unroll the scroll and then another machine learning model that’s used to detect the letters.

Looks like an interesting article, but this feels more like “News” material, rather than “Technology” material.

As far as where theyve chosen to post instead (from the article):

Starting July 6, City of Waterloo announcements will be communicated on municipal websites and other social media already used by city hall such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo.

City hall will maintain an X account but only to direct people elsewhere, Abbott said.

[…]

The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X.

AI is the larger umbrella term. LLMs, Machine Learning, CNNs, DNNs, RNNs, etc. all fall under that umbrella “AI” term.

For those wondering what was exposed:

The Model Capability Initiative, which was implemented in April and strongly opposed by staff, has been paused following an incident in which employee data became accessible to the entire company.

[…]

Citing an internal security notice and information from three Meta employees, Wired reported that private conversations, prompts, transcriptions and performance reviews were exposed to “anyone inside the company.”

Thanks! I didn’t realize we could change that.

What kind of apps were you using that didn’t work very well?

Congrats! However, it’s worth pointing out that gas prices affect the cost of pretty much everything in the end; transportation/logistics, electricity, etc.