I did some research on what would be a good OS for someone coming from Windows and at the time Linux Mint was recommended a lot so that’s what I chose.

Since the limit is to keep server costs down, I don’t mind it. I use ImgBB.com for hosting images for my Lemmy posts.

Yeah that is a likely outcome. I was just trying to stay positive and hope for the best. When I think about how bad things can get with the misuse of AI, it makes me kinda depressed.

No. It was Cynthia G.

Glad it’s been reported. I just experienced the tag not working on Lemmy apps while it works fine on the desktop site and the mobile site.

Good point. I hope you’re right that we’re very far off from that reality. It’s best to be prepared, though. Productivity increases from AI use across industries may bring us the hardware needed for encryption-breaking quantum computing algorithms sooner than we think.

Oh, okay I had no idea. Crazy how they bothered to trademark it but not do anything to support the mods of the AMA community, rather even actively harming them by firing the only person at Reddit that was helping them out, Victoria Taylor.

It’s so crazy how they fired her. Reddit’s leadership really loves to shoot themselves in the foot. I applaud the mods scaling back their AMA mod duties. No point in doing so much extra work for a community that reddit continually shows it doesn’t care about and actively harms through their bad decisions.

I agree. Reddit didn’t trademark AMA so that means we can use it too.

Whoa, not good. Looks like more online accounts may get hacked from phishing with this increase of spam emails slipping through. I know a Youtuber that very recently got their Youtube account hacked & stolen from a phishing email sent to their Gmail. Luckily they got their account back, but I believe it was due to the help of their friends & audience on Youtube, as they were told by Google that most people who get their channel stolen like that don’t get it back. I’m glad I use Proton Mail for my main email account. Its spam filter is robust.

I don’t like this at all, but I doubt it can be stopped. I hope at the end of the day, when AI adoption is widespread, AI will have improved the internet and our lives rather than make them worse.

I’ve always assumed private messages on any site can be read by the site’s admin unless they are end-to-end encrypted.

Don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s hard to work when tired and I totally understand wanting to include the hair description if you thought it could be contextually relevant, and since you found out it’s not, taking it out is the right choice. I’m not at all experienced in transcription for the blind so when I made my suggestion of clumpy afro-textured hair, at first I thought the point of the transcription was to be as detailed as possible while also being brief, so I thought the hair description had to stay in in some form. But now I see only contextually relevant info is needed. Good to know. We’ve both learned something in this, yeah? Thanks again for the work you do and being open to suggestions. You’re awesome! 🙂

I tried the official app soon after it’s initial release and didn’t like it. Tried again the other day and it was even worse than I remember. It was ugly and slow scrolling on my phone. I deleted it right away. I don’t mind using the reddit desktop site, if I go back for my niche communities until they make it to the Fediverse, but I’m no longer using reddit on mobile if I can’t use my favorite 3rd-party app. Reddit even made it’s mobile website annoying to use, trying push people to its app. I absolutely hate when sites do that.

EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.

Oh, great tip! Thanks! It’s interesting to see which servers are hosted in my state.

I just spotted it and thought it was worth raising.

Thank you for raising it. Little by little we can remove conscious & unconscious biases against Black natural hair textures.

I see you edited the transcription, leaving out the hair description. That’s just fine too the way you have it now. Thank you. 🙂

I see. It’s an understandable assumption to make. That’s his natural hair texture. You may see this video he talks about his hair. The thing about afro-textured hair is it can stand up and out on it’s own. No wind needed, lol (and I say this as a person with this kind of hair texture).

I like Fedditor because Lemmy is a reddit-esque link aggregator on the Fediverse.

so that he comes across as crazier

Are you sure this is the reason? Did he state his reason that way? Or is that your assumption that he wants to look crazier? In a post above @[email protected] said his reason was because brushing it takes too much time according to interviews. I haven’t seen it myself since there’s no timestamp, but I’ll check it out later.

so what’s the blind user of this program going to attach to the concept of unkempt hair?

The problem isn’t with blind users, but sighted users who could read that and associate afro-textured hair like that with being unkempt.

Edit: Found the timestamp in the Eric Andre interview with Larry King about his hair. Here he doesn’t say he wants to look crazier. He says that’s what his hair looks like when he doesn’t brush it. And as I mentioned in another comment, afro-textured hair isn’t meant to be either combed or brushed every day because that can cause breakage.

Edit 2: Corrected his Eric Adams to Eric Andre. Woops.