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mrmanager

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Long time linux user and tinkerer. Currently working as a devops engineer. Very positive to the idea of decentralized internet platforms. :)

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Yeah I didnt see this until now. Thanks!

There has been a huge wave of spam accounts recently, and I recognize some of the names on this list. Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.

Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It's built into the service to have different emails for different sites.

Having closed signups will not stop any spam accounts. It just adds a delay between registration and being able to log in. There is no way to know if it's a spam account or not before they sign in. Of course, some of the names in the list makes it obvious, but they just change to ordinary sounding names then.

I think it's frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I'm not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.

Or am I wrong? I haven't been a troll myself but seems like I would just spend 30 mins to make accounts in random instances and then fire off my bot a few hours later or on the day after.

How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?

If the spammers and trolls manage to make you defederate from Lemmy.today, they will pick another instance. And every defederation will continue to make the fediverse smaller and more centralized. Sooner or later, small instances may even stop accepting new users for fear of being defederated from the larger network.

I would like to stop having these spam accounts and trolls on the instance. I could add email verification but it won't make a difference and just make it more annoying for new users. I really don't want to punish them for what trolls and spammers are doing.

But sure, I prefer it to defederation. So if you think it makes a difference, I could add it just as a sign of good faith. But it's really a pointless gesture.

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Yeah it makes sense. After reading all the arguments here, I guess if it helps to slow down spammers, it's a good idea. Let's do it. :)

I will enable it tomorrow and I would be very grateful for some extra admin help. I will contact you tomorrow. :)

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Thank you, it does make sense. We will enable it tomorrow. This thread changed my mind. :)

mrmanager ,
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In all for trying it. Will enable it tomorrow then. Thanks!

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I've been there a few times, but will log in more and catch up. :)

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But hey, richest company in the world need to eat ok?

/s

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Why are these companies the worst? It’s a honest question since I actually don’t know much about them.

Customizing COSMIC: Theming and Applications ( blog.system76.com )

Our new, not yet released Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros is filling out with some essential systems that cater the DE to both users and developers alike. Customization is one of our main focuses for COSMIC, and was a huge focus for us in August, too.

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Pop OS is awesome. You should like it a lot. Even the way it looks by default is much better then Ubuntu for sure.

mrmanager ,
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I can’t wait personally and will install it as soon as I can :) If it has some severe flaws, I just log out and log into Gnome or Plasma instead. It’s so simple.

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Very cool, the more the better :)

Edit: Not possible to install yet for me.

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Nvidia is bad and also Ubuntu is using a very old kernel.

I think you should try installing Pop OS instead.

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Cost of doing business.

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You don’t have to do the keyring thing manually anymore, pacman takes care of it. :)

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It was a while ago… Not sure when. But I remember the news about it. :)

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KOSA is a bill that aims to protect children online but it would do so in harmful ways. First, it would pressure platforms to install content filters that would censor large amounts of content, including important suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support resources. Content filters have a history of overblocking important...

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Darth Vader wants to protect children… Right.

Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web) ( github.com )

Hey everyone, thank you for your patience, and thank you to everyone who engaged constructively. It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place, and I’m not sure my personal repository is the best place to do that - we are looking for a better forum and will update when we have...

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Google, the Internet Government.

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For a conversation to happen, there must be trust. I don’t think anyone trusts them, so there is no attempt at serious communication.

They should be treated with contempt.

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Meta and Twitter are social media companies. They have access to peoples tweets. It’s similar to having access to these messages you and me are typing, except many people use their own names there.

It’s not too bad privacy wise, just social messages.

Google on the other hand has the private searches of billions of people. Everything you put into a search engine because you are worried, afraid, sick, or curious about something.

Google records all this private activity and saves it under your personal profile, and then uses cookies to track every web site you are visiting on the web (using not only Google search but Google analytics cookies that exists on almost every website).

They also combine this data with whatever you are doing on your android phone, or what places you go to using Google maps, or what video meetings you are having with Google meets, what emails you have in Google Mail, what video you watch on YouTube, what calendar events you are having with Google calendar… And so on.

Then they feed all this data into algorithms designed to figure out what you are likely to do next. They sell this data to advertisers so they can target you with ads. They also send this data to American agencies like nsa to be stored and analyzed.

There is a giant difference here between Google and the other companies you mentioned. Google is literally watching moments from people’s entire lives, while the others only see your social media messages.

This is why Google is completely absurdly in it’s own class of anti-privacy. No other company has this amount of data about people’s every moment awake.

Now they use their dominant position to try and take over the entire web, so it’s not possible to escape them anymore using a different browser, blocking cookies and tracking, or using another search engine.

If everyone is forced to use their browser, we have lost everything good about the web.

They should be treated like the cancer to a free web they really are.

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It may be the last few years of the free web because of Google. Their goals are clear.

Please switch to Firefox, another search engine and another email provider…

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Basically they have made themselves kings and everyone else are peasants. Now they are dividing the land between them.

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It’s not too hard. The most important things are web search and email. I still use Google Maps. But I don’t want my private emails and searches at a company who is user hostile and preditory.

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The Fastmail calendar is pretty good. Just a random page about them: www.fastmail.com/blog/shared-calendars/

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Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

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You will love it. I switched about 6 months ago and it’s wonderful. When I was using duckduckgo I had to use the !g keyword to search Google sometimes. With Kagi, it’s basically switch and you forget Google exists.

Set it as default and you will see what I mean.

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Worth every dollar. The quality is so good that you will switch and forget Google exists. I haven’t used Google search in 6 months even once.

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That used to work until reddit started a war against it’s own moderators and made a lot of people leave to Lemmy.

Reddit is in a slow death spiral I believe.

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I understand if you can’t afford it. Money doesn’t grow on trees in this world. But Kagi has been very transparent about the reason for the costs - it’s what they need to charge to not lose money, since they don’t sell your user data or track you.

It’s unrealistic to think that having a search engine is free, and the reason Google is free is because it tracks you and sells your data to advertisers, and probably also makes sure you get search results that benefit those advertisers. It’s quite simply a bad choice to use an ad company to search the web.

Kagi also had a blog post about search usage, where they used googles search statistics to determine that the average person searches 3 or 4 times per day (90 to 120 times per month). This amount (100 searches) is free on Kagi.

300 searches costs 5 dollars.

If you are doing 1000 searches per month, that’s as much as myself and I work as a programmer / devops guy. We search a lot. That’s much more than the average person. We are in the top 1% actually. Nice to be there for something right? :) Cost for us is 10 dollars.

I couldn’t find anything about your claim that conversion would cost extra, not on the pricing page and not in the FAQ section. I also did a few conversation searches and there was no info about additional price. Can you link to where it says that?

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Ah sorry, I misunderstood you. Yes they count as a search.

I don’t think you can compare pricing to Google. They make profits by combining any payment with selling your data for profit. There is no way Kagi can compete with that since they don’t sell your data.

To me, search is the most important thing I use the internet for. I just think it’s reasonable to pay a good competitor that doesn’t sell your data and provides excellent search. But if you can’t pay them, of course that’s fine. Maybe you need 10 dollars for something else. But for me, Im not in the financial zone where I even miss 10 dollars or notice it’s gone.

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It’s honestly why I’m paying for it.

I also pay for email for the same reason. :)

For email, Fastmail is just excellent. I use their email aliases function a lot. So you can one-click generate an email to use when you sign up on a service and when you don’t use that service anymore, delete the email address.

Makes it impossible for them to sign you up on advertising lists since you can just delete that email address if they annoy you.

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Yup try it and set as default in the browser. You will start to see a lot of sites that never showed up in google also. They have these “listacles” in search results where they group relevant sites into a small list, which makes it super simple to go to them for results.

If you want a sample search, try “best tv shows 2023” or something like that.

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That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Proton is not a web search engine.

Edit: But for email, sure. :)

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Ah yes.

I also worry a bit about all these email aliases I use now. They do tie me to fastmail for the future. And if they would disappear, it would be a pain to replace. But that’s life. Have to take some risks. :)

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More like organic user reviews I would say.

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I haven’t done that but yes, it’s pretty much unheard of that the user can actually control what shows up in search if you come from Google-land.

mrmanager OP ,
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Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.

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It’s nice that they are trying to add new features and make it original in some way. But I will have to wait for Linux support, sadly.

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I think it’s a bit silly to have megathreads just because some users can’t scroll past posts that doesnt interest them.

I agree its not great with multiple threads but it’s also not the end of the world imo. Users want to talk about these things. Let them.

It’s not fun to post on megathreads because your comments get buried. At least it was like that on reddit.

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I’ve noticed that there are tons of people who tries to tell others what to talk about, even what words they should use. What’s going on… :)

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It’s ideal for you since you don’t want to discuss it, yes.

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I agree. :) Haven’t played a ubisoft game for ages…

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Yeah I know. Things really change…

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Well to be fair, this is because of the stupid justice system in the US.

Just the term “afford to fight for it” is something that never should exist in a civilized society.

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Yes I can edit it, didn’t mean to offend.

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I loved it personally. Tech is in a awful state right now and it’s correct to try and joke about it while we all lose decades of what previous generations built up as protection against these bastards.

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