The political ideas you can find on Reddit are much more diverse. There is usually at least some pushback against some of the most deranged statements.

I like using AntennaPod for podcasts and Spotify for music.

Nobody knows if and when programming will be automated in a meaningful way. But once we have the tech to do it, we can automate pretty much all work. So I think this will not be a problem for programmers until it’s a problem for everyone.

When the Apple car is released, the EU will invent 350 kW DC fast charging via USB-C 🙏

I can’t tell what the quality is because there is no brand name and they don’t make any claims about the source of bricks. It’s definitely not Lego, so not coming from a Lego factory.

If you don’t want it new, you can get used sets at places like Ebay.

If you don’t need the instructions (Lego lets you download PDFs on their website), you can order individual parts from pages like Bricklink or Brickowl. This is quite involved and can be confusing if you haven’t done it before. You need to find a seller (or multiple ones) who have all the parts you need at the correct quantities and colors and who will ship it to your region.

You can buy parts from compatible brands. I’ve used Webrick before, it works just like Brickowl, but can be cheaper for parts that are rare in the Lego world.

You can also look for sets from compatible brands, like this one. Sometimes they are copies of Lego sets (which I find questionable), sometimes they are unique designs. The quality of those can be hit and miss.

Alternatively, do retired sets come back into circulation again?

Usually not, but sometimes it happens, like with the 2017 Saturn V (21309) and the 2021 Saturn V (92176).

I agree with your point on biodiversity and yes, climate change poses an existential threat to individual people, but not to civilization as a whole.

No, I’m certain that human civilization would survive.

I don’t think this kind of catastrophizing helps. Climate change certainly doesn’t “threaten the fundamental existence of organized human society”. Sure, we should do more about it and future generations would be better off if we were to lessen the impact, but it is not an existential threat.

It doesn’t make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can’t really track you based on just the username.

What a wild conspiracy theory.

Legally, they can’t collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don’t agree to any of this.

And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can’t, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don’t have your geo-location, device Id, etc.

Interesting. It seems that Lemmy can see Mastodon users and send private messages to them. And I believe Mastodon users can create Lemmy posts, so potentially Threads users could do that too once Meta enables two-way communication.

I’m in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn’t that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can’t cause damage.

What Facebook can do:

• read your public data (they can do this wether anyone federates with them or not)
• let their users publish content to other Fediverse users

What they can’t do:

• serve you ads
• serve you an algorithmic feed
• impose their ToS or rules
• collect data for analytics/tracking/marketing
• force you to use a certain client
• make changes to the protocol or design

I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.

You can simply not follow people on Threads and you will have no Threads content in your feed

I’ve definitely had both. Sometimes the hosts of the actual podcast read an ad using their own voices. In this case everyone gets the same audio file and crowdsourcing the timestamps would work.

For dynamically inserted ads, it will be more complicated. Maybe a system like content id that has a library of known ads and detects them in the audio.

I wonder if something like sponsor block is feasible for podcasts 🤔

The active users have more than halved since July

I wouldn’t read too much into this, it was a chaotic time, many people tried lots of different things, some created multiple accounts etc. It is completely expected that some try the website and leave again. The growth is still impressive and I expect Lemmy to continue to grow, just because it’s the better service.

It would be cool if I could tell it which instance I’m on and then have it change the links to the Lemmy communities so that they are being accessed from my instance. This makes it much easier to interact and subscribe.

Thank you for this tool!

I was looking for something like this! Am I using it wrong or does it only have 7 entries at the moment?

Edit: 24 hours later it’s gone from 7 entries to 60+ pages. Exciting!

Anyway, it would be cool to have a feature where I can paste a list of subreddits and get a list of matching lemmy communities (where available).

That statement is pretty stupid in general. But for server side software, open source doesn’t help much. Even if you can look at the source, you still need to trust them that that’s what they are running on their servers.