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submitted 3 weeks ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

The host Search Engine, PJ Vogt, and the host of Hard Fork, Kevin Roose, discussed their thoughts about a “new kind of Internet” possible with the Fediverse. They also talked about the challenges of the somewhat technical barrier to entry.

I especially liked them sharing their perspectives; the Fediverse seems to simultaneously be a recreation of a pre-shittified Internet and something new altogether.

They even created their own live Mastodon server to see how that would go: https://theforkiverse.com/explore They ended up testing OpenAI’s Operator to do the heavy lifting of coding, but did make the realization they did not know how their own user verification works or how to change it.

I am just elated that there is talk in the “mainstream” of the Fediverse. I’m hopeful that some attention such as this can help raise awareness and pique some curiosities.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

The host Search Engine, PJ Vogt, and the host of Hard Fork, Kevin Roose, discussed their thoughts about a “new kind of Internet” possible with the Fediverse. They also talked about the challenges of the somewhat technical barrier to entry.

I especially liked them sharing their perspectives; the Fediverse seems to simultaneously be a recreation of a pre-shittified Internet and something new altogether.

They even created their own live Mastodon server to see how that would go: https://theforkiverse.com/explore They ended up testing OpenAI’s Operator to do the heavy lifting of coding, but did make the realization they did not know how their own user verification works or how to change it.

I am just elated that there is talk in the “mainstream” of the Fediverse. I’m hopeful that some attention such as this can help raise awareness and pique some curiosities.

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago

In his book “Why We Sleep,” Mathew Walker explained that Alzheimer’s detection via EEG monitoring during sleep was a major reason he decided to switch to studying sleep 20 years ago. He was trying to originally study diseases like Alzheimer’s and found that there was not much information on why identification on EEG was detectable before symptoms occurred, such as forgetting items’s locations.

I wonder if this is along the same lines, like a wider variety of EEG signal detection, clearer or more accurate diagnosis, or something entirely different. It looks like subjects were still awake but in a restful state, so maybe testing also does not require as much time as a full sleep study.

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the thorough response. That makes sense to not reinvent the wheel for syncing and keeping things simple. And yeah, I suppose using the same Task Pony instance would work for sharing.

Thanks again for making something useful and free for the world.

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

It looks nice. I like the clean interfaces. I am slowly working toward self hosting and found it surprising difficult to find a task organizer as well. One big hurdle is having something that can also sync with my wife’s list, such as a grocery list, so we don’t both buy the food item.

I don’t know much about coding. Does a syncable list require a lot of time and effort? Is that something you would consider adding eventually?

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

For what it’s worth, I know someone personally that is a genuinely kind person and a local police officer. He told me at some point that he had been diagnosed with Aspergers and I was a bit surprised. He might be an outliner or something, but he does a better job of being fair than most of the typical police encounters that I know of.

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submitted 2 months ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/arctic@lemmy.world

Hi, I saw my beta for Arctic and was pretty bummed and switched to a couple of others. I thought Arctic had better UI than many others, namely custom theme abilities. I want to share a couple of themes I made for Arctic, in case anyone is still using Arctic and wants to use them. Please let me know if they don’t work; I don’t share links often:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/BMAJRJ4PV4#HJPslOve3tm8

https://drive.proton.me/urls/0C7BDRX1WG#1Rye2U6KraqK

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like the credit unions around me do have similar or a slight bit better rates. And I do like the idea of keeping my money more locally.

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submitted 2 months ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

Hi all, I’m looking at HYS accounts and I see Sofi and Openbank coming up as some of the higher rate options. It looks like Openbank is based in California and has 4.2% but poor customer service reviews on Trustpilot. Sofi is 4.3% but with a limited time 0.7% “boost,” so 3.60% normally, but appears to have better customer service. I’m more inclined to have better support through Sofi.

I also had many people tell me Ally gave them 3.30% and pretty good customer service and transfer times. Any thoughts?

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

That’s a really interesting idea. That makes me think it would even be better in the sense that the data would be protected rather than risk a cloud service going out of business or changed their storage location. Not that that is a likely scenario but still.

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Backups of Backups (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 months ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hi all, I'm just getting my feet wet in self hosting and have a plan to start with Nextcloud on a Pi 4 for photo backups, and then try other things for calendar, phone backups, media hosting, etc.

One thing I worry about is losing my data. I have heard "if it's not backed up in two locations, it's not backed up." I'm curious what all of you do for backing up the setup. Remote backup to hard drives in the garage? Pay for cloud backup and encrypt it? Just another backup site over wifi in the house?

I'd be most afraid of losing photos and if there were a house fire or something. So my inital thought was a way of backing up to a server in my detached garage in a weather resistent container, but I want to know what you all think. Thanks for any insight.

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submitted 2 months ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/Beatbox@lemmy.today

After watching a number of solo wildcards, I thought Improver was absolutely in and was not sure that Abo Ice had a very good qualifier performance. I’m also really disappointed Codfish didn’t qualify because he has a unique sound set and had some pretty hot drops lately.

It will be an interesting lineup. Wing is obviously a top-tier bearboxer but the crowds seem to respond more to heavier beats over clarity (eg Kaji). Den has such a unique sound set that I think he could win but I’m excited to see how it all shakes out.

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

You could try adding cardamom and/or cinnamon to change it up

[-] loopy@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe in adults, but I'm not so sure for early development. This topic was discussed on The Happiest Labs with Dr Laurie Santos and was pretty interesting. The psychologist she brought on explained how mammals need play as part of practicing socialization and is crucial for brain development.

The "play-based childhood" has shifted more toward a "device-based childhood" and the change is noticeable in many children's self image and executive functioning. Like this article mentions, the early access to social media seems to be the biggest contributor lowering self worth due to constant comparison.

loopy

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