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Yup YouTube makes it very easy to receive money from adds and people that have YouTube premium. Having a YouTube premium subscription means that you are at least supporting the creator of every video that you watch a little bit (from what I can find 55% of what you pay is going to the creators). Yes YouTube takes quite a large cut, but video hosting in high quality costs a lot of money.
I think it will be very hard to do this on a decentralised platform. People don't trust just anyone with their money, so it could lead to people abandoning smaller servers and you can be sure that bad actors would pop up and try to abuse the system. And even if you do this the right way, you would have to build this system entirely before you can convince creators to move to this platform.
It will also be really hard to offer the same quality and reliability that YouTube offers, without taking a larger cut than the 45% that YouTube takes. Hosting a large video platform is expensive, and many of the Fediverse users are anti-adds and will run an add-blocker and maybe even sponsor-blocker.
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On the touchscreen I can use pinch to zoom in browsers like Firefox and Microsoft Edge (I use it because Firefox doesn't have PWA support), it is also supported in apps like Gnome Maps and Kirta. In Krita I can even move and turn the canvas with two finger input, it seems moving and turning are both supported in GNOME.
Outside of apps, you can also use a three finger up gesture to go to the active app overview. And you can switch between the active workspace with a three finger swipe to the right or the left (this can make switching between applications really fast). Long press for right click seems to work in most places.
You can drag an app to the left or the right of the screen to make it fill up half of the screen, and drag it to the top to make it full screen.
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I installed Fedora 40 with Gnome and Wayland a few days ago on my Surface pro gen 1 and have been very happy with the results so far. I do have a type cover and I do use it a lot and I use touch input instead of a mouse. Gnome supports most touch input, and that hasn't been an issue so far. Some third party applications don't understand what 'pinch to zoom' is though. The onscreen keyboard situation on Wayland seems to be a bit messy. I didn't really like the default gnome keyboard and I couldn't get a better keyboard to work (note that for me, it is also important that the OSK is disabled when the type cover is attached, so you won't have that issue).
The performance on the original Surface Pro is fine, I can even emulate Windows games trough Steam, I tried RuneScape (OldSchool and RuneScape 3) and Tunic. Browsing, reading Discord, watching videos all work fine. The main limitation when working with the device seems to be the 4 GB of RAM. So close other apps like the browser when starting a game, or the entire system can freeze. This seems to be mostly an issue when running multiple Electron based applications, gaming and compiling code.
The newer Surface devices have some Microsoft specific hardware that is not always well-supported by the kernel. If you have issues you can try the kernel made specifically for the Surface devices. https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface Personally I haven't tried it as everything just worked so far on my device (they do try to get their patches upstream, so that is probably the reason).
For drawing, I always used Adobe and Affinity software, I did try to get Affinity Photo installed, but I did not succeed yet. I tried both version 1 and 2.
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Maybe we have some bias on this topic, but I had the same thought. Maven is such a well known tool in IT, that I'm surprised they just created a social network with the same name. Until they get a bit famous this won't be good for SEO.
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He also seems to make a video almost every day. That really doesn't help with the quality of the video's. I doubt there is a lot of time to do additional research on the topic, so often it seems to just stick to the basic information from some kind of article and comments (and maybe a few related articles). And is often just related to the drama of the day.
Although he does sometimes have video's that do require more research, but a lot of people won't see those as they assume low quality because of many other video's.
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Sometimes I do like his videos, but this one was positioned so bad. The video does go over the changes in Plasma 6.1 and they are good, but this is not a huge change that would change anybodies live.
I know he is probably inspired by channels like Linus Tech Tips, but even they don't got that far anymore. I think he probably intended this in a comedic way, as most of his audience knows that he makes his videos like this, but it really makes the videos worse.
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Thanks for the update :) I was already wondering why the server was down.
Let's hope the Local Only Communities won't be abused (and only used for the intended purpose) so that we don't have to start creating accounts on multiple instances.
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Ah it makes more sense that way, I didn't read the title as if they were talking about all the extensions that they found summed together. This does make it really clear that you should always check extensions when installing them, and not just install extensions with a low install base from an unknown author.
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That headline is quite misleading ... the malicious extension only had a few hundred installs, not millions. They just copied an existing extension that does have 7 millions installs. They did went quite far by registering a URL. Of course it is bad that stuff like this manages to get on the store, but as long as you check what you are installing, you should be fine.
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I also started using Lemmy during the Reddit fallout, and stayed for a few weeks. After that I started seeing less posts that interested me, and I took a break from Lemmy for a while. And finally returned a week ago.
Even on Reddit I see less interesting posts now. Especially the amount of discussion posts also seems to be lower there now. The official Reddit app is also a lot better for reading than for writing.
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This sounds like a difficult problem if he wants to continue browsing the Reddit community for pathfinder. I have seen these kind of people on D&D subreddits too, and it also put me a bit off trying pathfinder during the OGL drama.
Maybe there are other communities outside of Reddit that are able to provide the answers to questions, but I doubt you will escape this hate on the larger TTRPG subreddits.
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Although this feature sounds helpful, it really looks like they went too far with this. They should probably look for a way to sell these Copilot+ pc’s in another way if they can’t get this secure enough and probably keep it disabled for companies…
I’m surprised they didn’t make sure that the part that should help you hide sensitive information worked well before letting the first testers get their hands on the feature. All this bad news about the future doesn’t help convince people to turn it on.
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There is indeed quite a shift towards just posting articles. A lot of people don’t regularly post (at least it was like that on Reddit), and for those people, the articles are great.
It is hard to keep conversations active in smaller communities. As people will quickly stop posting new chats and questions if there are no replies.
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It would be nice if Jagex would confirm that it is fine to use this laucher. As far as I know we have no more information than this tweet from Mod Ash: https://x.com/kaelygon/status/1763667578315042847 Bolt does work the same as the official launcher, so it should not be a problem…
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Fedora might be a good option, but it might require more setup with an Nvidea GPU. They use Wayland now, are a Gnome based distro, support full disk encryption. For me the package mangar has been fine, and they do support flatpak. It is a very large distro with backing from RedHat. So it should generally be stable.
Pop_OS! Seems to be the great distro if you just want to game and watch videos without any issues arround setting up the drivers. It has been a quite stable distro for me and it is quite similar to Ubuntu. Unfortunately this distro doesn’t have Wayland yet.
Manjaro is an Arch based distro, but it had some issues with using packages from the AUR. They do run Gnome on Wayland by default.
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Ik had ze zelf nog niet eerder gezien. Lokaal valt er waarschijnlijk meer te behalen ja. Er zijn dan veel minder kiezers nodig en soms worden kleine partijen juist uitgelicht. En alleen al meer andacht is misschien al genoeg om de publieke opinie een beetje te beïnvloeden.
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I started with an openSUSE dual boot with KDE. I didn't use Linux a lot at that point. Later, I switched to Ubuntu on a laptop for about a year and used that until I bought a MacBook. Eventually, I returned to Linux by running Pop!_OS on my desktop, but games were a bit choppy, and I really wanted to just run Wayland. I also started to use RHEL at work for our servers. So now I'm trying to switch to Fedora. I still have some issues with the Jagex Launcher, but aside from that, everything seems to work great now.
At home, I have also had an Ubuntu Server for many years, and I also run Ubuntu Server on my VPS.
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Wat een raar verhaal, waarom zou de Chinese overheid geld steken in het steunen van zo'n kleine partij die nooit zetels gaat halen. Ook heeft deze partij andere standpunten in het Nederlands dan dat het heeft in de Chinese media. (Zo zegt RTL: Vertegenwoordigers van de partij hebben sterke pro-Chinese standpunten, maar uiten die alleen in Chinese media.). Dus het is ook geen eenvoudige promotie van Chinese standpunten.
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Bij de Europese verkiezingen aanstaande donderdag doet een Nederlandse partij mee die gesteund wordt door organisaties die zijn verbonden aan de Chinese Communistische Partij. Dat melden RTL Nieuws en Follow The Money (FTM) op basis van eigen onderzoek.
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This looks great. That would be quite a powerful low-weight machine with long battery life. If they won't be too expensive (and gaming works on them) I might get one. At least RuneLite seems to already support ARM64 on Linux and these chips also put more spotlight on ARM trough Windows on ARM.
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Ze zijn bij de VVD blijkbaar over de problemen met regeren met de PVV heen en willen graag een echt rechts kabinet. Maarja dan moeten ze wel de NSC overtuigen om toch met de PVV samen te gaan werken… terwijl ze kort geleden nog met ruzie uit elkaar gingen.
Ik snap wel dat de VVD bang is voor een kabinet onder Timmermans, bij de volgende verkiezingen zal extreem rechts ze dan verwijten verantwoordelijk te zijn voor links beleid.
This version patches the security vulnerability related to custom emoji’s.
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htmx is a very different way of developing your web application. You can define a lot of behaviour inside your HTML with the new attributed added by htmx. This allows you to build an interactive website without using any JavaScript. You do need a REST API that returns HTML though. For more information about HTMX you can read the [htmx docs](https://htmx.org/docs/).
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The results of this year Stack Overflow survey have been published: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/ There is a lot to go through, so if you prefer it in a video format, these kinds of videos can help and also provide some comments on the raw data that you see.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1390029 > cross-posted from: https://popplesburger.hilciferous.nl/post/9969 > > > After setting up my own Lemmy server, I've been intrigued by the server logs. I was surprised to see some search engines already start to crawl my instances despite it having very little content. > > > > I've noticed that most requests seem to come in from IPv4 addresses, despite my server having both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. This made me wonder. > > > > IPv4 addresses are getting more scarce by the day and large parts of the world have to share an IPv4 address to get access to older websites. This often leads to unintended fallout, such as thousands of people getting blocked by an IP ban from a site admin that doesn't know any better, as well as anti-DDoS providers throwing up annoying CAPTCHA pages because of bad traffic coming from the shared IP address. Furthermore, hosting a Lemmy server of your own is impossible behind a shared IP address, so IPv6 is the only option. > > > > IPv6 is the clear way forward. However, many people haven't configured IPv6 for their hosts. People running their own Lemmy instances behind an IPv6 address won't be able to federate with those servers, and that's a real shame. > > > > # Looking into it > > > > So, I whipped up this quick Python script: > > > > ```python3 > > import requests > > import sys > > import socket > > from progress.bar import Bar > > > > lemmy_host = sys.argv[1] > > > > site_request = requests.get(f"https://{lemmy_host}/api/v3/site").json() > > > > hosts = site_request['federated_instances']['linked'] > > > > ipv4_only = [] > > ipv6_only = [] > > both = [] > > error = [] > > > > with Bar('Looking up hosts', max=len(hosts)) as bar: > > for host in hosts: > > host = host.strip() > > > > try: > > dns = socket.getaddrinfo(host, 443) > > except socket.gaierror: > > error.append(host) > > > > has_ipv4 = False > > has_ipv6 = False > > for entry in dns: > > (family, _, _, _, _) = entry > > > > if family == socket.AddressFamily.AF_INET: > > has_ipv4 = True > > elif family == socket.AddressFamily.AF_INET6: > > has_ipv6 = True > > > > if has_ipv4 and has_ipv6: > > both.append(host) > > elif has_ipv4: > > ipv4_only.append(host) > > elif has_ipv6: > > ipv6_only.append(host) > > else: > > error.append(host) > > > > bar.message = f"Looking up hosts (B:{len(both)} 4:{len(ipv4_only)} 6:{len(ipv6_only)} E:{len(error)})" > > bar.next() > > > > print(f"Found {len(both)} hosts with both protocols, {len(ipv6_only)} hosts with IPv6 only, and {len(ipv4_only)} outdated hosts, failed to look up {len(error)} hosts") > > ``` > > > > This script fetches the instances a particular Lemmy server federates with (ignoring the blocked hosts) and then looks all of them up through DNS. It shows you the IPv4/IPv6 capabilities of the servers federating with your server. > > > > I've run the script against a few popular servers and the results are in: > > > > # Results > > |Server |IPv6 + IPv4|IPv6 only|IPv4|Error|Total| > > |----------|-----------|---------|----|-----|-----| > > |Lemmy.ml |1340 |3 |1903| 215| 3461| > > |Beehaw.org|807 |0 |1105| 74| 1986| > > |My server |202 |0 | 312| 4| 518| > > > >  > > > >  > > > >  > > > >  > > > > It seems that over half (55%+) the servers on the Fediverse aren't reachable over IPv6! > > > > # I'm running my own server, what can I do? > > > > Chances are you've already got an IPv6 address on your server. All you need to do is find out what it is (`ip address show` in Linux), add an AAAA record in your DNS entries, and enable IPv6 in your web server of choice (i.e. listen [::]:443 in Nginx). Those running a firewall may need to allow traffic through IPv6 as well, but many modern firewalls treat whitelist entries the same these days. > > > > Some of you may be running servers on networks that haven't bothered implementing IPv6 yet. There are still ways to get IPv6 working! > > > > ## Getting IPv6 through Tunnelbroker > > If you've got a publicly reachable IPv4 address that can be pinged from outside, you can use [Hurricane Electric's Tunnelbroker](https://tunnelbroker.net/) to get an IPv6 range, free of charge! You get up to five tunnels per account (each tunnel with a full /64 network) and a routed /48 network for larger installations, giving you up to 65k subnets to play with! > > > > There are lots of guides out there, some for [PfSense](https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/ipv6-tunnel-broker.html), some for [Linux](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6_tunnel_broker_setup), some for [Windows](https://c7solutions.com/2012/12/ipv6-routed-lan-with-windows-html); there's probably one for your OS of choice. > > > > ## Getting IPv6 behind CGNAT > > > > Getting an IPv6 network through a tunnelbroker service behind CGNAT is (almost) impossible. Many ISPs that employ CGNAT already provide their customers with IPv6 networks, but some of them are particularly cheap, especially consumer ISPs. > > > > It's still possible to get IPv6 into your network through a VPN, but for serving content you'll need a server with IPv6 access. You can get a free cloud server from various cloud providers to get started. An easy way forward may be to host your server in the cloud, but if you've got a powerful server at home, you can just use the free server for its networking capabilities. > > > > Free servers are available from all kinds of providers, such as [Amazon](https://aws.amazon.com/free/)(free for a year), [Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services)(free for a year), [Oracle](https://www.oracle.com/nl/cloud/free/)(free without time limit). Alternatively, a dedicated VPS with IPv6 capabilities can be as cheap as $4-5 per month if you [shop around](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud). > > > > You can install a VPN server on your cloud instance, like Wireguard, and that will allow you to use the cloud IPv6 address at home. Configure the VPN to assign an IPv6 address and to forward traffic, and you've got yourself an IPv6 capable server already! > > > > There are guides online about how to set up such a system. [This gist](https://gist.github.com/MartinBrugnara/cb0cd5b53a55861d92ecba77c80ba729) will give you the short version. > > > > # Final notes > > It should be noted that this is a simple analysis based on server counts alone. Most people flock to only a few servers, so most Lemmy users should be able to access IPv6 servers. However, in terms of self hosting, these things can matter!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cat/post/6385 > It is currently possible, through Lemmy's API, to create accounts automatically and without limit if verification by email address or captcha is not activated. I'd advise you to activate one or both of them **NOW**! > > After registering x number of accounts (currently I could do thousands), all you have to do is list all the existing communities for each of the account to publishes one new post per community, or more. I'll leave you to picture the mess. > > (I apologise to the administrators of sh.itjust.works, I should have done the test with my own server.)
Last time we discussed how to set up Lemmy locally, this time we will discuss setting up Lemmy in production mode on a Rasberry Pi with functioning image upload by using Docker. This time we have to deviate more from the official guide as some things don’t seem to work. To follow this guide, you will need a basic understanding of the terminal and a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 (I have only tested this on the Raspberry Pi 4). If you are on Windows 10 or 11 you can use [OpenSSH in PowerShell](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=gui). # Setting up the Raspberry Pi To prepare an SD card for the Raspberry Pi, download the [Raspberry Pi Imager]( https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/). Insert the SD card, select the Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) and make sure you pick the SD card for Storage. You could pick the full version of the OS, but make sure you pick a 64-bit version of Debian Bullseye. Before clicking “Write”, go click on the settings icon and enable ssh. You can also set up a user, hostname, authorization keys and WiFi. Now insert the card into your Raspberry Pi, connect power and you should be able to ssh to the pi. So, with the default pi user, that would be `ssh pi@raspberrypi`. # Installing Docker To install Docker we have to follow the [Docker Debian installation guide]( https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/) (The Raspian guide leads to a configuration that won’t be able to find any stable docker installation). First, we have to install the dependencies for adding the new repository: `sudo apt-get update` `sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg` Add Docker’s official GPG key: `sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings` `curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg` `sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg` And set up the Docker repository: ` echo \ "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \ "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null ` Now we can install docker and docker-compose: `sudo apt-get update` `sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-compose` To be able to run docker command without using sudo we have to add our current user to the Docker group: `sudo groupadd docker` `sudo usermod -aG docker $USERz `newgrp docker` # Configuring Lemmy We need to download a few configuration files. The configuration files listed in the guide don’t support Arm64, so I took the files from Lemmy 1.17.3 and modified them, so they pick the ARM version of the docker images. The NGINX configuration does work, but it is included to make the download simpler: `curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Fireblade75/95a0dfa7abbedff554eb9109434060cd/raw/5cf6eddbe706dd25b84234ce619f18a4faca854a/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml` `curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Fireblade75/95a0dfa7abbedff554eb9109434060cd/raw/5cf6eddbe706dd25b84234ce619f18a4faca854a/lemmy.hjson -o lemmy.hjson` `curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Fireblade75/95a0dfa7abbedff554eb9109434060cd/raw/5cf6eddbe706dd25b84234ce619f18a4faca854a/nginx.conf -o nginx.conf` If you want to change the default password of the database, make sure that you change it both in the docker-compose file and the lemmy.hjson configuration. Now we can run `docker-compose up`, this downloads all the containers and starts the Lemmy server. Check the logs for errors and see if there is anything we still need to solve. When the services are done starting, we can stop the cluster again by pressing control + C. A problem I had was that the image server did not get the right permissions to the location where it wants to store its files. To solve this, we simply have to run the following command: `sudo chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs/` # Running Lemmy When all errors are solved, we can start the cluster in detached mode. Let’s first destroy the containers by using `docker-compse down`. And after that we can run `docker-compose up -d`. The containers should start now, but this time docker-compose is running in detached mode, this mode does not block the terminal and lets Docker run in the background. You now have a working installation of Lemmy on a Raspberry Pi. It listens to port 80, so you should be able to navigate to it from other devices in your network. For example, by going to http://raspberrypi/ . The default user is lemmy and its password is lemmylemmy, this is configured inside the lemmy.hjson file. If you later want to update Lemmy to a newer version, you can just change the version of the Docker images inside the docker-compose file. Hopefully this helped you understand how to set up Lemmy, if you have any question please ask.
Ik zag dat ze bij Beehaw nu één stijl aan icoontjes aan houden. Dat ziet er erg leuk en herkenbaar uit. Natuurlijk is het ook goed dat je gewoon een community kan oprichten zonder dat je je daar super druk over hoeft te maken. Ik vond het zelf alleen wel leuk om iets van een gezamenlijke stijl aan te houden voor de icoontjes die ik maakte, daarom koos ik voor de stijl van onze nu al meestgebruikte community [!nieuws@feddit.nl](https://feddit.nl/c/nieuws). Wil je ook net zoals !nieuws en [!tech@feddit.nl](https://feddit.nl/c/tech) deze stijl aanhouden, dan kan je het SVG-bestand van de Tech community gebruiken als basis: https://gist.github.com/Fireblade75/005f4d398eb67c970bbd2e3f5d77b24f
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Theo, a former Twitch employee, that now is one of the larger tech streamers on Twitch, made a video where he quickly goes over both react-email and Resend. Resend is a new service hat makes it easy to set up email for your website, and it is very affordable for small projects. It even comes with a free tier.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/574562 > Here's a laundry list of sort with tons of tools we'd like to see > > - Role for approval of applications (to delegate) > - Site mods (to delegate from admins) > - Auto-report posts with certain keywords or domains (for easier time curating without reports) > - Statistics on growth (user, comments, posts, reports) > - User total > - MUA > - User retention > - Number of comments > - Number of posts > - Number of reports open > - Number of reports resolved > - Sort reports > - by resolved/open > - by local/remote > - Different ways to resolved a report > - Suspend account for a limited amount of time rather than just banning > - Send warning > - Account mod info > - Number of 'strikes' (global and local) and reports > - Moderation notes > - Change email > - Change password > - Change role > - Ability to pin messages in a post > - Admins should be able to purge > - Filter modlog to local > - Better federation tools (applications to communities, limiting) > - Applications to communities to allow safe spaces to exist (people should not be able to just "walk in" on a safe space - similarly to follow requests in Mastodon in a way) > - Limiting (Lock our communities down from certain instances but still allow people using our instance to talk to people from those instances) > > Obviously considering the moment when this is being made - federation tools are our highest priority.
ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard - al die chatbots die afgelopen jaar zijn verschenen, werken op basis van grote taalmodellen. Het lijkt zo simpel: je stelt een vraag en je krijgt antwoord. Maar onder de motorkap zijn het razend ingewikkelde systemen, die alleen zo goed kunnen werken omdat ze zoveel training hebben gehad. Hoe werkt dat precies? En wat zijn precies de risico's en bezwaren van deze nieuwe technologie?
We all know that Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but how does it do that. This is done trough federating with both other Lemmy servers, but also by implementing the ActivityStreams protocol sot it can communicate with other applications on the Fediverse. The linked document describes the protocol and how it should work.
De Nederlandse Kiesraad gaat kijken of de software die bij verkiezingen wordt gebruikt in de toekomst niet meer via een cd-rom hoeft te worden verstuurd. Dat gebeurt nu wel met de testsoftware, maar veel computers hebben geen cd-romlades meer.