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  • I respectfully disagree. I understand what you are saying. But censorship and echo chambers on a platform level are a related, but different issue.

    I agree that Lemmy is very much anti-censorship.

    an environment in which somebody encounters only opinions and beliefs similar to their own, and does not have to consider alternatives

    However, echo chambers can exist with 0 platform censorship whatsoever. It doesn’t have to be the platform’s fault. If people only read and interact with communities who’s viewpoints confirm their own, that is a completely self-made echo chamber. Completely seperate than censorship and completely unrelated to the platform, but instead the people and community moderators.

    For example, hexbear users pretty much only interact with hexbear and .ml users (and often ban others). That is an echo chamber. The .world main communities ban people of both too far right and too far left so there is little interaction of those viewpoints with those communities. That is an echo chamber. The community of open source doesn’t ban many people, but the only people who go to that community are very positive about open source. That is an echo chamber.

    If you have a dozen rooms in the same building and you have 1 room that thinks the world is flat and the people don’t go into any other room, even though they have free and open access and can go to hear the opinions of the 11 other rooms, that room is an echo chamber



  • I mean, every community is an echo chamber, that is what online communities do and have done since the beginning of the internet. Hell, in-person meeting groups are echo chambers more often than not. If you go to an open source convention, the people there will probably echo your opinions on the topic.

    Lemmy is definitely an echo chamber in many different communities, I would venture to say most. If someone thinks left communities aren’t as much of an echo chamber as liberal or conservative, then they either haven’t spent enough time there or are lying to themselves just like the people that say “propaganda won’t work on me

    People gravitate towards people with the same views who confirm their worldview. Even if you discuss topics and have different views, you are still in a group with like 90% the same views. That is just how humans are unless one makes a conscious effort to go into hugely different groups like specific debate groups or something.


  • I used this back in the day after i left university with free MATLAB.

    Very functional, but struggled (8 years ago was the last I tried) with large datasets, especially variable exploring. It also was missing signal processing and filtering libraries back then.

    I had since switched to python with numpy, Pandas, scipy, and matplotlib and it is phenomenal.

    I would try it out because it has probably improved a ton, but Python is now available in excel (and it already was in libreoffice) for sharing scripts with people without python at work, so I don’t know if it is worth it lol.


  • I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

    I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

    Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.








  • Yes, but people are forgetting how it was discovered.

    It was discovered because there was a visible performance impact by running benchmark tests on other, time-critical software.

    Do you know how it was not discovered? By maintainers looking through changes of the software and looking through the code, exactly the way that the commenter and you and others are saying things would be caught.

    If the attacker hadn’t been so eager and only set it to start working after a time delay a year later or multiple updates later? It would have infected almost every server in the world, even if it got noticed immediately, it would have been a giant problem that would have reaped the benefits for the malicious party before it could be regressed and changed.




  • They do these types of things, a lot more often than open source projects actually.

    Thread Group:

    • ARM
    • NXP
    • Samsung
    • Qualcomm
    • nest labs (google)
    • Apple

    I will list more that for example google and/or apple are a part of, but not the involved companies to not make a wall

    • OpenID Foundation
    • FIDO Alliance
    • AOMedia (AV1)
    • CSA (formerly ZigBee alliance)
    • Bluetooth SIG
    • Apache Foundation
    • Unicode Consortium
    • WiFi alliance
    • LLVM Foundation

    Not to mention smaller groups that collaborate to discuss strategy over activies like golf or dinners.

    The downside is that very very often, the collaboration involves how best to fuck over consumers and the general public for more profit margin.