While this would complicate the calculation, would it be better to use healthspan (or some threshold of healthspan)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Healthy_life_expectancy

An increased life expectancy without an increase in the time that people are healthy, would be harmful. This is an interesting premise, but this is a loophole that should get patched. Otherwise there would be an incentive to keep people alive indefinitely even if they’re suffering

Healthspan is the number of years a person spends in good health.127 The World Health Organization publishes statistics called healthy life expectancy (HALE’) which is the average number of years a person can expect to live in “full health”, excluding the years lived in less than full health due to disease or injury.128 Since 2004, Eurostat publishes annual statistics called Healthy Life Years based on reported activity limitations. The United States uses similar indicators in the framework of the national health promotion and disease prevention plan – the “Healthy People program”.

Besides the benefits of keeping people healthier longer, a goal is to reduce health-care expenses on diseases of aging, using a balanced diet in moderation, regular exercise, stress management, and adequate sleep.127

I think some mobile apps get rid of the duplicates, although I’m not familiar with which ones do that. Unless someone else replies here, you could try posting to [email protected]

I don’t think anyone can pin a political position on trump. He seems to change mid-sentence if it suits him

Proton CEO:

then go on reddit and point it out to users

so go on there with your personal account and comment to set the record straight

Then the employee claims, for some reason

I’m breaking my silence

It seems to differ on desktop vs mobile

I think the problem with a ban is that the creators of AI slop will stop disclosing or tagging it.

Allowing it with tags + letting users filter it out might be the best way to reduce it?

That’s great to hear! Sorry if the post caused any potential stress, I’ve edited the end of the post and I’m open to editing it further to not give anyone the wrong impression.

Looking forward to seeing this in action :)

The spammer was this user, it looked like one of those impersonation accounts that pop up on Mastodon instances from time to time. You might have already banned the user by the time we got to it: @[email protected]

Again, open to hearing your thoughts on this. It sounds like you think there’s something we should be doing differently

can we talk about the amount of trolls on the lemmy.ca and piefed.ca instances?

We’ve banned plenty of troll-like accounts and are actively working on updated guidelines. Now is a good time to point out issues

https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/

Open to hearing your thoughts, but I think what you might be seeing is a combination of

• people who don’t like the politics on Reddit are more likely to be here
• Canadians who are angry at the current american administration (and likely historic actions as well), are more likely to oppose the US and policies/entities associated with the US
• our instances make up a larger part of the threadiverse

I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is […]

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes […]

IMO both of the UIs are going to feel weird and limited to someone coming from Reddit / Instagram etc. I find that custom front ends like Photon are a lot better for newcomers.

I know Lemmy is working on a completely new frontend.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

I have a constant flow of new content, and see something new every time I open it (which is often, after years of having that muscle memory from reddit).

I’m subscribed to a lot of communities + using scaled sort

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

This one was weird to me. I remember seeing complaints that reddit has been banning and shutting down its NSFW side, while it’s accessible here.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

I want Lemmy to support HCaptcha

Past that, most people are ok with applications once you explain why they’re necessary.

Also a lot of social media platforms started out as invite only as marketing strategy lol

So you came into this thread about a hateful attack by a gunman, killing 1 person and injuring a child, and decided to shit on the linked article because the news agency is from a muslim-majority country?

If you still can’t see the problem with that, try to imagine if someone left a comment like yours on an article where you identify with the victims. How would you expect community moderators to respond to such a comment?

you won’t hear about many of the frequent seculophobic attacks in Paris made by Muslims

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/27/video-shows-man-subdued-after-stabbing-three-women-in-paris

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/3/german-tourist-killed-in-stabbing-near-eiffel-tower-in-paris

While not Paris specifically:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/1/france-makes-new-arrests-over-nice-church-attack

YouTube started with a lot of angel funding, which is why it eventually monetized in the way that it has

YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million,[20] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an additional $8 million in the company, which had experienced significant growth in its first few months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Normally updates like this are patched quietly, and sometimes without disclosing what exactly the exploit is

This one was leaked early and tutorials supposedly popped up on Twitter, all before the patches were released to relevant software

On top of that, it was a pretty bad exploit (RCE)

So websites were taken offline because either

• they needed to wait for someone with experience to confirm it was patched and safe
• they needed to wait for an update to be sent their way

I got here from the same report

For those who want to read into the organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Institute_for_Responsible_Statecraft

I tried to update mine and saw that there wasn’t an easy path to update it yet, so I decided to do the same

It’s weird seeing the widget on my phone blank now

I agree this is terrible, and I encourage people to talk to their older / non technical friends and family

At the same time, that seems like a lot of work on the part of the scammers when the average person wouldn’t know what their local sheriff sounds like. Osceola doesn’t seem like a small town.

The grandparents scam (cloning the voice of a grandchild) is a lot more concerning IMO

Looks great! Is the best way to submit bugs by DM or email?

I noticed the following issues when trying to sign in and add an instance with my accounts on Lemmy and Piefed instances (lemmy.ca/u/otter and piefed.ca/u/otter specifically):

Logging in

Signing in with the profile-description (bio) code works on both Lemmy and PieFed, but logging in with a DM does not work for either.

On Lemmy, I get the error message

We could not deliver a message to that account. Check the handle, or use another way to sign in.

Meanwhile on Piefed, FediDB says that it sent the code, but it fails silently since I never receive a message on the account. I looked into adding fedidb.com as a trusted instance from the admin side, but I don’t think that’s the issue since there are no entries for fedidb.com there at all.

I know it should be possible to receive DMs from non-threadiverse instances since Canvas used that for auth. If it helps, here is the source code for that project:

• https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas
• https://git.sc07.company/sc07/fediverse-auth

I think they do it by sending the DM as both a Mastodon style note and as a Lemmy style chat message (link to code)

// around line 144
   const outbox = [
      await message.build(fedify.Note),
      await message.build(fedify.ChatMessage),
    ].map((obj) => apub.prepareObject(obj, ts));

Admin verification

This one fails for both.

On Lemmy I suspect it is looking at the wrong endpoint since I get this:

Could not reach the server to confirm your admin status.

Meanwhile on Piefed, I see the following message despite using an admin account that shows up in /api/alpha/site

Your account is not an admin or the contact account of this server.

I haven’t tried the other methods yet :)

Also sound quality and fit, that’s what I’m curious about

Most earbuds are not repairable, and they don’t have replaceable batteries. Eventually the battery capacity drops to the point where you need to charge them too often. These use replaceable and generic batteries from what I heard, and they’re fairly repairable.

• this fits within their niche of ethical electronics supply chains and manufacturing

I’m considering a pair of these for when my current earbuds die, depending on the fit and quality.

Maybe, but I read it as emphatic scare quotes

Either they really don’t trust doctors, or they’re trying to be clear this is satire