Dave

Dave , 2 days ago to Reddit in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

Yes, definitely. Perhaps highlighted if it's one of their first few posts or the account is new.

Dave , 2 days ago to Reddit in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

I am convinced this is already happening. One example is the endless new accounts posting ibtimes links.

There are also propoganda websites posted regularly by new accounts (especially sowing disinformation about Russia's war on Ukraine).

Basically be wary of anything posted where it's their first post. Often they make accounts and don't use them for months so they look older.

I also think astroturfing is happening but at lower rate than reddit.

Like you, I have no idea how we can counter this at scale.

Dave , 3 days ago to memes in Shocked face

I guess it's Geforce Now

Dave , 3 days ago to homeassistant in In-wall light switch recommendations

Sweet, I was a bit wary of WiFi switches but maybe I'll consider them after all

Dave , 3 days ago to homeassistant in In-wall light switch recommendations

I was under the impression that WiFi could only handle so many devices connected. 20 years ago if you got more than 10 or 20 some would start getting kicked off. Maybe that was my short router. Is that never an issue with modern routers? Even adding hundreds?

Dave , 3 days ago to homeassistant in In-wall light switch recommendations

How do WiFi switches do when you have a lot? Is it an issue to put in 50 WiFi switches, wouldn't that overload the network?

Dave , 6 days ago to memes in I'll apply for the job, just to get my foot in the door.

Doesn't that prove they weren't around in 1199?

Dave , 6 days ago to Fediverse in To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

Huh, is there some drama I missed?

Dave , 6 days ago to memes in I'll apply for the job, just to get my foot in the door.

Of all the photos of seen from the year 1199, I've never seen a Papa Johns. I suspect they weren't around back then.

Dave , 9 days ago to Ask Lemmy in Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?

Also I suspect I know @Dave IRL, but I’m not certain.

I guess that's a consequence of telling the same anecdotes on lemmy and to everyone I see.

Dave , 11 days ago to Fediverse in To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that those 75 users are in an ecosystem with the 50k+ Lemmy/K/mbin users, along with users from Sublinks, Mastodon, Firefish, etc.

Dave , 12 days ago to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.

Most people will use their internet company's DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it's blocked instead of to the website server.

More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.

ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites

Dave , 16 days ago to Programmer Humor in Cupholder.exe

Haha evil! I love it!

Dave , 17 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to Programmer Humor in Cupholder.exe

Bonzai buddy! Yes, that was one. Also I seem to recall naked women ones you couldn't close.

I don't remember grommit, but also I failed to find anything when trying to search it up. It shares its name with too many things.

Dave , 17 days ago to Programmer Humor in Cupholder.exe

Ah shit the sheep thing! In fact, there were others I can't remember. And I seem to remember somewhere along the line they went from fun to spam things walking around your screen trying to make you buy shit or maybe they were trying to scam you, I can't remember but they weren't fun anymore, and hard to get rid of.