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Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

Very interesting, thanks!

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National plans to gut Kainga Ora (www.stuff.co.nz)
 

The National Party is promising to axe swathes of jobs and “clean out” Kāinga Ora, the Government’s social housing landlord and developer.

When asked if there will be job losses at the agency, he said: “Hope so”.

Kāinga Ora was set up four years ago, and derailing it now would be “stupid”, Bill McKay, a senior lecturer in architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, explained.

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Is NZ too small to make a difference on climate change? (mas.to)
 

Now the climate crisis is self-evident, a common argument by those who STILL defend polluters is that “NZ is too small to make a difference, and so shouldn’t have to stop intensive dairy farming or driving Ford rangers to school in Auckland”

Rod Carr destroys it in this mic-drop moment.

Pythörhead, the lemmy python library, now supports all post operations in c/python@programming.dev
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here come the bots!

Who's gotten kbin.social running locally and how difficult was it? in c/opensource@kbin.social
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried last week and gave up as the docs were no good. But since then they've been updated and are now quite comprehensive!

Have you looked at this? https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki#admin-guide

What is considerd a small idea/project and how do you all find motivation? in c/programming@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Motivation is a tricky thing. You need to create it, it's not something anyone has innately.

Something I've been using lately, with good results, is to spend a few minutes at the start of each day reminding myself of the vision I have for my future. I previously collected photos or symbols of those things and spend a few seconds dwelling on each of them and trying to imagine how my life will be better then. Cultivate the dream.

A lot of those things I dream of will take a long time to happen so they need to be broken down into smaller sub-goals. Use chatgpt to help with this?

Once my vision has been refreshed I make a to-do list for the day.

Executive functioning is often hard for people with autism. Some of the techniques that people with ADHD use can be helpful, as they have the same issues. Lots of info on the web out there about this and your public library will have free books on it too.

What disros works on low end, slow, very outdated pc's? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

There is a lesson to be learned here in c/fediverse@kbin.social
Blackouts haven’t impacted Reddit's decision, “that’s our business decision, and we’re not undoing that business decision.” in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

Refurbishing an old ThinkPad for a friend -- Debian, Fedora or something else? in c/linux@sopuli.xyz
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.

But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.

I've read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they're mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.

How do you guys use a distro that doesn't have the AUR (or equivalent?) in c/linux@sh.itjust.works
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:

./configure
make
make install

It's the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.

Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.

Programming and Humility in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn't attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.

Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren't.

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? in c/technology@beehaw.org
Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.

It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.

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Wish Lemmy used more screen real estate? Or that replies are indented more? Or that horrible green is blue? Read on (userstyles.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rimu@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Install this User Style (requires a browser extension) to make Lemmy look better.

I just whipped this up in a few minutes so there is more to do but whatever. Enjoy.

https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

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