It is what the American people voted for.

Some of them did. Others voted against. Still others had their right to vote suppressed.

It’s a real mess.

In what way is the search function in Lemmy awkward to use,

Generally, I find that it requires too many clicks.

To search for things I’m usually interested in, I have to click a link to reach the search page, wait for the page to load, click a drop-down box, select and click a target type from the list (e.g. “Posts”), click a scope (usually “Subscribed”), click another drop-down box, select and and click a date range from the list, and then enter my search. That’s a lot of steps.

(I could enter my search before selecting all those other things, of course, but it wouldn’t reduce the number of steps, and it would put extra load on the instance host by triggering multiple extra searches before the one that matters to me.)

Also, in certain cases like searching for a community by ID, there’s a weird glitch where the search yields no results at first, but clicking the Search button again gets the expected results.

is there anything specific that can be fixed?

Yes, I think the user friction could be improved in several ways.

I haven’t made a list of potential search improvements, but just off the top of my head, it would be convenient to have a simple search box in each community’s sidebar. Reddit had this back when I was using it, and it made checking for duplicates before submitting an article much more convenient than it is here.

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It’s also inconvenient that the Community search field displays them in example.org/community format, rather than the normal !community@example.org format, and fails to recognize input in the latter format. The slash format might be a little easier to type for a minority of people who expect it, but it’s surprising by being unfamiliar to everyone else, confusing by introducing a second format for community links, and counterproductive by defeating copy/paste of a community link from someplace else.

My suggestion for this would be to standardize on !community@example.org format, and allow omitting the ! on input. It’s a dedicated input field just for community searches, after all, so the software shouldn’t need users to lead with a bang in order to know we’re searching for a community. Side benefit: Since this format places the community name before the domain, users could simply start typing the community name without having to remember what domain hosts it, and they would see useful autocomplete suggestions right away.

EDIT 1:

Outside of search, the first thing I would suggest is making Lemmy readable without JavaScript. This would make it usable by people who disable scripts for security and privacy reasons*, and allow more search engines to index it, both of which would expand Lemmy’s reach and utility. And, since we’re talking about Lemmy as forum software for communities beyond the fediverse, this change would avoid imposing new requirements and vulnerabilities on communities whose web sites do not currently require JavaScript.

*Note that this matters not only for someone’s home instance, which might be whitelisted for scripts, but also when following links to other instances, which is pretty common in my experience.

This is more of a “today I learned” than a “you should know”, IMHO.

!til@lemmy.ca

I’m not aware of any such communities that run their forum on Lemmy.

I think it could fit, although Lemmy’s design as a link aggregation site gives it some rough edges for the purpose we’re discussing. For example, the search functions are a bit awkward to use, there is no support for subtopics, and file upload support is (from what I’ve seen) very limited.

On the other hand, Lemmy’s use of Markdown makes it more comfortable for text formatting than BBCode, which is the HTML-like markup used on many forums.

An article from last year:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/carnivorous-feeding-squirrels-documented-california

I guess Tom Nook is in for a surprise.

Mishulin vaguely compared Osiris Reborn to a Souls game – not in its difficulty, but in discovering weapons during the game and strengthening your play style around it.

I find Souls games boring, but this particular aspect wouldn’t bother me. It’s common in other genres as well, like deck-builders.

Prelude to most of my projects:

1. I want a tool that does X, with conditions Y, and without Z.
2. I search for such a tool, and discover that it doesn’t exist.
3. I build it myself.

Epilogue:

I now have exactly the tool I wanted. It makes my life better all day, every day, with no foreseeable end.

Happy user.

Mass surveillance of everyone who lives in or passes through a Ring-infested area already allows that, and more. Automation through AI makes it worse, but is not the root of the problem.

Looks like the server fell over. Here’s a snapshot from a few hours ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250625160827/https://icelist.info/

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250624140639/https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/

Or to put it another way, lets them exploit your circumstances in order to extract more money from you, or to pay you less.

The article goes beyond that by including a lot of relevant references. It might be worth a read even if the headline is unsurprising.

The first things I would try would be:

• Using an X11 desktop session instead of Wayland.
• Using a different Proton version.
• Making sure those width/height/refresh command line options are valid and match my monitor’s native specs. (By the way, DXVK_FRAME_RATE is for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 games running with DXVK, and doesn’t set the display’s refresh rate in any case. It won’t help you with this problem.)

After that, I would start reading the discussion here:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3291

This comment seems relevant, as does this one. There are plenty more.

DXVK_FRAME_RATE

I haven’t seen anyone here do that, and I am not willing to stereotype gamers based on a minority of jerks.

correctional officers labeled the more than 60 pages from the court “contraband” and charged Bishop with “abuse of the mail system.” After filing a formal complaint, officers put Bishop in a lockdown cell for four days with a man accused of “inflicting harm on another inmate” and manufacturing a weapon, according to court and prison disciplinary records.

The Tor Browser and Firefox’s Resist Fingerprinting mode hide some of the things that can be used to identify your system, but there is no way to hide them all. Short of avoiding all sites that you don’t completely trust, disabling scripts is the best protection available.

multiple scripts running on different domains

Off-site scripts can be blocked on a per-site basis with browser extensions like uMatrix (discontinued by still functional) and uBlock Origin (still maintained but harder to use for this purpose). To be clear, these scripts run on your machine, regardless of where they come from.

People often say “developers” when referring to development studios, which includes management. They don’t necessarily mean individual programmers.

That depends on the device, not the OS.

IMHO, though, a couple hundred dollars more up front, is worth the headaches down the road from a shitty install.

Unfortunately, it’s nothing but overhead cost for people who are sufficiently skilled and can follow electrical codes. Sigh.

GrapheneOS is better in principle, but it requires that you (directly or indirectly) give money to Google and depend on Google-controlled hardware, both of which are dealbreakers for some people.

GrapheneOS also depends on hardware support files from Google, which are no longer readily available, making its future unclear.

LineageOS supports a greater variety of devices. The privacy/hardening features aren’t as strong as GrapheneOS, but many people find it good enough when:

• Google Play Services are not installed
• Commercial apps are not installed (open-source apps from F-Droid are the usual alternative)
• There is little risk of an adversary gaining physical access to the phone