I think because I read about this riddle in the past, I might have built up some associations myself. So maybe there’s actually nothing there 😄

It’s not important, just an observation of spoken language. Similar to the order of adjectives or how there’s usually a “correct” sounding way to list two names.

If anything, it might explain why people are tied to a particular order of multiplication and division

https://englishan.com/order-of-adjectives/

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

I think the original title was more helpful because it shows that this is a recent development. Maybe you can add “new CEO”?

Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down

In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with “all facets of mergers and acquisitions” on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms.

CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company’s CTO.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned yet is how we remember it as either BEDMAS or PEMDAS, but not PEDMAS or BEMDAS. The order of M and D are tied to whether we use the term brackets or parentheses. BEMDAS sounds very wrong to me

From what I remember, the Trending section was removed from the regular UI a while back. Maybe if you find that change, it might discuss what the plans are for the feature

In my opinion, it doesn’t work as intended yet and it shouldn’t be displayed

This is helpful, and I hope these other platforms grow in popularity. However, my concern with kids is that they will desperately want to use the platforms that their friends are on and they will hold it against the parents (and alternative platforms) if they are forced to make do without the big tech ones.

I think addressing that will be helpful. What I would add:

• Talk about alternative front ends and teach kids about them. Its possible to access the big tech sites without the ads and tracking, and often its a much better experience. You could also explore other ways of using the platforms with limited permissions, such as by using the mobile browser instead of the app, and/or custom extensions that modify the platform (ex. uBlock origin removes ads). This way, kids can still see some of the content that their friends see (under parental supervision), and they can talk about it with them / participate in the group dynamic. They might even feel superior for knowing how to get around the problems that their friends complain about.
• Work with other parents to transition on to these other platforms. If the kid and their close friends are on the better platform, then all of the stuff above is a moot point :)

edit: by alternative front ends, I mean something like Redlib for Reddit: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/aww/

There is a list here: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

I didn’t catch the previous post and gave it a quick skim now. My thoughts are more to do with how LLM based moderation is viewed by users.

It’s not a new thing, since sentiment analysis based moderation has been around for a long while. Where it becomes a problem is

• The sentiment analysis makes mistakes and it gets tedious to deal with platforms that use it for automated moderation. This is a big problem with old social media platforms like Reddit, or comment sections in places like Instagram/Facebook.
• It can be used as a flimsy excuse to take moderation actions when such actions aren’t necessary, which makes users trust that moderation team less

I also don’t agree with the privacy angle since all content here is public by nature, but I do see value in discussing these other problems since that’s what this community is for?

Also, while Rimu can defederate, letting people discuss it first is better. Best case scenario, the groups find some kind of compromise. Otherwise it lets people weigh in on the platform policies and federation status, instead of having admins make that call on their own

Nothing against Mbin, but how would it help with the AI moderation issue? From what I understand about the AI moderation, it was a group of mods that sent a user’s history into a model for analysis. That will still be possible with Mbin, and anywhere else

It’s still E2E, but the sender is Zulip and the potentially hostile service provider is google/apple. E2E isn’t limited to person to person chats

It would be nice if Zulip chats were E2E, but I imagine that would be a large undertaking

What if you distributed the tool under the normal channels, and then used gumroad (or anything similar) to sell an optional key that adds a little visual indicator or removes a nag message. I’ve seen a few other open source projects do that. Grayjay for example

I cross posted this to !selfhosted@lemmy.world, I hope that was ok! I figured it would be good to spread the knowledge

No problem! I can confirm that we received a verification from a University of Toronto email address.

I’m seeing some reports on this post from people who are suspicious about its legitimacy. It looks to be the same format as other Canadian university studies I’ve seen, and the fediverse is the right place to find people for such a study. To me it looks legitimate.

Maybe I can do a verification from the admin side? If you can send us an email from your institution account to support@lemmy.ca, I can leave a comment confirming that you are indeed from UofT.

You could also post this in !reddit@lemmy.world

Why don’t you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.

Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you’re mirroring content from.

Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.

Similar to what other comments have said, we created this page to go over the basic analogy to email and phone numbers:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

For the people who are really unfamiliar with tech, I research an instance for them and make a recommendation. All they need to do is make an account as they usually do.

Boost and Voyager for me.

We asked about this in our census and got the following results:

https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults#_3-1-10-on-mobile-how-do-you-access-the-instance

What kind of hardware are you using on the desktop?

There is a popup explaining how it works when you install it. I asked something similar and the dev replied saying that they are looking into alternatives that don’t upload the image anywhere: https://lemmy.ca/comment/22876710

Tldr from the pop-up:

• it uses litterbox by default for the auto delete, and catbox when that fails
• it needed to add uploads since apps aren’t allowed to programmatically upload to search engines
• it recommends against scanning anything sensitive since Google/Bing are keeping it too

I don’t have the latest version since I got the fdroid release, but the GitHub release mentions a number of things that are now processed locally (ex. Text, QR, phone numbers)

This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension

I didn’t suggest otherwise. This was about whether they can correlate that to additional information. I am already assuming that the US government might try to maliciously compromise the servers, without needing the pretense of national security laws.

I’m not an expert in cryptography or Signals codebase, but my understanding is that the client app uses separate connections to verify the session (something that can be tied to your phone number on a compromised server) and to send a message out. The initial contact discovery process can leak info if you are searching for specific phone numbers, and this could be mitigated by using the QR code or usernames to get an ID directly. The actual pre key fetch is sent as a separate request not tied to your session verification. So outside of timing attacks, it shouldn’t let Signal know who I am talking to day to day even if they know that I have connected to the person at one point.

I think it’s cool that Simplex and Matrix allow selhosting, and especially Simplex’s 2 hop technique. That should make it much more difficult for someone trying to map things out. However if the average person is going to be using the default servers, I don’t see how a compromised server is any less of a problem than with Signal’s ones.

I recommend Signal to non-technical users trying to get away from Facebook/Instagram/whatsapp. I might start recommending Simplex too if it gets popular enough and goes through a similar level of scrutiny that Signal had. I’m already comfortable using a variety of chat platforms / self hosting for myself.

The lack of a phone number requirement does limit the extent of social graph mapping. I hope signal will do away with that requirement as they’ve promised to for some time. The risk though is spam, which is already a problem now that signal is getting popular.

Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

I did look over it again, and I still find the CIA section to be silly. I’ll refer back to these old comments from myself and someone else:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/5401873

https://lemmy.ca/post/16397504/7661724

The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.

Again, I would say this is a big leap. The CEO agreeing to an interview with a think tank that has ties to the defense industry is not the same thing as Signal having ties to the defense industry. She has done many interviews talking about Signal, with a variety of orgs of different ownership and politics

You can also set it to hide the sender, but that’s overkill for my use case