krayj

I thought reddit gold was going away? Or are they keeping that and getting rid of everything else?

The bigger a social platform gets, the more synergy it spawns. That's what adds utility to a social platform.

I don't think anyone here wants it to be 'the next big thing', but I do think a lot of people (myself included) want to see it become 'one of the next big things'. As in...we want it to become big enough to be a viable alternative to the proprietary walled-garden corporate establishments that have become the current standard.

More choice = better, and for as long as this platform remains small and elitist (referring back to your 3rd sentence), it will never truly be a viable choice. There's still a lot of engagement I'm required to use Reddit for - and I hate that - and the only reason for it is we just don't have the community size needed (yes, it's getting closer every day) to be that viable alternative.

It's really moot anyway, imo. Because of the vastness of the universe, the distances involved, and the timeframes involved for traveling those distances and that vastness, the rest of the universe could be teeming with alien life and we'll likely never know it. Not in our lifetimes.

That doesn't mean they get to see how all users from all other federated instances are voting on things...server admins only get to see how their own local users are voting, and this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone - those votes would obviously have to be stored in a local database somewhere and it's a foregone conclusion that server admins would have access to any data stored on the servers they administer.

When someone says "votes are public" that kind of implies 'publicly visible'...and they clearly are not. It'd be like making the claim that your private text messages you send to your friends and family 'are public' because the administrators working for your cell phone carrier could access them if they wanted/needed to.

I am always happy to share my recipes.

My flour is a blend: 70% King Arthur bread flour, 27% all purpose flour (any brand), and 3% rye flour.

And then the following in baker's %:

Hydration: 70%

Coarse Sea Salt: 2%

Starter: 20%

Fat: 2.5% (olive oil is traditional, but I like melted butter more - richer flavor)

saves your battery

Maybe, maybe not. For OLED screens, where the pixels themselves generate the brightness, then an overall darker image will save power. For LCD screens with backlights it's the opposite: the backlight is always on and the lowest power state of an individual pixel is to let the light pass through unmodified - the part that costs power is turning the pixel 9n so that it blocks the light to make a black dot. So, your statement isn't true for all (or even most) devices.

Next: I find bright text on a black background to be hardest and most jarring to my vision. Humans have been reading black text on a light medium for millennia; it is natural. Light mode, for me, is easier to read and least tedious for my eyeballs.

I also just think that a light mode look is more polished looking...cleaner.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools have come a LONG way in the past decade and are now very good at thoroughly locking down both iOS and Android devices. Any enterprise wanting to ensure the absolute security of their mobile devices can do so with ease.

At least when it comes to Windows, Administrators have greater control over client machines and can put in restrictions.

This hasn't been true for about 10 years...at least not in the enterprise. Administrators can enforce the same or greater control over client mobile devices using modern Mobile Device Management tools.

How would someone handling infosec in an organization control security on people’s personal phones?

If you take infosec seriously, you aren't going to let your users have access to any corporate data or systems (and that includes email) using their personal devices. If you must, as a compromise, you'll restrict that access only to users of iOS or Samsung devices supporting Knox work profile, and then you'll enable the remote features necessary to monitor and/or wipe everything associated with the work profile in the event the device is lost/stolen or the employee leaves.

When you search 'all' communities on your local instance, the search results are a combination of local communities as well as communities on federated instances that other users of your local instance have subscribed to. But, there might be communities on other instances that have no local subscribers, and therefore would never show up in search results.

Your options would be to use some kind of multi-instance community search tool like lemmyverse.net or, if you happen to know the name of the instance you are wanting to search on, you can just open a web browser, navigate to that instance, you don't even need to create a login there, and then search through their local communities.

It would be an inconceivably-massive statistical anomaly if they didn't. But I think a better question is will we ever make contact, and I think the answer to that is that it's inconceivably improbable.

Oh yeah, maybe I should start working on an actual 'pizza game' also, lol.

Setup is just a regular electric kitchen oven, capable of getting up to 550f (287c) - and that's the temp I cook pizza at. I have a very thick stone I bake on - about middle of the oven. I let it get preheated for at least 30 min so that it's super hot when the pizza goes in. As much as I'd love a dedicated pizza oven, I just don't have the room or the money for it, and I'm getting pretty great results without it, so this is my setup for now.

I will give this a try. How far away is the pizza from the broiler element when you do this?

Thanks!

I would be embarrassed for anyone to see my pizza stone (and that's also what I cook bread on). Much like how traditional martial artists belts started white but darken over time with use and wear - my pizza stone is on its way to being a black-belt. I keep it clean, it's just really stained. It looks like it's been through hell. The sign of heavy use, lol.