Is anaconda download page considered dark pattern? - Lemmy.World

It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived [https://archive.is/dIbRs] version in 2019). Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it. Does this count as a dark pattern?

Briefly notified 2 new emails but actually 1 - Lemmy.World

Sorry for the title, didn’t know how to succinctly describe it. Here goes. I have my gmail set up in my iOS device using the default app. Whenever a new email comes in, the number of new emails in the inbox would appear very briefly appear as 2, instead of 1. After maybe a second or less, that number goes to 1, which is the correct number. It’s usually very quick so I don’t have a recording. Has anyone encountered this? Anyone knows why it happens? Thanks!

Selfhosted “plagiarism” checker with custom sources? - Lemmy.World

I’m looking for a duplicate/similarity checker against a custom set of documents. This is possibly like what plagiarism checker, but with a custom reference (instead of everything). But I could not find a solution that can be selfhosted, and have some simple UI and capabilities like Turnitin. Any suggestions? Thanks’

update protonvpn on iOS stuck/takes forever - Lemmy.world

anyone also encounters this?

Looking for data about company ownership network - Lemmy.world

I’m looking for a data archive of corporation ownership networks. For example, Alphabet owns Google, … and some metadata like when they are created/owned by Alphabet if possible. I was made aware of OpenCorporates but it doesn’t seem to have such data as far as I tried. Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate content for the community. I figured digital archivists may be aware of the existence of such archive. I couldn’t find a specific lemmy community solely for asking about data suggestions. If there’s a community better suited for this post, please let me know. Thanks!

Suggestion for Airtable alternative with mobile options? - Lemmy.world

I’m trying to look for a self-hosted alternative for Airtable (or at least FOSS option) that has some basic mobile app option for viewing + editing. I was looking at Baserow and Nocodb but I couldn’t find any iOS/android options for either of them. Any suggestions?

Anyone here watched Warrior S3 finale? - Lemmy.world

I was completely blown away! Holy crap!

Did recent mobile VPN app updates remove OpenVPN? - Lemmy.world

Why are there so few movies with the focus on the beginning of an apocalypse? - Lemmy.world

Particularly zombie apocalypse, but also more generally as well. Many seem to be about post-apocalypse, but the chaos and confusion at the beginning seems like such a fruitful idea. Yet that’s so rarely done/done well as far as I know for zombie movie/shows, except for shows like Dead Set UK. Is it because of the budget, or that such shows/movies cannot be milked forever like TWD?

Is it possible to have Wikipedia sources in a cycle? - Lemmy.world

I’m not very familiar with how Wikipedia vets the sources in the references/external links. I was wondering whether there are manual or automated checks for cyclic sources, for example a Wikipedia page cites a source for something, but such source after a few rounds of citing would go back to the same Wikipedia page. - Does that happen with Wikipedia? - Does it matter? I presume that would invalidate the source? - How do they make sure it does not happen? Is there an automated check or something?