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- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.
As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/whatever@feddit.uk then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
What data do you want backed up though ?
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
That’s not how the fediverse works.
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
Yeah good old fashioned sunlight is what this needs.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Goodness me. One of us is certainly getting defensive. There’s not much point continuing this. Feel free to have the last word while continuing to assume anyone with a better understanding than you is a liar.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Sorry mate you’re kind of embarrassing yourself a little bit here.
Of course the CEO equivalent exists in government. It’s just a management position. Equivalent services will need equivalent management.
Do you realize how little a CEO does?
I’ve sat on hiring committees for CEO’s. Refining their job descriptions and interviewing candidates. I know exactly what CEO’s of non-profits and charities do. I suspect that you do not.
Do you realize how little the actual money donated to an organization trickles down to the cause?
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment. I’ve been a treasurer for a number of medium size charities. I know exactly how much money is needed to support the charities objectives.
In recent years grant funding for charities has been extraordinarily difficult to obtain. Often it’s not indexed. Where grant funding is not indexed for a number of years, it becomes impossible to maintain the same services because wages and other costs are always getting more expensive. I’ve had to have that very difficult conversation with social workers - that their hours need to be reduced and as a result their client numbers will be cut. It’s a ridiculous absurdity to suggest that volunteers like myself would be taking those measures without first seeking to maximise the efficiency of the entire organisation.
Do you realize that there are multiple charities for the same thing, which just means more and more waste?
For example?
In fact in pretty much every instance of a modern government taking over a service, it becomes cheaper and more efficient. That’s why many governments run utilities, and healthcare.
You’re talking about public vs private institutions. That just doesn’t make any sense applied to charities because they’re already public institutions.
Look I’m not saying your service is useless, but I am saying it would be more efficient elsewhere.
Sorry mate, this is just an absurd thought bubble borne of naivety. Get involved in a charity and you’ll understand why it exists. Until then maybe just start with the assumption that the people who are involved have a better understanding of it’s context and it’s objectives and how best to serve those objectives than you do. It’s incredible arrogant to suppose that entire organisations ought not to exist because the people involved just haven’t realised how inefficient they are. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
A refuge isn’t really a shelter for people who are “homeless”.
How would a government provide temporary accommodation to a 12 year old who is at risk of abuse?
The need for this type of refuge isn’t the product of a shitty housing market.
Note also, most of the funding comes from government agencies.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I’ve been involved as a treasurer for a number of “medium” charities in Australia. Most recently one providing free legal services to the disadvantaged, and another running a refuge for homeless youth.
As an aside, bear in mind that I as a treasurer as well as the entire board are volunteers - well qualified and experienced professionals donating their time to ensure that the organisation is run efficiently and is maximising the benefit to the community.
Your comments really grind my gears. They’re born of shallow social media type thinking. These falsehoods are commonly used as a “reason” why one ought not to donate to charities.
Certainly there are overpaid CEOs, but these are a minority. Recently the charity running the refuge got a new CEO. He had been a police superintendent. He took a pay cut of about two thirds in order to be our CEO. He said that he had spent most of his career locking people up, and wanted to spend the last part of his career changing kids trajectories before they got involved with the law.
Imagine saying that this organisation would be more efficient of it were subsumed by the government, so the CEO-equivalent could be paid 3x as much.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
I think you upset the americans 😆
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Meta is a threat to the platform though.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
The fediverse is an emerging threat. It’s not ready yet, but it’s on the right trajectory. Every time there’s angst on some other platform, the fediverse get’s a bump. Fediverse is not a real competitor yet, perhaps it never will be, but for meta it’s sensible to establish a presence here in the short term, because it may be much more difficult later.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
People have been writing about this ad nauseum. It’s the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Join fediverse, extend the spec with so that not all clients are compatible with all features, repeat as necessary until everyone is using your client, finally drop compatibility with other clients.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
created an account on a popular well federated server
Why would they do that?
They would create a custom instance.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.
People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.
In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Sure, but where is the line between spam and threads content? If the content a community produces is heavily manipulated, isn’t that undesirable for all the same reasons as spam ?
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?
What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?
What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.
- Comment on Millions of dollars lost in ATO myGov scams that 'rattle confidence' in the tax system 11 months ago:
Not really.
Cancel all mygov accounts that are using secret questions as 2 factor auth. Job done.
Most of the “scammers” are peoples junkie kids. I shit you not.
They can’t / won’t do that though because then you can’t blame old / poor people for being old / poor and not being able to access services.
- Comment on What happened to LineageOS? Has it been replaced by GrapheneOS? 11 months ago:
Probably because the lack of google apps is the most noticeable difference to stock android?
- Comment on Millions of dollars lost in ATO myGov scams that 'rattle confidence' in the tax system 11 months ago:
Tax agent here.
I’ve seen a bunch of tax payers fall victim to this. It’s not sophisticated. Just answer people’s secret questions to access their mygov accounts. That’s it.
Thereafter it’s trivial to request changes to a tax return that will generate a refund of $20k, whatever really.
It would be trivial for the ATO to intercept. A highschool student could write a database query to reveal the fraudulent changes.
- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 11 months ago:
Some of the best / most nuanced medical advice I’ve ever received is from online forums.
I think what you really mean is “don’t risk your life on the basis of advice from strangers”.
Note that all the other answers ITT say “yes anything that elevates your HR is dangerous”, so OP knows not to play that type of game before his next appointment with his cardiologist, which could be weeks or months away.
Had they not asked, they wouldn’t know to avoid that activity.
- Comment on This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing 11 months ago:
Playing sounds? sure.
Rearranging keys - hell no.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
Fair point.
There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.
Lemmy should be it’s own thing with it’s own culture and history and communities.
I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
I’d like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near
I don’t. Let the idiots stay on reddit. Leave lemmy how it is. Is it so terrible that one might have to visit reddit to find some niche communities?
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
Wasn’t there like a bot defense team that published a ban list or something but they just gave up during the exodus?
- Comment on Coalition tells Cop28 it will back tripling of nuclear energy if Peter Dutton becomes prime minister 11 months ago:
Nuclear power is an amazing technology with enormous potential… in the 70s.
50 years later, solar and wind is the way. We can use it to crack sea water and sell hydrogen.
- Comment on Coalition tells Cop28 it will back tripling of nuclear energy if Peter Dutton becomes prime minister 11 months ago:
Agree button.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Australia here. SMS is the lowest common denominator. I use it to talk to clients all the time.
I’ve heard of the blue bubble thing but only from yanks I think.
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.
Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.
IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 11 months ago:
I really disagree that the expectation is that communities will consolidate.
I think many users including OP overstate the problems of “split communities” and understate the advantages of having similar communities on different instances.
Having a /c/opensource on both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml doesn’t meaningfully “split” the opensource community. Users can subscribe to all, some, or none as they wish. So what if you see the same post twice - it’d not ideal but not really a detractor. It’s not the same as say, forking an opensource project or having discussions on both IRC and matrix.