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- Comment on Comments not showing? 17 hours ago:
That’s the most likely source of the problem. I’ve had this same problem before.
- Comment on 'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit!
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 2 weeks ago:
I understand your frustration and I, too, thought that blocking went both ways before seeing your post.
If you encounter someone who is harassing you and attacking your reputation without your knowledge and down voting your whole history, you should gather the proof and contact your instances mods. There’s a very good chance they’ll ban them either temporarily or permanently from the instance. Or contact the mods from their instance as well.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
- Comment on Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 3 weeks ago:
Glad you liked it! 👍
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- Comment on Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool 4 weeks ago:
Ugh. The more they announce features, the more I’m glad I switched.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 4 weeks ago:
I feel targeted. I commented somewhere last week saying someone should use OpenOffice when I meant LibreOffice.
It’s just old reflexes.
- Comment on Fediverse Corporate Sabotage 5 weeks ago:
Through legal actions probably. They’ll sue and the volunteers who manage these instances will cave in because they have a mortgage/lease to pay and possibly a family to take care of, etc.
- Comment on Trump Goes Full Dictator With Grim Warning About Courts 5 weeks ago:
“We cannot allow a handful of Communist, radical left judges to obstruct the enforcement of our laws and assume the duties that belong solely to the president of the United States,” Trump said.
“Judges are trying to take away the power given to the president to keep our country safe. It’s not a good thing, but I hope for the sake of our country that the Supreme Court is gonna save this, because we have to do something. These people are just looking to destroy our country,” Trump continued.
“Nothing will stop me in the mission to keep America safe again,” Trump warned.
[…]
Trump’s latest threat against judges feels particularly disturbing given a comment Monday from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who wouldn’t rule out arresting Supreme Court justices.
I’m speechless…
This is the tyranny you are supposed to fight against with your 2nd amendment rights. The fuck are you waiting for?
- Comment on how could this idea work withthe fediverse 1 month ago:
Democorporation
You’re thinking of coops.
I’m thinking of starting a grocery co-op in my neighborhood to provide low cost food to everyone. A co-op is a democratic organization where all its members have av equal say on how to run things and how to manage profits.
It can be a financial institution, a store, a housing complex, etc.
Co-ops are the answer to escape corporations and capitalism.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 1 month ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 1 month ago:
I use Mastodon and Pixelfed mainly. But I also have an account on Friendica and Loops.video, but I rarely use them. And does Matrix count?
Oh and I forgot about Funkwhale for putting your music collection online.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 month ago:
You mean, people who operate a platform where people’s privacy constantly gets violated should have a right to their own privacy?
I dunno. I understand your point, but OP is also kind of right.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 month ago:
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t know it had events,
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 month ago:
Yeah, same. I tried getting people to switch, but it was like pulling teeth. It’s even worse now, even with all the Meta Zuckerberg Trump bullshit and the obvious privacy problems.
The circles feature was awesome. Could post stuff for specific groups of people. Sometimes your posts aren’t for all your friends to see.
At first Diaspora seemed to propose a good alternative to Facebook ang G+. It has “aspects” which work similarly to circles. And the interface is similar to Facebook’s. However, it didn’t take off as much as anyone would’ve expected.
Now there’s also Friendica which closely resembles Facebook, but it appears limited in functionality. It looks more like a Facebook-UI to the fediverse, like Mastodon is a Twitter-UI to the fediverse. It’s missing the whole “circles/aspects” feature, and we still don’t have the groups feature either, which I think is very useful and much appreciated by Facebook users.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 month ago:
This is probably controversial, but Google Plus was better than Facebook in every way.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Don’t gaslight me. My comment was a joke and you reported it just to fuck with me. You’re just harassing me at this point. Stop.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Yeah, you’re right. The whole system in the U.S. seems to be set up to enable these kinds of events.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
I remember you @Arkouda@lemmy.ca . You decided to attack me without any provocation on /c/Canada on lemmy.ca.
Now are you going to start harassing me all over lemmy because you decided to target me for your bullying after your gratuitous attack and me calling you out about being a gaslighting troll? Is that what’s happening here?
I’m not going to tolerate this and neither are the mods.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
I think what they’re implying is that this kind of thing doesn’t really happen in France. At least not at the rate it’s happening in the U.S. So they don’t really need to worry about not having cell phones.
To an extent it’s the same with Canada. We’re pretty lucky school shootings aren’t a common occurrence. What’s the worst that can happen here? The school runs out of maple syrup? (Of course I’m joking!)
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Uh… I’m actually French Canadian. My comment was meant as a joke.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Tragedy in a French school:
“Maman! Maman! Ze school is out of baguette and fromage! Please come pick me up! I am about to le faint!”
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 1 month ago:
The “AI” is actually a community of users giving you live instructions.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 1 month ago:
People associated that word too much with Schwarzenegger’s grunts. (Total Recall)
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 1 month ago:
Open source version of what? Copilot vision?
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
I was just going to suggest this. Most small indy games from places like itch.io I play using Bottles and it works very well.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
Have you checked out the gaming for Linux communities on Lemmy?
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 months ago:
sans-taure (because I’m francophone)
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
I understand your point. But, I don’t think anyone here is creating instances in the hopes of collecting money. They’re just trying to keep the internet free (as in speech). And no, it probably doesn’t cost that much for a server with 16k users, but it still costs something and someone is paying for that out of pocket.
We have to understand that we’re at a crossroads right now. Most of the internet is dominated by GAFAM and they control the access to information and how it’s provided. They control the narrative and have a huge bias in favor of unfettered capitalism and fascism. They not only use your own personal information for profit, but hey also benefit from government subsidies paid by taxpayers.
Meanwhile you have a government that’s increasingly cutting funding for almost everything, including important organizations that fund critical open source projects.
If we want a free (as in speech) internet, we have to understand it comes at a cost and we can’t rely on governments to fund these projects. It’s up to us to put our money where our mouth is.
I’m by no means a whale. But, if us little fishes all band together, we can become even bigger than a whale.
