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- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 3 days ago:
And the EU wants a a rare earth supplier other than China
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 1 week ago:
What should I NOT do in front of rich people?
Diminish yourself or your self worth
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature 1 week ago:
tbh, I didn’t get that far. It could be legit. It just didn’t sound legit, and I didn’t see a person in the first little bit I watched, so I turned it off before giving it much of a go.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature 1 week ago:
I clicked, it sounded like an AI generated voice. I turned it off
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 weeks ago:
Like it or not, the distinction is meaningless to people outside of the US
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Kaity and I run a Jellyfin server for our family to access, as well as a couple of friends. But that’s about as public as it gets…
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 2 weeks ago:
These have been our settings pretty much since we set up pbz
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 2 weeks ago:
Hi! What’s up?
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Data directories and compose files only.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 4 weeks ago:
We have the materials technology to manufacture materials that could make up a Dyson Swarm. We are not even close to having the technology to make materials that would be sufficient to make a Dyson Sphere.
What we don’t have is the resources, logistics, energy supply and manufacturing base to implement either…
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 4 weeks ago:
Induced radioactivity is mostly the result of contamination from radioactive materials. Whilst it’s possible to induce radioactivity from gamma rays directly, you’re talking “background noise” levels of radiation. Which is to say, the cable isn’t going to become notably radioactive, and even then, the part that does, will be the part that isn’t protected by the atmosphere. And for people to navigate those areas of space safely, we already need shielding, so it wouldn’t be any different on the space elevator.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 4 weeks ago:
The only thing I would add to your post is that whilst gender is a performance, that’s not all it is. It can also be, and very often is, an internal sense of identity distinct from the social manifestation of that identity.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 4 weeks ago:
Your gender is how society perceives you. It is a spectrum between masculine and feminine
Not quite. It’s got nothing to do with how people perceive you. A closeted trans woman is still a woman, even though she’s perceived as a man.
It’s also not inherently defined by femininity or masculinity. You can be a masculine woman or a feminine man, or you can simply not give a shit about masculinity or femininity (this is me). Society defines what we consider masculine and feminine, and creates powerful associations between these behaviours and gender, but the association is “after the fact”
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 1 month ago:
I’m not saying that I agree with right wing transphobia, and I condemn transphobia, but sometimes, do you ever think that actually, maybe transphobia is a good thing?
That’s how your post reads
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 1 month ago:
I’ve been using my real name on the internet for 30 years or so now. I’ve hosted public radio shows, I/runadmin several online LGBTQ communities and I’ve had newspapers articles done about my transition and activism.
It’s absolutely possible that someone with the desire could utilise that against me. But it’s unlikely and it hasn’t happened yet. And in the mean time, having to hold myself back and be constantly on edge about what I say and where I say it would impact my use of the internet in a way I don’t like, every single time I use it.
So for me, it’s worth the risk.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 month ago:
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 month ago:
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 month ago:
www.canada.ca/en/…/rules-2025.html
If you were born or adopted before December 15, 2025
Citizenship may have been restored or given to people who were born outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.
This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born
- before December 15, 2025
- outside Canada to a Canadian parent
This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.
If this change made you a Canadian automatically, but you don’t want to be one, you can apply to give up (renounce) your Canadian citizenship.
Adopted people are likely eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship through a direct grant for adopted people if they were born and adopted outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.
- Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 1 month ago:
But you’re also betting that the economy will come back alive soon enough because without it all you have is a heavy pile of metal.
You probably don’t even have that. Unless you have your own vault, someone else is holding it for you, and if things collapse far enough, good luck ever seeing it
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 month ago:
It’s also not a fork
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
My relationship with gender didn’t so much manifest that way.
Before I came out and accepted myself, I openly told myself I “should have been a girl”, but I also believed I wasn’t, and that was that. I didn’t really feel anything at the idea of femininity. That was my experience of feeling gender
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is just regular moderation, though.
It’s using the existing tool, but making a small portion of them (approving applications) available to a much larger pool of people
it doesn’t resolve the question I raised about what happens when two instances disagree about whether an account is a bot.
If the instance that hosts it doesn’t think it’s a bot, then it stays, but is blocked by the instance that does think its a bot.
And if the instance that thinks its a bot also hosts it, it gets shut down.
That is regular fediverse moderation
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, but that’s after the fact, and after their content has federated to other instances.
It doesn’t solve the bot problem, but just plays whack a mole with them, whilst creating an ever large amount of moderation work, due to it federating to multiple instances.
Solving the bot problem means stopping the content from federating, which either means stopping the bot accounts from registering, or stopping them from federating until they’re known to be legit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, approving users, you just let your regular established users approve instance applications. All they need to do is stop the egregious bots from getting through. And if there is enough of them, the applications will be processed really quickly. If there is any doubt about an application, let them through, because they can be caught afterwards. And historical applications are already visible, and easily checked if someone has a complaint.
And if you don’t like the idea of trusted users being able to moderate new accounts, you can tinker with that idea. Let accounts start posting before their application has been approved, but stop their content from federating outwards until an instance staff member approves them. It would let people post right away without requiring approval, and still get some interaction, but it would mitigate the damage that bots can do, by containing them to a single instance.
My point is, there are options that could be implemented. The status quo of open sign ups, with a growing number of bots doesn’t have to be the unquestioned approach going forward.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How do you figure that? There’s nothing centralised about it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Make sign ups require approval and create a “trusted user” permission level that lets the regulated trusted users on the instance see and process pending sign up requests and suspend/delete brand new spam accounts (say under 24 hours old) that slip through the cracks
Boom, bot problem solved
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 2 months ago:
It sounds like depersonalisation to me. A form of dissociation.
Lots of trans people deal with it when they’re closeted. I know I did.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 2 months ago:
Kagi has an LLM community register they automatically use to filter their results
- Comment on PhotoStructure vs. PhotoPrism 2 months ago:
I used photoprism for a long time, but when I tried immich, I dropped photoprism in an instant.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
I’ve got one even older than that!
