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- Comment on Instance A does not federate with Instance B. But B federates with A. What does it mean to a user? 17 hours ago:
Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on the now inaccessible community wi
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 3 days ago:
Change one thing just because you can. Take a different way to work, whether it is walking (and leaving much earlier), or a different bus/train or car route.
Listen to your favourite songs… look at the birds around you. Borrow a book from the library and read it, one bit at a time. Make the choices in your life, deliberate and DIFFERENT. Break your routine. Feel human.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
I mean saying the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.
Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth.
And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people.
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 1 week ago:
Heyyyyyy welcome to the “being threatened by the USA because Trump felt like it” club!
-EU + Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama.
- Comment on Speedometer, or Siegometer? 1 week ago:
120km/h Hitler is just raising your hand to answer or ask a question. 160km/h Hitler is just showing off how flexible he is.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be. 1 week ago:
just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government is be.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
- Comment on In the Trump era, renewable energy isn’t green — it’s ‘dominant’ | Clean-energy executives are tailoring their pitches for the president and his political allies. 2 weeks ago:
Okay people, pack up the sub, this community is called “Dominant Energy” now.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 2 weeks ago:
It will show that people aren’t alone, Trump wants to pretend they have an overwhelming mandate to do whatever he wants, having upset people together shows that actually there are a lot of people that feel similarly. Organizing and coming together is the first step. The next is the strategic plan.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 weeks ago:
As the name suggests, a mod is “modifying” the game, in ways that the original creators never intended to support. That’s why out of very few exceptions (such as Paradox and Steam mods), there is not a centralized hub maintained by the creator to organize and apply mods.
The process tends to be different for every game because every game is made differently. To boil the concept down, basically if there’s no official interface for custom functionality (such as a plugin system), then modders will usually “hack” this in themselves. Installing the mod often means replacing a game file with one that hooks into the game, to be able to load custom code and custom game resources.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Not a border crossing but Nova Scotia’s toll road, the Cobequid Pass is doubling rates specifically for US commercial vehicles.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you spent 48 hours or more abroad then you can claim an $800 exemption from duties. This is the case for both Canada and the US (except the dollars is the respective currency). USA gets a fixed $200 exemption for every crossing if the other one doesn’t apply, Canada requires a 24 hour minimum stay for any exemptions, but in practicality if you tell CBSA you have around $200 of stuff that isn’t alcohol, most (especially at road/rail borders) will just wave you through without needing to fill out duty forms and pay.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 4 weeks ago:
If it’s any consolation, I’ve got you lot.
But I dunno, it just feels like a bunch of us just want to be told what to think, what to be happy about and what to be angry about, while ignoring the real harms and injustices being perpetuated.
The one thing I hope people will come to realize is that to overcome the giants, we must stop relying on them. Rebuilding the functions they controlled from the ground up, starting from the common folk around you.
- Comment on Microsoft won't really let you block new Outlook on Windows 10 (auto-install) 5 weeks ago:
I don’t really care that much that it is on there but do not log into new outlook with your IMAP/POP accounts. Your plaintext password will be stored in the Microsoft cloud
Use Thunderbird or any other desktop mail client or just login via web.
- Comment on China’s Economy Could Soon Face A Massive Debt Crisis 1 month ago:
Interesting article, and I’ll watch this space but I’m seeing a lot of speculation here.
I would have liked to know where this 350%-400% “hidden debt to GDP ratio” came from. Even if I agree with much of this article’s POV, I’m not just going to believe things that are backed with “Many people are saying it”.
- Comment on Murphy's law 1 month ago:
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 1 month ago:
The word “slam” has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, can’t use that unfortunately.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
The very first thing I checked for is which circuit it was, too, haha…
Of course the Loper Bright decision is going to be used to prevent federal agencies with helping improving anything. Judges be like “You can’t rein in this corporate abuse because there’s an app for it, bro. Totally different!”
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 1 month ago:
Well this is a more or less solved problem in BC:
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 1 month ago:
I used to call some relatives but the list I had dwindled then the last people became too hard of hearing to call.
- Comment on relaxing bird songs 2 months ago:
Makes me wonder, whether birds would want to go to an opera, to view dramatic re-enacments by actor birds of brooding season.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Right now my mind is at, “it very well could be, but time will tell”.
Had Trump had the right people in places to make certain decisions, it could have very well ended in 2020 just as much. Well the world did change in a big way near the end of his term, with COVID, how he botched it and how he gave corporate handout after corporate handout which caused the inflation that Biden is being blamed for.
I’ve been still grasping for ways that the US still can be saved, which there are many, but they hinge on
1A. Trump going back on many of his worst promises and not doing them, because reneging is his thing, or
1B. Trump and his team being too incompetent to enact his agenda, or
1C. The backlash to Trump’s unpopular moves creates disobedience within government, military and writ large, preventing him from enacting his agenda, and
- Democracy not being rigged during his tenure, avoiding where elections become just as meaningful as Russia’s or China’s during the 4 years.
- Comment on From chatbots to adbots: sharing your thoughts with advertisers 2 months ago:
Tick tock, the hundreds of billions of dollars tossed into the AI hole is looking for its return, any second now…
- Comment on When this post is 1 hour old, lemm.ee will go down for an upgrade to 0.19.7 2 months ago:
See you again soon!
- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 months ago:
FreeCAD is 1.0 now released, in case you haven’t heard the news.
Small steps, and still far and away from the thousands of dollars a year programs but the future is bright in this space!
- Comment on Mastodon Follow Packs 2 months ago:
Heck yeah! This is what I love about the Fediverse, we all don’t have to wait for one team to figure it out.
Since Multi-Communities seem a ways away, Lemmy could do something similar with Community Subscription packs, where people with different niche interests could follow a number of communities related to a topic. Right now it’s not always easy to find which instance has the most active ones.
- Comment on Mastodon Follow Packs 2 months ago:
This process is indeed much clunkier than bluesky and not really accessible to a new user, but it’s a good start and perhaps some servers or 3rd party apps could streamline this eventually? Even just going account-by-account in the list a dozen times and following each one manually would fill an empty feed pretty well.
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- Comment on Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs 2 months ago:
All of Trump’s cabinet members’ goals are to do everything except for what the agency is tasked to do.
- Comment on Mastodon sees a boost from the 'X exodus,' too, founder says 2 months ago:
Even if Mastodon and other Fediverse platform gains are 1% of the gains of BlueSky or anything else, it’s still cause for celebration and to welcome new friendly faces with open arms.
When the Reddit API-calypse happened, I don’t think anyone expected Lemmy to have more users than Reddit or anywhere even close to a similar number. But Lemmy.ca went from around 40 active users in April 2023 to hundreds, and then to 2k over 3 months, most people being friendly and ready for something different.
Quantity isn’t everything. There is an innumerable amount things that could be better about Mastodon and sure, mass-adoption could help with niche content. However the way the Fediverse is set up, it is resistant to all the sacrifices other platforms had to make in the long run to be more profitable. Musk-boi could “buy” Mastodon and Zucker-bot could “buy” Pixelfed tomorrow, but that wouldn’t stop anyone from forking those two platforms and leaving the main instances. The distributed nature makes it hard for a monopolist to capture.