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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.

  At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it’s less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks great!

  If you end up pinning any related communities in the sidebar, there is also !ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

  DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

  This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

  Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

  🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much, that’s what I understood it to mean anyway

  I assume the phrase has been used in other contexts too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood “making it” as accomplishing what you were pretending to be, often in the context of self-confidence

  • someone is scared of public speaking and thinks they’re no good at it
  • they pretend that they are someone who is good at it, in order to get through situations where they need to do public speaking
  • they eventually just get good at it
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also thinking of video games:

  www.bloonswiki.com/Grape_Shot_(BTD6)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops, I meant to say “only downside”. Edited it

  There are lots of positive differences

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless I misunderstood, it will eventually dry up? Investors aren’t going to be willing to give money with no returns indefinitely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only difference really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.

  I’ve been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can’t install otherwise

  open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/vsix-manager

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work smarter, not harder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RadioShack is still around. Not sure how good it is.

  Interestingly, it started as a mail order business in the 1920s, switched to retail stores in the 1960s, and then in 2017 it switched back to an online only / mail delivery business.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone is more familiar with this, what is the culture around this like? I get the feeling that the nominations would be for scandals that are “bad” but not so “bad” that people are actually angry about it. Do people usually accept the punishment if nominated, has anyone said no?

  Some interesting bits:

  Before the Tonca comes the Tribunale di Penitenza (Court of Penance) during which members of the “court” name someone as deserving of being dunked in the river and make their case for the nomination. The comedic satire—which features a judge, defense attorney, prosecutor and someone playing the role of the accused—eventually finds some innocent while declaring the serious offenders guilty and condemned to the Tonca as a penalty. Reportedly, Tonca is held on the final Sunday before June 26 when the festivities come to an end. Last year, it happened on June 19 and six people were found guilty.

  In today’s time, the ones who are nominated are not blasphemers but they might have done something which was scandalous or controversial. While it is mostly politicians who are nominated, this is not always the case.

  Last year, the nominees were the last four presidents of the province for delaying a new hospital and a nurse who was charged with falsifying COVID test results. Not all people are nominated for serious offenses. Two politicians were put up for punishment for their opposition to a concert by popular Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi.

  The final verdict comes a few days later and the ones who are deemed the worst are placed inside the cage. The person is ceremoniously dunked in the river three times, just as it was done in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do we go from here?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to tell what was wrong with that post without seeing it. At the same time, we’re not a hive mind. People will disagree from time to time :)

  or they need a third party APP

  I’ve seen this complaint from other new users. Is there something wrong with a lack of an official app? Would it be an ok compromise for the official project to recommend some third party apps?

  A lot of these projects don’t have the capacity (yet) to develop an official app on top of the main platform.

  As for the recommendations

  • Pixelfed is a good alternative to Instagram
  • Mastodon and similar platforms are good alternatives to Twitter/X

  These are harder, or there’s not as much motivation for them. The projects are still going, but they’re slower:

  • Facebook: a lot of people dropped Facebook completely without replacing it with anything. The only real value is private groups and buy/sell tools, of which the first can be replaced with chat platforms and the second already has a patchwork of proprietary alternatives depending on where you are

  • LinkedIn: network effect is extreme with this one since it depends on where everyone else in your field of work is hanging out. Some fields don’t use LinkedIn at all already

  • Amazon: I don’t see the benefit of having a fediverse version of this? Building tools that independent stores can use to stay competitive might be better

  • Spotify: Funkwhale exists, but there are some concerns around piracy. Other options are self hosting or using one of the many other proprietary streaming platforms

  • Cloud storage: there are a number of alternatives ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/category/file-storage/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For those that haven’t read the link

  A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

  A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

  I also didn’t know this:

  Japan

  Main article: Labor unions in Japan

  Company unions are a mainstay of labor organization in Japan, viewed with much less animosity than in Europe or the United States. Unaffiliated with RENGO (the largest Japanese trade union federation), company unions appeal to both the lack of class consciousness in Japanese society and the drive for social status, which is often characterized by loyalty to one’s employer.25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No low ballers, I know what I have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a banana pepper? The yellow green thing under the crust at the bottom right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No low ballers, I know what I have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it normal for the jalapeno to still be, normal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ciiiiircle of liiiife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone confused, click the link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  !taneggs@lemmy.ca is leaking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this

  tomshardware.com/…/openai-could-reportedly-run-ou…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd: Chemical Formula⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_formula

  In chemistry, the empirical formula of a chemical compound is the simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound

  In this comic, the “compound” is the entire observable universe. So it’s the simplest whole number ratio of every atom in the observable universe

  A more in depth explanation for this comic (and all other xkcd comics) is here: www.explainxkcd.com/…/3200:_Chemical_Formula

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• Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan? - Ars Technica - All content (Dan Goodin)arstechnica.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a former heroin addict doesn’t make someone a bad source of information, especially if they’ve turned their lives around.

  But I agree otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF urgent security notice: do not pull or update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great to hear! I’ve updated the post title and linked to this comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this exact box recently and I was thinking about how I’ve missed seeing these 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm being watched⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no worries then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right yes, when we set up piefed.ca we also had to wait a day or so before we could sign in on lemmy-federate. There may be a short waiting period for the information to refresh. Hopefully it works out :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem! Thank you for approving those :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .

  🫘

  ~low beans~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm being watched⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a mountain lion in the closet, which means it’s not hunting me. Who else is hiding in the room…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When your team has a moment, I would recommend setting up your instance on lemmy-federate.com/instances

  This will automatically add your future communities onto other people’s instances so that users can immediately start using them. It helps a lot with community discovery. You can also send out the existing communities after the instance is registered.

  I’m not by a computer right now, but I can send over our settings choices if you have any issues.