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1h ago

US will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America's 250th birthday
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grue @lemmy.world 1h ago
I mean, odds are somebody is going to apply in person in DC without realizing it's a thing. Just not most people.

1h ago

ICE Arrests of Cubans Skyrocket—as Republicans Risk Losing Florida

Remember: Cubans in the US are the ones who fled communism. In other words, the privileged conservatives. Of course they're going to support the fascist, and of course they're not going to expect any negative consequences from that to affect them!

3h ago

Billie Eilish on how she's making touring less terrible for the planet

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grue @lemmy.world 3h ago

Wait a second, how do they celebrate Easter in Germany?!

3h ago

Give me toxic womanizing female Bond

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grue @lemmy.world 3h ago

If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't British, he could've been the first James Bond. He was only a couple years older than Sean Connery, and was a well-known dramatic actor at the time Dr. No came out.

4h ago

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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grue @lemmy.world 4h ago

The term you're looking for is "cowboy coding."

4h ago

Give me toxic womanizing female Bond

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grue @lemmy.world 4h ago

I vote to have Sonequa Martin-Green play Bond, both for maximum trolling and because she could do a good job at the role.

Or if she can't manage the English (Scottish?) accent, cast her as Felix Leiter.

5h ago

So true.

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grue @lemmy.world 5h ago

OP is busy hodling GameStop.

5h ago

What the fuck is going on in the Pentagon?

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grue @lemmy.world 5h ago

No we aren't. We're already past them.

5h ago

Mushroom drive that can get you anywhere in the universe?

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grue @lemmy.world 5h ago

On the other hand, David Hahn built a nuclear reactor in his home with just books from the library.

That's a bit of a stretch; he never got anywhere near criticality, nor did he build any control systems or mechanisms to get useful energy out of it. Some of the earliest nuclear reactors were called "atomic piles," but a pile of radioactive stuff is literally all that his was.

7h ago

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

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grue @lemmy.world 7h ago

As I said above, what we need are more apps allowing the use of private data storage. Your own “cloud” (server).

Right. And F-Droid actively encourages exactly that by calling it an "anti-feature" whenever an app connects to a network service but fails to work with the service of your choosing.

I'm literally telling you about the thing that addresses your exact concern, and yet you're nonsensically bitching that I'm somehow the one who doesn't know what I'm talking about? What the fuck is wrong with you?

8h ago

Cabbage man can never catch a break

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grue @lemmy.world 8h ago

That "poor cabbage merchant" did alright for himself despite it all, considering that

spoiler

Cabbage Corp had become a major manufacturing conglomerate by the time of The Legend of Korra.

Which also means we know he escaped Pompeii due to plot armor, by the way.

8h ago

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

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grue @lemmy.world 8h ago

Why do you keep talking about cloud shit? What part of "[they probably don't] require network permission at all" did you not understand?

In fact, if some app's data did "[go] to their cloud," F-Droid would slap a big fat anti-feature warning label on it saying "this app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" and not put an install button in the list in the search results, forcing you to go through an extra step if you still wanted to install it!

I don't know why you're trying to fearmonger so hard when F-Droid really does everything it can to protect you from shit like this, short of actively restricting you itself.

8h ago

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

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grue @lemmy.world 8h ago

We shouldn't have to go back to pen & paper to avoid big tech; that's an absurd overreaction to the point of almost coming across as a strawman argument. We should expect to have privacy-respecting alternatives (e.g. from F-Droid, as others in the thread are mentioning) available, as well as effective consumer protection laws.

The solution is not to just give up; the solution is to force the world to get better.

8h ago

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

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grue @lemmy.world 8h ago

I mean, you kinda do because F-Droid maintainers check for 'anti-features' like that before approving each app to be added to the repository. That's the big benefit of it over something like Obtainium.

I haven't checked myself, but I think it's very likely that there's at least one period-tracking app on F-Droid that doesn't require network permission at all.

9h ago

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds

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grue @lemmy.world 9h ago

That’s on top of the cascading supply shortages of all the other goods that can’t get through a major trade route

Is Hormuz a major trade route for things other than petroleum, fertilizer, and a handful of other things? It's not exactly a through-route the way, say, the Gulf of Aden is, so I'd have thought we'd only be talking about stuff actually produced by countries bordering the Persian Gulf itself.

9h ago

Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit

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grue @lemmy.world 9h ago

9h ago

I am calling for pawb.social to join in solidarity with other instances against lemmy.world's zionist admin team

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grue @lemmy.world 9h ago

Please do, and let me know what you find out! I might be interested in running such a tool myself even just so I can be a better mod (let alone investigating the stuff we're discussing here).

10h ago

I am calling for pawb.social to join in solidarity with other instances against lemmy.world's zionist admin team

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grue @lemmy.world 10h ago

The laws in Germany and Austria (against questioning Israel’s right to exist etc) were actually created precisely because they stopped being fascist. That they can now be abused to silence criticism of a regime committing a genocide is a horrible bit of irony I suppose.

Yeah, that sort of thing is why the First Amendment in the US is (supposed to be) pretty damn close to absolute.

The fediverse foundation is an Austrian non-profit organization, who’s running feddit on their own servers. Just moving their entire operation to a different country is not really a practical suggestion, as I don’t think they have anywhere close to the funds they’d need to do that.

I'm more concerned with lemmy.world than I am with feddit.org, since (among other reasons) that's where my account is. Although I don't know much about lemmy.world's funding or administration, I kinda expect that they're getting enough donations that lack of money shouldn't be an excuse not to move out of German jurisdiction. And even if they aren't right now, I'm willing to bet if they created a funding campaign for that purpose they'd change pretty quick.

Anyway, I think it's worth trying to get them to move so that they can relax the ToS. If nothing else, the response might help us figure out whether they're "follow[ing] local laws" because they have to or because they want to.

10h ago

I am calling for pawb.social to join in solidarity with other instances against lemmy.world's zionist admin team

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grue @lemmy.world 10h ago

This basically can’t work, unless Lemmy gets an absolutely absurd amount of growth, just because of the numbers. According to fediverse observer, LW has 13.5k active users, whereas the next largest instance, sh.itjust.works, has only 2.3k. LW has around as many active users as the other ten largest instances combined. In order for those ten instances to catch up to LW, over 100,000 new active members... So assuming that ratio holds, to gain 100,000 active users across those 10 instances, Lemmy would need to gain around 1.4 million users total.

I mean, I joined in the first Reddit exodus three years ago, and I've been expecting and hoping that it was the beginning of a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the same way that migrations have happened from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit in the past. From that perspective, 1.4 million users, or 100K active ones, is nothing. But whatever; that's a different conversation.

Again, I can personally attest to seeing things vanish from the modlogs.

Wait a second, you're saying you saw the modlogs change after-the-fact to remove information that was previously there? Holy shit, never mind what I wrote previously -- that's definitely fucked up!

(You say "again," but I didn't catch that aspect of the claim before. Sorry about that.)

You're right that it's both important and difficult to have proof, but I have no particular reason to disbelieve you, so for now I won't.

11h ago

I am calling for pawb.social to join in solidarity with other instances against lemmy.world's zionist admin team

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grue @lemmy.world 11h ago

but, honestly, the Fediverse would ultimately be in a much healthier place if users and communities decentralized away from lemmy.world even putting the zionism aside.

Was kinda hoping that would happen naturally via other instances growing to match it, rather than LW having to shrink.

Their scrubbing of the modlogs is also highly suspicious to me.

That's the other part of the story I'm relatively unaware of: the modlogs are generally shitty and incomplete anyway just due to bugs (or bad design decisions) in Lemmy that have nothing to do with admin actions, so I'm not convinced they're doing any deliberate manipulation of them.

For example, if you just remove a comment the comment text shows up in the modlog, but if you ban a user and check the box to remove the stuff the user posted that content is nuked and (AFAICT) doesn't show up anywhere anymore. That's not an admin thing; that's something any mod can do and it's easier than the alternative that would preserve the moderation history (i.e. manually removing each comment individually before banning the user).