From the article:

If Caitlin did want to try to get the original amount back, she’d have to email and send the death certificate to a specific email address

Did she try - you know - doing that?

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

Someone didn’t read the story. This is about a known firmware fault that the company is doing its best not to keep quiet. Don’t help them in that work

low-effort junk TV like dating, survival, cooking and other shows like it.

... in other words, exactly the shows that don't use actors or writers

Looking forward to them getting a bunch of people who immediately take it NSFW again

I’m going to have a guess and suggest that the website is probably integrated with some much older mainframe system and a batch process or several batch processes run daily overnight to shuttle data between the two systems to keep them updated and in sync.

Syncing the two sets of data while the database is live and changing is a pain the the bum, so they freeze it while the data transfers are taking place.

It'll be fun when Tuvalu decides to take back .tv

Because having multiple applications continuously running in the background polling multiple servers for notifications in real time is a good way to run down your battery very quickly

There was a post on Lemmy yesterday that said something like “Lemmy will upvote anything this is just a photo of a tin of beans”. .. and the shitposting started. :)

I’m sticking with ‘subscribed’ for a while

You can't force this stuff though. No-one wants a ton of vapid, low-effort comments put there just for the sake of it.

There is absolutely nothing to say that the author didn’t have it backed up. He still lost 3TB of files from a new drive which was a replacement sent by the company, with a known fault supposedly fixed.

“Herp derp he should have backed up” is not the takeaway here”

It was cheaper for Cisco to buy the company than a license, presumably

People just want to argue for the sake of arguing a

No we don't.

Lots of people eating the onion in here

Came here to say this. There is some excellent, probing journalism out there. The problem is, it's not very profitable

I rather disagree. I think we should be kinder. There are mods on Reddit who have poured years into building their community on Reddit, who took their communities dark and have only now decided it is time to move.

I’m not saying that they have some kind of “right” to have a magazine or community, or should be entitled or be able demand the name.

But there has been a bit of a land grab in some cases - certainly on kbin - there are entirely empty magazines with zero activity named identically to popular subreddits.

I mod a magazine on kbin that is a direct replacement for a niche subreddit. I started it to hold some of the content I’m interested in. But the mods of that sub did a grand job - and they weren’t power mods or anything. I have an explicitly message in the sidebar that if they are interested in setting up shop at kbin.social they should message me.

There are going to be mods that are literally mourning the loss of what they had. There are enough arseholes in the world - let’s not make things a bit worse.

The article helpfully never spells out the acronym. Environmental Social & Governance

"They didn't shift to Discord, they just moved temporarily to discord. How can writers get it so wrong"

Lots of mods posted a note saying "see you on Discord" when they shut down. This is not exactly an egregious error.

I'm an Apple user and think their attempts reduce the environmental footprint of their product's manufacturing is pretty good, however this is unequivocally good news.

Purchasing carbon offsets to claim your product is carbon neutral isn't good practice in my opinion and I'm quite glad to see the EU is thinking of outlawing it. Of course Apple needs to get its arse into gear about expandability and repairability if it is serious about reducing eWaste

Good article here https://nature-notes.riverlegacy.org/how-come-there-are-no-blue-or-green-mammals