Comment on
Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts
Reply in thread
Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.
Comment on
Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts
Reply in thread
Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.
Comment on
1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza
Meanwhile, this is Harvard University senior Shruthi Kumar, who went off script as she gave the English commencement address, slamming Harvard for denying the degrees. She read from notes that she pulled out of her graduation gown.
This should get air time. While the others walked out in solidarity together, she's putting herself on the line individually. It gives administration a name to the crowd.
Comment on
Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse
An important part that seems lost in this:
Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.
Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.
“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.
Comment on
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
Read everyone, this is hype, and Canada is being dumb on this one.
The Flipper Zero is also incapable of defeating keyless systems that rely on rolling codes, a protection that's been in place since the 1990s that essentially transmits a different electronic key signal each time a key is pressed to lock or unlock a door.
Most of this reaction is due to staged videos on TikTok and politicians not understanding technology. Maybe they'll stop a few joyriding kids, but car thiefs aren't using F0s.
Comment on
ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap
Reply in thread
Yea the post is misleading. The community is [email protected] not /c/games. That's reddit language creeping in.
Comment on
Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps
For posterity, but also for forks if the repos go down, I have created https://github.com/SimplerMobileTools and downloaded all the original repos, branches, and tags which will soon be uploaded there.
I have already got SM Gallery compiling, so thats a start, and will upload all the repos tomorrow when its not so late.
Note: Any former maintainer of SMT will be added on to SrMT upon request.
EDIT: All forks updated with notice of rationale and link to this discussion.
EDIT2: https://github.com/FossifyOrg is a soft fork created by one of the current maintainers. I will keep the hard fork up just in case.
Comment on
Rule of 400
Posting this at top level since its burried in replies:
Fact time. You don't always die when shot, and the US is a baby factory. I can't find good stats on non-lethal gunshot, so I'll do the rest.
Verdict: Pretty accurate.
References:
Comment on
Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas
Let's not let Apple sugar coat. An appropriate title:
"Apple has layoffs and shadily tries to hide it"
Comment on
Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
Reply in thread
Calling out rude people needs to be normalized. Stop being polite to those who aren't.
Comment on
Average Lemmy Active Users by Month
11 million comments this month. 11 million comments from people smart enough to leave behind the other. 11 million comments, likely largely from actual humans.
Lemmy is thriving.
Comment on
Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule
Hot take: The ruling is accurate.
Vote for candidates who privatize utilities. Get what you vote for.
Only sucks for those that can't leave and are stuck with a system they can't correct.
Comment on
How do you feel about the level of censorship in your current instance ?
I run my own instance, so supremely displeased as expected.
Comment on
Costco shuts down shareholders demand to ditch DEI hiring practices
First the hotdogs, now this. Go Costco management, go.
Comment on
Property owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’
Reynold’s attorney said they offered to swap her their lot right next door or sell her the house at a discount. But she has refused both offers. “It would set a dangerous precedent if you could go onto someone else’s land, build anything you want, and then sue that individual for the value of it,” DiPasquale said.
Good for her.
Comment on
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
Important context:
Comment on
Your kid marries a much older person for money; how do you manage?
I'll add one thing to other's responses. Make sure she, not they, but she is covered financially. If she spends 10 years with him, not developing her career, and he drops her, will she be OK?
I.E. its perfectly OK for them to have this arrangement, it's not OK for her to be in a situation where she feels trapped by money.
Comment on
The bridge is an orange-pilled urbanist
So some facts here:
Comment on
*Permanently Deleted*
So banks will be public domain when they're bailed out with taxpayer funds, too, right?
Comment on
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
It's been said before: Google does not find you the best result for your query. Google finds you the result that makes them the most money from AdSense and has words from your query.
If Mozilla wasn't funded by Google, the best thing they could do is include a helpful/unhelpful ranking for websites, then filter Google results by that. Search should be social, not commercial.
Comment on
I don't know what to do about work tomorrow
In 12 months, will this be a big deal? Probably not, so don't risk your job over it (IMO).
"Sorry boss, had a rough day, couldn't concentrate and a simple question threw me off my game. I know I left you in a bad place short handed, and I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again."
If a coworker brings it up:
"Just had a rough day, not something I really want to talk about. Anyway, what did you get into last night?"
Everyone, and I mean everyone, has been where you are in some way, shape, or form. It's OK, and you'll be OK, too.