I didn't think that kind of joke would ever :q

They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it's bullshit.

I don't envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn't apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers' calls.

Together with hh:mm(:ss) for times and +hh:mm for timezones. Don't make me deal with that 12am/pm bullshit that doesn't make any sense, and don't make make me look up just what the time difference is between CEST and IST. Just give me the offsets +02:00 and +05:30, and I can calculate that my local time of 06:55+03:30=10:25 in India.

I can't comment on the general trend, but this specific one seems a bit too circumstantial to be of use for a serious spying effort. You'd have to have the spyware running parallel to the apps usong passwords you want to steal in a specific way.

The risk exists, which is bad enough for stochastic reasons (eventually, someone will get lucky and manage to grab something sensitive, and since the potential damage from that is incalculable, the impact axis alone drives this into firm "you need to get that fix out asap), but probably irrelevant in terms of consistency, which would be what you'd need to actually monitor anyone.

If you manage to grab enough info to crack some financial access data, you can steal money. If you can take over some legit online account or obtain some email-password combo, you can sell it. But if you want to monitor what people are doing in otherwise private systems, you need some way to either check on demand or log their actions and periodically send them to your server.

It would be far more reliable to have injection backdoors to allow you access by virtue of forcing a credential check to come up valid than to hope for the lucky grab of credentials the user might change at an arbitrary moment in time.

Medieval people: Prohibit Christians from making business with money because that's a sin

Medieval people: Create an economy where moneylending is lucrative

Medieval people: Begin to exclude Jews from other lines of work

Medieval people: Why are the Jews making their profit with moneylending?

This guy: Jews are enriching themselves from wars they never chose by providing a service that only they could to kings that started wars they needed that service for.

The whole point of making a federated network of independent instances is to avoid the issues arising with one central instance, right? Putting the content out to multiple instances plays into that: If it's important content, no single authority can easily censor it, and the loss of a single instance won't erase it.

If it's trash, of course, every community in every instance you post it to will have to clean it up separately. Arguably, that puts more strain on the respective moderation teams, but if (ideally) those are disjunct people (again, to avoid the issues of a single authority), the strain should be distributed.

And on the plus side, it would enable each community (in the lemmy sense) to enforce their own nuanced rules, additionally leading to slightly more choice between the types of moderation you favour (as opposed to "There's one big sub, take it or leave it").

Individual communities may be smaller, but maybe some more form of coordination of similar communities across instances could amend that (like linking to the other communities in your sidebar etc.).

I could also imagine a super-community solution that would allow you to aggregate several communities across instances similar to multireddits. I'm new here, so I'm not sure if that exists, nor have I given the implementation any thought, but I suppose that could be convenient.

The only winning move is to just offer a better solution and ignore him.

You'd think a better solution would be easy to find, but they spent so long indoctrinating their own followers to be loyal to names rather than concepts that they now fear these followers may attach to the Trump name.

You mean the magazine would pay people to write a story people would want to read... only to make money for the magazine? Like, they're doing it for profit, and not out of the goodness of their hearts? Next you're going to tell me my grocer is only selling me food to generate revenue.

There's a difference between "just marketing" and "buy this stuff, but also, turns out Lebanon has quite some distance to go in terms of human rights in general and gender equality in particular". Companies can't have morals, because they're not a natural person, but the humans working for them can, and it's not unthinkable for this story to be both: An expression of moral frustration on part of the journalist that also happens to be profitable for their employer.

Fuck printers, and fuck personal printers.

I'm not in tech support, thankfully, but in a network-oriented role and trying to hunt down just what the fuck kind of device is associated with a given IP and who is responsible for it is a nightmare when you've got an inventory system where "DHCP" is a valid entry for IPs, hostnames are optional, manually entered and not validated against some uniform pattern, serial number entries that differ from the actual device's in several possible ways and no MAC-Address...

Assuming they're logged in the inventory at all, that is.

You'll have to be more precise on the definition of God. There are quite a lot of them.

The existence of an abstract concept is provable by thinking of it. If there exists an idea that you call God, then a God exists. However, that proves nothing about its properties beyond its mere existence as an idea, including whether it pertains to any real thing. Likewise, all attributes you ascribe to that idea become part of the idea, but do not automatically prove anything about reality.

Thus, the question whether there is an idea called God is trivially answered by asking it at all, but has little bearing on anything at all.

What makes ideas useful is that they group properties, and what makes them real is that there exists an actual thing having all those properties.

Thus, the question whether a real thing exists depends on the properties of that thing, so let's tackle one:

Do I believe that there can be an omnipotent entity? No. The typical argument here is "Can God create a rock so heavy, They cannot lift it anymore?" Either answer contradicts the premise of omnipotence, unless that entity can create logical contradictions, in which case all argument and reasoning is moot anyway.

In particular, do I believe that some variation of the Abrahamic God exists? No, or at least none of those I'm aware of. That doesn't mean I'm not open to being shown otherwise.

However, the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient and all-loving God runs decidedly counter to the existence of suffering, even if we ignore (or exclude) the contradiction about omnipotence.

Absolute big brain move

Wolfman dies, kills some monkeys, does some rope stuff, performs eye surgery and kills himself (depending on what ending you go for).

If we divide, we'll be conquered. That wisom is at least two thousand years old by now. Better to unite and defy.

Germany too

What, 2023-223 for the 223rd day of the year 2023? That... is oddly appealing for telling the actual progress of the year or grouping. No silly "does this group have 31, 30, 29 or 28 members", particularly the "is this year a multiple of four, but not of 100, unless it's also a multiple of 400?" bit with leap days.

You'll have oddities still, no matter which way you slice it, because our orbit is mathematically imperfect, but it's a start.

The familar taste of poison

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/720/

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"And this is why US-centrismis such a big problem in the internet. Everybody speaks Engliah, and the United States are the biggest in terms of English speakers. And through that a situation occurs where most users are seen as Americans, unless stated otherwise"

About right?

BTW, if anyone doesn't know, but wants to know the point behind the fish, it's supposedly an acrostic that produces the greek word for "Fish": Ichthys (ἸΧΘΥΣ), composed of the words " Ἰησοῦς Χρῑστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ", transliterated "Iesous CHristos, THeou (h)Yios, Soter", meaning "Jesus the anointed, son of god, saviour".

Early christians used the symbol to mark meeting places and the like when they were being prosecuted by the Romans.

Open another terminal killall vim