I think the growth of Lemmy over the last few weeks is a clear indicator that Reddit is in decline. I have deleted Apollo and my reddit bookmark and have only gone back when a Google search provided the information I needed. I won't be going back and I think a lot of people are of the same mind.

I did some IT work at a hospital, patient records including names, addresses, conditions and doctor's notes (inc mental health notes) were stored in the database in plain text. You had to have admin access to the database (which I did), but I was stunned that I could browse anyone's entire medical information. A few weeks after I left I sent an anonymous email to a couple of people letting them know how bad it was - I didn't use my real one just in case they may have come after me for looking at the records.

I don’t have kids but am perfectly happy to pay more tax to make education free or cheaper. How can anyone argue that a less educated society is better? The more people that can experience higher education is plainly a good thing. There could be someone out there who could make a medical or technological breakthrough but doesn’t get the chance because they can’t afford to go to college.

Actually the floon goes inside the zargnix. Duh.

"6236/7265 subreddits are currently dark."

85.83%

That's a pretty good response from the subs.

I, Robot - extremely disappointed that it didn't follow the books, but I've watched it several times and if you pretend it came out under a different title it's a good robot movie.

Lol. Is there a "choosing beggars" community here yet?

I read they knew about steam power for a long time but couldn't make the engines / containers / doohickies strong enough to contain the pressure.

Not sure I'd class this as delicious.

I hope one day we will be able to charge devices without plugging them in - even if the amount of charge is small, it might be able to trickle charge all the time.

My wife ran her own business, and a lot of her time was spent chasing up people like this and it was so frustrating. A lot of small business owners do everything themselves, so having to re-issue invoices and chase them up if they weren't paid was a real pain. She didn't mess about though, of they didn't pay and didn't communicate she would engage a debt-collection company. She also knew some of her clients were also small businesses and would work out a payment plan or extra time if they needed it. But some deliberately strung her along till the last minute.

So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don't understand the purpose of bots.

XBox Game Pass. Saved me literally hundreds of dollars on games I'd buy otherwise, and avoids bad purchases like Redfall.

As an IT support person, I've learnt to dumb things down for management. They don't want to hear stuff like "Increased the SGA, changed the buffer size and added a function based index...etc". Sometimes I'll do a short and a long version something like "the issue was around memory settings which have been increased", plus the detailed info.

First time here for me, and I’m confused as well.
Say there’s a ‘movies’ community on this server, and one on lemmy.ml, and over time the one on ml becomes the definitive one, do I need to have an account on the ml server as well or is there a way to be able to see multiple communities on different servers in my stream?
Thanks for taking the time to help us newcomers out.

Can it do legs?

I know, for all intensive purposes it's maddening.

I’m surprised at the price point - why not sell it at a loss (Apple can afford it) to drive uptake, which would increase app development, which would drive sales etc?
Then as mass production and supply chain issues become moot post pandemic, they start to make a profit, and sell more. If sales stall because of the current global cost of living crisis, it might not take off. I’m really excited for it, and can afford one but it’s hard to justify at that price. Make it 2k and see how many sell.

I was under the impression that organised thieves had software that could reset stolen Iphones - otherwise why would they steal them? Is this exploit new?

I think Water Wars are also a concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict