Well, yes, but also considered that many companies are just implementing invasive identification practices anyway
That’s a naive way to frame this. The fact is that many companies implemented invasive identification practices already 10 years ago. These laws are an attempt to bring some democratic control and properly enforced age limits to all of it.
I’m somewhat interested in what’s coming up from Kärcher. Being a company based in Germany, EU, I’m stupidly hoping that EU data protection laws prevent them from doing the shittiest things.
If I have something serious, I will set up automatic upgrades. If short downtimes are ok, also with automatic reboots when the kernel updates.
If it’s not anything serious, whenever I remember to.
The rockets were a distraction. They killed 12 people, most of them Bedouins.
The real attacks (including the rave massacre) were done by operatives, boots on the ground, using small arms fire.
Trump seems chaotic and libertarian enough to me that he might actually stop the Israel military aid if he is snubbed.
For their sake, I hope the palestinians are able to think more clearly than that.
It’s not bad if you don’t need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust
Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you’re not a rust-freak like me.
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Matrix seems to work well. I’m on a smallish non-profit server. I regard it as the premium open-source step forward from IRC.
The worst problem is that there are really no channels that I care to follow.
My NAS is a Raspberry Pi4 with a single consumer-level SSD. My backups sometimes complete.
I’m partial to the idea that we’re part of a larger organism. So essentially similar to cell parts but on a different scale. There’s something above that, but we are as likely to figure it out as cells are able to figure us out.
What to do with that? I have no idea. In lieu of objective facts, I guess it’s useful to pick the good instructions from religions – usually the ones that they all share are the ones that are worth adhering to. Do to others etc etc.
Bitcoin is pretty fast. You get 5 confirmations in about an hour. If you compare it to credit cards, the equivalent thing (clearing and settlement) happens in about 2-7 days.
Thing that matters to the merchant is a bit different than the thing that happens with the customer. You can build similar layers in front of the customer for crypto payments that make it look like the payment went through in a second.
I just tried to use Reddit with a new account. After spending about a week in it, I suddenly noticed that all my comments and postings received no upvotes or downvotes.
That’s right. I was shadowbanned, which is to say that some part of the Reddit system (AI?) decided that I need to be put into a cage that I don’t see, without telling me that it happened. Perhaps I was “evading a ban” or something. I don’t think I did anything to deserve it, and the reddit admins don’t answer to queries about it.
So yeah, Lemmy is infinite times better than Reddit.
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What’s Plex’s use case? Why not just mpv locally?
Being a major reason why Nazi Germany was defeated and then defend the world against communism did legitimately give them that title. But yeah, that’s becoming history now.
I don’t want to pretend that this (this being how and why people think the way they think about trans rights et al) is a simple issue, which is why what I say on two different comments might be slightly incongruent. I think I was mostly answering your specific question in my second comment without so much trying to address or bolster my first comment.
Are you saying most people are anti-trans?
No, I think it’s more nuanced than just black-or-white allies and anti-trans people. The level of pro- or anti-transness within individuals falls on a spectrum that’s shaped like a bell curve, and the majority in the middle are usually amenable to trans rights if they bump into the issue in a way that resonates with them. Like for instance in their personal life with friends or family.
But less amenable if they mostly face the issue on TV, social media or via angry activists. You might then recognize these people as anti-trans, especially if the issue is deeply personal to you.
And that people who aren’t anti-trans are somehow not of sane mind?
No, that’s not what I was trying to say. In fact, I’d say that genuinely anti-trans people (the other end of the bell curve) are the insane ones. Socio- and/or psychopathic. My claim (possibly a bit extraordinary claim in this day and age) is that most people are not at that end.
Most people agree with the ultrarich on this issue (at least initially, before social media insanity), but only the ultrarich can afford making arbitrary people hate them without any good reason. That’s why it looks like only the billionaires are doing it.
Then they go to Twitter with these opinions and go insane and the whole thing enters a neverending tailspin.
Elon is slightly different insofar that one of his own kids is trans. So that’s not entirely due to Twitter, but there’s also some lived experience at the bottom of it all (I assume here that he spent time with said child).
There’s a risk that Vance would be more persuasive for conservatists and centrists if he didn’t have to obey Boss Trump. Then again, it’ll be pretty hard for him to distance himself from that shit.