I disagree you're helping smaller instances in any way and posit that you're making the fediverse worse with that practice.
You're creating and abandoning accounts on the regular. Those accounts federate out to every instance the home one is linked to and exist in perpetuity. We're talking several thousand instances or more. All filling up with abandoned accounts from the same person.
Specifically, when that happens to critics; they invent a whole ethos and message, and the artist is just like "What? I just wanted an ice cream cone."
Edit: Just saw the Clarkson interview video you added. She practically died inside. Oh man. lol.
(note: because a similar meme in another Lemmy community resulted in lots of angry comments yesterday... I should clarify that this "men do _ instead of therapy" is a common meme format and is 100% a joke. It's lighthearted and not a serious criticism of men, their hobbies, or therapy.)
Donald Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss in November, stoking doubts about the election's legitimacy even as opinion polls show the Republican presidential candidate leading in battleground states....
That's literally how I got mine, though from Babbages when they were still a thing. I think I paid like $35 + tax for the unit (which came with Mario Tennis) and Wario Land.
Loved it, but I can see why it failed. Still, 3D Mario Tennis was amazing.
Yeah, it was a cool concept, but the execution was terrible. For all its faults, the one I can't overlook is the fact that it required 6xAA batteries (that it would chew through in 2-3 hours). LIke, WTF? Its design literally required you to use it on a table/stationary location. They sold an AC adapter for it, but it was a separate purchase.
Was it? The one I remember clipped onto the back of the controller in place of the battery box. Or did it have a power port on the unit itself ?(it's been forever lol)
My OG Game Boy had a 6v DC input on the side. My off-brand rechargeable pack for it plugged in there instead of clipping into the battery compartment.
Olives are gross as a food/garnish. Their oil, though, is not. I will put olive oil, Parmesan, and basil on literally anything, and it comes out delicious.
The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
In 6 months, automakers will be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC's regulatory authority (like every frigging industry is doing for every regulatory body nowadays).
Same. I don't mind it as an option if that's what some people want, but stop "enhancing" the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.
I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.
Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?
I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.
That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
If only this would remain within the idiot population. The increased risk of them getting infected and allowing the virus to mutate in a way that makes it more virulent/transmissible in humans is bad for everyone.
I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away....
I don't think it's that nobody cares. It's just outrage fatigue. There's so many things, as you listed, that it's just exhausting to be outraged about everything all the time.
Most of us are just trying to get by: pay rent, put food on the table, etc.
So it's not that I don't care about those, it's just that I don't have time or energy to (or at least not all of the things all the time).
In a vacuum, I wouldn't consider "diversity hire" to be a slur. However, in colloquial use by racists and bigots, it is definitely used as such much in the same way they have appropriated "DEI" as a slur.
To clarify, I mean the terms themselves used in the proper context. Calling someone a diversity hire, DEI hire, affirmative action hire, etc is 100% appropriating those terms as slurs because it calls into question the target's qualifications by insinuating they were only hired to tick a box.
why don’t we question the competence or qualifications of non-POC hires? Like why are non-POC hires not “cronyism hire” or “familiarity hire”?
We totally do:
Familiarity hire: We call those 'nepo babies' or something related to nepotism.
Cronyism Hire: Not sure there's a single term for it, but I (and probably others I'd imagine) just literally call them "cronies".
I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...
Luckily, I've never had that question on any maths test, though I do know how to solve it given enough information.
Do those questions ever tell you how far away each city is from one other, or are you just supposed to know that? Also, do the tracks go in a straight line the whole distance, and do they need to slow down on any stretches of track?
With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state's first air quality alert of 2024....
Hot Topic ( lemmy.world )
Credit: The Legendary Pink Dot at b3ta.com
After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He's Getting Recognized In Public Too Much ( futurism.com )
Create one new account every other day on less well-known lemmy
The reason I need disposable account just for convenience....
Ghostwriter - Lenni's "You Gotta Believe" Song ( www.youtube.com )
I'm not sure what triggered this random memory, but I was driving back from a day trip and this song just popped into my head in full clarity....
Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now?
A Perfect Circle - The Noose ( www.youtube.com )
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You [1973] ( www.youtube.com )
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly [1999] ( www.youtube.com )
Was out on a drive earlier and this song came on. I think it's the first time I've heard it in at least 5 or 6 years, maybe longer....
Lauren Boebert gushes over "pretty" Donald Trump: He's not sleeping, he's praying! ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
The Sisko is linear... ( lemmy.world )
(note: because a similar meme in another Lemmy community resulted in lots of angry comments yesterday... I should clarify that this "men do _ instead of therapy" is a common meme format and is 100% a joke. It's lighthearted and not a serious criticism of men, their hobbies, or therapy.)
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
Trump, allies are laying the groundwork to contest potential election loss ( www.reuters.com )
Donald Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss in November, stoking doubts about the election's legitimacy even as opinion polls show the Republican presidential candidate leading in battleground states....
Wtf did I just read ( mander.xyz )
I feel this in my soul. Warp core, rather ( lemmy.world )
On my way to work this morning a tractor nearly crashed into me. The driver was shouting about the end of the world being nigh...
... I think it was Farmer Geddon.
Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console ( arstechnica.com )
Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross....
Perpetual Motion finally achieved! ( lemmy.zip )
Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )
The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs ( lemmy.world )
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
"Features"
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Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog ( slrpnk.net )
"If you don't save your data to someone else's computer then we can't monetize it."...
Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus ( arstechnica.com )
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news ( english.elpais.com )
Why don't people care about human rights anymore?
I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away....
Is “diversity hire” a slur? If not, then why don’t we question the competence or qualifications of non-POC hires? Like why are non-POC hires not “cronyism hire” or “familiarity hire”?
I’ve seen this too much in the media and other places, and I am kinda sick of seeing people get unfairly criticized or sidelined.
Problems with creating my own instance
I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...
Is there a way, as a user, to block an entire server?
Title says it all, I hope.
13 May 2024 ( sh.itjust.works )
Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert ( abcnews.go.com )
With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state's first air quality alert of 2024....