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- Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore 1 day ago:
It’s fucking awful. It’s unconscionable.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
How will he benefit from the data he collected? He’s not in advertising and even if he were a snapshot isn’t worth much - you’d need an ongoing stream. Location data from teslas would be more valuable than the data could’ve stolen with doge.
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 1 week ago:
Because they later felt embarrassed by their question.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 1 week ago:
I still don’t understand what it means though?
Of course you need sleeping areas, even just for sleeping.
Of course people are probably going to wank, or maybe even fuck.
There are actually no laws in space. Vague untested treaties about resources perhaps, but not laws, and certainly not about sex.
- Comment on So it begins... 1 week ago:
Sorry but here’s a reddit link: reddit.com/…/lets_not_make_a_hero_of_elon_yet/
Paraphrasing but pretty much just said Trump is in the epstein files and that’s why they haven’t been made public.
- Comment on So it begins... 1 week ago:
Nah the tweet about the whatever documents was too pointy.
Dems should scream blue bloody murder about these until they’re released.
- Comment on So it begins... 1 week ago:
I don’t know the reference…
A wild guess is that its originally a photo of Hitler?
- Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down 1 week ago:
Do people really make comments with that level of gravity though?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s what’s going on though.
If you say it’s hot or it’s cold or it’s windy you’re not referring tp the sky.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s sunny. It’s windy.
- Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down 1 week ago:
Yeah, again… unpopular opinion but just embrace the transience. How necessary is “transferring” a community. There’s very few communities with content that provides some kind of reference.
- Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down 1 week ago:
There are projects that will just scrape the whole site. Some of these are used as a build step in producing static sites even.
A static version wouldn’t work with any clients of any kind of course. It would be browser-based with the default or whatever frontend you scraped it with.
I’m not necessarily opposed to this idea. However… and I understand that this opinion is not widely held among lemmy users… IMO the best approach is to just embrace the transience of the fediverse - that’s it’s strength. Instances are easy come easy go. Have multiple accounts on multiple instances and change them according to your mood.
When instance admins choose to move on, they’re not letting us down or whatever. They’ve completed their part of the mission and handing over to someone else.
I don’t know what communities there are on lemm.ee which are about to be discontinued. There might be some that want to keep their content available, but maybe that’s better managed on a community level.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 week ago:
Thus is childish and unlikely to lead to a solution.
- Comment on Month-long awareness celebrations 1 week ago:
We def have pride “month” in Australia.
However, most cities have pride festivals at other times of year like my city had a bunch of events over 2 weeks in Febreuary.
IDK why it’s a whole month? You’re right it’s unusual. We celebrate different sports for different periods of time. IDK if that counts.
People refer to “Christmas time” or “over christmas” as a vague period of several weeks. “We’re going to visit mum and dad over christmas” implies a week or more.
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
I reject the premise!
There is no safe or unsafe. It’s more like “more safe for a given person”.
Your friend’s system is better than using the same password everywhere. It’s more difficult to hack than the majority of passwords that aren’t generated by password managers. If that’s what your friend likes and works for them well, fine I guess.
It wouldn’t work for me because:
- it doesn’t input the password for you. Does your friend really type passwords in all the time?
- IDK if my memory is particularly bad but having to remember anything at all is hit and miss. Like I could remember those characters that are used everywhere, but for the router at my mum and dads house that I haven’t accessed in 5 years, was it “mums router” or "router mums house"
- Also I manage multiple passwords for the same sites, as in credentials for my partner or whatever, but I guess I could make variant of this system.
- also if I were to die the person who sorts out all my stuff will have access to my passwords
- but the main reason is… I use my keepassxc db as a database for all sorts of things which aren’t necessarily passwords. ssh keys are a good example. I use it for TOTP. bank card details. membership numbers and government ids. VIN numbers for vehicles. Also, a weird one, I have to keep track of about 100 physical keys for reasons, I stamp a number on them like k32 and then store that number and an explanation of what it’s for in my db.
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 2 weeks ago:
Australia checking in. We have the price per Kw, and the number of Kw consumed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You might be thinking about debt from a personal finance angle - it’s costly, and borrowing money to buy a car isn’t ideal because you end up paying a lot more to own the car. In this context we’re taught that borrowing should be avoided, and if we really have to borrow we should pay it off as quickly as possible.
In business it doesn’t really work that way. Often there’s no expectation that you will repay the money you borrow within any specific period of time. Banks are in the business of lending you money after all.
Suppose you have $1m. Maybe you borrow $4m and buy a $5m farm. Things go well and in a few years your profit (after paying interest on that loan) is another $1m which you still have in the bank. You could pay down your debt, but then your profits would be more or less the same. Or… you could double your profits by borrowing more and buying another farm.
Of course it’s not that simple and there’s lots of good reasons to pay down debt but I’m just trying to illustrate that paying it off is not always the objective.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Designating a country as “uncivilised” is gravely offensive, and immensely arrogant. No country would refer to itself as uncivilised. There are a few which may be lawless, or ungovernable, but uncivilised has connotations that just don’t apply.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 3 weeks ago:
Not really. If the solar on people’s roofs is part of the network. The network needs to be able to manage peaks and troughs in demand no matter how the power is produced.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t the issues it causes mostly because the grid was designed to deliver power from plants?
I mean, aren’t they solvable problems?
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 3 weeks ago:
They’re completely incapable of changing direction.
No one wants nuclear. Transmission distance is too far in Australia. It’s just a license to keep burning coal for another 30 years.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 3 weeks ago:
Has renewable energy really lost its social license?
Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines.
Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been 20 for most of my 43 years.
However, we had twins recently. They’re 18 months old and we all co-sleep. I don’t want to be a prudish family where kids aren’t allowed to see a bum or whatever, but I also don’t want to feel weird about snuggling up together.
So… I’ve been wearing pyjamas just to avoid any awkwardness.
- Comment on When you see danger coming 3 weeks ago:
Is this a false equivalence?
Is the rate at which wood rots indicative of how quickly plastic would rot?
Also plastic tends to be very thin. Like if bacteria can denature 0.1mm per year that’s lots of years for a timber beam but a few months for plastic packaging.
- Comment on who are you? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is me.
If it’s on or after the last day I need to leave it in the fridge for several weeks until I’m in the mood to acknowledge that it’s dead.
My partner does believe in use-by dates but she has very poor situational awareness and is just oblivious to the concept. Recently she tried drinking a flavoured milk that had been in the fridge for a few months.
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 4 weeks ago:
Firstly, roundabouts aren’t perfectly round.
The city I live in is relatively small but has dozens of roundabouts. They might look round as you drive through them, but if you look from a satellite image most are just “mostly” round, and some that seem round on the ground are plain oblong.
With that in mind, you’re dealing with curves, not a perfect circle.
Different points are defined with a range of methods like survey, measuring, and just plain eyeballing.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 4 weeks ago:
The vote was only 29 to 25 in favour of Ley, and 2 of her biggest supporters are senators who are about to finish up
That’s pretty much what I said.
It’s just denying reality to pretend that this is evidence of them accepting a shift to the centre
That’s the opposite of what Karvellas said.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 4 weeks ago:
Your comments are contrary to most other commentary.
Karvellas asserted the inverse just this morning: Ley represents a significant shift to the centre.
You’re right in that she will probably get knifed in the coming months. “See, we tried centrism and it didn’t work”.
However, even the liberals recognising that there’s a need to demonstrate that they tried centrism is significant.
I’m happy to acknowledge that your opinion is unchanged. For my own part I think everything that has transpired over the last week demonstrates a change of trajectory.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps I’m just unnecessarily anxious, but I feel like the constant culture war nattering makes it be a thing.
For example, my parents are in their 80s. The struggles of trans people just aren’t relevant to them in any way. The chances they would ever interact with a trans person in any meaningful way are infinitesimal.
However, if the leader of the liberal party is on TV every day complaining about how a trans person might use a public toilet for whatever gender, it will make my parents believe that it’s a problem.
These politicians stoke the culture war to fire up and engage their base.
Locally we’ve had some conservative nutters complain about library books discussing sex and gender issues. It’s just another manufactured outrage.
- Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting? 4 weeks ago:
Just thought I’d check in with you after the Liberals voted for Ley as their new moderate leader.