Flax_vert
@Flax_vert@feddit.uk
Fediverse Advocate
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Because brain rot is brain rot for a reason
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Or just touch grass
- Comment on What's Rednote and why is "everyone" talking about it? 3 days ago:
Chinese Instagram. While people suspect tiktok is censored, this one is actually censored and possibly spyware. Dumb people are moving from tiktok to it to protest tiktok being banned
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 3 days ago:
Rehab.
- Comment on downloaded rednote and this a frequent emote in the comments 5 days ago:
Waiguoren opening rednote was opening Pandora’s box 😭 The Great Firewall protects us as well
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 5 days ago:
Like gboard?
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 6 days ago:
We also get to discuss it as well
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 6 days ago:
Reminds me of whatever this is
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 6 days ago:
The fact that I can understand a good part of that scares
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 6 days ago:
Pinyin. They also have fancy keyboards with only 9 buttons and predictive text.
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 6 days ago:
Why would they have been fined over a simple bug?
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
To be fair it’s not for off in the UK,
Northern Ireland is in the UK. I just specified this as the courts might work differently here. I know England has bailiffs and such. And for all we know, unless you’ve lived in or are familiar with Wales and Scotland, it could be the same situation there, too.
England ≠ The UK
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 1 week ago:
the software Fujitsu developed was still shit.
All software is like that. Whenever your software is going to go from development into suddenly being rolled out nationally to being installed in well over 10,000 post offices nationally, you’re going to have glitches and people using it in unintended ways. This happens with almost every game release. It is released from the studio and suddenly bugs specific to different hardware which the developers couldn’t really have foresaw.
I know someone who worked for a company who’s software suddenly had charged someone 3x the amount that they should have been because they did something hacky with the product. (Thankfully by “charged”, it was just a generated invoice, so nobody needed to actually go about refunding).
What happened in this situation is what should have happened with the post office. The customer contacts the software company’s client, who contacted the company, who diagnosed and fixed the issue. Instead the post office hailed the software as some form of infallible deity instead of it being a simple glitch and decided to prosecute the subpostmasters.
Maybe there’s some nuance I’m missing here, I have seen the Channel 4 drama and listened to some Radio 4 podcasts on it, so there is a chance that Fujitsu encouraged them to hail their software as something which wasn’t prone to glitches or whatever. But in my opinion from what I know, the problem wasn’t necessarily the software or Fujitsu, it was the Post Office for prosecuting subpostmasters instead of reporting a glitch to Fujitsu, which if they did the latter it might have made a minor news headline before being consigned to history.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
The best thing is that in Northern Ireland, their fines aren’t legally enforceable. All they can do is send you angry letters.
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 1 week ago:
Wasn’t it moreso the post office lying about the software instead of Fujitsu itself?
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
You have autism. That’s why you’re so different to everybody else.
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
You’ll figure out your attraction preferences through lust, though
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
The context is moreso “everyone is sinful” because everyone does it.
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
Lust is sinful, and Jesus was without sin, though
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Why not?
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t this be eliminated by cooking it
- Comment on Anon admits they were wrong 2 weeks ago:
One of the funniest things I witnessed was some tyrant instance owner breaking rules in other instances’ communities and getting upset when people reported him to himself.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
I, personally am pretty inconsistent with how I do it, lol
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
This is why I was told to close my eyes, to do away with distractions. But my neurodivergent brain would just get distracted by unrelated thoughts, so staring at a stained glass window does nicely for me.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Apart from the Bible not saying much about the dead watching except from a vague
Hebrews 12:1 ESV
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
The idea of people looking down - while could be argued for in this verse - is moreso a human invention than scriptural in the case of Christianity. But the Roman Catholic Catechisms may have something to say about it
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Jesus -who Christians believe to be God Himself- is described as looking up to Heaven to pray
John 17:1 ESV
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you
He also fell on His face Matthew 26:39 ESV
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
I don’t think this is biblical in origin
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Placebo
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 weeks ago:
You can post to Lemmy from Wordpress as well.
!dbzer0.com@dbzer0.com
It doesn’t work on older versions of Lemmy though, notably the version lemmy.world is running.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
If this is peeving you by the way, you can use multimc to create a shortcut, even to join a server or world directly to skip the title screen entirely
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 3 weeks ago:
“tend the rabbits”
