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- Comment on I've been banned with the reason: "Spammer" 6 days ago:
BTW, some mobile apps (I use Voyager) can retrieve the title for you in the new post submission UI.
- Comment on I've been banned with the reason: "Spammer" 6 days ago:
This is why we need to ask the good questions, people. Good post; good result!
- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 week ago:
Ha! I don’t get the connection, but I’m watching KN reruns as I type this.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that the game producer can now collect and sell data on their customers’ systems.
With no privacy laws on the books in the USA, there’s literally nothing stopping them, and a lot of incentive to do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is the real answer I was looking for in the comments.
- Comment on How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ? 5 weeks ago:
With a call to the police to report cruelty to animals?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
Nobody is being murdered for their profession. Choices are what people have a problem with. Choose to exploit the masses for the shareholders long enough and someone is going to pop off.
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 2 months ago:
I think there’s a misconception about elected officials. Many people believe they work to improve the lives of American citizens, but they don’t.
This. They want votes. They do what they think will get them votes. And yet, often – and in the last election – the democrats that help the people (like by walking a union picket line, supporting LGBTQ+ and basic human rights, legalizing cannabis, reducing penalties petty crimes, etc.) don’t get the votes that are part of the bargain.
They vote for and enact legislation that helps the people, and the people don’t re-elect them. The incentive shifts to satisfying wealthy donors.
- Comment on When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy? 2 months ago:
Can’t answer that, but I can tell you that lemmy lets you edit
p0ost titles. - Comment on Questions about anonymity on lemmy.world servers 2 months ago:
Only use a VPN…
This instance disallows posting from known VPN IP addresses. Just FYI
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 months ago:
And I was so loving Lina Khan’s FTC, asking other things…
- Comment on Piece work entry unpaid 2 months ago:
The Chinese owners seem to discourage all communication between writers. They did however just acknowledge the difficulties the writers face with this platform tool.
This whole operation just smells to me like Chinese work ethic (work them till they jump out the windows, then put nets under the windows) to me. There have been two “supervisors” in the past 16 months that have come and gone. They used to buffer requests and pish to open submission on time, but then they resign without word.
- Comment on Piece work entry unpaid 2 months ago:
Not comfortable sharing location info, and I know state laws vary. I do know that our state has a law on the books prohibiting withholding pay based on time entry, because my union rep pushed back when I kept not getting paid because a supervisor was forgetting to approve time.
This is similar, because its the final approval process, but the work had been done, taken out of her hands and finalized. Not to mention, she waits weeks sometimes for them to get off their hands and allow her to upload.
No known contacts in the field other than her coauthors. This is her second year doing this, which is her dream job, and its opening doors for her.
Definitely, it could be automated. But part of the problem is the text box that handles the pasted data inserts characters that are not present in the final work. We’ve tried dumping to plaintext several different ways and looking for hidden characters, but it still occurs. Thus, it would still require human review. Double quotes could likely be filtered, but who gets paid to develop the automation? She wouldn’t know how to debug or validate the code, and she shouldn’t have to.
She knows this isn’t her ultimate dream job, but she is getting paid to write, and getting your own stuff published is a lot of work, luck, and who you know. She’s meeting lots of insiders, but struggling with these constraints.
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- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 5 months ago:
Agreed. Another change that got me was removing the ability to set a unique color for your contacts.
“We’ve removed the ability to set color for your contacts. Our users are too sophisticated to need at-a-glance ID of chat by color, but we’ve added the useless ability to change the color of your own messages you send. That’s useful, right?”
There’s no shortage of loud feedback from the userbase in their forums, but they dismiss it all and force ahead indifferently.
- Comment on Help me understand littering 5 months ago:
tl;dr I really don’t get it either.
I really don’t understand how people can do it. I moved to a developing nation in the Caribbean. Everyone’s livelihood is connected to nature here. Reefs, especially. Yet every local I have met will casually toss their garbage. I went to a festival on the beach and most of the locals were burying their trash in the sand just enough to keep it from blowing away in the moment. Some don’t even bother with that pretense. There were trash cans in easy strolling distance, every 50 feet.
The roads and waterways are stuffed with garbage here. I live on a canal that connects to the sea, and have watched tour guides and fishing expeditions tossing plastic bottles, polystyrene food containers and plastic bags overboard daily for two years. These are the same people protesting dredging their flats and cayes near the reef, but inexplicably and deliberately ignorant of their own impact.
Also interesting to observe is the speed at which the nation transitioned from class and aluminum drink containers to plastics. Mt first visit here was just three years ago, and most drinks were in bottles that were clearly recycled. Laser etch marks, rubbing from other bottles, etc. Now its all plastic. There’s a national ban on single use plastics, but it isn’t enforced, and it all ends up in the water and in the ground.
When I first witnessed the ghastly indifference of everyone here regarding proper disposal of garbage, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was like watching a bunch of five year-old kids, the way they shamelessly toss their trash to the wind.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 6 months ago:
Back in the 1980’s they told me it’d trickle down.
…eventually.
- Comment on Would Lemmy.World admins consider changing how the featured community spotlight, and trending communities work? 6 months ago:
I think you and OP misread “week” to mean “weak.” They meant the spotlight should rotate weekly, giving people time to see it before it changes.
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 6 months ago:
We’re a fucking joke.
But nobody is laughing. I’m shivering…
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 6 months ago:
Calmly, friend. That isn’t the person you replied to.
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 6 months ago:
So Biden could shoot Trump dead but the court would rule that that was illegal because some bullshit reason.
Ah! But with what evidence? They also ruled that presidential conduct (paraphrasing here) can’t be used as evidence.
- Comment on Reset password button doesn't do anything! 6 months ago:
What do you mean, it doesn’t work?
Works fine for me. Got the email in 1s. If the email doesn’t match their records, I’m assuming it either doesn’t send it, or you wouldn’t get it, as it isn’t the email you actually use.
Also, what about your SPAM folder? Why not email the admins before making a silly post like this…?
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
No, you’re absolutely right. That’s what happens when you have the WaaSMedic service running, which cannot be easily disabled in services.msc. I would think I had finally gone the “full-nuclear” option and broken al updates by disabling and stopping the update services (that I knew about), but they would re-enable themselves without fail.
This comment explains where you need to disable it (if you want to go that route).
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
I’m not sure what the purple app was.
It was a website, and after a Lemmy user reminded me of privacy.sexy, I realized it is decidedly un-purple.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
Yes!!! ⭐ ⭐
And it isn’t remotely purple! Thank you for sharing!!!
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
Its all coming back to me now. Must’ve been repressed memories…
For the record, the service names are: UsoSvc WaaSMedicSvc wuauserv
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
WaaSmedic must be that watchdog that kept re-enabling update services after I disabled them years ago. I just remember my OS would start a multi hour encode or compile, and I’d come back hours later to a login screen and update history telling me it rebooted when I didn’t have automatic updates enabled.
Thx for the reply.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
That is similar to the web page I was thinking of. Thx. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 6 months ago:
God bless Steve Gibson! Security Now! I used Spinrite back in 92. I’ve used his other utilities (when they were relevant), and ShieldsUP too. That man is a treasure. Thanks for the link. I know he gets it.
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