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- Comment on Piece work entry unpaid 1 week 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 weeks 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? 2 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 2 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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! 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Yes!!! ⭐ ⭐
And it isn’t remotely purple! Thank you for sharing!!!
- Comment on Disable windows updates 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
That is similar to the web page I was thinking of. Thx. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 4 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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- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 4 months ago:
You’ve got me thinking about it, but I still just come back to, “this doesn’t affect me.” But it would affect me if LW was to defederate, which has already been discussed dozens of times in the past. If I look at the ML modlog, I just don’t see evidence of what is being claimed beyond this incident. Rule 1 is being misused and a mod or mod team are being assholes. That sucks. I don’t think it means that the posts and/or visibility of content of thousands are at risk in the way being presented.
currently 1,019 upvotes vs. 92 downvotes […] suggests that most lemmy.world users who are aware of the issue do care.
I equate that more to the crowd yelling, “yeah!” more so than carefully considered agreement.
Thank you for having this discussion. I’ll continue to ruminate on it. If it means anything, when I read the OP by SpaceCadet, I subbed to LW or other large-ish communities for the ones I follow at ML in hopes that they grow.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 4 months ago:
I appreciate your reply. I agree with the principals and ideals, but I just don’t get worked up over every bit of outrage out there. I used to be a real worked up individual, willing to throw everything I’ve got at anything that didn’t fit with my ideals, but I’m older now, and sometimes I want places where I don’t have to fight for every inch of ground.
I don’t disagree that the mod actions are worth highlighting. I disagree that defederation is the first and only solution. It reads to me like some users argued with mods about topics known to be hot-button over there, on a post guaranteed to be controversial, and a temporary ban occurred. That action and its reach is worth discussion.
I don’t agree that the users should go to the biggest lemmy instance and try to soap box their POV in order to trigger user outrage in hopes that they pressure the admins to enact some vengeance on an entire instance in the form of defederation. I disagree even more since the source of the outrage is not a user at LW, and wouldn’t be affected in any way by the proposed defederation. What they really want is for their subbed communities to move away from ML.
SpaceCadet coming here suing for defederation is barely different to me than the mod that banned them from unrelated communities. “Someone I disagree with did a thing I don’t like and I want to flex on them,” is what I see from my POV. I don’t care they got banned. It seems like a foregone conclusion that would happen there, and I’ve known that since the first fifty posts about how Dessalines and Nutomic behave (on social media and on github) were posted.
If I follow their weird rules, I won’t get banned. The implicit rules include not talking shit about topics cleansed by glorious fascist leaders? OK. I don’t care. I have no interest in changing the hearts and minds behind the eyeballs on ML. I’m not on a crusade to fix the world one post at a time. I’m browsing while my game loads, or the water boils, or on the bus.
What I care about is a few idealistic users posting picture evidence of a clear power-trip ban and expecting admins to defederate. That’s the corruption of the marketplace of ideas. Silencing the entire instance for thousands. For all we know, half the users on LW would like to learn more about their point of view, if only to dismiss it as wacky and untenable, but not only do they lose that opportunity, they lose the opportunity to engage with unrelated communities, of which there are several that are more active than anywhere else.
At the end of the day, its a lot easier for anyone up in arms about this to block and move on than the workarounds required for the majority who don’t care and want to stay engaged in the communities they are subbed to. They’d have to make accounts elsewhere, or even at ML.
Call me apathetic, but I just don’t care about this fight.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 4 months ago:
As a user subbed to multiple communities there, I never see this stuff. Ever. I stay far, far away from news and current events though. I actively seek news from sources, not aggregation platforms.
I would prefer to have the option to interact with those communities rather than have a few users brigade the admins into defederating. There’s a reason one of the SCOTUS cases that is cited as binding precedent in freedom of speech cases relates to the distribution of Communist propaganda. The marketplace of ideas is meant to be freely available to all, not curated by the most opinionated or noisy.
- Comment on Opus > Vorbis conversion w/ffmpeg Q's 5 months ago:
Now that you mention it, I think I can tell yt-dlp to give me vorbis, but it might still entail a conversion.
- Comment on Opus > Vorbis conversion w/ffmpeg Q's 5 months ago:
Thank you for the comment. I have libopus0 1.3.1-3 installed. While I can play back opus files in strawberry, there are many missing integrations, like metadata cover art, and also audio level normalization seems to skip my opus files completely, as evidenced by viewing scanned files in the playlist with the “integrated loudness” or “loudness range” columns visible, or in the context tab if configured to display loudness parameters. Until I can get that sorted, vorbis is my go to.
Thanks also for the tip about variable bitrate. After reading some more about both codecs, I realized my constant br isn’t doing me any favors, and both excel when it comes to vbr. I’ll also dial back to the 6 or 7 vbr level and go from there. Honestly, my process to develop the conversion that “worked” for me was to take several 320k mp3s from way back in my collection and do a CBR conversion to vorbis that resulted in approximately the same file size, or slightly smaller. Not a very scientific benchmark. I just stuck with that when converting from opus.
Thanks again!
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- Comment on Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? 6 months ago:
I think you’re thinking of a post about another instance that was misconfigured and causing .world to send out duplicate updates to other instances, hence the block. I thought it was an announcement, but I don’t see it in c/support now.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 6 months ago:
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 6 months ago:
Oh and use powder of you can - liquid has way too much water in it, they’re ripping you off
Where I live, if you don’t use the powder up in a month, it clumps or worse from the humidity. I swear by powder in the US Northeast. Here in Central America, I have to buy liquid.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Kind have?
- Comment on Can't post pics, getting the following error: {"data":{"msg":"Invalid status: 403 Forbidden\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<Error><Code>AccountProblem</Code><Message>The account 10000017 7 months ago:
Perhaps this: lemmy.world/post/12873256