TootSweet
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- Comment on If someone came across information by accident they were not suppose to see, how could a person get in touch with the right people before "leaking it"? 7 hours ago:
If you have to ask the question, just take the secret to your grave. You should only risk the blowback on yourself if you know how properly to mitigate the risk of “doing the right thing”.
And maybe it’s fine. Like, if you found a vulnerability in a piece of FOSS software, most projects have an official path for disclosure of such things. Just look on their website and follow the instructions there. But if anyone asked me this question specifically about a vulnerability in some FOSS software, a) I’d say they don’t have the knowledge to make an informed decision whether it’s safe for them to do so and b) I’d question whether they’d actually found what they thought they’d found.
- Comment on ornithologicalposting rn at 8:32pm 1 day ago:
The right image also needs to be screaming at the top of their lungs at 6:30am.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 day ago:
The only “creepy” thing about it is that viewing who upvoted/downvoted what isn’t a feature that’s just built into Lemmy (and Lemmy-UI). I can’t imagine why the authors of Lemmy would want to have a class system with some (instance admins) being able to see vote information and others (everyone else) being unable.
You say “we all know our votes here are public record”, but that’s not really true. Even Lemvotes doesn’t work for at least half of the posts I’ve tried it on. It’d be more accurate to say “we all know our votes here aren’t secret”.
- Comment on How do I turn fresh tomatoes into pasta sauce? 2 days ago:
- Sell tomatoes.
- Use money to buy pasta sauce.
- …
- Profit!
- Comment on Anon is only a little strange 3 days ago:
Ah, thanks for that. I hadn’t heard. It’s been a few years since I’ve done any streaming. I’ll probably go log into my account and make sure I’m opted out in case I ever decide on a lark to start streaming again.
- Comment on Anon is only a little strange 3 days ago:
I streamed for a while, just for fun. Never tried to get popular or anything. (And I never did get popular.) Just a humble speedrunning stream. I had like one viewer who caught my stream on anything like a frequent basis. I just made conversation while I streamed. It was very chill.
All that to say, I think the issue with people is way easy for anyone who never has more than like… 4 simultaneous viewers?
Oh, I think a lot of Peertube instances support live streaming. If you wanted to ensure your viewer base stayed small (and probably that it remained more civil than the average Twitch viewer), that might be a good way to go as well.
And you’re probably right that I was pretty lucky to have pretty good internet where I live. My favorite content creator/streamer doesn’t stream so much any more because his ISP was shit for a good while. (His ISP was Cox and when he started dropping frames, he called it being “Cox blocked”. Lol.) He’s got way better internet now, and does occasionally stream, but hasn’t really gotten back into the groove of streaming like he used to, and maybe doesn’t want to any more.
But also, as others are saying, 360p is fine sometimes. Just depends what you’re streaming.
- Comment on Anon is only a little strange 4 days ago:
Wholesome? On my 4chan?
Seriously, though, OP should just… you know… stream. It’s free, and it’s not that hard.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I just happen to currently be reading On The Plurality Of Worlds by David Lewis.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I mean, shit’s pretty weird, though.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Parry this! 4 days ago:
Twist: the fly is worthy.
- Comment on On Jail websites they let you know the exact address where a Pedo lives. But tells you not to go out and harm them. Has anyone ever used it as a list to go hunt down pedo's? 5 days ago:
Dexter fan?
- Comment on MeIRL 6 days ago:
I’ve got a work bestie like that. Helps keep us sane.
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 1 week ago:
Apparently Hy-vee is employee-owned
From what I’ve heard from former employees of employee-owned grocery stores, it sounds like “employee-owned” can often be an “on paper”, kind of technicality that bolsters their image marketing-wise/PR-wise while not actually being true in practice.
A former employee of the Price Cutter location I was talking about, when I asked about Price Cutter being worker-owned (it says so in a sign on the door as you walk in), told me that the union there was completely captured/controlled by the upper management. Like, the vice president had full veto power over what the union decided. (And why TF would a truly “employee-owned” company have/need a union. So you can collectively bargain with yourselves, the collective owners?) In practice, the union was kindof just to give employees some degree of illusion that they weren’t just wage slaves. And maybe to make creating a real union seem less feasible to employees. And maybe there are meetings that employees can attend and theoretically vote on things or whatever, but in practice, the attendees who vote don’t actually have any sway over the direction of the company or conditions for workers or anything.
Not to say I’m not filing a complaint. It probably can’t hurt to do so. But I don’t think “it’s employee-owned” is actually necessarily any reason to think results might be better than if it didn’t say “employee-owned” on the website, unfortunately.
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 1 week ago:
Trumplandia. :\
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 1 week ago:
old stuff needs to be pulled to the front
Yeah, the stuff I’m talking about is always the front unit on the shelf. I can’t always be arsed to search behind the front one for fresher units, but when I do, usually the entire stock on the shelf of that particular product is expired all the way to the back of the shelf. So I don’t really think that’s the issue in my case. I might be more vigilant about searching behind the frontmost unit in the future, though.
every major retail store in the country is cutting staff to save money
Yeah, this store clearly has huge turnover as well. Probably not uncommon to see in grocery stores in general, but I think it’s worse here than other stores. The checkout clerks, for instance, often times have to ask for help for things like “how do I ring up the gallon drinking water refills” or whatever. (Which, of course, isn’t the clerk’s fault at all.)
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 1 week ago:
Why don’t you grab someone who works there and tell them…
Because I want to keep shopping there and don’t want everyone there to hate me. Plus I’m conflict averse. If I was going to complain, I’d probably try to do so as anonymously as I can.
(And I’m talking about the second location – the HyVee. The Price Cutter’s done for. I really don’t think there’s any hope for them.)
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- Comment on Are there resources for learning about the development of legal systems? 1 week ago:
That’s interesting to hear.
I’ve got a major tangent to go on here quick. You know the YouTube channel “Legal Eagle”? (I think he’s also on Nebula.)
I have a lay interest in law, particularly contract and IP law, and sometimes the YouTube algorithm recommends Legal Eagle. I watched something random about how “Disney might lose the rights to Spiderman”. Seemed interesting and all.
But in the middle of the video he totally confuses the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) passed in 1998. He said the Copyright Act of 1976 was “the life’s work of Sony Bono”. The CTEA was the life’s work of Sonny Bono. Sonny Bono had, so far as I’ve been able to determine, nothing to do with the Copyright Act of 1976.
And I knew enough about the CTEA and Copyright Act of 1976 to catch the error immediately. And honestly, I’ve tried to steer clear of Legal Eagle. If he can get something as basic as that wrong (despite being a professional lawyer, mind you) then how can I be sure I’m not getting BS every time I watch his content. Or at least so my reasoning went.
And I’m super interested in the human story around these laws. For instance, did you know that the CTEA was introduced posthumously (as in, after Sonny Bono’s death)? By his widow Mary Bono who ran for and won the seat that Sonny’s death left vacant? And it was introduced only 9 months after his death? And that Mary Bono advocated for continuing to extend the term of copyright forever? And in the court case Eldred v. Ashcroft which challenged the constitutionality of the CTEA, Lawrence Lessig was the lawyer for the petitioner? Who called the CTEA the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” in reference to Disney’s strong lobbying for the CTEA? And Aaron Schwartz testified to the SCOTUS in that case on the side of the petitioner? At the age of 14?
That stuff is super interesting to me, and Legal Eagle getting something as simple and basic as that wrong made it seem like he really didn’t care to get such details right, which made me reticent to want to expose myself to much more of his content.
Anyway. Super tangent, but your comment about how law school doesn’t seem to value knowledge of history explains a bit, I think.
- Comment on Are there resources for learning about the development of legal systems? 1 week ago:
Hopefully some of what I’ve suggested gets you closer to what you’re looking for!
- Comment on Are there resources for learning about the development of legal systems? 1 week ago:
Hmmmmmm.
I’ve signed up for Studicata in the past and just watched/studied what was there. It’s super interesting and informative on the theory of law, and I’d definitely recommend the content on there, but your example specifically sounds more like a “court procedure” thing that… probably wouldn’t be covered I wouldn’t think?
I’ve also read this text book specifically about intellectual property law, but that seems even further off the mark of what you’re looking for.
Probably the ultimate right answer to your question is “law school”, but given that you’re asking here in Lemmy, I doubt that’s the answer you’re looking for.
- Comment on White House launches interactive map tracking billions in suspected fraud 1 week ago:
I did.
- Comment on White House launches interactive map tracking billions in suspected fraud 1 week ago:
Is there not a non-Fox-News source for this story?
- Comment on 5000 unread DMs watch party. 1 week ago:
What do I win if I’m number 5,000?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
My unpopular opinion is that /c/unpopularopinion is fine the way it is.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Ah. Thanks. Yeah, you and YiddishMcSquidish explained and that makes sense.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Ah. Ok. That makes sense. Thanks much.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
What does @Sxan@piefed.zip have to do with this thread? Are you thinking they post an outsized number of posts on unpopular opinion communities or something?
I’m not sure I remember running across any of their posts more than a couple of times, but their post history doesn’t seem to intersect with unpopular opinion communities very much. (At least not as far back as I’ve scrolled.)
Or maybe you’re talking about someone else or I’m just not following.
- Comment on Anon borrows a pen 2 weeks ago:
Baller move. Anon should have just owned it.
- Comment on anon installs redpilled linux 2 weeks ago:
Daemons? I told you the gub’ment was run by satanists.
