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  • Funny, we had similar in our ostensibly actually left wing party in the UK a few years ago. We have a democratic leadership process and the labour membership elected an actually left-of-centre leader

    Reports followed Jeremy Corbyn's run as leader of the party that the BlaIrite wing (centre right part of the party) did everything in their power to sabotage him.

    Social liberals are almost as megalomaniac as standard conservatives, it sadly seems. If they don't get to be in charge, no one does, in their eyes.

  • That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.

    Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.

    Happy to pay it because I know I'd not be where I am now without the stuff taxes pay for

  • The two main "hard left" instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

    LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I'm assuming those are the users you're referring to. Every time I've personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community's rules, they have been banned for it.

    Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

    That's literally all anyone needs to do.

    It's not really about political views. It's simply about not being an asshole.

  • The solution is to behave with civility online and you don't get banned. No one needs to break instance rules.

    If someone is incapable of doing that, why should they get to participate?

    The fact that they happen to predominantly come with right wing view points is, frankly, secondary. It's literally the bare minimum amount of effort in life to simply not be a nuisance.

  • It shouldn't be, no. But one of the big problems with phones currently is that the radio firmware is almost always a closed-source binary blob.

    Airplane mode is probably better understood as the OS asking the radio nicely to not attempt to communicate with the outside world. The antenna is still there able to receive signals, and the radio technically doesn't have to listen to the OS if it doesn't want to.

    It's incredibly unlikely (researchers look for this kind of thing), so make sure your tin foil is on tight, but not impossible that a radio could store cell tower identifiers it has seen whilst on airplane mode and do something with them when it is allowed to communicate again. There's also the possibility there's some secret signal that can be sent to force a phone in airplane mode to respond.

    Unless you're up to some Edward Snowdon level stuff though, even if that last one exists, it's probably not being used on you.

  • The radios are the parts of your phone that communicate wirelessly. Most phones will only turn the cell radio off entirely during airplane mode, disabling mobile data does not typically turn that radio off.

    Airplane mode should turn everything off (unless you re-enable things like WiFi, but that should still keep the cell radio off)

  • Ah you figured it out,

    Was going to say if you've not got any alarms set, an application will be (ab)using the system alarm functionality to do something at a scheduled time

    Seems a little odd for signal to use it for scheduled messages, but that's what's going on regardless

  • I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

    I personally reckon they're working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it's an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

    Every time I've tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it's the VST support that lets me down. I've got hundreds of VSTs I've used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can't switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I've worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

    Until that day, I've got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

  • Did I say "only"?

    Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

    "Magnitudes" is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

    Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

  • I was struggling to think of something I truly hate

    I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don't really inspire hatered

    This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar