Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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The amount of small items that should only be a couple of bucks selling for $10 or more on Amazon is insane

A few years ago I mused that we might see the day when eBay becomes a more trustworthy platform to purchase on than Amazon. I'm not sure when exactly the streams crossed but I think we are past it now

Image handling has definitely gotten better in the last 10 years or so, but realistically you can get everything you want done with Word 2003 today

The sad thing is I've encountered funky compatibility issues just between current versions of word. Going from Office 2022 (I think. I honestly can't remember their LTSC office releases off the top of my head at all) to M365 triggered some minor formatting changes, and going from local word document to one that's shared on SharePoint completely fucked up all of the images in the document and required many hours of rearranging the images because word still sucks for desktop publishing

When I worked at a bank we had a loan officer who wrote in such broken English that the email filter actually started flagging and blocking his outbound emails as a suspected compromise. Worst part is he was handling multimillion dollar agribusiness loans. Second worst part is he's as white American as they come, having had family farming not 20 miles away for generations, so it's not even like he can claim a non-local dialect or second language challenges

They have a $30/ year annual subscription (I'm not certain if that's a purely introductory rate or not). Most of the content is non-exclusive but it's ad-free and many creators remove the sponsor segments or even include exclusive content on their Nebula version. It seems pretty worthwhile to me

My musical awakening was just too late to pull that kind of nonsense in school but I absolutely feel that

I need to poke at their newer stuff. I kinda stopped paying attention to their new releases after Black Market and the one single they released a couple years after that, but there's a few songs that hit that older style like The Eco Terrorist in Me that still go hard. I do respect that even as the sound left my general preferred punk sound, their lyrics remained as complex and literary as always (seriously how often are you looking up words from song lyrics in a dictionary?)

State of the Union has been one of my favorites to the point I honestly forgot it's not a single

Realistically if it is hit it'll be through some sweeping "social media safety" bill that makes the cost of administrating a social media site as a hobby prohibitively expensive and/or time consuming, maybe even as on the nose as requiring the software to receive a specific certification before it's allowed to open registration.

We've already seen the UK's online safety bill cause many admins of small forums and communities to shutter their communities as a result, and who knows how Australia's recent social media bill will affect Australian Fediverse servers & users

It's really funny how in Linus's worst WAN show moments Luke just silently sits there doing nothing, every once in a while making a small attempt to prevent the imminent train wreck then leaving Linus to crash the train when it becomes obvious he's intent on doing so. Honestly they should probably stop doing the WAN show given how many times it's been WAN show clips that got them in hot water

Honestly I'd have liked to see a very short response where they took the high road. By Internet attention spans it's just mudslinging that drags them both into the mud. There's some really damning nuggets buried in that long response but the shear fact that it's such a long text response hurts optics significantly

By memory the external firm they hired did not release documentation of the investigation but did release a statement saying LMG hadn't done the things that were claimed

Just want to point out, executive orders are the easy part. All you need is control of the executive branch for that, and even then federal judges can block any orders they deem illegal (which will ultimately filter it's way up to the Supreme Court) the real hard part is repealing acts of congress and even harder will be issuing new laws. That requires both the House and Senate to align their priorities and goals and agree on the specific legislation. This was an insurmountable challenge for the Republican party back in 2016-18 to the point where they were largely unable to pass any meaningful legislation

Remember the whole "repeal and replace Obamacare" thing?

Ideally should be ISO-8601 if you're going for international audiences

The problem is most Trumpists actually like the comparison to Nazis because it either makes them feel badass or just because it makes people they don't like upset.

I did like someone else's idea of making a sticker of Musks Nazi salute to stick on Tesla's and any MAGA signage to highlight exactly what they stand for

What if all neonazis are just confused frustrated dudes?

Doesn't matter. Still Nazis.

Fuck Nazis.

I'm mostly talking out a technical solution for community redundancy, similar to setting up redundant VM hosts or more accurately like redundant network hardware, where the data and configurations all exist on both servers, and might be load balanced to some degree between both servers, but ultimately should one go down there's no loss of uptime as the other server takes over until the time that it's mate comes back online or a new one is setup and connected

I'm thinking more unifying communities that either have the same mods or for annexing communities with inactive mods, and I keep referring to redundancy because that's the specific purpose in my mind, with the side effect of cleaning up the multiple dead communities with the same name on various instances.

There's a real risk in the Fediverse of the one server hosting a community going offline, and we've already seen at least one notable Lemmy host shamble on as a zombie server with absent instance administrators. Instead of forcing communities to tell eachother to migrate or to recreate themselves on a new instance should one disappear suddenly, by having the community effectively load balanced and replicated across 2 or more instances is a lot more resilient

I fully respect when moderator teams have different opinions running similar communities with different rules and expectations and in not saying that should be taken away. I'm just thinking about technical solutions to improve overall Fediverse health

It would be nice to see a way of unifying communities on multiple instances for redundancy and improving the situation with redundant communities across instances.

I'd imagine it would probably need to be an opt-in option on a per-community basis where one community can request to unify with another one, then from the other community the moderators can accept or reject the request, then the posts, scores and comments would be mirrored and maintained simultaneously across instances. Differences in block lists between instances would probably be a challenge but not an insurmountable one. Bigger challenge might be latency problems with the mirroring and federation but there's enough existing redundancy protocols that allow for servers with rediculous latency so that's probably also not insurmountable