Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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I'll admit I've not looked into it. My computer won't even upgrade to Windows 11 if I wanted it to, thanks to MS's artificial restriction on compatibility. Maybe it is all on-device. But if so, whence all the privacy complaints? And does it not allow syncing between devices?

But with no karma system, and not even any popular extensions for keeping track of users, how do you keep track of "trust built up over a long time"? That's literally what karma was for, and the Lemmy devs removed that extremely valuable feature.

Nothing they mentioned in the article seems too egregious in truth

Doesn't it? To be honest, if the article is telling the truth and not exaggerated, I find this pretty egregious. How you installed an app should be irrelevant, so the idea of an API to say "did this come from the Play Store" is fucking shit. And the ability to block installation of apps that call certain APIs entirely is even worse.

One could argue that it's a feature that could be done on-client without sending to a server. Or with its server component doing nothing more than syncing with E2E encryption.

Yikes this really doesn't look good. Is there any reporting on it from independent journalists (or anyone else who isn't also advertising their own competing operating system)?

SpaceX is probably similar

Tesla is a publicly-traded company. There is no reason to believe SpaceX, which is still privately held, should be similar.

A 2023 Wall Street Journal article (linked here in archive form) claims Musk controls 42% of its equity has 79% voting control.

I don't think that's sensationalist at all. It's a pretty direct and clear call for impeachment.

But I'd rather talk about that original Tweet. Obviously, Trump being impeached (and convicted by the Senate) would result in Vance replacing him; that's how it works. But the choice to specifically highlight the Vance part of it implies not just a desire for Trump to be gone, but for Vance specifically to be in. Which is wild. I can't imagine any human on earth actually being pro-Vance. There's the sane people, who oppose the entire administration, and there's the Magats who are rabidly pro-Trump. Who exactly supports Trump's diet lacky?

And yet the BBC makes no mention in this article about Israel's "genocide", no mention of their "apartheid", and the only result my ctrl-f for "crime" (aiming to detect "war crimes") was one of the promotional links to a different article where they invited "both sides" to argue in a debate, as though it's two equal sides.

But it’s a really common one

That may be the problem. If the site detects you coming from an address with a history of other users abusing it, they may have implemented protections against it.

It's definitely an instruction to the crocs telling them they shouldn't swim here.

That’s quite a small view of temples. Seems mainly restricted to stereotypes of Catholic/Christian abuses.

I agree. When I hear "temple", the first thing I think of is ancient Greek, Egyptian, or Babylonian places of worship. To gods like Isis, Athena, or Enlil. After that I might think of the word being used by some Jews for the thing other Jews call synagogue or shul.

I would never call a Christian place of worship a temple. It's a church in the generic, or sometimes more specific terms like chapel, cathedral, or monastery.

edit: actually, immediately after writing the above I remembered that Mormons call their equivalent of a Catholic Cathedral (i.e., the grandest and most important of churches, where important sacred ceremonies are carried out) "temples".

Where are you located, and are you using a VPN or something else that may affect how the site sees you?

instance

The domain is a Lemmy instance. A community is the equivalent of a subreddit. !fediverse@lemmy.world is a community within the lemmy.world instance, for example.

A good comment from back when Reddit was good:

It's what's called a dummy pronoun, a pronoun that carries no semantic information and is only used to fulfill a syntactic requirement. More generally that's called a syntactic expletive, although that page says that there's some argument about whether this particular use of a dummy pronoun falls under that category.

This is a common construction in languages that don't allow dropping pronouns (non-"pro-drop" languages). German has "es regnet", French (the only Romance language that isn't pro-drop, IIRC) has "il pleut", but in Italian it's simply "piove".

As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users

And, IMO, it's inappropriate for an instance admin to remove a post for violating a community's rules.

As a reporter, I wish there were a way to direct where my reports go. The vast majority of the time I'm reporting something it's because of either violating the community's rules or because I think the reported content's author's instance admins should be aware. I very rarely think you should be seeing it or taking action.

Yes, but people can no longer engage with that content. It creates the appearance of relatively dead communities.

Individual users' follows are not very useful in the threadiverse compared to backlog of content.

Not currently, though the Red Cross/Lifeblood are not responsible for this, the Therapeutic Goods Administration's regulations are. A change to the rule is being worked on.

To put it in perspective, it was only in 2022 that we started allowing donations from people from the UK thanks to their mad cow outbreak they had in the '80s.

If I brought it up to her now, she’d 100% deny it

The axe forgets; the tree remembers. It's why we should be far, far more careful than we usually are about throwing around things like that.

O-type is O- and O+. That's a hyphen, not a negative sign.

O- is definitely the most valuable, since it can be given to anyone. But O+ isn't far behind, since it can give to all the positive types, which is 86% of people, according to your source.