Zak @ Zak @lemmy.world

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I'm not going to tell you what to do. I am going to point out the red flags you cited and ask what you would say to a friend who was considering dating someone who behaves like this.

he kept talking about... that i should’ve ditched my bf for him

In other words, he did not respect your relationship when you were in one.

badmouthed not only his gf of a few years

He handles struggles in a relationship by badmouthing his partner to others,

he left her bc she showed signs of schizophrenia

and uses an armchair diagnosis as an excuse to get out of a relationship instead of just saying it's not working for him anymore like an adult.

he kept guilttripping me when i said i didn’t want to be his gf

He doesn't care about your preferences, and tries to manipulate you when they don't match his.

Any time I'm required to use an app for something that could be a website, I leave the app a one star review.

Contributing to that Kinderficker changes my opinion of Publix.

It doesn't exist, and some people get really mad whenever someone tries to make one.

https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html

The basic way an airplane works actually is simple and intuitive: it meets the air at an angle and deflects it downward. The equal and opposite reaction to accelerating that mass of air is an upward force on the wing.

There is, of course a whole lot of finesse on top of that with differences in wing design having huge impacts on the performance and handling of aircraft due to various aerodynamic phenomena which are anything but simple or intuitive. A thin, flat wing will fly though, and balsa wood toy airplanes usually use exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Simplified_physical_explanations_of_lift_on_an_airfoil

The individual will (be) banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events

Fine. That's a normal response from a business to a hired performer making an off-script political display.

law enforcement is working to determine applicable charges in this incident

WTF?

Seems to me the solution to this is registering protocol handlers for URLs, which Mastodon tried and gave up on because they weren't happy with how web browsers handled it.

If your questions are concrete and in the context of Lemmy or the Fediverse more broadly, admins provide the service of paying for and operating the servers in addition to moderation.

If it's more abstract, i.e. "can people talk to each other over the internet without moderators?" then my experience is that they usually can when the group is small, but things deteriorate is it grows larger. The threshold for where that happens is higher if the group has a purpose or if the people already know each other.

If I remember right, he would have been eligible for a life sentence for the original charges.

I knew someone who raped both his daughters.

He was prosecuted and took a plea deal, probably offered to spare them a trial. I think he did about ten years in prison, which I would argue is less punishment than he deserved.

The risk with anything involving a defective lithium-ion battery is fire/explosion.

There's a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that's different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn't seem to make a distinction.

It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.

Preferring websites to apps when possible makes this approach more effective. If you use apps with ads in them, they will likely get sensitive information as described in the article.

System wide ad blocking helps more. Private DNS is the easiest way; Mullvad provides a free option.

About 14. I'm not particularly price-sensitive about it given the absolute cost is low relative to many food options.

Eggs keep getting cited by people trying to blame their political opponents for increases in food prices because they have increased to about 2.5x from five years ago, which is a bigger increase than most foods. The bulk of the increase is due to the ongoing bird flu outbreak, but that fact doesn't seem to have great distribution among the general public.

Message history is a valid point. Signal just announced they're fixing it.

Safety number change notifications are probably necessary to maintain Signal's high level of security. The above device linking improvements should make them less frequent, though I'll concede some might consider that a worse UX than an insecure chat with no such notifications.

I keep seeing this claim, but I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both. What does Telegram do better and how?

I dislike it. I already have a unique, long, randomly generated password for every account. That's stored in a password manager with a unique, long passphrase. 2FA provides very little additional security in that scenario.

Worse, many services won't let me use a standard TOTP authenticator. Some insist on SMS. Worse, some insist on their own app.

This is exactly the sort of deal making through bullying Trump is known for. He's crazy, not stupid.

What benefits are you seeing from 5g? It's obviously faster, but I rarely find myself bandwidth constrained on my phone.

For my own use, I don't care much, but I agree in theory. My 128gb Pixel 4A has 32gb free and I do not actively manage space on it. Android's handling of SD cards is kind of terrible, making them mostly useful for media files. If I did much photography or videography with my phone, I'd want this more.