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and that her… hygiene preferences, are incompatible with mine

If you're flirting with her, chances are you're going to end up kissing anyway, which is a lot less "hygienic". If you don't feel like doing that, the interest would probably not be mutual?

Weird, I wouldn't be put off by that at all. It shows you're comfortable with someone. I'd actually like it if someone does that to me, it makes me feel trusted.

Some people can be pretty germophobic though, but on the other hand if you're flirting you probably end up (or desire to end up) kissing the person so in the scope of that it's not really a big thing.

But anyway, people are different, clearly for him it was a problem but it definitely isn't for me. Don't worry about it, you sound like a nice person! Sometimes people are just incompatible.

It's a useful feature but it doesn't need space on my taskbar or a special button on my keyboard. That's just marketing BS. The same as with the huge search bar, because I can just press the start button and start typing and it does the same.

Unfortunately Microsoft is incredibly bad at marketing. They generally succeed only at pissing users off. Now they're doing the same again with copilot and dumping a ton of totally different products under the same name.

Oops yes. Sorry.

The political capital and dollar bills used are the same though.

Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I've never really used it.

It does mean I'm excluded from some FOSS projects' support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

Little Snitch

Little Snitch won't work because they use the Apple-blessed content filter which apparently doesn't allow blocking this.

Pointing it to localhost in the hosts file does work, as indicated in that article.

This is not news at all. In fact it was sent every single time until something broke in Apple's validation servers and nobody could launch any app a few years ago. That brought this whole phenomenon to light and Apple changed it to reporting once per week. Edit: Ah I see this is also an old article. That makes sense now.

However they should just send a blacklist to each system obviously. That's a much more privacy-conscious method. Their stated goal is to be able to block malware, but there can't be that many.

That's their problem though. If they wanna get hacked, go for it.

But there should be a way to turn it off for us power users at least (without having to build a whole domain controller)

Withholding votes no, but IMO the American voting system (at least at a national level) seems pretty broken to me. FPTP, the weird bias to rural areas etc.

Really it should be changed so that it doesn't always result in this eternal standoff between the two major parties.

Ireland, Australia and New Zealand dumped FPTP and were better for it. It's just that the US has this kind of romantic idealism about the original founders, as if they were always right and their ideas still hold as much merit in this day and age of voter influencing through digital means, so I don't really see it happening there. But it should, in my opinion.

Right now it seems like every major election is choosing between bad and worse there and voting for an outsider is just a lost vote.

In that sense I can understand the reluctance of voters to actually show up. Especially in states that aren't swing states.

It was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes . Probably the one you mentioned.

Apparently he had some wires in his bag. He was an electronics geek, and he also looked similar to one of the terrorists apparently. Still, no reason to shoot him like they did of course.

There already is gab on mastodon which is basically that. And yeah everyone sane defederates.

Yeah in London this led to the death of a guy whose only crime was being a nerd. Because of trigger-happy soldiers :(

If you go into Proton Mail with the understanding that you’re doing it to stop Google from data mining your email

You're not really stopping anything if most of the people you're emailing are still using Google or Microsoft :) Because they'll get a copy of your email then anyway. This is really the problem with email IMO. Well, one of the problems, a lack of sender authentication is another one.

Oh wow that's even better! Thanks!

Oh octoprint is available as an Android app? Sorry I wasn't aware.

Ah so in other words even if Voyager kept supporting 18.x Lemmy it wouldn't work anyway because you will move to another platform?

That's ok though, I am happy to use it standalone, though I will be sad about losing Voyager which is really an amazing app.

I'm looking forward to seeing where you're going with this. Though I will still use other Lemmy instances.

Yeah this was news to me too.

Having said that though, I created an account on lemmy.ml at first and the attitudes there are weird. I think the description of "tankies" is pretty accurate. I don't like extreme-anything whether it's left or right. And because this is the main platform of the Lemmy devs I can see how this ends up permeating a lot of the discussions.

Federation no longer works, no. They did have it at first but Moxie hated it because it was harder to push new features.

But you can use other clients. It's not expressly allowed and LibreSignal stopped their development, but they've never actually banned anyone for doing it. I use the Matrix bridge to Signal and I've never seen issues with it.

Also, Moxie doesn't work there anymore so their attitude might be changing. I hope so, as having an official option to use third-party clients and bots (for the latter see Telegram where they add a LOT of value to group chats like live transcription or translation) would really make the platform a lot more viable for me. As it is now I hardly use it and I never recommend it because I don't see the point of replacing one walled garden with a slightly nicer looking one that is still nonetheless a walled garden.

I realy like Matrix but normies tend not to grok it because they need a username and password. Weird, because Discord and other services do too and they manage to use them fine. But whatever. I'll just bridge all their shit.