deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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And honestly the never combined feature is really really buggy, and just downright ugly with the way it resizes the bars based on the amount of text in the window's name, even when there's empty space left on the taskbar. If you have your file explorer open to c:/ the bar for the File Explorer is ridiculously tiny, for no good reason. If you want uniform, clean, consistently sized tasks that only shrink to make room when the taskbar is full, forget it.

It also just gets stuck. A lot. If you have a full bar and it needs to combine, then close a couple windows to free space, a lot of times it won't do what it's supposed to do and "ungroup" the remaining windows. It's very inconsistent about when and how it chooses to combine, uncombine, and shrink things.

It just barely works well enough that I'll grit my teeth with it on my work computer, because I don't have a choice about that, but I'm not abandoning the Windows 10 taskbar for this at home.

That would go to shit immediately. The sheer level of moderation that would be required to prevent that from being abused and corrupted would be insane, and then that kind of moderation would in turn invalidate the whole project because the moderation itself would have its own biases.

But it especially wouldn't work in a federated space. Are you suggesting that people can just open their own instance of that? If there are multiple different instances for this kind of thing, that's even more abusable.

Part of the reason Wikipedia works is it is centralized, relatively neutral, and you need sources on facts. It's run by people that adhere to a strict standard, and everyone that contributes is required to adhere to that exact same standard.

What would be the scholarly criteria for the sort of thing that you're talking about? What is the standard? And how do you enforce that standard in a federated space?

Because if it's anything like how federation works around Lemmy, there can be no standard. Instances are going to do whatever they like based on the biases of each admin, which undermines the entire concept.

This is mostly an issue for businesses that were using groups, not individuals.

But beyond that, Facebook is particularly difficult to separate from depending on what you use it for. If you don't care about anyone else on it, sure, you can leave the platform. But if you need to communicate with certain people and they won't leave it, especially regional groups, you're stuck.

What’s more, developers tell us that Meta’s motivation behind the API’s shutdown is unclear. On the one hand, it could be that Facebook Groups don’t generate ad revenue and the shutdown of the API will leave developers without a workaround. But Meta hasn’t clarified if that’s the case.

No, that's definitely it, you got it.

The promises of web 2.0 simply can't survive in the capital-poisioned wasteland the Internet has become.

Could also just be losing a strand or two in packaging. It happens. That's why they're allowed some wiggle room on the packaging weight, and 8 grams is a pretty reasonable margin of error for a product like this.

Shrinkflation is definitely a thing, but this isn't a good example.

I mean, sure, if you don't have to travel more than a couple miles. And you're not disabled.

Great Lakes was actually pretty decent, too, in-so-far as any student loan servicer could be considered "decent". I never had any issues with them, and they made it relatively easy to manage, relatively low bullshit. Compared to the others, they were the least-terrible.

I think that's at least partially why that Sublinks fork is starting. It's in Java so the number of people capable of helping is much, much larger.

And while I'm excited to see how that turns out, I've got some reservations, particularly about some of the "moderation tools" being suggested, but if it breathes new life and excitement into a fediverse Reddit replacement, that's a good thing.

One of which is named "Flock Safety". Flock, as in what birds and sheep do. Just to add an extra layer of dehumanization.

They're both issues.

ALPR Databases

Most of this ALPR data is stored in databases for extended periods of time—often as long as five years. The databases may be maintained by the police departments, but often they are maintained by private companies such as Vigilant Solutions or Flock Safety. Law enforcement agencies without their own ALPR systems can access data collected by other law enforcement agencies through regional sharing systems and networks operated by these private companies. Several companies operate independent, non-law enforcement ALPR databases, contracting with drivers to put cameras on private vehicles to collect the information. These data are then sold to companies like insurers, but law enforcement can also purchase access to this commercial data on a subscription basis.

https://sls.eff.org/technologies/automated-license-plate-readers-alprs

The government does not own the database, nor is this a California wide thing. This is local police departments being permitted to use private companies to maintain databases of citizen activity, and those private companies have developed a robust system to share that information.

Remembering of course that these cameras are mounted on public infrastructure. People are paying taxes, and that tax money is being used to buy, mount, and maintain these camera systems, but the actual data is not in a database the government of California (and by extension the citizens of California) has direct control over.

It would actually be better if the state of California had its own database because it would be more scrutinized than these random private databases that cops are allowed to put together and host on some private companies server.

This song's gonna get stuck inside your

This song's gonna get stuck inside your

This song's gonna get stuck inside your

Heeeeeaaaad

Or it does work, and then I never actually end up using it again.

And then months later I'll have to do something similar and I've forgotten I even installed something that can do that, so I install another related thing.

What do disposable email addresses and spam filters have to do with canceling a gym membership? I don't see anything on that page referring to banking or credit card transactions.

OP mentioned getting emails, but the topic at hand was changing their card, not hiding from the emails. Any email service is capable of blocking a domain, why would a special email service be of any use in this case? They weren't spam emails, they were missed payment reminders.

Blocking emails doesn't stop the payments, either.

So you off handedly throw out "turn off your card" as if that's the simple and obvious solution, with no other detrimental effects, and then tried to shoehorn a plug for your email service into this?

You just saw the words "daily emails", the tiniest sliver of a possible opening to plug your thing, and you took it, regardless of it was on topic or not.

In essence, you dropped spam for your spam filtering service.

Yeah, their front porches. Shelter is literally 5 steps away.

Yeah a lot of people don't seem to understand that a tornado is a very violent storm but it covers a very small fraction of the storm's total area. For the overwhelming majority of space in the path of the storm, it just experiences a severe thunderstorm, and every single one of us has experienced that. Only a slim percentage are going to get the funnel.

The reason you're supposed to take shelter during a tornado is because oftentimes you don't have visibility on it, have no idea where it's going to go, and you might not have enough time to get into shelter by the time you realize it's on top of you. And just because it's always good to play it safe.

But realistically, if you could see the thing, you actually have a pretty good idea of how safe you are from it.

Tornadoes don't rip you off the ground from half a mile away, and the vast majority of them don't throw debris that far either. They're also not teleporters, and many are short-lived. You can look at them from a distance, just don't go chasing them, and be within 30 seconds of shelter.

People that don't actually live in these areas don't seem to appreciate that tornadoes don't sneak up on you or drop out of the sky fast as lightning. If shits about to go crazy, there is a very notable build up to it. Seeing as how most people stand out and watch these things in a yard or something, not in the middle of a field, they're always at least within 10-30 seconds of shelter.

It really is not that perilous. It's effectively the same thing as fucking around on train tracks. No, it's technically not safe or smart, but the danger is very telegraphed 9/10 times and it's avoided with such ease that the overwhelming majority of people that have ever done it are alive and well.

Going through this right now. Had to change insurance because of new job, this new insurance is fighting tooth and nail to not pay for the medicine I've been taking for years that keeps my Crohn's under control. I've been without it for over a hundred days, and things are starting to backslide.

Literally, I'm getting sicker as they waste my time. They're shit genuinely sickening.

Eh, I don't know, the reader would have to have a strong enough association between that phrase and boxing that they wouldn't need it telegraphed to them, but I don't feel like your typical reader thinks about boxing enough to make that jump.

You'd still need those panels for context, too. Otherwise it's not obvious this is the start of the fight and the official just laid down the rules.

The worst thing about having a massive workload is I'll likely never get through all the tasks in time.

The best is thing is when I'm in a constant sprint from one task to the next, it's easier to lie to myself and say "I can't do the documentation now, but I'll get to it later when it's quiet"

But it never gets quiet anymore.

Then maybe they should make it an option instead of ruining it for the rest of us because wasting space is the new hip thing.