r00ty @ r00ty @kbin.life

I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin

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I'm afraid both.

I got so depressed it seems I developed autism to solve it.

Not lemmy (unless it does support it now?). But from a (k/m)bin instance you can access the mastadon account @elonjet which does the same as the original twitter elonjet.

Here in the UK, it generally used to be 1 year, then moved to 18 month, then two year "contracts" (that are essentially paying for the phone). They will of course (if you don't realise) continue to charge you the increased price after you've paid for your phone...

Recently I was looking at upgrading, almost clicked confirm on a price that seemed suspicious. Until I saw "48 month contract"

Nope. Bought the phone outright, interest free credit over 1 year (I'm done with that in 3 more months). A few months later, swapped to one of the "virtual" networks we have here. £8 per month (first 3 £3), unlimited/unlimited/30GB data (I don't need much), plus roaming to Europe (a frequent destination of mine) included.

100% here it works out a LOT cheaper not to buy through the provider. I have no doubt it's the same pretty much everywhere too.

I've never had AI create working code anyway.

But it will generally point me in the right direction. It's useful for:

1. Helping get your train of thought back in the right direction
2. Automating what would be a lot of boilerplate/repetitive coding. Just beware you will still need to check it over.

You need to be skilled to spot the mistakes it will definitely make.

I'm probably a bit further to the right than most on the fediverse with this opinion but...

I think, once you have been informed of someone's pronouns, it's flat out rude to not use them. I don't know if it's a banning issue but that's for the moderators on your instance to decide or the instance the community is on. Even if you don't agree with someone's lifestyle, it's just polite to address people the way they'd like to be addressed.

But surely there's a difference between intentional misuse and accidental. I think banning someone for not looking up someone's pronouns before a public interaction seems like pushing things a bit far here. I certainly am not checking such things. But, then in general when online I will use gender neutral wording because frankly, for online interactions someone's rarely information that matters for the interaction. I don't really need to know.

My view is, I think it is almost always clear when someone is being malicious and thus transphobic and when someone makes an honest mistake/did not know better. We, as a whole, really should be differentiating between obviously malicious and non-malicious cases.

Well. You'd need to avoid windows, tea, people with umbrellas (OK not directly Russian, but soviet era eastern europe), aeroplanes, cars. And if they really want to get you, they'll go old school and use a gun, or perhaps even a missile if you annoy the right people enough.

I'd just skip Moscow as a whole personally.

It does, at least now. It was the 11th.

I feel she should have at least tried the shaggy defence.

If you mean they shouldn't. I'd agree. But, as has been seen a lot on youtube. "They" can DMCA anything they want, and the only route out is usually to take them to court.

I mean I'd hope if they're going in this direction they will be decent about it. But, it's not the way things seem to be lately.

Just post that you think it'd be impossible to port to rust and linux. Then someone is bound to do it :P

If they're moving away from open source/more monetisation then they're going to do one of two things.

1: Make the client incompatible (e.g you'll need to get hold of and prevent updating of a current client).
2: DMCA the vaultwarden repo

If they're going all-in on a cash grab, they're not going to make it easy for you to get a free version.

What do you mean? Administrators/liquidators will have an entire list of assets owned by the bankrupt company.

They will be looking for a buyer to take on the whole company (assets and liabilities) or sell off the assets to cover liabilities.

Those boxes are still owned, they didn't magically become fair game because the company owning them went bankrupt.

If people advertise that they stole one of these boxes, they become fair game to be pursued by the liquidators/administrators or any entity buying the ownership of them.

God, the number of ‘swing voters’ you can have a conversation with and find out that they know nothing about either party’s actual politics is… just horrific. People who call themselves anti-gun-control and support stricter gun control measures than I, a Berniecrat, do. People who talk about the horrors of open borders, and then when you talk to them they support significantly liberalized immigration law and a path to citizenship. ‘Pro-life’ supporters who, if presented with the loosest abortion laws in this country, express support for such ‘reasonable’ measures.

Here in the UK I sometimes think most people know more about US politics than domestic politics. So, I know how this kind of ignorance can happen.

But then, if you're suggesting talking to people with fascist views, then that's also the point I'm making too. Because that's finding out why they think the way they do and perhaps changing their mind by telling them which things they've been told were wrong all along. My experience has been that the indoctrinated people will listen to what you say, perhaps even agree. Then, in short order revert to the old talking points.

Regarding the "embarrassed" conservatives. I wonder if they're more just conservatives that are following the flow of their fellow conservatives, not really considering the full impact the result may have. You don't need to look further than the running mate, to see how republicans are happy to endorse trump, even though they don't stand for most of what he says. Because winning matters most. I wonder if some conservatives are casting a blind-eye to the fascist undertones, because overall they will otherwise get what they want?

I mean if you think they can be beaten, sure. As an outsider I don't think I'd dare try to call the result of the US election for example and that's probably a pretty good way to measure the level of fascism there no?

My thinking is that there's usually a root cause for this. If that's something that can be addressed, then it probably should be looked into. I'm not ruling out that a large proportion of people are just stupid and/or easily led though.

From my point of view I see a shift to the right happening in Europe too. So, there's definitely a trend. The question for me, is why is it happening now? Outside influences for example?

For me, there's just been less posted that I feel I have something to say on. If I see something about programming, networking or tech that I have (probably) some useful info to contribute I will do so. Likewise if there's a general subject I have anecdotal points to make, or I'm just genuinely interested I will comment too.

But otherwise, I just read and move on. There's been a lot more read and move on lately. Maybe because of the upcoming US election for which by and large beyond the fact I don't want the orange shitgibbon (As a fan of the west wing, I like that the spelling checker suggested shibboleth to correct this "typo") to win, I don't have much interest. Mostly because I'm not from the US.

I think it's probably important to find out why this is, rather than just wag the finger and move on. Because, if the trend continues the non fascists will be outnumbered. In fact, I would say that this is really saying that 1/3rd of Americans feel free enough to say this. There's a good chance there's a silent amount afraid to say their true thoughts.

If it's just outside brainwashing, then investigate that. If there's a genuine root concern that is causing this attitude, see if it can be reasonably addressed. If it's just idiocracy happening, well then we're all screwed.

So, you mean everyone except the native Americans should leave America? Just trying to understand clearly the implications of what you're suggesting :P

In all seriousness, after all this time I would bet most people couldn't trace a lineage to a single country now anyway.

Gen X: Oh, internet eh? So we don't need to keep copying umpteenth generation video cassettes of that dodgy pirate movie any more.

I think cheques were almost irrelevant in the 90s already. For sure I remember the two things I had to write a cheque for. DVLA for the olde tax disk every year, and the speeding fine I got in 1996.

Until around 2005, I was using my 1994 issued chequebook, crossing out the 19, initialling the change and writing in the full year.

I still have the chequebook issued in 2005 to this day.