triplenadir @ triplenadir @lemmygrad.ml

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"customer" instead of "passenger" on public transit. implies the kind of ludicrous thinking that public services "lose money"

I think it's one of those apps where the full version is free on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/

join south africa and (sorta) japan, use YYYY-MM-DD as a default - sorts well, zero ambiguity.. at least until some joker starts popularising YYYY-DD-MM, anyway

this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like "pcmasterrace". words mean things, their origins matter

step 1: go to your favourite search engine

step 2: type "origin of the term ricing"

step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym "Race Inspired Car Enhancements"

step 4: discover that "ricing" was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice

step 5: stop using the word in the context of "mods"

step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough

if IBM had such different values they could be paying reparations to the communities they helped tried to murder out of existence. even acknowledging the company's role in the holocaust would be a start - instead as of 2021 they're still in full denial mode

your analogy between twitter employees not quitting because of Musk's purchase of Twitter, and BMW workers not quitting because of BMW's active participation in the holocaust isn't just crude, it's appallingly disrespectful.

I ask you again to think about whether you really mean that losing one's job is "as bad or worse than" genocide.

I'd be happy to discuss with you, what I think someone could do if they find themself working for an organisation perpetrating atrocities (or encouraging them, as Twitter and Facebook are) - a sneak preview of my opinion is "they could certainly do more than sit there" - but I don't think there's any chance of it a productive conversation unless we can agree that being rounded up and exterminated is universally, objectively, worse than being fired from a job.

the word "rice" in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.

nice desktop tho

I don't agree with your dichotomy, but ignoring that for a second, saying "the punishment as bad or worse than the crime" makes it sound like you think someone losing their job is "as bad or worse" than genocide - maybe reconsider

yes

absolutely brilliant bot misfire 😂

"what it is today" a tax-evading, weapons-manufacturing, privacy-invading, wannabe monopoly, that's continually fucking up their core products and radicalizing people into the far right for profit?

ya gotta agree at least significant parts of those workers' brains are dead

software like stow keeps track of files installed, and helps you remove it later

blocking ads is as close to "necessary" as it gets for me.

rooting gets harder and harder with new android versions and devices - but it's been worth it for me every time.

lastly FUCK the app developers trying to block rooted devices, it's for their (sense of) security, not ours, and it's sad to see so many people in this thread bullied out of rooting by them

o jeez how could i have forgotten to mention the apex/nadir of this tragic farce, the .io extension? It belongs to the Chagos Islands, the residents of which the British government forced to leave in the 1970s so that the land could be given to the USA for a military base. The UN voted to ask the International Court of Justice to rule on whether the British government should give the islands back to the people who were removed, the ICJ said yes, the government of the failed state that is the UK (presumably under orders from their inverted colonial masters, the government of the failed state that is the USA) continues to tell everyone to fuck off.

Meanwhile, guess who manages the .io TLD, and collects the profits from .io domain registrations? The UK government! 🎉☠

@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world if you're going to campaign on "respect for internet architecture" with TLDs, maybe start with the 9,999 techbros directly funding land theft through their mostly-very-shitty .io domain names, and leave the folks making Marxist-Leninist jokes (or phishing the US military lol) to enjoy .ml.

counterargument: TLDs have been a corporate-minded, US-centric joke since they were invented, the joke got even worse when ICANN wouldn't hand over authority to the UN, worse still with the naked cash grab / branding exercise that was gTLDS (remember the shakedown that was .xxx and .sucks?) and now that .amazon belongs to a creepy oligarch's predatory monopoly instead of the countries containing the ancient giant life-giving rainforest of the same name they may as well just change all TLDs to .clown and let DNS die in peace

"so far" doing a lot of work in that post

r/lostredditors

weird mispelling of "developers and initial server admins have actual prosocial politics instead of standard tech libertarian nonsense, setting the stage for effective moderation"

(defederation wouldn't have helped much if Lemmy was full of Nazi chuds when the reddit migration happened)