At least something.

But how safe from tracking would black and white lasers be? There is no evaluation at all on the chances.

Works for me.

LibreOffice wants to call with broken rendering on Windows, but the changelog mentions new tasty features. But FOSS can do it, Debian can. Those project managers should learn from their approach, whatever it is.

It is fine, but then again I update it often too late which is actually pretty bad. The problem is Nextcloud pushes new features and a high frequency schedule of releases with those at an alarming rate of speed. Perhaps for corporate environments it is not as big of a deal as a professional team can fix obscure bugs with their knowledge and experience on their mirrored test servers, but home users don’t have these resources available and public community knowledge and bug fixes need time which that release schedule hinders.

I still wouldn’t say it is bad by default, simply because somehow it runs pretty stable for me since a decade. Updates are a pain though with many breaking changes and little bugs.

Also check torrents for “remastered” albums of bigger bands. Sometimes it is a miracle what they achieve with editing the same files, but with good audio knowledge and repair bad mixing.

Police in Germany absuses regularly databases to trsck and background check for personal or political purposes.

I feel your pain. I have rare disorders which affect my executive functioning, so simple tasks are insurmountable at times for me while my intellectual ability is unaffected and likely above average. Which leads to two things: I rarely get help making appointments and what to do and just “do it yourself” without guidance and get kicked out. And the other one is that I could not be possibly correct interpreting the test results, because how could I have the ability without being an official researcher to research things. I am deeply frustrated, the more tests I run and see my thesis is correct, the more push back by doctors it is more likely to have randomly a dozen conditions instead of a single one uniting them. Welcome to Ehlers Danlos.

These things are ableist. We are reaching the point where AI can solve these much more reliably than a human. As a result the difficulty has to rise and will exclude more and more people which might have problems with “basic” tasks from a neurotypical perspective. Not to speak sometimes there might be multiple solutions depending on language and cultural interpretations.

Same for me. But there is work involved in the maintenance, there are awkward transitions at times with PHP migrations. But I would not go back to Google. I have tons of storage space without having to pay the associated service fees at the cost of slower speeds.

It is. So where is the police report? She said she was groped on several occasions (which is sexual assault) and quit the job by her own decision, so why not throw the men who groped her under the bus?

I am tired of reading these things. I am absolutely aware these are done in good faith to have some neutral instance to deal with this, but it not the reality. If you are low on money, you are right out or a bit later, if you are an “undesirable” person, you will lose, and if you lack time, energy and mental health going through the paperwork will break the last bit you had and money too.

Tour de France sends the message performance is everything, and if you don’t perform, destroy your body with drugs. It is inherently toxic.

Why do you think 13 gear cassettes are a thing? The chain has to be thinner and everything is much more precise. Add to that mechanical load and it is much worse for every casual rider in reliability than the older 2x9, 3x9 systems.

Law enforcement will knock on the doors of Fediverse servers and there will need to be some monetary fund for legal fees.

Don’t worry. The fediverse has its circlejerk on one opinion. It is not so different to reddit.

The fediverse is overreacting in a hysterical manner with the Meta federation. Unlike the https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html article suggests, XMPP is a bad comparison, because the protocol itself was destined to fail, to quote tapoxi:

I was a weird XMPP nerd in high school and tried to switch friends from AIM. So here’s my experience.

• Onboarding was difficult. There was no obvious choice of server or client to use.

• Adding friends was difficult. You needed to send a subscription request to a contact, and they needed to send one to you. If anything happened during this process, you couldn’t chat.

• Popular XMPP clients, like Pidgin, also supported the other chat services (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc) so people just continued using those.

• Network effect. You need to convince a mass of people its better, otherwise nobody’s using it because no-one uses it.

• No obvious benefit to the user. It’s decentralized sure, but there weren’t many improvements over AIM that people actually used.

• A lack of good iPhone XMPP clients`

It also struggled with proper handling of multi-device setups with synchronization. There is a reason why XMPP is gone and we have WebRTC, Matrix and others instead, even on the open source side of things.

And the Microsoft Office analogy does not hold up, its data format pretends it is open, it is no open software anyways.

Mastodon made it clear they will not accept venture capital, the corporations cannot highjack the development of Mastodon. If anything we will see forks like the Star Office, Open Office and Libre Office situation in the far future.

I also would like to keep communication channels open to most other instances and networks and will leave those anti corporation blockers. You are not going to tell me with whom I may interact. Keep the invasiveness to a minimum to not flood the network with hateful crap. People looking for designated safe spaces with limited scale communities have otherwise brilliant opportunity to do so.

It is totally wild how people think an instance could be possibly toxic and apply that to Meta, and Meta alone. The entire fediverse must be distrustful, because anyone can hookup. With the recent growth I see more and more drama of immature instance admins throwing tantrums who their users are allowed to interact with, because of some astrological misalignment as with the mastodon.art drama. As an instance admin, you have the role of an ISP, you are not a community mod. Know your place.

lemmy.world itself is the “Meta” of the Threadiverse thanks to its gigantic size alone, speaking of EEE. There is already a “rogue” fediverse in the form of the right wing gab.ai etc.

We will end up with about a dozen huge instances and the rest will have barely any relevance as with E-Mail providers. But it will be still diverse and big enough that EEE is not going to happen.

There is the nuance to it. The subscribers did not sign up for this initially. Therefore they will have to build a new community up which certainly won’t have as many subscribers for a very long time and none of the post history.

At the same time posts actually asking about the Steam platform get downvoted heavily and thus dissuade further interaction.

Effectively the sub becomes useless, just the same as if it had stayed closed. It will drop in engagement in the long term.

The John Oliver memes attract more mainstream attention and clearly signal to investors the platform is not healthy, irrespective of the traffic it causes.

With more and more subreddits joining in on this, the All page gets flooded with shitposts annoying everyone. Those who stay certainly won’t want to deal with this all the time and unsubscribe.

Of course group dynamics are unpredictable at times, but reddit is certainly more in turmoil than whatever traffic.

u/spez tries to paint it was just mods trying to be powertripping and not standing for the communities. This refutes the sentiment along with the reactions of /r/pics and the likely coming r/aww action.