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So he's wearing khakis, previously a flannel, sometimes also a sport coat.
Hopefully these are the brave fashion decisions needed to defeat fascism in America.
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I would love to know the winners of past elections counting only the votes of dead people.
Wouldn't be surprised if Harris wins in the demography this time around. The greatest generation knows what it means to defeat fascists. But then again there are probably more boomers and anti vaxers dying these days.
cabbage
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Taiwanese Beijing, in Olympic terms?
cabbage
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I certainly wouldn't want new users to randomly end up on .ml because they think it doesn't matter.
cabbage
6d ago
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A brief mention of Mbin and Piefed might be nice, and possibly Mastodon alternatives like GoToSocial, Pleroma, and Misskey as well. It highlights that content is software independent, and is a bit more fair to some smaller but nevertheless impressive projects.
cabbage
6d ago
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The fascists must be defeated at every level. It's like treating cancer. The problem is not over before it's all gone. And even then there's a risk of it returning.
cabbage
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Van Hasselt said he thinks the blade’s inscription has religious ties that are written in Latin.
...if it's written in Latin, couldn't they just read it? What is it I'm missing here, making this theory somehow worth reporting?
cabbage
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Or for any other crime, for that matter.
It's insane how much crime we're willing to tolerate as long as it's committed by rich white people.
cabbage
2w ago
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Studies have shown that if you ask people to make a plan for voting, they are more likely to actually go out and vote. It's even cited in the FAQ of cards against humanity.
So we ask people to make a plan because it's an efficient way to make them more involved and more likely to actually go out and vote when the day comes. Not because it's so hard that they need a plan (unless you live in certain states of course), but because it forces you to think actively about it rather than just passively.
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I would guess it's rather just not implemented as a feature yet, as it's probably not a development priority.
Or maybe they figured the ClubAll-community could be closed off. But in general, it seems to be a project where missing features is the likely result of it still being at an early stage.
cabbage
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I don't think this will be much of a problem for the rest of us, as the users over there will also not be interested in posting in communities where they get fewer interactions. It sounds bad for people who want to start a community at cluball, but unless it somehow gets larger than the rest of the threadiverse combined it's not really much of a problem for the rest of us.
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Any reason why they should be defederated, other than "we don't like closed source around here"?
I really don't mind closed platforms being federated as long as it doesn't hurt the rest of us in any way. If it brings in some users who are drawn in by the interface, that's great.
Of course, being a single site it might draw the wrong crowd, and end up having serious moderation problems. In that case of course defederation is a natural choice.
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A problem is also the idea of "doing it" as the key phrase here.
What is "it" exactly? Is "it" drugging women and raping them? That might even be fewer than 1/200. I sure as hell hope it is. In either case it's surely too many - enough that you should never fucking leave your drink unattended.
Is "it" being a bit lax on consent? She's drunk, you're drunk, you're in bed together, she's so drunk it's not really clear what she wants. You made it this far, surely that's consent enough? In this category of rape, I think there's a whole lot more than one in two hundred.
Your partner says she doesn't feel like it, but you'll go for it anyway - it's not like she's fighting to resist you either? Yeah, a whole lot more than one in two hundred.
Groping someone in a club when drunk? Hell, we've all seen it happen from people we genuinely thought knew better.
I like to believe that the amount of men who would, say, drug and rape someone, is in a very tiny majority. But as for men willing to make arguments about "blurred lines" where there is none, I'm sadly less optimistic.
cabbage
2w ago
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It's a great example of why teaching people about consent is important. Some of the men on trial claim they thought it was a consensual kinky game played between husband and wife, and that they were unaware they were raping anybody.
I don't expect they will have much success with this argument in court. But it's the kind of shit one might fall for if one has not received the training to know with immediate certainty that consent is only established by an active yes, never by the lack of a no, and that it needs to be personally gathered by anyone involved in the act. And that without consent, it's rape.
It's fucking obvious, but I can totally see how some people could buy into their claim of good faith and act as if it means something. Not necessarily because they're bad people, but because they lack the training to understand what consent means and why it's important.
cabbage
2w ago
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Because the FOSS crowd is always so pleasant!
cabbage
2w ago
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I'm happy to have it as the default behaviour, as long as it can be easily changed. Similar to Vivaldi I guess.
cabbage
2w ago
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Gosh, I didn't realize the tabs couldn't be set to horizontal. That's a likely deal breaker for a lot of people.
I figured I'd give vertical tabs a chance (I usually keep too many tabs open to see their name anyway, and I understand the rational behind them), but not at all sure I'll stick with it. Hopefully they'll add support for horizontal tabs soon.
cabbage
2w ago
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I am currently testing out Zen browser, and it seems fine. I am not sure how much it can be customized vis-a-vis Firefox, but I wanted something that remains Gecko based and relatively close to FireFox, and it seems to deliver.
I tried LibreWolf, but I quickly realized it's not for me. Not allowing websites to detect dark mode preferences is a level of paranoia I hope I'll never reach.
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This trial is a huge event in France. Hopefully it will lead to some real cultural change, and with any luck the rest of the world will be able to learn something as well.
The bravery of this lady for going public and beating on the pots and pans as loud as she can is incredible.
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It's a crisis! Let the wannabe sun king do whatever he wants, it's a crisis!!
He just wants to fuck up the country enough that it'll be beyond repair by the left by then.
I just hope the left gets strong enough not to have to depend on Melanchon. I hate him as much as Macron. Maybe more.
From Nick Cave's latest album, _Wild God_. The song prompted a fan to ask Cave the following: > what makes you decide whether a lyric is great or should be dumped cos it’s utter shit, cos, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, you walk a very fine tightrope between the two, my man. Which Nick Cave chose to [personally answer](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/what-makes-you-decide-whether-a-lyric/) on his website. It's a fine read.
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One of the all time greatest songwriters. There's not a single song on his first album (Kristofferson) that is not made for the history books. Nick Cave recemtly referenced him (and his cleanest dirty shirt) on his newest album (Wild God, song Frogs), in a song that is all about life and death. Seems relevant somehow. > Then I headed back for home > And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing > And it echoed through the canyons > Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
I am currently using GNOME Backups (aka [Déjà Dup Backups](https://apps.gnome.org/nb/DejaDup/)) to backup all my files to a "backups" folder in my Dropbox. This is not a good solution - first because I want to stop paying for dropbox, second because I don't want to keep everything in the cloud, third because everything is stored twice on my laptop and storage is precious. I therefore want to manage back-ups locally instead. I would like to keep using Déjà Dup, as it has worked really well and effortlessly. My initial idea is very bare bones. I could keep an old laptop running 24/7, connect a hard drive, and use SSH file transfer in Deja Dup in order to store everything on that machine. That said, I have a few concerns as well. 1) Is this a good way of doing things? Should I be doing something else instead? 2) I'm not always at home - will it be a problem if the Backup software cannot find the folder because it's not on the correct network, or will it have the sense to wait until it's connected to the correct wifi? 3) Will the old laptop use a lot of power, or is it regrettable for any other reason? Is it possible to make it automatically hibernate for example during the nigthtime? Or to have it spend very little power unless anything is connected via SSH? 4) Would it be better to get a dedicated device, like a Rasberry Pi or something? I don't have all too much faith in my old laptop not making noise with the fan running at random times. It looks like my partner will be getting a new laptop running Linux soon enough as she has to hand in her work computer, so it would be good timing to get a proper solution into place. Thank you in advance!
I picked up a Ducky One Mini at a flea market yesterday, and after cleaning it extensively it seems to be working pretty well for the most part. I'm using it for writing and coding, so not having dedicated arrow keys will take some getting used to, but other than that it seems neat enough for the price I paid. However, the alternative graphic button (on the right side of the space bar) is completely unresponsive. Pressing it just makes no difference at all. I used a tool that maps keyboard presses in Linux (xev), and it showed nothing when Alt Gr was pressed (just like the Fn button), so it seems no signal is being sent from the keyboard to the computer. It could be that this is due to some setting made by the previous owner, or maybe there's something else going on. Maybe I need to update the firmware. Maybe it's broken. I have no idea. The back-light behind some of the numerical keys is also disabled or broken, but it doesn't bother me much as I'm not a big fan of back-light anyway. But if anyone has any suggestions what to try for the alternative graphic key it would be much appreciated! For now I have re-routed right super (Windows button) to be read as Alt Gr, but it's not very convenient when writing Latex and using a lot of curly brackets. :)
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> > > This song is also definitely not about anything going right now. No, it's a history song about people long, long ago who found themselves trapped on a ship of fools. > > In Yiddish with lyrics by [Michael Wex](http://michaelwex.com/). [Geoff Berner](http://www.geoffberner.com/) is a Canadian musician and songwriter with a background in punk and klezmer, notorious for writing angry accordion songs about being antifascist and/or jewish.
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Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine. Looks like Labour is doing what they can to make sure UK politics remains completely fucked even after the end of the Tory rule.
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The police stormed the protest camp at the University of Chicago in the middle of the night, leading to a great interview with a student talking about, among other things, the cowardness of following orders.
I noticed responding to posts in communities hosted at lemmy.ml gives the following warning: > > > This post is hosted on lemmy.ml which will ban you for saying anything negative about China, Russia or Putin. Tread carefully. > > While I see where this is coming from and I agree with the general sentiment, I'm not sure it's a great idea to include such a message. I basically read it as an invitation to be off-topic and to derail conversations in order to annoy the admins. While it comes from a point of good intentions, it can be disheartening for the people running communities on Lemmy.ml to receive comments about Russia from users basically trying to get banned, in communities that has nothing to do with this issue. It's unfortunate, but a lot of valuable older communities are still hosted on lemmy.ml, and I think PieFed users should be encouraged to be constructive and on-topic users there as they should be everywhere else. An alternative suggestion: Maybe it could be useful to remind people which community they are posting in? Like, "This community is dedicated to renewable energy. Please keep this in mind when contributing to the discussion". Then again, that would be a mess to implement in a good way.
[Photography by Oscar Mamen, via the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.](https://gfx.nrk.no/qYy82TjH-bbSEbK5K3W-hgJIHULp09x98cnOex00EuAA.jpg)
Hi, The CSAM scandal the other day got me thinking about the (often lacking) capability of the Threadiverse to deal with quickly with content moderation, and since PieFed has already been a bit experimental in this regard, I figured maybe this is a place where I could ask if an idea is feasible. Sorry if it's a bad match! The idea is to identify trusted users, in the same way that PieFed currently identifies potentially problematic users. Long term users with significantly more upvotes than downvotes. These trusted users could get an additional option to report a post, beyond "Report to moderator": Something like "Mark as abuse". The user would be informed that this is meant for content that clearly goes against the rules of the server, that any other type of issue should be reported to moderators, and that abuse of the function leads to revoke of privilege to use it and, if intentional, potentially a ban. If the user accepts this and marks a post as abuse, every post by the OP of the marked post would be temporarily hidden on the instance and marked for review by a moderator. The moderator can then choose to either 1) ban the user posting abusive material, or 2) make the posts visible again, and remove the "trusted" flag of the reporting user and hence avoiding similar false positives in the future. A problem I keep seeing on the threadiverse is that bad content tends to remain available too long, as many smaller instances means that the moderating team might simply all be asleep. So this seems like one possible way of mitigating that. Maybe it's not technically feasible, and maybe it's just not a particularly good idea; it might also not be a particularly original idea, I don't know. But I figured it might be worth discussing.
Congratulations on having made such a great tool, even in its early phase! It seems very solid. I'm curious about the long-term plans for the project: Is the idea to work strictly with the Threadiverse (similar to Lemmy), or are there plans to integrate more with the microblog platforms (similar to Kbin)? Any particular difference in approach to Fediverse integration vis-a-vis the two main platforms?