“C’mon, China, there’s still plenty of room for more dicks in this hornet nest!”

You would be quite welcome in !potatoism@lemmy.world.

Sometimes that last half inch is the most important.

Saving this thread to my “just in case” list.

Thanks, and I agree. I’m not sure what grounds they have to withhold that sort of information from a lessee on. The lack of information from all angles makes it really difficult to prepare, because I have no idea what I need to be preparing for. It’s been a very difficult week. :(

I’m not driving my phone, officer. I’m traveling.

It’s also a bit of a “boy who cried wolf” scenario. Yes, we should call out the wolves, but only when there are actually wolves.

This is fake. There are no other results for this story, and the article appears to name a minor, which news outlets generally don’t do. Also, the file photo is from this story about a burglary.

Pretty bad. I found out recently that my roommate has been lying to me and spent the rent money I gave him on something else. He hid it from me long enough for it to be irreparable. I can’t get my roommate to be honest with me, and the apartment management are refusing to share any information with me (despite me still being on the lease) and won’t even accept a payment from me or even tell me what our debt is, so now I’m almost certainly going have to go to court soon to be evicted.

I’m bipolar, so usually a major event like like this would send me either into a manic or a depressive episode. But for the first time that I can recall, I’ve been finding myself going rapidly between the two states throughout the day.

I know I will be fine. But right now, I’m not fine.

PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky’s corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, “Bluesky” the platform utilizing ATProto, is what’s centralized.

The only mainstream platform that I’m still active on would be Discord, but that’s only because there’s no viable alternative yet.

Jesus fucking Christ.

He has to go. Before he kills us all.

Given that they’re in masks and civilian clothing when they kidnap people, there apparently is no official “ICE uniform”. Would be interesting to see them attempt to charge somebody with “impersonating a federal officer” when they’re just dressed in normal street clothes.

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Basically, yeah. Chronological sorting is good enough for most people. As long as you remember when you took the photo, you can find it easily.

I believe it. My nephew found out how to dual-boot Linux on his school Chromebook so that he could run some music creation software on it. Kids are smart.

don’t understand how even basics like folder structures works.

Why would they, though? The average user in today’s world doesn’t need that knowledge, just as we didn’t need the knowledge of how punchcards worked (although I think there are a few Lemmings around here who may actually be old enough to qualify). We needed to know how folders work, because that was the norm during our upbringing, but that’s no longer the case.

We didn’t stick to our predecessors’ methodologies. Neither will our successors. They’ll evolve and grow beyond the technology and the norms that we’re familiar with, just as we did with the generation before us.

I don’t know where people get this idea from. Kids are still hacking their school computers, just as much as we were back in the 90s. If anything, kids are more knowledgeable on bypassing these systems now than we were then; ask any school’s IT admin, kids are doing wild shit with their computers and tablets.

Don’t forget, people like you and I weren’t “normal kids”. We were a very stark minority. That’s still the case with today’s kids. I think you’re just not seeing it because you either don’t have children in your life that you are in regular communication with, or aren’t present on the social platforms today’s kids are on.

Wow, that audio is super unsettling. On its own it would seem innocuous, but with the context of trying to contact somebody in a country that’s on the verge of being nuked, it’s downright horrifying.

Back in the olden days, it was “here is my product, and this is the price, if you like it buy from this store”

When exactly are these olden days you refer to? I ask because most “modern” advertising practices have long-since been in place for over a century now; the only things that’ve changed are the delivery method and frequency.