Don't forget Bezos had a 2 for 1 split when he got divorced.

Good luck with that, how about a star trek replicator while you're at it.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Article didn't say whether this recent shooting was inside the bar or not, but it mentions that the earlier of the two shootings was from someone shooting "at" the bar, which I took to mean from the outside (it's unclear). Security measures like metal detectors at the entrance presumably wouldn't help with shootings from the outside.

They're going to be more like Apple has been all along. It's annoying, but jeez, Android is not the whole world.

It occurs to me that everyone using phones might be why the quality of Lemmy posts is so low. It's too big a hassle for people to write anything informative through the phone keyboard, so they post a youtube link instead.

I hope we start getting more Graphene and similar phones but I also see some benefits to adding a little friction to using them on text-heavy sites.

And yeah, 6 billion phones users, but most of them don't give a crap about source code. So they're not really affected.

Mobile phones, sure, and they are important. But I'm typing on a Debian laptop right now. Not a phone. Phones aren't the whole world.

This thing (like Amazon's) says home speaker but I don't even have to look to know that it's really a home microphone that uploads your private behaviour to Google.

Here's what a home speaker looks like, an Atwater Kent tube radio from 1931:

It delivered sound in only one direction. You could listen to it, but it didn't try to listen to you.

Dunno about Google but Youtube seems to be making some things harder on purpose, like seeing the date of a video or showing search results in chronological order.

Thanks, I don't see any of those fixing the functionality that youtube broke, but the effort is appreciated. The one that shows the upload time only says you can use it while watching the video, but that time is shown in the text blurb if you click "more...". And it makes a network request, of course. I'm using firefox so ublock origin still works for blocking ads.

I'd be interested to know if there's a way to fix this issue with extensions. Do you mean browser extensions? I use a browser sometimes and newpipe sometimes.

Using a browser and ublock origin, I find viewing youtube to work ok except for the occasional age gated video that I can't view without a google account. What's stopped working is search ordering and seeing timestamps. Like old comments might get labelled "2 years ago" with mouse-over no longer showing the actual date/time. It's not shown in the unrendered HTML in any obvious way either.

Someone must have told them about proxmox lol.

In ear hearing aids or similar?

I want to rewatch the Star Trek episode about the brain destroying video game. I keep being reminded of it.

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Devastating? Jeez.

If you want to make a code change proposal, go ahead and make one. Otherwise, deletion is a feature offered to Lemmy users to use as they see fit. In fact some earlier (unrelated) proposals to speed up the software were rejected on the grounds that deletion is required to actually scrub the entry from the database, rather than simply making it inaccessible through the web. The scrubbing requirement may have been abandoned by now though.

I half remember a Lemmy client (Voyager Jerboa?) with a user setting to automatically delete any post or comment that the user makes after 7 days or something. It had nothing to do with karma. I didn't use that setting but it seemed reasonable to me. Lemmy is a discussion forum not a long term archive.

I do like the idea of adding a wiki feature to Lemmy, to hold info of long term value to a community. Reddit already has something like that.**

Yes I see what you're getting at. IDK how a software change proposal would be received. It could be that the devs think that the other comments on the thread could somehow identify the original poster or the topic. On at least one reddit subgroup there's a bot that does that on purpose (copies the original post and maybe the author name into a thread comment). The reasons for the bot might be specific to the subreddit.

Is this the same basement every day, like at your house? Install some lights is one thought.

They've hugely increased the prices for the higher priced virtual servers. Dedicated server prices have also gone up but not anywhere near as much. I've had a lower-end auction dedi for several years and it's a few bucks more per month now than when I got it way before the shortages. In fact after I got it, prices of comparable servers dropped by quite a lot, though I didn't bother migrating.

This is an interesting article that should probably be in /privacy instead of degoogle. It doesn't say explicitly but the surveillance vector sounds like it has to be a bank app running on the user's phone. Obvious remedy is never install that type of app. I've managed to do that so far.

Added: oh I see, this thing is spammed all over the place. Downvoted for spamming.

Object storage at Hetzner already went up by a lot, but for us peons, who really cares? Object storage was always stupidly expensive and most of us have just used the local storage on our servers, or else the very cheap (but somewhat slow) Storage Box product for backup.