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  • user_naa OP ,

    It seems what I need but it is incompatible with ActivityHub, so cannot be followed or viewed in Fediverse (Mastodon)

    CyberTailor ,
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    Websites can be bridged to ActivityPub with fed.brid.gy

    30p87 , to showerthoughts in How transwomen/transmen dream

    I rarely dream, and when I do, it’s either a nightmare or the most borderline trash imaginable. I dreamt once about myself, and it was about me being trans specifically.

    Ceedoestrees , to asklemmy in Be honest: have you ever lost your temper with a customer service rep? And did it ever help?

    In person at an apple store.

    I bought an iphone used off a friend who stopped being my friend immediately after. I never wanted an apple product, but my phone broke, I was poor and he sold it to me for $50.

    I didn’t know you needed the apple id and password to SIGN OUT of anything. I sent him messages, did the whole “click here to request a new password” thing so he would get an e-mail about it…to his apple e-mail which, let’s be honest, no one uses.

    Not being able to use the full functionality sucked, but I could manage. What was worse was receiving pictures and messages intended for him.

    I did what any sane person would do and brought it to the apple store. The first person who helped me repeated “Our security systems protect your privacy” so many times, no matter what I said, I lost my shit, shouted “I would like to sign out so I can stop seeing nudes of this guy’s girlfriend!”

    They didn’t help and I bought an android.

    jewbacca117 ,

    iphones are decent devices from a security standpoint, but useless if someone is still signed in. Your former friend sold you a $50 brick

    Ceedoestrees ,

    It still worked as a phone.

    Calling features “Security” when they significantly reduce the secondary market is a convenient way to increase profits.

    corsicanguppy ,

    given Apple’s primary goal is “more things sold”, this is completely on-brand. Better, worse, secure, not; whatever the phones are or are not, every effort goes back to “more things sold”.

    running_ragged ,

    No, its a consequence of increased security and the inconvenience of have to sign out and create a new account when reselling the phone was an acceptable compromise, rather than an intended ‘bonus’ side effect. A lot of times companies do do that, but this wasn’t one off them.

    This was your friend’s fault, and yours to trade cash before understanding how the system worked.

    LodeMike ,

    Its security because people can’t steal someone’s phone then reset it.

    Ceedoestrees ,

    Because otherwise the thief would return the phone to it’s rightful owner?

    LodeMike ,

    Because people don’t steal phones anymore

    Soku ,

    Tell that to cycling phone snatchers in London

    MrsDoyle ,

    I had this issue with an Android recently - but it was my own phone, an old one I wanted to test a SIM on. I couldn’t remember the PIN, couldn’t even recall having a PIN for this phone. I had to dig deep through the tech forums to find a solution, but got there eventually. And yes, I read that over and over during my search, “it’s for your security”. Argh!

    Dirk , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
    @Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

    Great, isn’t it? You just set up a system you like for you to use, without any bullshit.

    blaue_Fledermaus , to youshouldknow in YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.
    @blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io avatar

    The USian system is so bizarre.

    Here in Brazil everybody HAS to register when turning 18. The registration can get suspended if you miss an election without justification, but you get a fine for each time.

    Voting is not a right, it's a duty.

    ByteOnBikes OP ,

    Absolutely!

    It’s in the core fabric of the American system. Yet some conspiracy theory has made voting and the right to vote a difficult process.

    Telorand ,

    In some countries, you get a fine for failure to vote, and voting day is a mandatory paid day off of work. I wish the US would do that.

    blaue_Fledermaus ,
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    Here voting is always on a Sunday, and for those that work Sundays, the employer has to arrange so that they have time to go vote.

    eezeebee , to asklemmy in Be honest: have you ever lost your temper with a customer service rep? And did it ever help?
    @eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

    Yes I have, and no it does not help. Always apologize and tell them it’s the situation, not them, that you are upset with.

    I’ve done that job before and most likely they would help you if they could, but the company won’t train them or make any solutions available because it costs money. Your impression that they don’t know what they’re talking about is probably accurate.

    Your best bet is to keep escalating to a higher department (“manager”, “office of the president”).

    Xylight , to memes in Fear scale
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    man probably said a slur, got his comment removed, and now dedicates his time to complaining about it

    BallsandBayonets , to asklemmy in Is it wrong to report email as spam when you previously opted out and they either add a new subscription/newsletter, etc.?

    I applied to a job with a hotel once, now they send me regular emails about other unrelated jobs. But to unsubscribe I have to log in, and apparently applying to the job didn’t create a complete profile so I’d have to create an account just to unsubscribe.

    They’re marked as spam now.

    bleistift2 , to asklemmy in How do you feel you've aged?

    At the end of my 20s I can feel that I’m becoming stupider. Reading texts or just thinking about a problem take more effort than they used to.

    cashmaggot OP ,

    I know I keep saying dumb shit all over the joint but like...uh...you ever think that maybe you've got an undiagnosed mental condition that's messing with you? Or that maybe you're not eating well enough? (I only say this because the Brain-Gut connetion) Or just like...idk, not giving yourself enough time to decompress? Cause legitimately you might be exhasuted, you might be depressed, you might be malnurished, you might be ADHD, you might just need to run. I mean could be anything, but if you feel like you're losing iq you might be suffering from brain-fog or something like that. Idk, I'm not a doctor. I'm just saying like...there might be something to it, you know?

    rando895 ,

    The undiagnosed mental condition could be it tbh. I found it hard to learn anything I didn’t find really interesting (among other things). Boom, ADHD diagnosis in my thirties

    MadBob , to asklemmy in Be honest: have you ever lost your temper with a customer service rep? And did it ever help?

    Once I decided to end my contract with Virgin Media and they kept asking me why I was leaving, so I kept saying I didn’t want to explain, I’d just cancel (because I knew they’d do their best to talk me around) and it got to the point where I became firm, but I didn’t shout, though I wanted to.

    Tangentially related: after I’d signed up to the Telephone Preference Service, I knew that the only people ringing me to sell stuff were doing so illegally, so if they persisted after I’d made that point, I used to just verbally abuse them. Right cathartic.

    theshatterstone54 ,

    Similar story. The only way we could finally end it is if we paid 1 month at the high price (it was a promotional contract, 20-something quid for 100 mbps or so they claimed; it became 40+ after that).

    MadBob ,

    Bastards them!

    apotheotic , (edited ) to memes in When History Repeats Itself... On a New Platform

    That’s two “mods bad” memes in 6 minutes, friend. Take a breather

    Edit: 3 in 10 minutes

    LEDZeppelin , to youshouldknow in YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.

    Serious question: Is this legit? Elon and his Nazi buddies are running fake voter registration sites

    inlandempire , (edited )
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    From the about page it looks like it’s a non profit that does not enforse or support candidates or parties, they claim to only try and work on erasing the barriers between voters and the act of voting

    ByteOnBikes OP ,

    Yep!

    In the political side for nonprofits, there are clear rules of what you can do or not do. So a nonprofit with the goal of getting people to vote should not lean left or right.

    In the one I volunteered at a decade ago for gay rights, each volunteer had to sign that they are simply pushing the issue forward, not promoting a particular politician or party. It was pretty freaking clear what party we were aligned with, but we couldn’t actively tell people to go vote for X or Y, only that here’s what party X has shared about the issue, while party Y hasn’t given us any comment about it.

    PeepinGoodArgs ,

    Vote.org is an classic site for voter registration. It has existed many years

    douglasg14b , (edited )
    @douglasg14b@lemmy.world avatar

    That doesn’t answer the question.

    Domains can expire, be sold, have their hosting (nameservers) changed…etc it’s very conceivable given the current climate that it could be a malicious site used for data exfiltration from prospective voters. The security posture, if any, of the owner are also unknown, meaning it may be unknowingly compromised.

    Especially when you have people willing to drop tens of millions of dollars on voter suppression.

    Plain and simple, don’t enter your personal information into a 3rd party site. Use your official government provided ones for this purpose.

    PeepinGoodArgs ,

    That’s fair

    Catoblepas ,

    If you don’t want to give a random site your information (good practice), scroll down and select your state from the drop down menu and it’ll direct you to your state government’s official website to check your registration. I actually had to enter less info than vote.org was asking for to check mine, lol.

    Donebrach ,
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    search for your state’s Secretary of State website or go to your state’s official website if you are concerned. An official government website will generally have a .gov address or a .state.StateLetterAbriviation.us or some permutation.

    brbposting ,

    OP ( @ByteOnBikes ):

    Recommend changing your URL to the .gov:

    usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration

    This will take everyone to nass dot org/can-I-vote in Step 1, but I like sending people through a dot gov first so there’s no bamboozle concern. Feels right.

    Thanks for spreading the word 😎 Checked mine when someone posted a recommendation Texans check their status the other day.

    Edit: for “register or update [or check status]”, the fed provides:

    vote.gov

    The USA link focuses on checking status.

    Sanctus , to memes in Fear scale
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    This is like all you post about. Where did the mod touch you?

    dan , to technology in Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)
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    You don’t get a new Emoji by creating a change.org petition lol

    You need to write a proper proposal and send it to the Unicode consortium: unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html. If it gets rejected, it’s four years until you can reapply for the same Emoji.

    lud ,

    A Bitcoin emoji was rejected in 2020 i doubt it will be any different this time.

    dan ,
    @dan@upvote.au avatar

    Yeah I doubt it’d be approved… I was just saying that there’s an actual process that has to be followed. The Unicode consortium aren’t going to care about a Change .org partition that gets maybe 20k signatures at most given billions of people use Unicode and they’ve got proper processes to go through.

    lud ,

    I absolutely agree with you.

    brbposting ,

    Overnight a terrible proposal on the first day, get it rejected for everyone for four years

    (I know they’d look at others)

    AFC1886VCC , to lemmyshitpost in Finland 🇫🇮🎉

    Ffs can we stop posting this propaganda that pushes the agenda that Finland is a real place?

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