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HowManyNimons , to lemmyshitpost in With everyone seemingly getting laid off or killed in the news lately, I thought we should celebrate some good news!

FINALLY a break for the bankers!

Imgonnatrythis OP ,

It’s these little victories where the rich become 80% richer that inspire hope in times of despair.

Naich , to nostupidquestions in Is Russia a fascist dictatorship?
@Naich@kbin.social avatar

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes, it is.

HarriPotero , to mildlyinfuriating in My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.
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On the other hand… consider if your cat had walked over the keyboard before it rebooted and replaced it all with hhhhgggggggggggggggggggghgf before it auto saved and replaced the document. Would you still be an advocate for auto save?

It sucks to lose work, but this is clearly a user error.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t have a cat and we did this out at a cafe, so yes, I would still be an advocate for it. I think that most people do not have that issue even if they have a cat.

JaxNakamura ,

Can confirm, have a cat and don’t have that issue. Because I lock the screen when leaving the machine unattended.

intensely_human ,

ThE sCrEeN sHoULd AuToMaTiCaLly LoCk

qwertyqwertyqwerty ,

UXD would state that this is a software design issue, and not user error. The software should be designed with crashes and “lost” user data in mind.

narc0tic_bird ,

That is true. I could’ve sworn LibreOffice had a recovery mechanism similar to MS Office after a crash.

JaxNakamura ,

Even LibreOffice can only recover what has been saved. And if autosave is off, there might be less to recover than desirable. Again, that’s a UXD problem.

TheDarksteel94 ,

To be fair, you could just delete the faulty part or click on Undo, and just save again.

Nacktmull , (edited )
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Auto-save can usually create a new save with a timestamp, every time it saves. It´s called incremental auto-saves.

intensely_human ,

I’ve never seen this feature

biscuitswalrus ,

This is an insane scenario: my software design decision is, despite recovery mechanisms like previous versions, file history, and undo mechanisms, I’m afraid if a cat uses a keyboard I’ll accidentally save changes I don’t want to a word document.

Lol. The only user error was choosing libre office instead of a user friendly software stack that has reasonable defaults and r recovery mechanisms.

intensely_human ,

Yup. The fear is input that wasn’t intended to be saved, being saved.

Your inability to comprehend the scenario doesn’t erase it.

biscuitswalrus ,

You realise if it’s saved you can now use features that are built into the software, that get saved, like using ‘track changes’ to accept or discard edits granually. You have file system level version control to choose previous versions, you have an undo feature built in. Three different tools to use.

westyvw ,

Libre office is fine. You have no need to bash it. And it does have recovery files, this example is… odd.

JaxNakamura ,

That’s why I lock my machine before walking away. That’s <windows key> + L for those who don’t know.

intensely_human ,

Command-option-Q on mac

A_Very_Big_Fan ,

It sucks to lose work, but this is clearly a user error.

Didn’t wanna say it but yeah, 100%.

Also I was kinda suspicious of the simultaneous claim that the PC randomly restarted and LO crashed. And there’s no recovery file. But that’s probably just me. For all the faults Windows has, failing to catch programs with unsaved work when restarting isn’t one of them I’ve ever experienced.

tburkhol , to nostupidquestions in If I put a gallon of 10% cider vinegar in a shallow pan and let 1/2 gallon evaporate, will that make it double its strength?

acetic acid is almost as volatile as water, and the atmosphere contains a lot less of it. If you evaporate vinegar, you’re likely to lose about as much - maybe more - of the acid than the water. So, evaporation is probably not a good way to concentrate vinegar.

OhmsLawn ,

From all the Nile Red videos I’ve watched over the years: Azeotrope

CalcProgrammer1 , to linux in Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations
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GitLab used to be awesome when it was the place to go after MS bought out GitHub. They had premium access for all public projects under a FOSS license and top-tier CI. Then as time went on, they began pulling support for various functions in a very Microsoftian EEE sort of way. First requiring credit cards fir new users to access the CI, then taking away the CI almost entirely except for a practically useless monthly allotment, then taking away the premium access for public FOSS licensed projects. If I were migrating today I would not have chosen GitLab, but it is where I settled after leaving GitHub and my projects have grown to depend on GitLab CI even if I’m now forced to run my own runners due to the extreme nerfs they’ve done to the hosted CI. I mirrored OpenRGB to Codeberg, but since the CI pipelines depend on GitLab I don’t see Codeberg becoming the main hub anytime soon unless they can execute GL CI configs. Sad to see how far GitLab has fallen though, it is unrecognizable from what it used to be as far as support for FOSS prohects goes, especially given how GitLab itself started as a FOSS project.

danielquinn ,
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Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. - Wikipedia

corsicanguppy ,

Maybe it’s time to start listing the enshittification phase of a project on Wikipedia or something.

qevlarr , to lemmyshitpost in It was in self-defence 🙃
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The Empire has a right to defend itself

DebatableRaccoon , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long

Well it isn’t incest which makes it taboo only on a surface level. Beyond that, it’s a quick setup to a story for young or young-looking actors as well as an easy, built-in explanation for someone to walk in on them and get an “exposed” element to their narrative.

Basically it’s just cheap and convenient writing. Be disgusted if you want but even within their little narrative it’s not incest so you’re getting your feathers riled up over nothing.

CraigeryTheKid ,

yeah it seems like just a VERY quick way to say “the girl is cute and young-looking, typically petite, in a house/bedroom setting”.

you can say all that, or “step”.

DebatableRaccoon ,

Exactly. It’s just narrative shorthand. I’m sure there are some people getting there jollies from the narrative side but those’ll be the ones who don’t have the impulse to turn the volume down when the Brattysis intro gets to the “You’re the best big brother…” part.

Schadrach ,

when the Brattysis intro gets to the “You’re the best big brother…” part.

Well, we know what **your ** favorite site/studio/whatever is. Based on the name and intro line you provided I’m guessing their whole thing is straight sibling porn where the girl is supposed to be the younger sister and kind of a pain before they fuck? That’s pretty specific, but I guess everything is someone’s kink.

DebatableRaccoon ,

Honestly, man, I kinda wish it was my favorite. Annoyingly, it’s just been one of those intro cards that has got stuck in my head. You’re mostly on the money though. The girl isn’t always younger but the general principle is she’s giving poor browski a hard time for the fun of it before they bang by some narrative means. You say it’s specific but if you mute it and just watch shit unfold, it’s your standard sudden dom power fantasy. Pretty basic stuff, really. Not to mention, requires extremely little scripting for the studio so favorable both writing costs and all the sieve-brained starlets not having to memorize much.

Schadrach ,

See, I just ignore studio altogether, skip forward enough that it’s already to the action so I tend to miss intro cards and tend to pick out particular actresses and look up other stuff with them.

DebatableRaccoon ,

Makes sense. From havin terrible internet until very recently, leaving things to buffer was my only course of action.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Even “the girl next door” takes longer to set up.

diffcalculus ,

My step mom’s step cousin

Gigan , to nostupidquestions in Why does it seem that people dislike recordings of their voice more than photos of themselves?
@Gigan@lemmy.world avatar

People see themselves in the mirror pretty often, so they have a general idea of how they appear to other people. But they don’t hear their own voice regularly unless they record themselves and listen to it, so it’s more of a surprise when they do hear their own voice.

driving_crooner ,
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I think this is changing and would change more in thw future. I’m not a fan of voice messages, but my wife and her sisters never “chat” they just send audio messages on whatsapp all the time and, at least my wife, listen to the messages she send multiple times. I don’t think she’s the only one who does that.

RavenFellBlade ,
@RavenFellBlade@startrek.website avatar

I think you have this flipped, though. It’s more like we hear ourselves all the time, but we don’t sound at all to ourselves the way we actually sound. We don’t have a sort of internal picture of ourselves to create dissonance with our reflection or photographs in the same way we do with our voices. It’s that dissonance that makes us distrust or dislike hearing ourselves as we actually sound because that isn’t the voice we identify with internally.

randomthin2332 , to piracy in Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?

There’s a few things about this

  1. Many times you don’t own the digital good, you subscribe to it. No I’m not joking, that’s why services can usually take it away at any time. You normally own “a licence to play it on a single PC” or similar.
  2. This isnt apples to oranges per se. Selling digital goods is fine, it’s copying it. Similar to how photocopying a book and selling it would not be okay.
  3. It’s important to note there is a narrative push by companies too. They spend lots of money putting videos on every DVD saying “downloading is stealing” because if society thinks piracy and stealing is the same, it helps them litigate and make more money.
  4. Your idea of a lost sale is a hard one, from a media company point of view, it’s about making money. So if you can make people believe “a download is a lost sale” or “sharing a digital file is a lot sale” etc, then you can use that to sue individuals, isps, sharing sites, search engines etc and make more and more money while also having more power over your product.
crossmr ,

if you live in the EU you own your digital purchases.

Blackmist ,

It’s kind of not tested though.

If you’ve never been given the option to download it and save it and use it from there, how would you “own” it if the streaming service takes it offline?

If you can’t transfer ownership of something, or have it past the lifespan of the shop you bought it from, do you really own it? I would say not.

Squizzy ,

That’s not the ownership though, that’s a subscription to a service. Ownership is something like buying songs on iTunes not listening to them on Apple music.

Blackmist ,

You can buy individual movies on Amazon without a subscription. This doesn’t mean you own it. If they stop hosting it, it’s gone.

Squizzy ,

But that is where the difference is, that’s not streaming or at least not as the term is used. That was a purchase of a specific title.

Blackmist ,

streaming

noun

a method of transmitting or receiving data (especially video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady, continuous flow, allowing playback to start while the rest of the data is still being received.

Whether it’s subscribed, “purchased” or free, if you don’t have the full file to copy and do what you want with it, it’s streaming.

crossmr ,
Blackmist ,

That’s software, and frankly until you can transfer a played game to somebody else in Steam, it’s not something that is enforced.

They cannot “oppose it” according to that, but you cannot do it.

But buying a digital movie from Amazon or Sony? They can take that away. Haven’t heard a peep from the EU on it.

bouh ,

You do not. Or we have a different definition for owning.

ftbd ,

I’m in the EU. How do I download movies I purchased on Amazon?

PrinceWith999Enemies , to in AIBI For throwing away my human coworker's lunch?

YBI

The correct procedure if you thought the experiment posed an imminent danger to the crew would have been to erect a force field around the container until any ill effects could be scientifically determined.

You also violated Starfleet protocols which require us to not interfere with developing cultures.

USSBurritoTruck ,
@USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website avatar

You also violated Starfleet protocols which require us to not interfere with developing cultures.

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erev OP ,
@erev@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not certain that it was the type of culture you’re thinking of. and i didn’t want to put a force field around the fridge. i have stuff in there too.

PrinceWith999Enemies ,

YBI still.

Transporting the container to the medical bay or science lab would permit the use of force fields whose emitters can be highly focused, permitting containment of the container in question without interfering with the lunches of you or your other crewmates. I’m not sure what emitter configurations are available in your mess hall, but the labs clearly are able to handle such and do so regularly.

We also have learned through unfortunate and perhaps overly-repeated experiences to not make assumptions about unknown cultures. I can’t even recall the number of captain’s logs I’ve read where little blinking lights or some weird rock thing or glowing space object turned out to be intelligent.

I think you are required to document the incident and report it to your commanding officer.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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Just replicate yourself your own damn fridge

Admin ,
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skullgiver , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in Why has the world gone to shit?
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  • Xavier ,

    Thank you for this excellent writeup.

    A lot of mistakes/repercussions was readily documented beforehand and could have been avoided by proper regulations (even by not removing sane ones such as the Glass–Steagall legislation).

    Moreover, Climate Change is affecting a larger and larger part of the stochastic increases in instability: from extreme localized weather and regional aberration to global temperature anomaly affecting every part of the planet differently.

    However, we live in a world whereas bombastic contrarians are lauded, even elevated to positions of power or at the center of important decision making processes. No wonder we keep being surprised by avoidable disasters.

    funkless_eck , to lemmyshitpost in I'm trying to think of something more stupid than this but it's not easy...

    my wife is a university senior lecturer — it’s likely they already have a system that can do this, that they have access to, works, and is non-technical; all they need to do is ask where it is.

    kureta , (edited )

    I went back to university last year and exactly this. They have Microsoft subscription with all the bells and whistles, classroom, work material, homework, etc.

    edit: I guess I just ADHDed in the middle of writing this comment. it was supposed to continue:

    … zoom and all its options, plus a custom classroom web app that replicates some of Microsoft’s stuff and all professors use WhatsApp for everything, and email only for delivering finals papers.

    VaultBoyNewVegas ,

    I think it was blackboard that was used when I went to a further education college years ago. It supported announcements on it. I would imagine a university having similarly software as one of the reasons for blackboard was so we uploaded our assignments to it.

    Thrashy ,
    @Thrashy@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t know if it’s any better than it used to be, but Blackboard was pretty universally loathed by the faculty when I was in college.

    ShunkW ,

    Dude I hated it as a student too. The only benefit it provided was a one time get out of jail free card per class. Intentionally corrupt a word doc and upload it. You just bought yourself at least a day to continue finishing your paper.

    dingus ,

    You have to admit, it’s still better than having a singular email address that everyone has the login to.

    oxjox , to asklemmy in Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months?
    @oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

    Internet’s gonna internet.

    givesomefucks ,

    Blocking still works though.

    It’s almost always a small amount of people causing problems.

    I still get some ghost replies occasionally, but it’s never going to be anything worth reading. Most of the toxicity comes from reply chains they start as well, so you’re not missing out on any constructive conversation.

    Seraph , to fediverse in Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit?
    @Seraph@kbin.social avatar

    According to one of the latest kurzgesagt videos we all should be in smaller communities like this and large ones like Facebook and Reddit are generally bad for our mental health.

    https://youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=5Wd0-_6Z1pNUuQZR

    Stamets ,
    @Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

    Well a few months after leaving reddit I do feel a lot better in general so I’m not surprised.

    I go back occasionally to check for something or just to see what things are like. I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god. Every comment section is just angry and bitter and hateful. I was looking at a post yesterday and thought it was cute and interesting so I open the comments. Every single one of them were either saying it was fake, that it was stupid, that it was cringey, that it didn’t make sense, etc. It’s like no one has an ounce of positivity on that site.

    Seraph ,
    @Seraph@kbin.social avatar

    I see OPs point - fucking Stamets replied to me! Good stuff. Love it!

    Stamets ,
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    Nepenthe ,
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    It's really a mix of both. More heavily the way the site has been for years because people love drama more than anything else. If you want the sweet serotonin of karma, you've gotta be simultaneously the funniest, meanest, and most jaded person in the room, and everyone is jockeying for that position.

    It just breeds assholes by design. I've noticed my own behavior has changed, too, since leaving that place, although partially that's because I just didn't want to be like that anymore.

    But it really has been noticeably affected since the protests. I was originally trying to stay for one single sub I was in, because they were the kindest, calmest community I'd met since back when forums were a thing.

    Just the best group, for reasons none of us really understood and some of us kept trying to find psychological commonalities to explain. Truly 98% of them were people I'd chill with irl and I still know a few on discord. And also here. If you're reading this, hello!

    But the migration away was enough to completely alter the atmosphere imo. A lot of the more conscientious users left for other pastures, leaving behind those that were more neutral or even openly hostile about the protests.

    There began to be fights and insults thrown where before this, any aggression had been unusual. The posts took a turn that reflected that feeling and I really stopped bothering with the place after a few months. I'm still a bit sad about it and there are things that I miss, but there just wasn't enough to hold me anymore. It seemed to increasingly echo every other part of the site.

    For the moment, this place is quieter but better. We still get dumb shit every now and then, but it's not to the same degree and hopefully never will be. As above, I blame the demographic. We've grouped all the people with stubborn morals into a little room and it turns out they have things in common. I do miss a couple people I used to see everywhere all the time when kbin first ramped up, but we run in different circles and they've gotten lost in the crowd.

    And yes, btw, I am also going to name you one of my favorite users to see around. You seem as kind as you are prolific.

    Stamets ,
    @Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

    That makes sense. I know that when I was active on reddit I was way snarkier. Still comes out occasionally but it was just a lot more common. I do remember having to specifically limit myself when I first started posting to not get bitchy towards people for no reason. Kind of disappointed in myself there. I’m glad that’s at least paid off in people think I’m kind. I’m really not but I appreciate the compliment <3

    Those protests really did demonstrate just how bad things had gotten. I don’t think I remember anyone ever casually discussing what was going on. I remember commenting once saying how the Spez was a mod of Jailbait thing is overblown because anyone could be added as a mod at that time without them having to accept it, much like how Lemmy currently works. I was added as mod to /c/Gay in the same fashion. Someone just added him and he didnt realize. Downvoted to high heaven because it wasn’t pure bashing of him. There are so many things to hate about Spez and that situation but I’m gonna stick to ones that have some weight.

    intensely_human ,

    They banned those of us who were challenging the bitterness and hate. Whenever I’d argue against bitterness, they’d call me a bootlicker, and within a couple of comments, a nazi.

    Eventually, I got banned from reddit for being a nazi.

    So now that their “hey maybe stop being so bitter and take responsibility” nazis are all gone, they’ve concentrated themselves into an echo chamber based on resentment.

    lvxferre ,
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    I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god.

    I feel like it’s a mix of both: the community there became bitter, more aggressive and more assumptive, while we (people who migrated out) got less used to how things work there.

    onlinepersona ,

    I wish kurzgesagt joined the fediverse. They are quite big (21M followers). Being able to watch them here without going to youtube would be a nice step in the right direction.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    Blaze ,
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    That would be great

    GuyDudeman ,
    @GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t know about that. I feel like being a big fish in a small pond puts the spotlight on you more, leading to caring a lot more about whether or not your contributions are received well. And when you don’t follow the zeitgeist of the small community lock-step, that can cause lots of anxiety and lead to more mental health problems.

    JamesBean , to asklemmy in If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal?
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    Hamster > Guinea Pig > Capybara

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