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Dave , 9 months ago

It seems they have disabled scanning lemmy.world due to a bug: github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/139

Dave , 9 months ago

Probably a country where the dollars are worth a different amount.

Dave , 9 months ago

This site says $11.95AUD, the equivalent of $7.72USD.

As for the $170 premium version, that’s $170AUD. Australia has 10% GST (VAT) so 170/110*100 = $154.55AUD excluding tax.

$154AUD is $99.64USD.

They aren’t getting gouged, well, at least not worse than US customers.

Dave , 9 months ago

uBlock Origin is blocking the loading of the thumbnail. You can click through to the actual image and it loads fine.

I’m not sure why uBlock is blocking the thumbnail from loading.

Dave , 9 months ago

Well, only some thumbnails are being blocked. Most of them work.

Digging into it, it seems to be triggered from a filter because of the term “website” in the URL. Not sure why that is blocked, but uBlock is using EasyList and there’s an issue on github here: github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/16745

It seems they “resolved” it by specifically excluding sites, so e.g. when viewing from Lemmy.world it looks like it will be fine because now it’s specifically allowed.

I’m not sure how to resolve without disabling uBlock Origin on your lemmy instance site, maybe someone else knows.

Dave , 9 months ago

I have a RPi1B that runs Pihole just fine, and I have a RPi4 that runs a bunch of services fine (plug in a SSD, don’t use a SD card).

But if you’re hoping to do a photo server or run a media centre… nah. Rpis are very power efficient, but for media you really need something that’s gonna suck more power.

Dave , 10 months ago

The caching is probably the problem, not the uploads on a personal lemmy instance.

Dave , 10 months ago

“We need more locally produced content, the stuff we have all sucks”

Dave , 10 months ago

I’ve had GOG giveaways for years and use unique emails. GOG has never sold my email. I’m pretty sure they are doing this so they can send you emails about deals, to try to convince you to buy more games from them.

Dave , 10 months ago

In 10 years we’ll look back on this early Lemmy period with the same nostalgia, and wonder how Lemmy ever got so shitty.

Dave , 10 months ago

If you run a lemmy server, there’s a good chance you’re hosting the content. Servers cache some content, and thumbnails are also generated and cached for external links.

Plus if your server is the one where someone uploaded the content.

Dave , 10 months ago

Realistically, they are probably the small (and large) business owners that will have to pay for a month off work for their employees.

Dave , 10 months ago

It’s likely that the average business has a lot more than one owner per business. Most would have multiple shareholders, whether that’s husband and wife businesses, or a small firm of several partners. Plus you also need to add in shareholders, etc. Though it’s also true that one person can own multiple, and presumably the survey didn’t let the same person answer twice, so maybe the 1:1 assumption is ok.

But even so, isn’t that figure super low? Here in New Zealand, we have about 550,000 small businesses (less than 20 employees, including self-employed), which if there were one owner per business would make this 10% of businesses.

I’d also add that people who work in small businesses are also more likely to understand what a fine line there is between them having a job and the business going bust. This is especially true for places like hospitality, where margins are thin and businesses go bankrupt at a high rate. These employees may also think it’s a bad idea, because they know their business can’t afford it even if they are not the owners.

instead are the propagandized proletariat who fight against their own best interest

If you went out on the street and started talking to the average person, I think you’d find that it was difficult to find a person who wasn’t voting against their own interests (other than those that do not vote at all).

Dave , 10 months ago

Weird question, but why does a car need to know if it’s a person or not? Like regardless of if it’s a person or a car or a pole, maybe don’t drive into it?

Is it about predicting whether it’s going to move into your path? Well can’t you just just LIDAR to detect an object moving and predict the path, why does it matter if it’s a person?

Is it about trolley probleming situations so it picks a pole instead of a person if it can’t avoid a crash?

Dave , 10 months ago

That seems like the car is relying way too much on video to detect surroundings…

Dave , 10 months ago

Haha yes, but from the article I got the impression it was across all tested brands. Tesla is being called out at the moment for not having the appropriate hardware that other brands are using (e.g. LIDAR).

Dave , 10 months ago

Thanks, you make some good points. (safe) human drivers drive differently in situations with a lot of people in them, and we need to replicate that in self-driving cars.

Dave , 10 months ago

Sure but why on earth are we relying on cameras to drive cars? Many modern cars have radar, which is far more reliable.

Dave , 10 months ago

Oh boy, I’d love to see marshmallows not advertised as 99% fat free.

Dave , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Is it possible that other factors led to the countries being wealthy or impoverished, and this allowed the wealthy to colonise or take the impoverished as slaves?

Dave , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I recommend the book “Guns, germs, and steel” if you’re interested. I’m not sure it covers this specifically, but it does cover in depth the reasons for different areas of the world being more of less wealthy (it has nothing to do with the people and everything to do with the geographic area, climate, natural resources including flora and fauna, and proximity to other populations).

It’s an interesting read, even if a bit heavy.

Edit: it turns out the book is a bit contentious: www.reddit.com/r/…/historians_views/#wiki_histori…

Dave , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yes, definitely. But why they had guns is also another question. I recommend the book “Gun, germs, and steel” as a great look into how and why different populations formed as they did.

Edit: it turns out the book is a bit contentious: www.reddit.com/r/…/historians_views/#wiki_histori…

Dave , 10 months ago

This is great to know, thanks!

Dave , 10 months ago

The original OP argument is that those captors or slaves don’t exist anymore. Even the countries barely exist. Is this a matter of descendants being responsible for their ancestors crimes?

I think there’s a strong feedback loop argument here but I’m not sure that’s the point you’re making.

Dave , 10 months ago

That’s the feedback loop argument, right?

Some countries collonised others: crime of ancestor

But those countries used slaves and stole resources, making those countries wealthier. That wealth allowed them to develop better technologies, making them even wealthier.

So the argument is that while the original crime is not the responsibility of those alive today, the proceeds of crime should not be kept - they should be returned. In this case the proceeds are wealth, so a monetary reparation is appropriate.

Is my train of thought right? Because it seems to make sense to me.

Dave , 10 months ago

My comment is not about the validity of reparations. It was a direct reply to the one above it, which seemed to imply that reparations are because of the actions of past people, when in my view it’s about the proceeds of the crimes rather than the crimes themselves.

Dave , 10 months ago

I think they can and should be separated.

If they are not, then you are saying that you are making people responsible for a crime that was committed well before they were born.

By separating the crime from the proceeds, you can justify why reparations should be paid, without the defense of the crime being committed by someone else.

Dave , 10 months ago

I thought that’s how it was supposed to work?

Dave , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Are you using video/audio call functionality? If not, get on the beeper waiting list. It supports connecting to facebook messenger, but it doesn’t support video/audio calls.

Dave , 10 months ago

Yes, all file attachmemts. See chart here.

Some quirks that I think are notable:

• you can’t create new FB chats. To message someone, you must have already messaged them in the past. You can’t make group chats, but can reply to existing ones.
• There isn’t a thumbs up button like on facebook. I just add a thumbs up emoji reaction to the comment as a replacement. If the other person thumbs up’s, it comes through as an image.
• the above linked table mentions no support for “captioned media messages”. I’m not sure what that means (is it snapchat style image with text over it?) or how to do it but maybe this matters for you

Otherwise FB messenger is one of the better supported platforms on beeper in terms of feature support.

Dave , 10 months ago

Probably nothing. I haven’t heard of other apps being blocked. But Beeper has been running for like a couple of years now (but recently changed to a freemium model, before it was subscription only and had some people had been on the waiting list for a year+, they said they are aiming to get down to no wait in the next 3 months, and that was probably a month or two ago).

If you think it’s at risk of being blocked, that doesn’t mean you can’t make hay while the sun is shining 🙂

Dave , 10 months ago

It seems Whatsapp wants to keep their secure image, and doesn’t allow third party apps. Your only choice is basically to give the third party app your login details, which is against the Ts & Cs.

Facebook provides a way to authorise third party apps and grant them access to your data. It seems to be a different end goal, and I couldn’t find anything about facebook banning peoples accounts or even blocking third party apps.

Dave , 10 months ago

Just remember the client itself is proprietary (as their business model will be client features), but the bridges are open source.

So you can self-host a facebook bridge and matrix server, but you’ll need to connect to it from a matrix client. You can’t do it from the beeper applications.

The Beeper application is a fork of element, but you should be able to use any matrix client. In the past I’ve self-hosted the facebook bridge and successfully used it with Element so don’t let it put you off 🙂

Dave , 10 months ago

I hope you’re seeding those hard to finds!

Dave , 10 months ago

This is why they are hard to find! Where’s the dedication? 🙂

Dave , 10 months ago

How do you do that bar at the top like that?

Dave , 10 months ago

Thanks! I’m still new to KDE so will have a play and see if I can set up something similar.

Dave , 10 months ago

Flight risk must be super low though, which is what the bond is about. Where could he run?

Dave , 10 months ago

Google wants you to use their services. You don’t want to use them, so you aren’t the target market. That’s ok, get something else.

Dave , 10 months ago

Unfortunately the dog doesn’t talk.

Dave , 10 months ago

As someone who doesn’t listen to much music, and just listens to the same mainstream music I did in the 90s, there isn’t much familiar music on bandcamp.

Dave , 10 months ago

I’ve been using Beeper a month or two. They had a long waiting list, and initially it was subscription only, but they are working on smashing through the waiting list and have changed to a freemium model where you get it for free and (eventually) they will have extra features for subscribers.

Basically, it’s one chat app that connects to lots of different chat services.

If you’re technical, the app is a fork of Element, and the service uses matrix bridges to connect to different chat services, but it’s all presented in a (somewhat) polished way. The wait list is because they are still struggling with scaling and quirks but if you’re on Lemmy you’re probably already well familiar with putting up with this.

It covers heaps of chat networks. Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, Telegram, and more. It also will let you SMS (unlike Signal 😬).

You can also connect to Matrix rooms but you don’t seem to be able to connect to an existing Matrix account (it uses a Beeper matrix account to connect).

It doesn’t do video/audio calls so they recommend you leave the original app installed and disable message notifications (but leave on call notifications) if you use this.

Dave , 10 months ago

Yep. But if you’re keen on this stuff, you can self host matrix and the bridges and do it yourself. Their bridges are open source, just not their apps whose features are their business model.

Dave , 10 months ago

I’m afraid I don’t know the details 🙁

Dave , 10 months ago

I recently found Spotube. It uses the Spotify search API then plays the audio from youtube. Basically spotify premium for free.

Haven’t actually used it yet though.

Dave , 10 months ago

Yeah, reading through the github issues it seems the developer meant you can play stuff logged out but you can’t use spotify search without an account so the search doesn’t work unless you log in.

Dave , 10 months ago

Because simply building a house costs hundreds of thousands, people starting out in life can’t go straight to home ownership.

So does the government provide all rental property? If yes, all good, just wondering what your thinking is.

Dave , 10 months ago

I supported assisted suicide until I read your comment.

Get injured in the US, now I’ll live the rest of my life with debt I can never repay and I’ll never be able to spend money on what I want.

Or before the surgery, tell me how much it will cost. Then I can choose between a lifetime of debt or assisted suicide.