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DogMuffins ,

I listened to a couple of episodes about 6 years ago. They weren’t that great.

DogMuffins ,

Since no one else has said it… 80 days podcast:

80 Days is a podcast dedicated to exploring little-known countries, territories settlements and cities around the world. We’re part history podcast, part geography podcast and part ramble. Each episode, we’ll land in a new locale and spend some time discussing the history, geography, culture, sport, religion, industry, pastimes and music of our new location.

DogMuffins ,

That’s not how the fediverse works.

DogMuffins ,

What data do you want backed up though ?

DogMuffins ,

I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.

As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.

DogMuffins ,

I was gonna say. the phrase “double income no kids” arose in the 90s when “single income + kids” was a possibility.

DogMuffins ,

Why does he feel that it’s relevant here? I don’t really follow that part.

DogMuffins ,

Well he’s a podcaster… and here we are talking about him. I’m certain that his numbers will enjoy a bump.

What's a word you've spent a long time not using right?

Just recently I was in a conversation with a number of UK mainlanders and we had a debate over what “tories” meant, apparently disproportionately ordinarily it refers to a political party and it’s not usual to use it as short for “territories” as I’ve used it (according to how the debate ended, it was half and half...

DogMuffins ,

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I’ve never heard this word.

DogMuffins ,

Yeah good old fashioned sunlight is what this needs.

Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for help? How do others ignore them without feeling bad?

I want to give them money but since my childhood my parents pretty much told me that they are all either faking it or are too lazy to go to work for money. I mean, I guess they can go to work but not everyone gets accepted to work as easy as it sounds like.

DogMuffins ,

I’ve been involved as a treasurer for a number of “medium” charities in Australia. Most recently one providing free legal services to the disadvantaged, and another running a refuge for homeless youth.

As an aside, bear in mind that I as a treasurer as well as the entire board are volunteers - well qualified and experienced professionals donating their time to ensure that the organisation is run efficiently and is maximising the benefit to the community.

Your comments really grind my gears. They’re born of shallow social media type thinking. These falsehoods are commonly used as a “reason” why one ought not to donate to charities.

Certainly there are overpaid CEOs, but these are a minority. Recently the charity running the refuge got a new CEO. He had been a police superintendent. He took a pay cut of about two thirds in order to be our CEO. He said that he had spent most of his career locking people up, and wanted to spend the last part of his career changing kids trajectories before they got involved with the law.

Imagine saying that this organisation would be more efficient of it were subsumed by the government, so the CEO-equivalent could be paid 3x as much.

DogMuffins ,

A refuge isn’t really a shelter for people who are “homeless”.

How would a government provide temporary accommodation to a 12 year old who is at risk of abuse?

The need for this type of refuge isn’t the product of a shitty housing market.

Note also, most of the funding comes from government agencies.

DogMuffins ,

Sorry mate you’re kind of embarrassing yourself a little bit here.

Of course the CEO equivalent exists in government. It’s just a management position. Equivalent services will need equivalent management.

Do you realize how little a CEO does?

I’ve sat on hiring committees for CEO’s. Refining their job descriptions and interviewing candidates. I know exactly what CEO’s of non-profits and charities do. I suspect that you do not.

Do you realize how little the actual money donated to an organization trickles down to the cause?

Perhaps you didn’t read my comment. I’ve been a treasurer for a number of medium size charities. I know exactly how much money is needed to support the charities objectives.

In recent years grant funding for charities has been extraordinarily difficult to obtain. Often it’s not indexed. Where grant funding is not indexed for a number of years, it becomes impossible to maintain the same services because wages and other costs are always getting more expensive. I’ve had to have that very difficult conversation with social workers - that their hours need to be reduced and as a result their client numbers will be cut. It’s a ridiculous absurdity to suggest that volunteers like myself would be taking those measures without first seeking to maximise the efficiency of the entire organisation.

Do you realize that there are multiple charities for the same thing, which just means more and more waste?

For example?

In fact in pretty much every instance of a modern government taking over a service, it becomes cheaper and more efficient. That’s why many governments run utilities, and healthcare.

You’re talking about public vs private institutions. That just doesn’t make any sense applied to charities because they’re already public institutions.

Look I’m not saying your service is useless, but I am saying it would be more efficient elsewhere.

Sorry mate, this is just an absurd thought bubble borne of naivety. Get involved in a charity and you’ll understand why it exists. Until then maybe just start with the assumption that the people who are involved have a better understanding of it’s context and it’s objectives and how best to serve those objectives than you do. It’s incredible arrogant to suppose that entire organisations ought not to exist because the people involved just haven’t realised how inefficient they are. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass.

DogMuffins ,

Goodness me. One of us is certainly getting defensive. There’s not much point continuing this. Feel free to have the last word while continuing to assume anyone with a better understanding than you is a liar.

DogMuffins ,

Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.

DogMuffins ,

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

DogMuffins ,

Sure, but where is the line between spam and threads content? If the content a community produces is heavily manipulated, isn’t that undesirable for all the same reasons as spam ?

DogMuffins ,

Do you think any users would populate a place that’s over-run with trash?

If there are, would they be the type of users who would populate communities you would feel comfortable in?

DogMuffins ,

Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.

DogMuffins ,

created an account on a popular well federated server

Why would they do that?

They would create a custom instance.

DogMuffins ,

People have been writing about this ad nauseum. It’s the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Join fediverse, extend the spec with so that not all clients are compatible with all features, repeat as necessary until everyone is using your client, finally drop compatibility with other clients.

DogMuffins ,

The fediverse is an emerging threat. It’s not ready yet, but it’s on the right trajectory. Every time there’s angst on some other platform, the fediverse get’s a bump. Fediverse is not a real competitor yet, perhaps it never will be, but for meta it’s sensible to establish a presence here in the short term, because it may be much more difficult later.

DogMuffins ,

Meta is a threat to the platform though.

DogMuffins ,

I think you upset the americans 😆

DogMuffins ,

… that’s why I included the second sentence?

DogMuffins ,

I’ve been catch and release for 5 years or so now.

Archiving is such a huge drain on time / effort / resources.

DogMuffins ,

Yeah look, everyone has to find their own way, I’m not trying to make the case that catch & release is going to be better for everyone, and there’s certainly a case to be made for archiving.

The thing that eventually got me was maintaining a big raid array. Lots of heat, power, drives dying every now and again. When it only takes a few minutes to download something and I never go near my bandwidth quota (or it’s unlimited maybe) going to catch & release made a lot of sense. I’m not religious about it but I generally delete things after I’ve listened / watched.

DogMuffins ,

do donations need to be truthful in plain terms of how the funds are used ?

I think in 2023 parlance the claim is probably plain enough to be “truthful”.

Giving gold supports the contributors you love

It’s pretty well established that receiving gold on reddit is perks like… a gold star or something, rather than actual real gold.

DogMuffins ,

Probably because the lack of google apps is the most noticeable difference to stock android?

DogMuffins ,

Wait, you mean when we genocide people they become radicalised and support whatever organisation with defend them? I’m shocked.

DogMuffins ,

I don’t know much about such things but I wonder whether it’s possible in any meaningful way.

If there’s a split they don’t just divvy up the toys and have at it.

One side might have a few things on wheels and tracks, but can they call in an air strike? Will they even have GPS?

DogMuffins ,

Do the states have aircraft carriers?

DogMuffins ,

Wars are won with logistics. What resupply infrastructure do these guys have in place?

Tech CEO Forced Assistant to Sign 'Sex Slave' Contract, and Tormented Her With Sadomasochistic Bondage, Lawsuit Alleges (themessenger.com)

A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would “celebrate” if it were fictitious....

DogMuffins ,

Baseless assumptions.

DogMuffins ,

“This person can’t have been abused because they signed a contract”

DogMuffins ,

The phrase “baseless assumptions” does not mean that no base was provided. It means that the purported base is inadequate to support a causal likelihood that the assumptions are true.

Besides which, your argument is one of semantics, which you’re welcome to.

DogMuffins ,

Sure mate. Are you the lazy comment po-po? You must be busy.

DogMuffins ,

Some of the best / most nuanced medical advice I’ve ever received is from online forums.

I think what you really mean is “don’t risk your life on the basis of advice from strangers”.

Note that all the other answers ITT say “yes anything that elevates your HR is dangerous”, so OP knows not to play that type of game before his next appointment with his cardiologist, which could be weeks or months away.

Had they not asked, they wouldn’t know to avoid that activity.

DogMuffins ,

Wasn’t there like a bot defense team that published a ban list or something but they just gave up during the exodus?

DogMuffins ,

I’d like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near

I don’t. Let the idiots stay on reddit. Leave lemmy how it is. Is it so terrible that one might have to visit reddit to find some niche communities?

DogMuffins ,

Fair point.

There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.

Lemmy should be it’s own thing with it’s own culture and history and communities.

I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.

DogMuffins ,

Playing sounds? sure.

Rearranging keys - hell no.

DogMuffins ,

Yeah a lot less for a lot better.

Also, people paying for Usenet subscriptions since forever.

DogMuffins ,

Yeah it’s a poorly considered generalisation, but the point is you’re not going to be getting emails from your service provider.

DogMuffins ,

week old BO over the average deodorant

That’s a false dichotomy though. The obvious third option is to shower every day and wear clean clothes?

DogMuffins ,

Wow that’s pretty great.

I thought you guys were on par with Australia but in fact you’re making us look bad - that’s great.

‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity (time.com)

‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity::It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.

DogMuffins ,

Yeah 100%.

Imagine around the advent of readily available photo prints. People might have been thinking “this is terrible, someone I don’t know could have a photo of me and look at it while thinking licentious thoughts!”

DogMuffins ,

that point is nearly impossible to define

As with any law, there will undoubtedly be cases in which it is difficult to discern whether or not a law has been broken, but courts decide on innocence or guilt in such cases every day. A jury would be asked to decide whether a a reasonable third party is likely to conclude on the balance of probabilities that the image depicts a person who is under 18.

Whether or not the depicted person is real or imagined is not relevant in many / most jurisdictions.

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