A lot of people should be concerned about this for .me domains as well (Montenegro)

That's a good and sadly realistic point.

I read a forum post back in the day about a guy that forced his wife and kids to use FreeBSD and they hated it. It was pretty funny but I also don't want to be that guy

I loved the original 196 and how supportive it was for LGBTQ+ people. Also because it was hilarious. Keep rockin

My experience with IRC is that just like Reddit was, it is filled with entrenched mods and admins that act like petty kings and treat the channels/servers as their personal fiefdom. Some of these people have been mods and admins for like 15+ years. Incredibly cliquish and off putting, hostile to new users.

I think IRC could work but only if you create your own server and invite like minded people, and maybe rotate mods/admins regularly, lest the same thing happen to your server.

Self hoster here, im nuking all of pictrs. People are sick. Luckily I did not see anything, however I was subscribed to the community.

• Did a shred on my entire pictrs volume (all images ever):

sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs -type f -exec shred {} \;

• Removed the pictrs config in lemmy.hjson

• removed pictrs container from docker compose

Anything else I should to protect my instance, besides shutting down completely?

On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet

I know you're 100% serious, but this sentence sounds so made up and hilarious

I wonder what actual Chinese people think, anyone originally from China able to weigh in?

cw: sexual violence

Not only do the more violent incarcerated people rape incarcerated trans people, the fucking prison guards actually "give them over" to said violent prisoners, by knowingly assigning them to a cell together to placate the violent one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_people_in_prison#V-coding

Happens to cis men as well, if you are perceived as effeminate or known to be gay. Donny the Punk (Stephen Donaldson) was a prison reform activist who brought a lot of attention to sexual assault in male prisons.

His Wikipedia page is a tough read, but he is basically one of the first people to organize around this and bring the issue to American consciousness.

Defund the police was a watered down psyop. Abolish prisons and police.

This is one of my favorite comics of all time

Don't ask me why, but something tells me that you were fully involved in this.

The USA is sounding like a cyberpunk corpo dystopia more and more every day.

Bingo!

They wanted to give it a try so win-win for both of us if they end up liking it.

If you're American, this may be why. 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

You are seeing the effect of America's deeply rooted culture of anti-intellectualism and the decades-long Republican crusade to gut the public schooling system.

I've always been envious of people with great social skills. I could accomplish a lot more if I had them. The glasses for sure.

They don't want to at all but I've chained them to the desk and propped their eyes open clockwork orange style. They have no choice but to watch me remove Windows

Brother. Not sure about the Apple capabilities though.

I see this as a plus. People have a right to be forgotten. The problem nowadays is that companies track you and keep all your data forever and then use it to advertise to you.

At the very least, data collection and preservation should be explicitly opt-in.

If you really want to save something, download it yourself.

Nice, now do all other police departments in the nation.

Also, the absolute chads over in Powderhorn don't call the cops anyway, so they will be unaffected.

No, I'm putting a gun to their head and they will use Linux. /s

I have gotten a few comments like these, not sure why some of you are getting the idea that this is a forced switch lol

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You are reading into this post a bit too deeply and inferring a lot of things from my post that I never said. I am not forcing my partner into this and they have not expressed disinterest.

What are the odds of this poster being a troll, making this post and then citing it elsewhere as an example of how trans people are violent or whatever? Given the account age and name I'm betting 99:1.

What's everyone else's take?

I don't doubt anything you said, except for the last paragraph.

Ken Bone did an AMA on the same account that he commented on porn subs with - that was not a result of surveillance programs.

Hey at least we'll get some more dank nasheeds on YouTube out of this

Interesting, thanks for the link - at the very least, things are trending upwards so fingers crossed we are through the worst of it for the time being. Which is probably 8-10 years, it is cyclical.

This is aimed at the person i originally responded to. General thoughts about about political agendas couched in loaded language below. Nothing is apolitical, and everyone has an agenda. The key is to figure out what it is.

"Worst recession since 2008" is one of those phrases that sounds almost like the economy is just as bad as 2008, but actually doesn't mean much of anything.

For demonstrative purposes I'll use some arbitrary numbers here.

If we rated the 2008 recession at an 10/10 on the badness scale, rated any recession between 2009-2022 as a 2/10 at the most, and rated the current recession we're in at say, a 4 - I could say that this is the worst recession since 2008, and it would not be untruthful.

Language is deceptive.

If I was Sisyphus, I would simply NOT push the boulder.

Just took a brief glance at that guy's twitter and discovered that this is not satire. Explains a lot

Hexbear is a leftist instance. People interpret any criticism of Democrats as coming from the right instead of the left.

Also, Hexbear refers to both Dems and Republicans as liberals. In the US, "liberal" usually only refers to social liberalism. The definition of liberalism elsewhere in the world includes liberal conservatism.

Lol, no you didn't.

Your memes are cancer.

Haven't been back to Reddit. It's going great. Mostly I am relieved I don't have to see that fucking Jesus ad anymore.

Why are they dying on the roads?

Fair enough I will take the L

Nope

A new federated platform that is self-run, hosts your identity only and allows you to interact from websites from your own app on your own phone or computer, to start. None of this signing up 500 trillion accounts for each and every website garbage.

But Lemmy can literally do this. I am doing it right now. I'm the only user on my instance.

I won't hold my breath.

Not only is this racist but it's lazy and unfunny too, even without the racism. Who buys discs anymore? Are you a boomer?

Makes sense. I don't know why, but I somehow read the original comment to mean that Americans were randomly dead on the side of the road, sans car. Lol

Awesome, thanks for this! Looks promising, I'll check it out.

If it helps, there's a 99.9% chance they just take your money and not send any drugs

Source?