Cevilia

Cevilia, 10 months ago

If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

But what happens when you forget it?

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Thanks for the lemonade, kind stranger!

Cevilia, 10 months ago

It would be very easy to increase that to 100%, if you’re prepared to ignore enough data…

Cevilia, 10 months ago

But the only way it would actually get there depends on you, and your willingness to ignore data. :)

Cevilia, 10 months ago

According to the National Safety Council there are “too few deaths to calculate odds”. (source). So, I’m pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.

Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

This should be a fun one. Though FYI: They’re called Communities, not SubLemmies. :)

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Defederation = the defederating server refuses to talk to the other server.

Imagine Hotmail and Gmail. Hotmail decides to defederate from Gmail. Going forward, any Gmail user trying to send mail to Hotmail will simply be ignored, and Hotmail will ignore any email bound for Gmail.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

That’s a bap.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

If you’re on desktop, look at the right hand side of your screen, scroll down a little, and click the link that says “Megathread”.

If you’re on mobile, tap the ⋮ in the top-right of the Piracy community, then tap Community Info. Scroll down a little, and tap the link that says “Megathread”.

It’s also the first link in the pinned post in the community.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Not an answer, but just to cover the bases:

I use audiobookbay.li but, as you say, it can be a bit unreliable, especially if the book isn’t recent.

There’s tokybook.com (from the Megathread) but its selection is somewhat lacking too.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

No experience with it, but…

• Founded in 2018
• Copyright date says 2020
• Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
• Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

The HVAC industry is working on that.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

From the old Megathread: “These are not recommended on this subreddit as trusted sites for various reasons, but the main reasons why igg-games is not recommended is due to their history of shady behavior”

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Welcome! Nice to meet you, Dan! 👋

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Back when Amazon Smile was a thing, I had Amazon notifications turned on (a prerequisite for earning charity donations), and had Tasker set up to automatically dismiss them so they wouldn’t bother me.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Leaf Green is my all-time favourite Pokémon game, but I’d suggest you give HG/SS a try if you want something a little different. :)

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Do you think they know what the words “cognitive dissonance” mean?

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Hi Lilly, welcome! 👋

Cevilia, 10 months ago

I tried to sign up for Instagram to check it out. Here’s my experience of attempting to sign up:

• I gave my email address and date of birth.
• I chose a password.
• I chose a usernam–
• Upon typing the first character of my chosen username, I saw an error message: "An error has occurred. Please refresh the page."
• I refreshed the page.
• "Your account has been suspended as you have breached our Community Guidelines. Please complete the information below to have the matter reviewed."
• I gave my email address (again).
• I checked my email and click the link they sent me.
• I gave my phone number.
• I checked my SMS and provide the code they sent me.
• I was asked to take a “Verification Selfie”. You have to write your name, your username, and a six-digit number they give you “on a clean piece of paper” and hold it up. Your hand and face must be visible in the photo. It’s not entirely clear what they want to verify this picture against. Or what username you’re supposed to use, because, again, this whole thing started when I’d typed an “a”.

And at that point I realised I wasn’t welcome on Instagram.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Same here. I have smelled precisely two things since March last year. It sucks.

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Thanks! It sounds weird to say I hope one day I’ll be able to smell blocked drains again though :P

Cevilia, 10 months ago

Right now, the list of quarantined domains appears to be empty.

You can view it for yourself by following the instructions in the article, or briefly, go to about:config and search for “quarantined”.