It was worth it back when it was people renting out a spare room in their house or their whole apartment when they were away for a small bit of cash on the side, there was a mutual understanding that you are staying in another individuals private space with all the rules and caveats that come with that, so the pricing will reflect the arrangement. For me, this made the inconvenience worth putting up with in most cases.
Now that booking an AirBnb costs as much as a hotel room and the service has been overrun by landlords looking to use it as their primary rental income though? I’m booking a hotel every time. If I’m paying hotel money I want hotel service and convenience.
Hello, last night on a whim, I pulled the cord and finally am making a push to use Linux exclusively. I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to Linux but I can hold my own enough....
Yeah, you’ll need to add entries for them to /etc/fstab if you want them to be mounted on boot, and make sure that Steam is pointed to the directory where they’re mounted.
Why do you mean by “Steam won’t see them as internal drives”?
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation’s Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
There’s no such thing as a backdoor only the government can access, this is a concept that the luddites making these laws needs hammered into their brains. Any encryption method that is backdoored is useless. This legislation will turn the UK into a cyber criminal’s wet dream.
I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.
Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything....
If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end.
“Simply by joining it” is not an accurate representation of what will happen in the slightest. Meta is not some scrappy little Lemmy instance operator relying on donations to keep the lights on, they’re one of the biggest companies in the world who simply do not care about fair competition or open standards, and they have a proven track record of using that position to either buy out or destroy competition.
When Meta have so much money that they can simply outspend any other fediverse platform and become dominant that way, how is that a design flaw on our end? You can make a project as resistant to corporate overreach as you like, infrastructure to run it still costs money and there is no fediverse operator on the face of the earth that is going to be able to outspend Meta when it comes to infrastructure and R&D. How is defederation not an appropriate response when smaller instances are crippled under the inevitable load stemming from Metas users?
Corporations have been embracing, extending and extinguishing FOSS projects in the tech space for decades now, and their demise has rarely been because of a fatal flaw in the projects themselves. It’s been an intentional play by Microsoft, Google et al to ensure that there is no viable open alternative to their walled gardens.
Anyone operating an instance should defederate from this shit immediately. This is exactly the kind of corporate overreach that isn’t welcome here. This will end very poorly for the fediverse I think.
Is it really hypocritical if he designed it that way on purpose? It’s very clear at this point that he’s fine with trans people being harassed on Twitter and actually wants more of it.
I don't really like Windows but it's for my gaming PC. My laptop does run linux. I don't know much of anything about 11 and whether it's better or not.
I personally enjoy taking long walks. It doesn't matter if it's in the woods, on a bike trail, or just through town. There's something nice about just meandering and being alone with your thoughts while still being immersed in the outside world.
You don’t have to be good at dancing to dance, I’m definitely not!
Most of the time I just put on music that suits my mood and move however I feel. Getting into that flow state of just doing what comes naturally, not caring if I’m dancing well or look stupid is really helpful to me personally.
Tell me the details like what makes yours perfect, why, and your cultural influence if any. I mean, rice is totally different with Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Persian food just to name a few. It is not just the spices or sauces I'm mostly interested in. These matter too. I am really interested in the grain variety...
Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am curious to know what I am missing out on by not having access to private torrents? I have been able to find everything I wanted using public ones.
Is there a chance for a do-over if I forgot to include an email in my application? I spent like 45 minutes answering the questions with an elevated heart rate and submitted only to start freaking out that I possibly forgot to type my email address in. I kinda got tunnel vision, the questions are anxiety inducing in a way I...
For what it's worth, I didn't enter an email when I made my account on Beehaw and I didn't have any issue with getting approved. I've seen the admins saying that there's a pretty heavy backlog of new accounts to approve at the moment so it could be that they just haven't gotten to you yet.
Apparently there's a known bug where if your chosen username is already in the instance the page will just hang and the admins will be none the wiser that you tried to sign up at all, so if you find that you haven't been approved after a few days it may be worth trying again with a different username. Source here: https://beehaw.org/post/562922
In the absence of literally any evidence at all to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe them for now. They seem to have followed protocol on everything else from what I've read.
They can 100% know what was accessed and what wasn’t. This didn’t just happen, it happened in February and their SOC team or an external company would have conducted a full sweep as they’re legally required to disclose what was breached in many of the territories they operate in, which they did four days after the incident took place. I know it’s on trend to hate Reddit right now, but it’s not some one man operation running on a dusty old server in a garage, it’s something like the 20th most visited website on the entire internet, and that comes with certain legal obligations. They know what they’re doing and clearly take this kind of thing seriously.
You don’t have to believe them, but there’s no proof that any user data was breached and they seem to have followed the proper protocols so far. Unless anything else comes out, I’m inclined to believe that they’re telling the truth, or at least not lying.
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
ITT: People not understanding that if they don't like the rules on one instance, they can use literally any other instance and that problem will evaporate.
Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)
That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.
Hotel > AirBNB (lemmy.ml)
Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)
Oh, my old nemesis, mounting secondary drives under Linux.
Hello, last night on a whim, I pulled the cord and finally am making a push to use Linux exclusively. I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to Linux but I can hold my own enough....
Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law (www.theregister.com)
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation’s Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
I haven't been on Reddit since the 11th... Anyone else?
Just realized that the other day....
Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans (tech.hindustantimes.com)
Google is trying something new on the search feed
If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place
Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything....
Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one. (mastodon.social)
Full report is on The Verge.
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Researcher Who Coined 'Cis' Reacts To Elon Musk Labeling It 'A Slur' (www.huffpost.com)
"Free speech absolutist"
Is Windows 11 worth installing over 10?
I don't really like Windows but it's for my gaming PC. My laptop does run linux. I don't know much of anything about 11 and whether it's better or not.
You Can Watch AI Trump Vs. AI Biden In An Endless, Unhinged Live Debate (kotaku.com)
What is something simple that you do to decompress and keep yourself centered?
I personally enjoy taking long walks. It doesn't matter if it's in the woods, on a bike trail, or just through town. There's something nice about just meandering and being alone with your thoughts while still being immersed in the outside world.
How do you cook perfect rice?
Tell me the details like what makes yours perfect, why, and your cultural influence if any. I mean, rice is totally different with Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Persian food just to name a few. It is not just the spices or sauces I'm mostly interested in. These matter too. I am really interested in the grain variety...
What is the benefit to joining private torrents?
Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am curious to know what I am missing out on by not having access to private torrents? I have been able to find everything I wanted using public ones.
I think I might have screwed up my registration here?
Is there a chance for a do-over if I forgot to include an email in my application? I spent like 45 minutes answering the questions with an elevated heart rate and submitted only to start freaking out that I possibly forgot to type my email address in. I kinda got tunnel vision, the questions are anxiety inducing in a way I...
What do you think of the reddit hack that supposedly happened? (www.forbes.com)
Federation, Defederation, and You - FAQ and Megathread
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....