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rose, 10 months ago to random

getting really tired of the response to bigots, where they film some clip of queer people acting non-puritanical in some way, by liberals being that queers need to "think of the optics".

1. bigots will make "the optics" negative no matter what happens, including just lying

2. optics policing to ensure that queers are remanded to only puritanical public expression is just as bad as what the bigots are doing

rose, 10 months ago to random

we should stop using the term "self host". It encourages making services that are only used individually. Not everyone can host their own services, and those capable of hosting should figure out ways to share services with others.

Other options might be:

• community host
• mutual host
• affinity host
• friendly host
• neighbor host
• peer host

rose, 10 months ago to random

you might not like it, but this is true

rose, 10 months ago to random

when there is a "shortage" of houses to rent

landlords: demand is up, time to raise the rents

when there is a huge amount of houses vacant

landlords: gotta cover the operating costs to cover the unoccupied units, time to raise the rents

rose, 10 months ago to random

how to federate a toot

rose, 10 months ago to random

rose, 10 months ago to random

some of the discourse is trying to do the liberal cliche of "choosing between the lesser of two evils". we don't have to do that.

rose, 10 months ago to random

Starbucks workers are striking across the country due to being forced to remove all symbols of LGBTQ+ pride in the stores. Don't cross the picket line.

https://sbworkersunited.org/strike-with-pride

rose, 10 months ago to random

yessss, the concept of closed-gardens being dying malls is spreading. I'm pretty sure I'm the first to make this comparison (about 4 years ago), but I'm so happy to see others taking the idea (or interdependently conceiving it, it's not like it's some profound thing) and running with it.

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/reddit-is-a-dying-mall

rose, 10 months ago to random

putting a spritz of lime juice in my water bottle as a chorus of online water purists scream that I'm an ignorant WaterToker who shouldn't redefine what water is.

rose, 10 months ago to random

See an article that uses "enshitification" in the title

huh, we have about a month before that term loses all meaning

opens the article

"You have exceeded the maximum number of articles for the month. Subscribe by..."

😆 welp

rose, 10 months ago to random

You come over to my house for the first time. You pop open Plex and see this. wdyd?

rose, 10 months ago to random

sometimes I think about how different the fediverse would be if we, from the start, invested in allow-list federation models and had supplementary services that helped facilitate discovery of other instances to allow.

rose, 10 months ago to random

AI is replacing police non-emergency in Portland. It's going to be a nightmare we can't even fully comprehend.

...

But will it be worse than the Portland Police?

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/06/17/ai-call-taker-will-begin-taking-over-police-non-emergency-phone-lines-next-week/

rose, 10 months ago to random

The push from the right to make US muslims an adversary of the queer community is BS. It is trying to stoke anti-lgbtq hate and islamaphobia with a one-two punch.

If people try to push this crap just remind them that US muslims are more accepting of queer people than US white evangelicals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/u-s-muslims-more-accepting-homosexuality-white-evangelicals-n788891

rose, 10 months ago to random

it looks like Sync (one of the third party API apps on Reddit) is going to be developing a new version for Lemmy 👀

Since one of the complaints about federated sites is that they are not intuitive and have bad UI, it will be interesting to have a project that is considered better in those departments than the corporate counterpart moving to the fediverse.

rose, 10 months ago to random

While we discuss the negatives of an instagram fediverse client (which there are many serious concerns) we should also discuss the inclusion of groups that it will bring.

For your instance (and maybe this one) the right answer will still be to block them, but for others seeking to connect with marginalized communities, people they organize with, friends, family, people living in other areas of the world, etc it might be worth the cost.

Again, maybe it's not, but we should be careful of running off newcomers completely, and if newcomers just see "fuck off, you are not welcome here" that might not be great.

How do we maximize our communities, accessibility, autonomy and privacy while minimizing the poser companies like facebook have? That's the question I'm asking myself.

rose, 11 months ago to random

Ebikes look incredibly rad. I would love one, but the use case for me isn't quite there yet.

I wouldn't feel safe locking it up outside for my normal commute, and I have a regular bike for every thing else.

rose, 11 months ago to random

Been using this since this morning and it does what it says on the tin. If you click a link that goes to a reddit thread you get the wayback page. Super helpful to find information I need when searching, but gives no traffic to reddit. So, as communities relocate the historical knowledge will still be accessible.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-wayback-machine/

rose, 11 months ago to random

RIP to a real one. He defended whistleblowers his entire life.

Pentagon Paper leaker Daniel Ellsberg dead at 92.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/16/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-dead/

rose, 11 months ago to reddit

it's interesting and predictable to see Reddit bosses utilizing union busting tactics to weaken the solidarity of labor they exploit without compensation

#reddit

rose, 11 months ago to random

"You need a state license", they said. "It's for your safety," they insisted.

Massive hack of Oregon DMV system puts estimated 3.5 million driver license and ID card info at risk, officials say

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2023/06/massive-hack-of-oregon-dmv-system-puts-estimated-35-million-driver-license-and-id-card-info-at-risk-officials-say.html

rose, 11 months ago to random

holy ... wow

A Religious Nonprofit [in Portland] Connects Homeless People to Shelter. It’s Backed by a Private Security Company.

"Loving One Another, while registered as a 501(c)(3), is not your typical nonprofit. It was created by Alex Stone, the founder of a private security company, Echelon Protective Services, that supplies armed guards to downtown businesses fed up with sidewalk camping and the crime associated with drug use."

https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/14/a-religious-nonprofit-connects-homeless-people-to-shelter-its-backed-by-a-private-security-company/

rose, 11 months ago to random

a funny thing about cybersecurity is when people will come to me with outrageous concerns and over reactions to some random thing they read, but when I explain that using a password manager and 2fa are more useful precautions than buying a faraday bag or something they respond with "you security people are so paranoid". 🙃

rose, 11 months ago to random

doom scrolling becomes harder to do every day another shitty corporation realizes it's not profitable to them