I went through my late teens as the initial smart phone boom was happening. I had a Motorola q that could get TV channels and had a keyboard. I had the enV that flipped open. And many androids/blackberries that I loved for their unique form factor and functionality....
My brother had one of the original Moto X phones which had this neat gesture where you waved over the screen and it turned on to show you your notifications. I think it was a basic proximity sensor thing, but it was super useful when the phone was on the table.
As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit....
For those who don't want to give Reddit the traffic:
We’re back - and here’s what’s happening
(Please don’t give any awards for this post - although it’s a kind gesture, that’s money that goes to Reddit!)
Hello r/LegalAdviceUK.
As you may have noticed, the mods have taken part in the Reddit blackout for the last week.
For those not in the loop of the drama, there are a lot of concerns about Reddit's recent changes and their response to user concerns.
LAUK took part in these protests, not only in solidarity with other subs and their issues, but we feel that these Reddit changes make moderating more difficult, and therefore present an increased risk of our users being exposed to harmful and dangerous advice, or influenced by idiots or directed by people looking to make financial gain.
The mod team of LAUK are mostly employed professionals either directly working in law (e.g., Solicitors, Police Officers,) or in related professional fields (HR, finance, etc); who rely on well developed mobile apps to moderate, which the official Reddit app has never, ever been good at.
Last month, the moderators manually removed over 5,500 unique comments that broke the subreddit rules - this is a very different subreddit to more casual subreddits and the mods take delicate care to balance the regulatory environment of giving legal advice in the UK, the Reddit platform, and trying our best to help people in need. This task would be impossible without 3rd party tool and applications.
Like many other subreddits, LAUK was recently sent a vaguely sinister and threatening message from the Reddit admins, attempting to divide and conquer mod teams, re-interpreting their long standing rules in order to desperately leverage them against the moderators who curate and manage their website in their own time for free.
Reddit is both stating the protests are having no or minimal effect, whilst at the same time giving away free ad-space to try and keep advertisers, and doing everything it can to force subreddits to re-open. The protestors are both weak, and strong, depending on which argument makes Reddit look less-terrible at any given time.
In response to these threats from Reddit, the LAUK mods have opened the subreddit under protest.
The mods are in discussion about the following changes:
Encouraging users to look at safer and more regulated advice options than Reddit
Supporting users to minimise supporting Reddit financially (e.g., use adblocks)
Moving our FAQ and wiki off-site out of a Reddit controlled location
No longer constructively working with Reddit admins - e.g., no AMAs, betas, surveys, mod council, etc.
Additionally:
We may decide to operate from whatever Reddit alternative turns out to be the most popular, or move platform entirely e.g. to Discord. This would be over the coming months
Some moderators may stop moderating Reddit to give their free time to the alternatives above
Our initial reaction was - as we suspect it would have been for many of our users if threatened in that way - to refer the admins to the reply famously given in Arkell and Pressdram. However, the primary motivator for moderators (as well as being power hungry neckbeards) was to help people using our professional skills and knowledge. Reddit is actively harming this community but the majority of moderators believe morally we should continue to use the community we have built to help people as best we can.
We encourage any admins reading this to look for other jobs at organisations who are not going to make you actively harm the community you are supposed to support, whilst excitedly looking to treat you like Elon treated 6,500 twitter employees.
I read Three Body recently and while I can see how it has two sequels I didn't feel the drive to read them.
The mystery has been solved, it must transition to a different style of book to continue. It's the same thing that stranger things did - once they showed the monster and explained where it came from it went from a monster horror to an action thriller. You can only lift the lid on the mystery once.
Using discord as a replacement is like permanently sorting by new. I really like the voting mechanic and that's what set Reddit apart, along with subreddits.
Because your ass does literally nothing else all day, but your hands touch things like food etc. I'd say it was more like getting shit on your leg. Do you wipe it off or just wait until you next have a shower?
That said I love the idea of bidets, I'm just terrified it'll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
Between the GCN app and Nebula I've spent less and less time on YouTube recently. Happy to pay Nebula for the privilege as well, they do such a good job and support creators far better than YouTube do.
There's minimal TT Kms so not sure how that affects it. Pogi will potentially have Yates as a double threat which could work really well in his favour. Vingegaard doesn't have that so can potentially be isolated by those two on some of the mountain stages.
It's going to be an interesting one for sure. Kind of like last year where Rogliç and Vingegaard were working Pogi over, but with the roles reversed
Granted, Kuss is the best mountain domestique by a long way and an incredible rider, but he's never really a risk in GC. If he breaks off the front nobody has to follow because he's not close enough to matter. However Yates is usually up there on GC and if he breaks off the front, there's a real risk that he could go into the lead.
That said, he could actually be further up the standings this time considering the minimal TT distance this year. It'll be interesting to watch!
2023 Tour de France - Stage 9
9 Jul | 9th stage | 184 km | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme | Mountain | Live Tracker | Results...
List of lemmy apps
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What niche phone features would appeal to you?
I went through my late teens as the initial smart phone boom was happening. I had a Motorola q that could get TV channels and had a keyboard. I had the enV that flipped open. And many androids/blackberries that I loved for their unique form factor and functionality....
/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)
As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit....
Three Body Problem (Netflix) (lemmy.world)
https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50...
See where Reddit communities migrated to (sub.rehab)
Someone recently asked if there was a neat way to see where all of the now broken down subreddits moved....
pocket rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
YSK: Installing a bidet attachment to your toilet is super easy and probably cleaner than using toilet paper.
Why YSK: It's cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
What is your current passion?
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Reminder that this is a thing that could happen. (lemmy.world)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/xfnihd/no_just_no/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
A guy boots Linux over 200k times to find which commit caused a bug (rwmj.wordpress.com)
That's some serious effort going on there.
Is this just for road cycling, or do we discuss the mountain bike stuff as well?
XCO is on today in Lenzerheide. Wondering if anybody is interested?
Results thread criterium Dauphine stage 7 (firstcycling.com)
https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=15&y=2023&e=07...
Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted) (imgur.com)
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