maybe add “due to federation issues” at the end of the title.
It might sound like too much, but some people believe that lemmy.world is some sort of dictatorship instance that defederates with every instance they dislike, so these people might read the title and cream their pants thinking their fantasy has come true.
The problem isn’t with testing (which is an issue), but standardization on specific solutions. When everyone needs to use the same thing, it’s a lot more valuable to attack it.
So what we need is more alternatives that work together.
I don’t know anything about the trucking industry, so I’ll use IT instead. A lot of companies standardize on Cisco equipment, so when there’s a breach, everyone is screwed. The problem isn’t that Cisco is insecure, it’s that Cisco is ubiquitous, so one breach screws over everyone. If networking equipment was more a la carte, it’s unlikely a breach would impact all of the equipment used (e.g. a Mikrotik Router, Mikrotik Switch, Ubiquiti Access Points, etc). But bundling solutions is the name of the game for these large operations, which increases the fallout from a breach.
That’s why Windows gets so many viruses, it’s not because Windows sucks (it does), it’s because it’s such a huge target and you’ll get so much more value from attacking it than attacking a potentially easier target.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing backlash after she was asked on Wednesday what caused the Civil War and failed to include slavery in her answer, instead saying the conflict was about state's rights. On Thursday, she attempted to walk back the comments, saying that slavery was an "unquestioned" aspect of...
They were trying to enforce slave owner “property” rights prior to seceding, through passing federal laws like the fugitive slave act, that northern states were doing their best to avoid cooperating with. In their letters of secession, they complained that according to the constitution and federal laws, the northern states should have been forced into recognizing slave owner “property” rights. They go on to state that the northern states not complying with federal laws has nullified the constitution, so they’re effectively their own country now, deal with it. To paraphrase.
The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
A geographical has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of the President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery
Things like tariffs or taxes that some people bring up aren’t even really mentioned in the letter. And it’s quite long, so they had plenty of space. Goes on and on for a while about why they should be able to secede, and then just dives into not only their “property” rights to hold slaves and that they should be able to enforce slave laws in Northern states too.
“property” always in quotes in my comments here, because of course in these letters they are always abhorently referring to people as property.
Here they go on and on again about their grievances with each northern state, and how they believe this releases them from the union:
The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.
Notice the grievances are all about former slaves not being extradited back to southern states of course, or about other states not recognizing people as property. But to answer your question, I’m not saying South Carolina thought leaving the union would improve its control over Northern states, that wouldn’t make a ton of sense, but that is what they were trying to do prior to leaving though. Maybe they thought they’d be able to have stricter flow of people or better bargaining position with northern states as an independent country. I’m pointing all this out because they didn’t leave because of some sort of idealogical stance about “state’s rights” as some people say. It was all about slavery. And they had no problem pushing to trample states’ rights when it came to slave laws, including in their own constitution they eventually wrote for the confederacy.
A lobbying group has cut ties with an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama after videos surfaced that show the man making Islamophobic comments and threats to a food cart employee in New York City....
You cope with unpleasant people. Has nothing to do with IQ. My cat has IQ in single digits (if it’s even measurable) (and so I think I am smarter than her, at least somewhat) but there is no coping with my cat.
Sealioning is the constant bad faith, feigning ignorance, asking for evidence of everything under the guise of “just asking questions”. Then ignoring any evidence presented and moving on to the next demand. Used to shut down discourse entirely.
Tankies are leftists that defend or deny the atrocities committed by authoritarian communist regimes like the Soviet Union or the CCP. It was first used to describe communists in Great Britain that defended the Soviet Union for using tanks to crush anti-communist revolutions.
The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking "what is that?" It won't be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes....
There's multiple things to consider, both are great options, but right now I'm liking kbin more for these reasons:
Better algorithm, when I go to my homepage I feel that the site is full of new, active content, where people are having discussions.
Integration with Mastodon, I like to take a peek from time to time on the Microblog tab.
No feed bug. Lemmy has a problem where it would show every single new post on top of the feed (I know this is being fixed)
Overall both Lemmy and kbin are in their infancy and I expect both to get better to a point where choosing between them won't come down to which one of the two have less bugs, and more focused in the features and appearance you want, this ofc will change with the many apps being developed, since they will be vastly different.
I might end up in Lemmy or I might stay on kbin, it depends which one feels more "active" to me.
This is really the first piece in the media that I've seen acknowledge that, for the protesters, it's no longer so much about the app and it's all about Reddit's ugly and dismissive response.
It's like going to your boss and saying 'There's a problem with the working conditions and we need to make a change' only to have your boss say 'This isn't an issue and I'm not going to fix anything and you're just wanting something for nothing, like you always do... quit being such a pussy or I'll fire you'. The complaint might have started out about working conditions but as soon as your boss goes into asshole mode, it's going to be about what he said to your face. And that's why at this point it ain't going to matter what Reddit says about how this is about an app, and why it won't matter how many 'official spokespeople' it runs up the flagpole to pretend that Spez wasn't patronizing the folks who generate all his content for free and making naked threats to the mods who keep the fora running for free.
There'll be a lot of people who will end up being too disinterested or callow to react to all this, and that's their right. For others, Reddit was kinda a huge chunk of their day and their social existence and they don't want to walk away from it, and that's their right too. I don't think this is going to be the end of Reddit so much as I think it will be seen as the beginning of the end. But there can be no question that the real problem isn't an app anymore, it's the scrawny-ass CEO and his weak man's idea of how a tough man leads. Because threatening the mods isn't a show of strength, it's insecure weakness. Steve Huffman just doesn't have the chops to be in his current role, let alone in charge of damage control from the protests.
The only good thing about any of this is the unintentional irony.
I think this is an underrated point. There's a lot of money stress out there right now. There's a lot of people with jobs who have anxiety that they could lose those jobs. There's a lot of Redditors who have come to see Reddit as an online home and a community that values them. All that anger and fear and stress is just looking for an outlet. And here comes the smug CEO pressing all three of those buttons at once?
And I'll take your point one step further. Pretend it's three months down the road, this has largely all run its course, a bunch of people have left for good, and you are one of Reddit's primary investors. Your analysts tell you that you have lost 40% of your investment due to this debacle and that unless Reddit takes some steps RIGHT NOW to win its user base back and show the mods they're listened to and valued again, you're likely to lose more. These people will happily sacrifice Spez in a cocaine heartbeat under such conditions. A little public pillorying while they blame Spez for everything, a little faux contrition from the board and a promise to do better, the appointment of a CEO with some charisma and people skills who will lead some foo foo initiative to look into user complaints and do a little grandstanding -- this is the playbook.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
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Arizona GOP leaders mistakenly leak abortion plan (youtu.be)
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Truck-to-truck worm could infect entire US fleet (www.theregister.com)
Anon fasts (sh.itjust.works)
Nikki Haley walks back Civil War comments after backlash (www.cbsnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing backlash after she was asked on Wednesday what caused the Civil War and failed to include slavery in her answer, instead saying the conflict was about state's rights. On Thursday, she attempted to walk back the comments, saying that slavery was an "unquestioned" aspect of...
Ex Obama advisor says killing 4,000 Palestinian children wasn't enough. (www.vice.com)
A lobbying group has cut ties with an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama after videos surfaced that show the man making Islamophobic comments and threats to a food cart employee in New York City....
Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough line
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Consider this my job application, NASA (lemmy.world)
What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?
I’ve run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?...
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Last RULE of the night (lemmy.world)
Boost For Lemmy is happening (play.google.com)
Well this came outta nowhere!
Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here
The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking "what is that?" It won't be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes....
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Thousands of Reddit Communities Stay Dark as App Policy Protest Continues (www.nytimes.com)
Users’ anger continued to bubble over changes to the company’s business model.
Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (From the Lemmy Developer) (join-lemmy.org)
Good read, gives me a lot of hope for this project....