If that’s the extent of their differences, then they aren’t very different…

Explain how they are different.

I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.

Yeah, it works, but it’s really quite clunky…

Amazingly, this is an actual photograph. It was published by Pearson. Also, there’s a back:

“Linux File Systems”

*List of root directories*

Uh, where are the file systems? EXT4… BTRFS… FAT32…

I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years now and it’s not as effortless as Windows or Mac, but it is definitely easy now.

So many things have improved with Linux desktop it’s crazy.

As long as it’s not writing to disks, you’re probably safe. This is a good method to avoid getting a remote device stuck too.

The issue is that the digital tap-to-pay cards are actually reissued cards with their own unique numbers. They also require significant security measures to protect from cloning attacks.

So banks need a party that they can safely issue a digital card to, knowing that the card data will be stored safely.

Even a FOSS app that covers all the user’s needs is going to have a lot of trouble actually getting a card loaded into it under current standards.

I hate to say it, but crypto wallets are likely the closest thing we’re ever going to get to a FOSS tap-to-pay system. Banks are inherently corporate and capitalist, so it’s not really in their nature to make things open source.

Perhaps if there were an industry standard for issuing digital cards, instead of banks partnering with centralized wallet apps, we could procure our own digital cards to load onto our phones and watches, or integrate into other devices. But that’s a whole other battle that nobody is fighting right now.

File Manager Plus:

It connects to all my SFTP servers effortlessly, and it’s an absolutely stellar file Manager.

JuiceSSH:

Manages all my SSH servers and identities, and has an extremely usable terminal. It’s got extensions too.

This guy famously just provides reputation rehab for KKK members.

He doesn’t talk Klansmen out of their hateful ways. He absolves them on behalf of Black people so they can pretend to be reformed and get jobs again. He’s doing them a service, and they frequently pay him for it.

It’s like the real life version of the “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” episode of South Park, where Randy says the N-word on TV, and expects the world to forgive him after he literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass as an apology. (Spoiler: this doesn’t work)

I’m not a fan of letting fascists take off their uniforms and return to normal life like they didn’t do anything. I’m more of an Inglorious Basterds kinda guy…

That was actually the most recent interview. He said that after admitting to election interference.

Fascists aren’t victims of the ideology they adopted, other people are. Good riddance to every dead fascist.

I agree entirely. Let’s end the factory farming of cats.

1. Adding animal abuse to their TOS was a good move. I’m surprised it wasn’t already there.
2. Encouraging people to feed a cat a vegan diet is a call to abuse a cat through deliberate malnourishment.
3. Mods on c/vegan were directly calling for animal abuse, and censoring anyone countering them.

I stand with the admins on this. Zero sympathy for animal abusers.

leaving .world is a pretty fair response

Okay, .world account…

We’re making fun of them for getting forced out. We’re saying “good riddance”. Nobody is sad that the vegans are leaving, that community is so malicious that most people are cheering on their departure.

You’re the one that seems upset here. You seem hurt by our celebration. If you want, you can always follow the vegans to the cesspit they’re moving to in solidarity.

Yes, this is a feature of the fediverse, and we’re celebrating it here.

When shitty toxic communities create issues for the wider Lemmyverse, instance admins can lay down some ultimatums.

On the toxic community’s instance, the instance’s admins can demand that the toxic community correct their behavior, or the community and its offending users will get banned.

On other instances, offending communities can be blocked, and if users are regularly misbehaving, instance admins can pressure each other to enforce basic community conduct, or face defederation.

Once a community is given an ultimatum, they can either change their behavior to meet the expectations of the wider Lemmyverse, or they can find an instance that will allow their behavior.

If they choose to migrate to another instance, it will likely be a more extremist instance with poor moderation that has been significantly defederated. They have to exist within that narrow network of fringe instances now, giving them significantly less reach to harass or spread disinfo or whatever got them booted from the last place they called home.

And us users play a central role here. When we see communities doing harm, whether they are endorsing fascism, or pedophilia, or animal abuse, we need to stay “not here you don’t” and demand that action be taken.

When those communities end up migrating to some fringe instance full of dipshits, we need to applaud the mods and admins that sent them there, and let them know that their hard work was appreciated.

Federation works. Every fringe community in exile is proof of that. This is all one big community effort, so we can’t stay silent about what’s happening and expect that it all gets taken care of behind the scenes.

SIMlink 4G

Are these sensors connected to a cell network? What the hell? More than half my life ago, when I was in high school, we had wifi…

https://youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg

lmao, just now reading this incredible response to me calling you paranoid.