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The fun part comes later on, when you get a bit laissez-faire with the backups and kick yourself for missing something and having to configure it from scratch. Then you start tinkering and remember that you actually like configuring things.
“Authorities” = the Gaza Media Office. Up until now, the counts have been from the Gaza Health Ministry.
Not that I doubt the numbers - frankly I think they are likely higher - but it bears saying that the new figure comes from a body with less authority on the matter.
Meanwhile, for all Israel says of “those are numbers from Hamas” or whatever excuse they give, Israel have never (to my knowledge) provided their own numbers to counter the claim, nor said what would be an “acceptable” number of civilian casualties for their campaign.
The real purpose of all this is to use up weapons stockpiles and sell more. Change my mind.
Ew email does not sound like the place for cash transactions.
But yeah, most countries these days have instant bank transfers. The US is ancient when it comes to payments, “cashing your payslip” isn’t a thing in much of the rest of the world.
Other countries don’t have ATM fees, either. I can go to almost any cash point with any bank and withdraw for free. It’s only certain ones that charge, typically places with a captive audience eg festivals or certain retail parks.
The US is incredibly strange for charging people money to get their cash.
Yeah, those are the only ones that might charge. Standalone ones in shops, not at a bank branch, and in particular in places where people might be out drinking.
Yes that’s fair enough, cash doesn’t work online - but bitcoin is a better solution for online transactions than cards.
I mean, we haven’t even got into the subject of data tracking. If you think Facebook is bad, consider for a moment how much your card provider knows about you. Banks and card companies have learned from Facebook, and data brokerage is now a trillion dollar industry - with only 8 billion people in the world (many of whom don’t use the internet or have data being traded), that means your data is worth roughly $1,000 a year. Surely, as the manufacturer of the data, you should be getting some of that?!
That’s the real crux, banks charge businesses to deposit cash. They do it in such a way that there’s no way to escape their ever-increasing fee percentage.
The mattress solution is more and more appealing, imo.
Also the government heavily incentivizes electronic payments because those can’t be pocketed without paying VAT. That’s a MONUMENTAL amount of tax fraud being chipped at by the progressive disappearance of cash.
Unfortunately I think the amount of cash tax fraud that exists is far more reasonable than the amount of straight up fraudulent, yet “legitimate”, expenditure that governments allow. See, for example, covid PPP loans.
Objectively, bitcoin is better for online transactions. It’s not even all that safe for buying drugs - every transaction is recorded permanently in an open ledger, so it’s actually much easier to trace (at least up to the end points where traditional currency is exchanged).
It might be less widely accepted, but that’s only because of how insidiously endemic MasterCard and VISA are.
My experience in the US is you pay fees whenever you withdraw from a bank that isn’t your own. In other countries, you don’t pay fees unless you withdraw from an independent machine, and even then many are free.
I dunno though, I had a cushy US bank with no branches of their own, so they didn’t charge fees anywhere. BoA were bastards though, and I’ve heard terrible things about Chase.
Bitcoin is objectively better based on the way it works. Subjectively, with the established infrastructure behind it, traditional card payments are artificially better - purely because of convenience. But on a level playing field bitcoin works better and is less susceptible to negative influences.
The grocery store is not typically an online transaction. I did specify online transactions. For buying groceries online, bitcoin would be better - there are no fees when trading bitcoin. When trading cash, there are no fees.
When putting cash into a business account, there are fees, and as almost all businesses put their money into an account they pay these fees. These cash deposit fees and card processing fees have grown in such a way as to entrap nearly all commercial transactions.
Objectively, it’s better if there aren’t fees, particularly when the fees are not proportional to the actual service the fees are supposed to represent.
Old SMS was free though, it used the spare bits in a regular phone call datastream. Meanwhile, the network provider charged you 10p a pop, and far more for any kind of data.
Block chain has become a buzz word, just like AI or NFT’s, but they sure as hell makes some people a chunk of money before everyone realises what it actually means.
I dunno, you can’t really levy the blame against everyone. More and more, people are given less choice to buy better quality food over cheap factory produced food. The supermarkets present you with a choice between cheap factory food and slightly more expensive factory food.
Meta depends on free collection of user data. That data has value, their entire business model relies on not paying users fairly for the value they take.
You can’t build a car without paying for the nuts and bolts. We should be paid, not the other way around.
It’s not that they’re sharing reports on Israel/Gaza, it’s that their account is solely dedicated to that activity. That suggests a level of organisation behind the account, as well as a bias, which is worthwhile consideration when trying to understand things objectively. They’re not just some user that’s posting stuff on their personal account; it isn’t really grassroots, but possible astroturfing.
Also their account was created fairly recently, and around the time Hexbear was widely rejected by many instances in the federation. Lemmy.ml subsequently became a safe haven for many alts.
That isn’t to say you should disregard what they’re posting, it’s just something to bear in mind.
“It’s already known for many years that they have in the bunkers that originally was built by Israeli contractors underneath Shifa were used as a command post of the Hamas”.
This is the main part of the quote from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The host of this video had already been making this claim well before, however this may be the first time in recent public statements that an Israeli politician has publicly admitted the fact. The first half of the video is excellent, after that they kind of lose focus and start talking in generalised statements (not that they’re necessarily wrong, they just stop talking about specific events).
Basically 10 minutes of talking heads discussing the clip in the first video, which was already discussed for 6 minutes there. They spend the first 4 minutes leading up to actually playing the 2 minute clip, then the last 4 minutes jerking themselves off and mocking his slow speech in his 2nd language, with a dash of Trump impressionisms.
The first video is more worth watching than the 2nd, imo, but both devolve into some form of rhetoric, rather than criticising specific examples.
Lmfao good shout. Definitely some bias on their part also, albeit I do believe they have some sort of legal background.
Their account doesn’t feel so focused on an agenda, though; while there’s definitely a bias and lack of impartiality, it feels like that’s being applied to content they encounter, rather than trying to dictate a message for others to swallow.
Not that I really read too much into it beyond a few randomly picked comments, but they have no posts.
When I press on some message to forward it, it shows me Random usernames of contacts I don’t know. And it even shows some Mobile Numbers I don’t know. For example, one number starts with +964 that’s Iraq. I’m from Europe tho. These contacts and numbers are from all over the place....
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Yeah sure, but then you could also say the same about a private business. The CEO works for the business owner, whether the owner is private or public stockholders.
But the reality is that publicly traded companies end up being far more greedy and profit driven than private businesses. In particular, the greedy private businesses tend to taget an IPO, while the more conscientious ones remain private.
The brands shuffle their designs to stay ahead of IP laws. Gillette made the definitive shaving razor in 1901, the patent subsequently expired and anyone could make it, now they make new razors every few years to stay ahead of the curve.
With nappies, the correct answer is reusable nappies. It sounds gross, but when you’re a parent you quickly learn to deal with all kinds of shit.
You also get funky designs and stuff. The insides are interchangeable, the oustides are fashion.
2nd washing machine?? How many people do you know with 2 washing machines???
“Biodegradable” is a marketing term.
I’m not knocking people who use disposable (biodegradable - HAH) nappies, but that doesn’t mean that washing reusable nappies is something impossible for most people. If anything, disposable nappies are a relatively new invention.
Maybe with current electricity prices the maths has changed, but washing reusable nappies worked out far cheaper for me when my kids were using them.
That doesn’t quite answer my question, presumably Joplin is hosting the image on the user’s instance - you’re in feddit.de, so it uploads to feddit.de. Not all instances keep this functionality open.
For example, if I try and upload your image (either the 32kB webp or the 60kB jpeg) using the lemm.ee website, I get the error:
I’m pretty sure lemm.ee does this to avoid having illegal images hosted on their servers - it used to allow files up to 100kB. But this means the functionality in Joplin is useless to me, it simply won’t work, not unless I manually upload it elsewhere. In which case, I could use any other app to scribble an image out and then upload it.
Meanwhile, the old reddit app I used to use (Relay) would upload to imgur, all seemlessly in the background, then paste the link code in my comment. This kind of functionality is what I would like to see.
I’m generally against hosting files on instances, anyway. It creates extra server load.
I’m a little wary of catbox.moe, when I first saw it the images would never load in lemmy - you’d always have to go to their website. That doesn’t seem to be the case now (also the link generated appears to be a direct link to the file) but yeah, I’m still wary.
Joplin and Lemmy have nothing to do with each other.
Yeah I’ve realised that now hah. I thought it was a lemmy client. Complete brain fart on my part, sorry.
Well, Lemmy is a decentralized system. Hosting all image resources on a centralized service (imgur) is probably not what the majority wants…
I’m not talking about the majority, though, I’m talking about an app picking a 3rd party image host rather than relying on the user’s instance. Ideally such a lemmy client could have options on where to host things, if the developer was willing to cater to multiple APIs.
Not much of a surprise given how far Boris Johnson’s nose was up Russian rear ends. His election campaign advisor (and Brexit pioneer) Dominic Cummings used to live in Russia before he popped up on the UK political scene, then towards the end of Johnson’s tenure he was given a tour of the UK’s nuclear weapons facilities for some reason. When it came to Russia’s initial invasion, the UK issued sanctions against Russian banks - except for a 28 day exemption to Russia’s biggest bank. The end of this exemption coincided with Russia making their first withdrawal, and I’m not sure the sanction was ever put into place.
Done. I hadn’t seen that issue before, not that I really dig into github all that much.
However the issue is somewhat outdated. We do have instance agnostic links for communities and users now, and we have since I joined, which was less than 2 weeks after this issue was posted. We may need a new updated issue that focuses on posts and comments specifically.
But they can only be globally unique if each instance has its own range of unique ID’s, otherwise they’ll have to check with the other instances to make sure the GUID they want to use hasn’t already been used. With new instances spinning up all the time you can’t really manage this.
I agree that the @instance provides a little more info, and it fits nicely in line with how user profile and community URLs are handled.
There was also a github issue report about putting the title in the URL, like reddit does, but I think this goes too far - lemmy has the ability to change the title and putting the title in the URL would just confuse things or lead to exploits (eg you put naughty words in the title then change it afterwards, but the URL still has the original title).
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Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities. More than a third of the dead are children. (www.economist.com)
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Apple being... Apple! (fanaticus.social)
Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
Lobby groups fought ‘hard and dirty’ against EU ban on caged farm animals (www.theguardian.com)
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Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions (www.aljazeera.com)
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Signal leaked random contacts to me! (feddit.de)
When I press on some message to forward it, it shows me Random usernames of contacts I don’t know. And it even shows some Mobile Numbers I don’t know. For example, one number starts with +964 that’s Iraq. I’m from Europe tho. These contacts and numbers are from all over the place....
Israeli forces carry out deadly raids in the West Bank amid Gaza truce (www.aljazeera.com)
Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Joplin got an in-app drawing feature (on Android) (feddit.de)
Many of you probably know Joplin (the FOSS Markdown note-taking app)…...
Cruelty Squad got awarded by The National Arts Councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) (www.taike.fi)
The National Council for Audiovisual Art has awarded the State Prize for Media Art 2023 to visual artist Ville Kallio....
Russia wages electronic warfare ‘using UK-made tech’, Ukraine dossier claims (www.theguardian.com)
Well looks like a Lemmy comment is making the rounds on Mastodon! (nerdica.net) en-gb
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