Texas and I believe a few other states have passed anti-abortion laws that attempt to cover people leaving their states to seek safe and legal abortions. The ones I’m familiar with (as I recall) applied to things like traveling on state-owned roads to seek an abortion out of state....
The US constitution forbids states from creating ex post facto crimes, and the jurisdiction of state laws does not extend into other states. Texas cannot make it a crime to have an abortion in California, nor to have previously had an abortion in California.
Texas may be able to make it a crime to leave Texas for the purpose of having an abortion. That would make creating any evidence of the reason for travel, or providing explanations to authorities dangerous.
I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
Dilettante gets used as an insult when someone wants to discredit the position of another for having insufficient dedication, credentials, or experience. People who really know what they’re talking about address positions directly rather than the person who holds them.
I wanna see instances federated with most instances now that in individuals can ban entire instances. I know theres still some instances you want completely blocked from the off tho....
Countries have laws both protecting people who host content provided by third parties and imposing certain responsibilities on them when they become aware of illegal content hosted on their servers. Some of them, like Germany’s NetzDG impose specific procedures for reporting (though no Lemmy server is large enough for NetzDG to apply). US laws about child pornography, for example are very specific about removal and reporting requirements, come with a risk of prison, and can include things that are legal other places such as cartoon drawings.
Laws don’t need to specifically address whether the content arrived via a federation mechanism or a user uploading it directly, only what a server owner must do once they’re aware of illegal content on their server.
Yes, most people in western Europe use Whatsapp. Yes, they have to download it before they can use it. Maybe some phones have it preinstalled, but most smartphone users do know how to download apps. More tech-savvy and privacy-conscious people often have Signal as well.
If I want to quickly pitch “you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]” to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?...
Nobody is interested in finding an RSS feed. People are interested in getting updates when writers they like post new writing, when bands they like post new tour dates, etc…
One of the use cases I have in mind is styling an RSS feed as a web page and including a short explanation of how to use it. That comes with a need to suggest specific software.
I’m coming at it from the opposite side; social media isn’t a reasonable alternative to RSS, but people often use it as such. RSS is as you say, for getting updates from specific sources without being at the mercy of a third-party’s recommendation algorithm.
Unfortunately, Flym seems to be discontinued (according to its F-Droid entry). Google Play won’t install it on newer versions of Android because it’s built for older versions. I can’t use it for this use case for that reason.
Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is...
The primary concern with single-use plastics is not energy consumption but plastic waste. That, of course raises the question of how to weigh one kind of environmental harm against another, and I do not have a good answer.
My instinct here is that not generating so much trash is the energy use in this case, but I can’t prove that.
I like SD cards and headphone jacks, but I don’t quite understand the fuss over box contents. If you need another pair of low-end earbuds at the time you’re buying a new phone, just buy them. If it helps with the mental accounting, consider whether you’d buy the same phone if it cost $15 more.
I’m not very aggressive about disabling[0] notifications. I don’t install apps that try to sell me stuff or otherwise manipulate me though so it’s rare I get unwanted notifications.
Quite a few commercial apps have perfectly good websites, and I use those in preference to apps most of the time.
[0] Technically just not enabling; Android now requires them to ask for permission before sending any
In common consumer batteries, we saw the following evolution:
Dry-cell (zinc-carbon) batteries (late 1800s) - having a non-liquid electrolyte, these can be transported and used inside portable devices. They perform so poorly in sustained use that they led to the name “flash light” for the short runtime of portable lighting using them for power.
Heavy-duty (zinc-chloride) (late 1800s) - an improvement to dry-cell chemistry that roughly quadrupled runtime under load. Still used today for ultra-low-cost batteries.
NiCD (1940s) - a rechargeable substitute for zinc-chloride. Superior performance under extreme load, but otherwise low capacity, prone to memory effects, and a source of toxic waste.
Alkaline battery (1960s) - a roughly eightfold improvement over zinc-carbon under load, still very common today.
Lithium battery (1970s) - much more capable of sustaining high loads than alkaline, extremely shelf-stable, expensive
NiMH battery (1989) - a major improvement over NiCD, offering a rechargeable substitute with similar capacity to alkaline under light load and far superior performance under heavy load without the memory effect and toxicity of NiCD.
Low-self-discharge NiMH (2005) - Improvements in shelf-stability made pre-charged rechargeable batteries commercially viable, and allow users to store spare rechargeables charged.
And then there’s the lithium-ion rechargeable. You’re probably reading this on a device powered by one. It’s much lighter than NiMH for the same amount of energy storage, and a bit better on energy per volume as well. Since its introduction in 1991, Li-ion technology has dropped in price by a factor of about 25, which is why electric cars are commercially viable now and weren’t a couple decades ago.
Unfortunately, consumer devices powered by standardized, field-replaceable Li-ion cells haven’t really caught on outside of vaporizer hobbyists and flashlights.
It’s a combination of things to be sure. To give a simple example though, turbine engines are inherently much less likely to quit running than piston engines.
That’s true in the sense that if a very sophisticated organization directly targets your family chat for surveillance, they’re going to find a way to access its content no matter what communication method you use.
Threat modeling is core to security, and that kind of threat probably isn’t the issue here. Mass surveillance, both government and corporate is, and neither is likely to secretly install malware on a family-members phone that can access the contents of the group chat. Doing that to large numbers of people would get them caught; they save it for valuable targets.
Governments openly forcing the install of spyware, as I’ve read China does in some cases would be an exception; you cannot have a secure conversation involving a device so compromised.
What are your favorite features of the Windows 10 file manager? Listing what you miss from other operating systems can help the Linux ecosystem to improve.
!flashlight started strong, but has definitely slowed down a little. !edc (everyday carry pocket dumps) and !knives have slowed down even more. Maybe they’re too consumerish for Lemmy’s culture.
Streaming makes a copy of the video in your browser’s cache, so it’s legal for you to make a local copy to watch unless the server or poster is breaking the law by posting the video. Unless there’s a license accompanying the video that specifically says something about not storing your local copy long-term, it isn’t illegal to do that as well.
When I look at the JSON response for your profile page from lemmy.world in a desktop browser, I see:
post_count: 32
post_score: 2674
comment_count: 1072
comment_score: 4459
But the standard Lemmy UI doesn’t display those score totals. When I view your profile from Connect, I do see 7133 points. That’s not 8316 like you see because federation is hard.
I self-host Mastodon. I have a Bluesky account I don’t use actively.
I don’t really care about new social networks that don’t federate, and right now Bluesky doesn’t federate. I might become more interested when it does.
In the modern era, the main purpose of a screen saver is to lock the screen, and has been for most users for a long time. Many of us would also like to have pretty pictures on our locked screens.
It no longer has anything to do with preventing burn-in, so you’re right from a certain point of view.
On X11 systems, XScreenSaver is two things: it is both a large collection of screen savers; and it is also the framework for blanking and locking the screen.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
As I understand it, people can buy ammunition in Switzerland. Here’s a FAQ from a Swiss gun store (in English) saying that ordering ammunition online requires a copy of an ID card and proof of residency.
I’m in a situation with my manager who is suggesting that clock-in starts when the employee arrives to the site of work. Effectively saying that everyone should be coming in 15 minutes earlier than their start time....
The line here is always arbitrarily set, so you’d want to look up what it is at your specific company.
There are very likely laws defining where that line can be set, as Dippy’s comment suggests. It is very likely that the employer is legally obligated to pay an hourly employee for any time they require that employee to be on site, which would include employer-mandated security checks.
Do I trust that vanilla Lemmy code doesn’t contain something nefarious, such as code that detects political positions it doesn’t like and reduces their visibility? Sure. It would be hard to hide something like that.
Do I trust that major servers aren’t secretly running software that manipulates content? Mostly yes. I think it would get noticed since there are lots of vanilla servers to compare behavior to.
Do I trust that all the software is well-designed and bug-free? I write software for a living. No software is bug-free and most of it isn’t well-designed.
Do I trust that everyone who runs a fediverse server isn’t an asshole? Absolutely not. Any jackass can run a server. I run a Mastodon server (on which all users are me).
They can be my really close friends or family and ask me for an account, which I would actively discourage (join something well-run like .world) but eventually allow if they really wanted to.
Quite a few people I know ranging in age from 20s to 40s do. There isn’t really a replacement with its defining characteristics:
One-to-many blog-like posts
Mostly for interactions between people who actually know each other
Most people have an account and at least occasionally check it
It’s that last point nothing else can match. If I post something to Facebook, most people I know have a chance of seeing it. Five people I actually know follow me on Mastodon.
I don’t think it makes sense to disagree with what someone else finds useful to carry. There is, of course no universal advice; not everyone will find the same things useful.
Technical characteristics like Android making it hard or impossible for third-party app stores to auto-update, as well as restrictive agreements with phone manufacturers and carriers are pretty damning. Google deserves to lose based on that, however,
their devices sometimes warn that the “file might be harmful” and require settings to be changed to allow “unknown” apps
Chrome on Windows warns that a .exe download might be harmful. Chrome on Linux warns that a .deb download might be harmful. We have a long history of malware using drive-by downloads or trying to pose as non-executable file types as evidence that these features are in the user’s interests. At most, some rewording of “unknown” sources might be in order.
I mentioned the concept rather than the constitutional amendment because they can be different.
I believe some of the legal protections do apply to visa applicants. For example, the government may not discriminate on the basis of religion as Trump attempted to do early in his presidency. It probably can refuse a visa for a history of social media posts indicating support for terrorism, and most people would probably find that justified.
What I wouldn’t find justified is denying a visa for a history of criticizing US government policy, which could certainly fall under “derogatory comments”.
Question for legal folks: Travel based abortion restrictions
Texas and I believe a few other states have passed anti-abortion laws that attempt to cover people leaving their states to seek safe and legal abortions. The ones I’m familiar with (as I recall) applied to things like traveling on state-owned roads to seek an abortion out of state....
Are dilettantes always a bad thing?
I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
Minimizing instance defederation now
I wanna see instances federated with most instances now that in individuals can ban entire instances. I know theres still some instances you want completely blocked from the off tho....
9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps (9to5google.com)
What RSS readers should I recommend to others?
If I want to quickly pitch “you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]” to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?...
How will we ever get away from plastics when they are ubiquitous for safety
Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is...
This is why your phone doesn't have a matte display - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
OnePlus 12 Unveils Power-Packed Charging And Endurance Features (sparrowsnews.com)
Night owls of lemmy, how do you cope with modern society?
Do you disable notifications for all your apps?
let them all in or only allow for some specific apps (if so which ones)?
What items are made better than they used to be?
A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
People of Lemmy that take more than 5 seconds to start your car and drive, what are you doing?
As the title says…what are you all doing?
What are some dying and dead niche lemmings?
have any niche lemmings taken off in the 6 months since the API scandal?
Should it be/is it legally acceptable for Peertube users to download videos simply for offline use for free particularly free Peertube servers? edit: added context
I feel most peertube users would not care. But is it legal, or a chance that some one might sue?...
Do we get points for comments and post ? I just downloaded Connect and noticed the points.
This was not the case when I was using Eternity
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A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
Link to article: gist.github.com/…/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f227…...
Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
Mandatory security check followed by a long travel to area of work. When do you clock in?
I’m in a situation with my manager who is suggesting that clock-in starts when the employee arrives to the site of work. Effectively saying that everyone should be coming in 15 minutes earlier than their start time....
How are "We" to place trust in the fediverse?
I came here for the same reasons as most of you and chiefly among them was to escape the corporate embrace of common social media platforms....
Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December (www.androidpolice.com)
Meta offering two options. Either buy addfree experience or accept targeted ads
I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that...
What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?
I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)
Every Day Carry - Learn about cool wallets, pens, flashlights, gadgets, and anything else people carry with them (sopuli.xyz)
What do you carry on a daily basis?...
How do I transfer a signal install (verification and all) to another computer (both are Linux)
US immigration agencies read visa applicant's social media (www.theregister.com)
Its not your ex ;)