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In D&D this would pass a group stealth check because more than half of the group passed.

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Sinkit for Reddit does the job on iPhones. It isn’t Apollo, but it makes the web interface usable.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

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Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.

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“Hey dad, the WiFi in my dorm room keeps cutting out”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

“Hey dad, when I try to stream TV, it keeps buffering”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

Someday they’ll get it.

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That’s how they pay for Android. Just because you don’t pay a royalty doesn’t mean the software is free. (Even if it is libre)

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I wish they’d go back to their brief pattern of alternating feature releases with stability & performance releases. Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were rock solid releases.

Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?

Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...

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Here’s his quote:

The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he’s been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he’s bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That’s where it all started!

Racist. Definitely racist.

McDonald's prices are out of control. (cdn.masto.host)

Gee, it’s almost like corporations are gouging consumers so badly that their market advantages are being lost due to greed. Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices...

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It is crazy. Stopped with my kid on a road trip - fast food burger, fries and soft drink was $15.

I go down town to a sit down restaurant and during happy hour I can get a restaurant burger, fries and a craft beer for $15.

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To cats, all things are a cat bed, prey, or both.

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Aside from inflation and limited benefit of upgrading, subscriptions for every little thing are depleting discretionary income.

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Agree. As for the history, wagons were popular in the 70s, but the minivan really took off in the 80s. This led to a perception that Minivans weren’t masculine, so there was a big boom in SUVs which had the volume and utility of a Minivan, but were more manly.

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Go into embedded software. You can’t do ads if there is no UI taps head.

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No doubt your logic is based on the carbon footprint of two cars - the old ice and the new BEV.

Where that logic falls down is the old ICE becomes a more affordable efficient used car that can replace an older ICE that it blowing blue smoke. Further, new BEV become used BEV in a few years. Used BEV are becoming quite affordable and cost effective. They are also far outlasting their projected battery life.

Finally, demand for BEV increases R&D on more efficient storage technologies that are cheaper and have a smaller environmental footprint.

Yes, more and better public transport should be a thing. But the US is just too big - and in many cases too empty - for ubiquitous public transport to be cost or environmentally efficient.

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The court is limited to 9 by law. He’s need a majority in the house and eliminate the filibuster to change that.

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I really like photon. It is very multi-alt friendly, and I can run my own instance of it locally.

A few suggestions regarding banning

I got banned for a day. There was zero communication about it. I simply could not log in any more without any prior warning or any information about what was going on, or about the reason for the ban. This seems like a pretty bad practice because it wont give the user any chance of knowing what they did wrong and how to change...

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Agree. I had a bot account banned, and despite the requirement that bot accounts have contact info, there was no attempt made to contact me. Regardless of whether or not the ban is justified, courtesy does not seem to be a priority for them.

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Yes, so much. It drove me crazy when a car company argued “but our logs say it was the driver’s fault”. We’re arguing that your most critical software failed, and you want us to trust the logging subsystem?

The NTSC needs to be qualifying car software the same way the FAA qualifies aircraft software. We need to stop trusting the manufacturers to self police.

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It is a nice break from my day job, where I am certifying software for critical systems.

sigh

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So, the software doesn’t actually do anything, it just gives the illusion that it does. That’s sounds safe.

If you are relying on T&C as a get out of jail free card for your safety system, then it isn’t a safety system.

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Yeah, I’ve been working in aerospace, automotive, industrial and rail safety for over 20 years. You don’t get to say “this software does thing” and then in the safety manual say “you don’t get to trust that the software will actually do thing”.

Further, when you claim the operator as a layer of protection in your safety system, the probability of dangerous failure is a function of the time between the fault (the software doing something stupid) and the failure (crash). The shorter that time, the less safe the system is.

Here’s a clue: Musk doesn’t know anything about software safety. Their lead in autonomous technology has less to do with technical innovation and more to do with cutting corners where they can get away with it.

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Attempt? That was the original intent. They still wanted aristocracy, they just wanted it to be wealth based instead of hereditary.

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Let’s remember that a bastard who married rich that had a good deal of influence on how our government works. He definitely was making sure that he had a future.

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Along with the rest of crypto, but don’t tell them…

The difference between RAW and RAI (ttrpg.network)

Edit: A lot of people say, that GWM needs a melee weapon attack, but they miss Jesses point: While GWM requires a melee attack with a heavy weapon, Sharpshooters only criteria is an attack with a ranged weapon (not a ranged weapon attack). Jesse bases his claim on the fact, that a crossbow is still a ranged weapon, even if used...

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Correct. It says an attack with a ranged weapon.

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PHB says “attack with a ranged weapon” which is not necessarily a ranged attack.

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Of course it is, that’s the joke - as explained by the headline.

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Of course. It is a joke, but also a valid commentary on the weakness of WotC’s meta rules system. This is an area Paizo excels at.

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This is the reality of safety engineering: he will go on for days about his statistics that say it is safer to drive a Tesla, but when it is you that rolls a nat 1, suddenly they aren’t safe enough.

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I have to disagree - this is more like the gate that blocks the sidewalk that you can get around by walking on the grass. The mechanical locks that these come with are significantly weaker, more common and better understood by thieves, that they wouldn’t bother even trying to figure out how to hack the smart lock.

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And Native Americans were at near constant war with each other prior to European settlement. No competition at all eyeroll

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Try all/new or all/top 6 hrs

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S2E1 was better than any episode of S1. They have really upped their game.

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Almost certainly. It sounds like the performance issues with Act 3 were why the PS5 and probably Mac were delayed.

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This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

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Yep - probably not safe to eat.

Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service (jitsi.org)

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account....

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They are probably talking about using it to share CSAM or other illegal content. They need one person to login to be not anonymous so they can give it to the authorities if necessary.

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Because these three provide federated login most email providers do not.

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I didn’t say that. Security and privacy are nearly opposites. This is a security decision.

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Hm, someone needs to shop this face on to the front of Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Might be nice if they’d even comment on the Mac version which they supported from day one, but then went silent (beyond saying it was delayed) when it was time for release.

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9/6 is the PS5 date. Still no word from Larian on the Mac date - the last I heard was when they originally announced it would be delayed, and that they didn’t want to give a date and not meet it. What worries me is that they are willing to give these other dates - PS5 & Xbox - but not even a window for Mac.

They were touted as having their engine running on Metal, and it was one of the first major apps to port to Apple Silicon. The early access worked fine. Unless there was something in the later acts that really broke performance, I can’t see why they didn’t go ahead and release with the engine they had.

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Why are people obsessed with communities having the same domain name as their login? How do you expect these communities to deal with moderation and admin policies?

Here are some ideas for solutions to the real issues:

  • Add smart cross posting like on Reddit where interacting with a cross post happens on the community where it was created.
  • Develop mesh federation instead of a star topography. There would still only be one community with a unique name, but instances could share changes between each other, not just with the host.
  • Provide a true cross instance community search that is integrated in the primary UI. It would need to provide better metrics for like-named communities so that users can make an informed choice.
  • Admins need to stop land-grab communities. There needs to be a commitment to moderating, maintaining and growing the community. They could start by purging Reddit general interest knock-offs with fewer than 10 subscribers.
  • Add support for instance relative links not only to communities, but comments and posts.

In general, I think user focused instances should be separate from community focused instances, but that’s a different rant

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If there is a predictable algorithm, it can and will be gamed by a bot.

The closest I’ve seen for control of voting is Slashdot: each person gets a limited number of mod points (votes) on a semi random basis. Then there is a meta moderation queue where a second group of semi randomly selected people vote on whether a given set of votes were sensible. If too many meta mods disagree with you, you don’t get as many mod points.

The biggest problem with that system is that it amplifies groupthink.

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What has our country come to that a clear hate crime fits under “politics”

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They confirmed it wasn’t defederation- it is something to do with CloudFlare.

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This is my personal grudge against Newsom: he said the same thing when he vetoed ranked choice in CA. This is an establishment move, and about as racist as any Republican move.

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They are already pretty clear in the rules that they won’t allow illegal content.

I don’t know about blocking, but defederation is covered under “/instances” on Lemmy servers.

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