Can I ask - why would anyone do this? Several URL shortening services of the past have shuttered and it has left the web littered with links to sites that can never be resolved (linkrot) - this to me just seems like a another surefire way to speedrun future deadlinks in forums etc. Why?

No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.

I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.

Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.

In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.

This might help someone, I recently found an Android app called ‘DigiPaws’ that is designed to block selected apps during ‘quiet time’ or ‘focus periods’ that you set up - so the use-case of the topic.

I know “an app to quit an app” but I’ve found it actually really helpful to stop me from touching social media when I’m supposed to be winding down to go to bed - I click on Lemmy/Greyjay and it literally closes the app and popup/toasts ‘quiet time [period remaining]’ and I’m like, “oh yeah shit I should just go to bed”.

I have a bachelor’s degree but when it comes to the dopamine loop of social media scrolling I’m dumb as hell, and just having this little app effectively slap the phone away from my hand has been great in the month I’ve used it (its fairly new).

Its on F-droid store as its open source, code on github. I know that’s a big plus to most here.

All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won’t be initialized and cannot be used.

The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said ‘hey actually we don’t care’ as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.

I’m Aussie and came to the comments with a ‘wtf is that abomination’, glad to see they are already getting roasted haha

I’ll upvote every one lol. I do not get the hate this artist gets. There is so much real shit to be angry about, why do they waste their tears on this

Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.

You just flat out made that up. The Spanish police (federal police its not clear) made a request through the legal channels under their terrorism laws.

Whether or not it is terrorism is absolutely not up to Proton or any other business to decide, they just have to comply with the laws of the land in which they operate - in this case, Switzerland.

I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.

As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.

I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.

The article says they were literally forced to comply with the request by Swiss Law as the request went through the proper legal channels.

They also only disclosed the accounts recovery email address. Everything else was obtained by Apple.

Why is reading sources so hard for people?

Because of its strong stated desire to return to an idealised past it is both. There’s no need to split hairs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism

Anyone browsing on most mobile Lemmy apps does not see profile pics btw, so people might be downvoting because “she’s very obviously a woman” is in fact not at all obvious to mobile users.

I did not downvote btw. Am using Eternity Lemmy client.

Builds in a very expensive replacement component too.

A control button breaks? New button is a (still over-inflated) $75 to replace.

A Tesla control screen breaks (and they do, just as often as buttons) - $1500.

https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/tesla-screen-replacement-cost-process#Cost

To generalise, just as Reddit is the neolib centrist hivemind and Facebook is the conservative boomer hivemind, Lemmy is some overlap of privacy/techy/ultrapolitical groups - so whenever you get this kind of news that is ultimately pretty mild and uncontroversial to most you get lots of Lemmings buttons pushed and what seems like an oversized reaction in the comments.

Is Firefox perfect? No. Is it still the best available mainstream browser option? Yes. And if the small groups that presently use it walk away and its tiny market share (~5%) declines to a point where Firefox becomes insolvent - well then browsers will be just a two-horse race between Google (Chromium) and Apple (WebKit). Every web spec and page will be beholden to the desires of those companies - I’m sure the same Lemmings will be complaining about that too, and by then it will be too late to realize what they’ve lost.

It wasn’t unprompted - he was literally replying to the announcement of the appointment on Twitter. An announcement of a person he thought would be great for a role that he’s apparently been advocating for action against big tech in for years.

He’s born in 1988 you dolt.

The ugliest thing about Lemmy I’ve noticed so far is that it enjoys disinformation just as much as Reddit - as long as it fits the circlejerk, updoots this way.