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What are some of the most overrated vacation destinations? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It might be expensive, but still worth a short visit. I've got a shockingly bad memory, but I'll never forget the awe I felt waking up to a view of the Alps.

Australia plans social media ban for under-16s in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't understand how someone hasn't explained to them that it's impossible to enforce. I can only see two possible ways:

  1. Require every social media platform operating in Australia to do rigorous ID checks on all users to ensure no-one is under the legal age, or

  2. Somehow lock down the whole Australian internet so that users must login and then validate the identity, and therefore age, of all users. Then maintain a huge filter table to restrict under age users from social media.

Both of these are clearly never going to happen. Have I missed a simpler way to do it?

which VPS do you recommend? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Almost a chuckle

FTC chair Lina Khan warns that airlines might one day use AI to find out you're attending a funeral and charge more in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I recently had a bereavement flight with Air Canada. There was no discount, but I was upgraded from my most basic ticket to one that could be rescheduled at no cost.

Proton's new Drive Lite plan, offering 20GB of storage for $0.99 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm still on google for email and a bit of drive, calendar etc. I've been reading stuff about Proton with some interest as I'd like to ditch google. This doesn't encourage me - what's the point of a mobile only plan? Isn't half the point of a cloud drive to allow sharing with other platforms? I'm just thinking aloud here - I could go read their offerings where I'd probably find that it's their lowest entry level tier and they have less restrictive plans with clients for various platforms?

WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I must be old - it's WordPerfect to me.

Donors in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm fairly certain it is only anonymous "on paper". Behind closed doors, they know where it came from and what is expected in return.

Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It seems most movies these days are just rehashing old content anyway - why not automate it?

Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get what you're saying, and agree, but "cashier" is perhaps not the best example? Self check outs have been around for ages and Amazon (I think?) has those "just walk out" stores that are supposed to be AI powered. I seem to recall reading that the just walk out stores were actually powered by cheaper "cashiers", in another country, but - it shows they're working on it.

Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, it sounds like this isn't expected behaviour? Now that I've gone looking for examples, I can't find any. Maybe there was some temporary problems yesterday..

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Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where do you live that Antarctica is "up"?

Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Once an end-to-end, encrypted, connection is established between a pair of peers then anything can be sent through it. The establishment proces is generally facilitated by a server of some description so neither peer needs to allow inbound connections. (I'm a long, long way from being an expert on this and happy to be corrected - but this seems like network fundamentals?)

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Project idea for learning (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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Looking for men's work pants (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I've repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.

Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?

I'm in Canada.

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Should I move to Docker? (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV (lemmy.ca)
 

Up until now I've only seen suggestions for content offered by the various streaming services. Today I started getting ads for a Hyundai car!

I tried to log a support call with Sony but they said they couldn't do anything without a photo of the offending ad. I now have a photo so will try again tomorrow. I know a single support call won't do anything (though I intend to be very persistent), but if enough people log formal complaints maybe Sony will "talk to" Google.

I know this is deep first world problems territory, but I feel really betrayed having a device I paid $2,300 for being used to shove ads in my face.

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