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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is really buggered.

What they should have done is added 3498 as a number to call, using the same emergency routes as 112 and 000. Then migrated 3498 to 4G only so users could call that and test if they could make 4G calls over the emergency line or not.

If there's some technical reason that they all had to be moved (like, you really can't test until 3G and older are turned off) then at least users can test post-cutoff by attempting to call 3498 instead of by spamming the real emergency lines. That's still pretty bad, but at least they'd find out right away without having to either 1) disrupt emergency services for a non emergency or 2) find out during an actual emergency that it doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

So what's the rationale for the EU to accept Serbia as a member again?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Wonder why the Scotsman went with a slightly misleading headline here. The Tram workers won their breaks, so it's not just a claimed victory, but an actual one.

Anyways, good for the workers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I imagine that this is one reason why GOP leadership was against the ACA and tried to repeal it.

You don't need to worry about covering either one if nothing is covered, after all. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed, except remember this - he's not really a lame duck, he's on the same team as Harris so what he does now can splash on her.

So, still yes, except use caution if there's a risk it might hurt Harris's campaign.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks. Then ... I know who to write to, and what to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Getting to nomadic identity, and the equivalent for magazines/communities (i.e. being able to change what instance your account is based off of, as well as the instance that hosts a given community).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds reasonable to me. Gave themselves more room for a tit-for-tat response, basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, this is really heartbreaking. I'd actually prefer that these folks get allowed from the Channel into land faster, even if it means that they are only being held in detention and immediately sent back on the first available plane, if it means preventing deaths of children like this.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago

I appreciate both the lenient approach and the transparency.

If we wanted an echo chamber, we could have called this /m/VoteBlue or similar and established only pro-Harris posts and comments as a rule.

I guess, despite the name, it can still become VoteBlue (after all, on a different website world politics used to be discussed on a sub called AnimeT... ) but I think it's worth asking - if a genuine and civil commenter of a conservative persuasion joined the sub, how willing would we be to actually engage with that person?

See this example - a liberal who once clerked for a conservative Supreme Court justice (Scalia). https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/17/im-a-liberal-lawyer-clerking-for-scalia-taught-me-how-to-think-about-the-law/ (or https://archive.is/KauGu )

Just because you have vastly different views and many disagreements with someone, doesn't mean that you can't engage in good faith with them, or have both sides get something meaningful from the engagement (even if part of the resolution is to continue to agree to disagree on some of the more salient points).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm... that is a good take. (Somewhat scarily, that also seems to describe me really well.)

Being on the spectrum could also explain a higher than typical screen time. I've been on these online communities in the past, and there are folks there who get online as the first thing they do when they wake up, and then go offline just right before bed. (There are good reasons for it of course - when you crave social interaction but the only medium that you can handle it is using a computer, then this sort of thing becomes more understandable.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's easy enough to limit for a local user posting. I guess the tricky part is what if this comes in through federation from an instance that doesn't support limiting. Probably just refuse the CREATE request with an appropriate error code (400?) and message (the "try again later one") and hope the user's home instance will report that back to the user.

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