CosmicTurtle0

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It's impossible to prove a negative. Even as recently as a month ago, I sent a birthday card to a friend in Germany and she said she hasn't gotten it yet.

I've mailed her letters and cards before and she usually gets them in a week.

I know she isn't lying.

Imagine if this was a legal notice.

I do understand what your saying but the possibility exists that a legal notice mailed to someone can be lost or misdelivered. The US has process servers where you can hire someone to serve legal papers to someone. In this case, the person notes the time and date of service.

In the absolute worst cases, some courts allow service to occur in a newspaper. This often happens in divorces when one party cannot be located due to abandoning them.

Most of the time in the US, service to their legal residence via certified mail that offers proof of delivery is usually enough for most cases.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm vaguely recalling a press conference where Trump suggested that magnets can be deactivated by putting it water.

Is anyone else remembering this?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I agree that is class war but boomers are enabling the wealthy.

Boomers would rather punish millennials for our avocado toast than see billionaires taxed.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They left Firefox (the source code) to still be MPL and then changed their compiled code to a proprietary "Terms of Use" license.

The terms of use allow Mozilla to terminate this license "at any time for any reason, including if Mozilla decides not to offer Firefox anymore" which goes against a core tenant of OSS of not restricting anyone's ability to use the software.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

A gentle reminder that Mozilla is actively using user data for AI modeling and Firefox (the compiled browser) is no longer considered Open Source but source available.

Consider Ironfox or, my personal choice, waterfox as compatible alternatives.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because using a VPN removes the burden of actually telling your representatives that they passed a shitty bill.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait...are crows the main characters and we're their NPCs?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's not say never. Because they can course correct but it has to be hard pivot:

  • immediately recognize the union
  • in the same statement, provide a path for every other employee to form a union and guarantee that if formation passes, that they will immediately recognize it
  • commit whatever amount they were going to pay their union busting attorneys plus 25% towards helping other unionizing efforts across the tech industry
  • provide free legal services for unions at other companies to help them get recognized

The fact that Wikimedia foundation chose profits over people is absolutely disgusting.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's more that these morons actually behave this way. They trust anyone with an "(R)" at the end of their name.

But for Republicans and conservatives in general it's about projecting power. Sucking off gorilla dicks do nothing to project power whereas killing a bunch of gorillas do.

 

I updated my Pixel 10 Pro with the latest Pixel software (BP4A.260105.004.E1) and noticed that notifications for things like Signal, news alerts, discord, etc. even though the notifications are there when I pull down the notification bar.

I initially thought it was the new notification "groups" but turned that off.

I don't have "Do Not Disturb" set since my phone is perpetually turned on silent.

The odd thing is that they selectively show up throughout the day. Some conversations show while others don't.

This seems like a setting something I need to change so that I see the icons. Does else have this problem?

 

Not sure if this belongs here but felt it was appropriate.

 

Not sure if this is the right community so if not, let me know.

I could have sworn I saved it but can't seem to find it. The lemmy post was about a website that would forward URLs but the presenting URL was something akin to https://thehacxorgroup.org/load/virus/exec/run.bat and you could have that forward to a rickroll or something.

Ideally, I'm looking for the post itself, but happy to take just the website that provides the service.

Thanks!

 

I've started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.

 

Ever since we've gone to hybrid working, I've been having to deactivate work notifications and enable game notifications back and forth and it's driving me nuts.

I have a Pixel 9 Pro XL and would like a way to allow app notifications to come through based on a variable that I can control. At my disposal I have Tasker and Home Assistant but can't find a way to perform automations to enable or disable specific app notifications.

Is there a way to do this? I have to imagine other people have this problem.

 

Which is it?!

This headline came up in my news feed, from a very dubious source so I decided to investigate.

Headline after headline, many from identical sources, about how Walmart and Bank of America are either going to stop taking $1 bills or keep accepting them. The headlines read like a FUD article and I refuse to click through to read the details.

I can't find a reputable news source for this story so I'm assuming it's fake news.

It shouldn't be this easy to manipulate news feeds.

 

I've been searching around for a copy of the Resolute Letter that Trump left for Biden. The letters are typically released within a few days of entering office but this was never done because Biden wanted to talk to Trump first before doing so.

It's been almost four years. Surely it's been done by now and I can't seem to find any article with the letter or anything on the official White House website. I'm tempted to submit a FOIA request for it but wasn't sure where to start.

 

fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

 

I know it occasionally has service disruptions, but it usually comes back up after a day or so. Fmovies has been down for almost the entire week for me.

Anyone else having issues?

 

Good day self-hosters! I'm not exactly sure what to call what I'm looking for besides a "clipboard". Let me describe my problem and what my ideal solution is.

At work, I get a lot of slack DMs that ask for the same information. It's not consistent to the point I would just pin the information in my Windows 11 clipboard. But it's often enough that I'd prefer to give people the same information each time it's asked.

I'm limited in what I can build on my work computer. In an ideal world, I'd do what Gilfoyle did and make and bot but I lack the time and skills for such a task. Right now, I solve this with a very long notepad, which is subject to copy/paste errors. If I don't highlight everything correctly or if I accidentally copy over an existing line. That kind of thing.

What I was thinking was a very simple website where the items I'm copying are in tiles that can be tagged and searched. Once I find what I'm looking for, I can click the button to copy it to my clipboard and then go on with my life.

Due to restrictions on my work computer, I cannot host containers or host a website, though a fully self-contained HTML page with javascript I could do.. Ideally this is something that can be build using Github Pages build with Jekyll but so far, I haven't found a theme that mimics the behavior I'm looking for and I lack the time (though not the skills) to build it.

I'd prefer the github route so that I can share the page with others on my team who get asked similar questions.

I am also able to deploy a website via Github Pages (with .nojekyll).

I have to think something similar to this already exists but I imagine the restrictions on having no backend might be the challenge. Love to hear your thoughts!

Edit: added context for Gilfoyle

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I should have added in this post that my work does not allow software with Copyleft (Don't get me started. I'm a strong copyleft advocate and it annoys me that my company only takes and never gives back to OSS). I'm going to give TiddlyWiki out. License is friendly with my work, seems simple enough to run.

That said, Logseq seems to be pretty interesting as well. Might try this out on my on machine to see if I like it.

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