InvaderDJ

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[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This was a result of election night that is underreported, but hugely telling and frustrating.

All this noise about California being liberal, progressive, and the resistance to Trump. But they kept slavery in prison legal. And I think the people who are predicting prison "labor" will be used to replace migrant labor if mass deportation does happen have it right. And California had a chance to make that impossible and decided not to.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago (12 children)

It's funny, I think Vegas is perfectly fine as the city of sin so things like this really don't phase me. It was built on the idea of crime and excess.

What does seem weird to me is how in a desert, why isn't everything solar? The sun is their only natural resource besides sand. Every rooftop and parking lot and flat surface possible seems like it should be a panel.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It also feels like their insistence is doing nothing but hurting them. The average consumer who doesn't know the difference between a local account and a Microsoft account won't know or care about MS doing this.

But the users who do have a preference and do want a local account are just going to be irritated at it and give them bad press. They'll eventually figure out how to make a local account anyway and it may be the push they need to migrate off of Windows.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It really feels like drug users' demand for drugs that don't kill them would create a market for artisanal drugs, like with the alcohol industry.

If I had any interest in hard drugs, I would be terrified to use them now. I know we're dealing with addicts who aren't making good decisions, but aren't there wealthy coke fiends? How can anyone snort lines at a party if they don't know if it has all this lethal shit in it?

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading years ago that an unpatched WinXP machine on the Internet would catch something in 10 minutes without having to browse.

Is there anything different here that is a change from that rule of thumb?

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Someone answered this for me. It's just that it's open source. If that matters to you, there you go.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is there anything about Aegis that makes it better than Authy? Just looking at the page for Aegis, I'm not seeing a lot of difference. And it being Android only limits it.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The very idea is absurd. It is so counter productive to the idea of rehabilitation. The prisons themselves say they aren't a significant revenue stream. Trying to offset the cost of a societal need by charging fees to prisons doesn't even make any sense. And the companies that are tasked with collecting this debt get 70% of what they collect which means that even the argument about offsetting the state's cost doesn't make sense.

It's profit seeking, counter productive cruelty and that's it. Just shameful.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That's a principled stance.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It has definitely become more noticeable on Reddit that huge numbers of either compromised or sold accounts are being used by bots to sell shit. They are in basically every thread now, getting upvoted to appear more legit until someone calls them out and they delete their content.

Reddit is definitely on the way down. And a decent amount along the way. But unfortunately, it still is the best option for a modern day message board. I want to use Lemmy more, but there just isn't enough content being posted by enough people.

[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The break down of the content isn't my biggest issue. The problem is that there just isn't enough content.

Thankfully some mobile apps besides the official still work and Old Reddit still works on desktop.

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