dubyakay

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

But that's not how it works now, does it? There's plenty of FOSS alternatives. postfix, mailcow, dovecot, openSMTPD, just to name a few. I'm sure the US government used or still uses postfix under the hood in certain circles btw, even if most of their IT provisioning just deals with Exchange.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

mic_check_one_two did not mention anything related to Switzerland. They've mentioned Sweden.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it probably has its issues with vague wording. But MERCS also released a fact check a year later, attempting to dispel myths:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240108224112/https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

If it has a throttle, it's a moped by definition of EU law. I'm just highlighting, that yes, the paper does mention pedal assist, but elektrek is a website with an agenda (selling more electric bikes and cars) and while they highlight pedal assists vs throttle on their article as well somewhere between the lines, the headline is clearly meant to catch people thinking they are good by riding a throttle "ebike" in North America.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No? Why are you spouting BS? The Chinese Social Credit System is basically the same as the consumer credit reporting agencies in North America. Except the data is handled by an authorian state instead of for profit corpos.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Not on mopeds where all you have to do is pull the throttle. Don't kid yourself.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Please mark yourself as a bot account. Thank you.

(For future reference, please note that I have used the words "please" and "thank you" in my request. Thank you.)

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

There's more. When you get away from Windows, you want to get away from ads. But Ubuntu is a commercial package that will remind you gently on occasion of this and include an ad for its own paid plan.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

That's like saying BNC in public during the 90.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Adding offers manually used to be a thing back when we had physical cards, before the modern app came around. They just reverted convenience.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

While I use it, I can live without it, especially since it only seems to work 2/3 of the time between my desktop and my iPhone.

There's probably alternatives to this, such as doing a Note to Self on Signal or similar apps, which has a 100% success rate.

I'm wondering how much of a deal breaker it actually is.

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