mosiacmango

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

"Free and open source software." It's an ethos that says that code should be free and open for people to use and improve as they see fit. The core of it is that if you modify any software that is FOSS, your software must also be FOSS. So overtime the software and what its used for improve, change, widen. Lucky for us, the movement has been ongoing for 50+ years, so it's a mature ethos whose benefits are everywhere. Most of the internet runs on FOSS. Lemmy itself is FOSS.

It doesn't necessarily mean an app is more private, but it does mean you can generally self host, as the commentor said. There isn't a profit motive with most FOSS, at least not at its core, so there is little desire to data harvest generally. There is also a heavy overlap between FOSS advocates and privacy advocates, so they tend to be more privacy conscious via local data storage or encryption.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 80 points 3 days ago (13 children)
[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have no idea what the article says, because it's paywalled. All I can read is that someone with a group of Israeli soccer fans was attacked.

This is not surprising, as Jewish soccer fans were chanted for the death of Arabs and violently ripped down other peoples property, which you called "being offensive."

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ripping a Palestinian flag down while shouting to kill all Arabs isn't someone "being offensive," it's doing violence. It's no surprise that violence was met with more.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nope, not how our system works. A federal ban would override state law.

The situation would at best mimic legal weed. The feds can 100% legally raid weed stores right now in the majority of states, but doing so is seen as pointless and would be politically unpopular.

The difference between weed stores and abortion clinics is that while both weed and abortion are popular, abortion is easier to villify and attack. They also don't make anywhere near as much money as weed and require doctors to operate, so you have a much higher risk and much lower reward to fight the federal law on a local level.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He forgave 170 billion dollars, the largest amount by far any president has ever forgiven. It's not even close.

He also tried to forgive 400billion, but the conservative supreme court Trump appointed the first time shot it down.

He still tried several other avenues, all that have been stopped by federal Trump appointed judges, and will clearly end now.

With manchin and semina voting no on pretty much every bill in 2020, and a divided congress in 2022, what the fuck else was he supposed to do?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pre-prod is ideal, but a pipe dream for many. Lots of folks barely get prod.

We still stagger patching so things like this only wipe some of the critical infrastructure, but that still causes needless issues.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm glad they are going to take the DLC from the alpha state they released it in to an actual product people will want to buy.

They should have done that before they started selling it, especially for such a beloved franchise, but at least they are willing to go the cyberpunk route and actually fix the broken game they released.

They have still burned a lot of goodwill. I was planning on a day 1 purchase, but got caught up at work and ended up seeing the terrible reviews first, thank fuck. I sure won't be buying this until it's done, and I'll wait on all future DLC too, if they happen.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He will be sentenced in September. 

No, not so much. The judge pushed this back. Maybe next September.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hes a long term buddy of the chief deputy, so that did it for him. The chief said he's known him for 40 years and doesn't think this outburst will impact his policing.

So instead of getting reprimanded in any real sense or getting fired, he got a strongly worded letter and had to make a public apology that let him blame it all on Ambien.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Lawyers making up insane defenses doesn't mean they have the law on their side. They hail mary all the time.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, he's got bullet proof glass. He pointed towards the press pit when he said that.

Hes saying hes okay with someone shooting at the press.

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