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As a regular contributor to discussion across a wide spectrum of Lemmy (and other fediverse) communities, I've come to see some people who will submit a post, get replies and then delete that post.

While I understand that this is a feature of the platform, in my opinion, it's extremely disrespectful to anyone who took the time to provide a considered, or otherwise, response.

While we're building a global community, is there any appetite to discourage such behaviour, or are we okay with this experience?

One idea might be to update the platform to "zombie" a post when its author deletes it, leaving it exactly where it is, but removing the author.

Anyone?

How are you supposed to synchronise the packaging of medication that comes in different quantities .. and can only be bought just before the current repeat runs out according to the first time it was dispensed?

I'm seemingly at the pharmacy every other week and frankly I'm sick and tired of it.

Help! Any life hacks I should be aware of?

The comments around the under 16 media ban seem to be missing a salient point.

In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user .. including you!

This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.

I just saw a post with someone questioning the usefulness of an Amber alert 400 km away from where a vehicle was spotted¹ and wondered if the alert itself would indiscriminately be sent to every phone in a target region, and if that would include the phone of the person of interest, which would seem counterproductive at best.

¹ I pointed out that the car might be known to travel to that region, even if it was last seen 400 km away.

Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.

Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.

The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.

Today I published an update to my remote-docker project.

The purpose of this project is to run Docker on a remote computer while providing container access to specific parts of your local filesystem with X11 support.

For example, you can use this to run your browser inside a container and only give it access to your ~/Downloads folder.

Access is over SSH (and SSHFS) and Docker is not installed on your workstation, just a few bash scripts.

Feedback (and patches .. Ha!) welcome.

Have fun!

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What's the corporate phrase again?

"We're sorry for any inconvenience this has caused our valued customers."