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lastrogue lastrogue @lemmy.einval.net
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What's the stupidest rule your school ever enforced?
  • I went to a private religious school and they made a rule that there couldn’t be any PDA (public displays of affection) between opposite sexes. And they ruled that pretty well with an iron fist.

    So we took that in the opposite direction, and I don’t think the administration ever saw so much guy on guy slapping of butts, “Hey bigais”, or pecks on the cheek in their lives.

  • What are your favourite analogies for explaining difficult or complex concepts?
  • DNS is the phonebook of the internet and other networks.

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  • Hadn’t heard of Bilmuri before. Thanks for mentioning them.

  • What advice do you have to share with the random folks of lemmy?
  • Be warry of advice given by strangers.

  • What is the worst thing that has happened to you while at work?
  • It more negatively affected the customer I was serving, but when I worked in food services, for all of two weeks, the credit card processing machine was sticky from someone spilling soda on it and the buttons stuck and gave an extra press or two.

    So I charged a couple over $2,000.00 for two sandwiches, fries and medium drinks when trying to quickly enter in the charge and hit enter.

    The manager spent ~20 minutes on a call with the payment processor and was able to reversed it and all was resolved but I panicked there for a bit.

  • Reddit sent messages to its protesting mods threatening to boot them if they don't get in line and end their virtual protest, The Verge reports
  • Makes me wonder what they are getting out of it. I mean if it is just volunteer work, the job goes to shit, the company you are volunteering your time with threatens you, why not drop it and take it to another platform where you would be appreciated.

    Maybe they have a good reason to cave. But I can’t see it and my naivety just makes me think they are getting kickbacks somewhere somehow.

  • PSA: The Lemmy federation convention of hotlinking images to other peer federation servers makes it easy for a rogue instance to collect end-user IP addresses & browser strings, don't assume otherwise
  • Your ISP has assigned that IP to you. It may be temporary for anywhere from a month or so to a year. But either way that is the IP sites will see when you visit a web site or view the images OP is talking about. It can fingerprint you to a degree. And ISPs can and do keep track of who they have assigned ip addresses to.

  • Tip for instance admins: you can remove remote communities you don't like without blocking the whole instance
  • Is there a way where you as an admin can hide a community in your instance from the rest of the fediverse? Not saying you should in this case. Just wondering if that is an option to admins.

  • Sketchy DJI Android App
  • Regardless of company size or popularity, that is sketchy. While not perfect by any means , google play affords some security scanning and privacy awareness info on apps that are published there. Others are probably right. And I bet DJI probably wanted to skip that step to trade for ease of management. But any time you install something off a non play store repo you take on a little extra risk.

  • Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
  • I mean if you do hit this, like I have. You can just use google's webcached view. or sometimes the internet archive.

    I found this covers most of my needs: https://cachedview.com/

  • Trump scrambles to find lawyer on eve of first federal court appearance
  • I don’t imagine this will happen to Trump, but really what happens if you can’t find get a lawyer to represent you. Not because you can’t afford one. But because none will take you on as a client!

    The poor public defender that would get that case…

  • Reddit habit is hard to break.
  • There is a lot of helpful information there. I hope that some of that can stay as search indexing on archive sites is difficult.

    All that said, I just deleted my accounts I had with them. If I use it, it will be without being logged in and only the odd search for something I need.

    And hopefully, improvements to platforms like Lemmy grow to where I can search for what I need there or find the best community to ask a question in a few seconds rather than 5-10 minutes. No hate, just where the platform is at right now with the influx.

  • Privacy @lemmy.einval.net lastrogue @lemmy.einval.net

    Update to Edge has it sending images you view to Microsoft

    www.neowin.net Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that

    Microsoft Edge has many convenient features to improve your browsing experience. However, some of those features raise privacy concerns. One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.

    Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that

    And another potential title; why some might prefer Firefox or Brave.

    I will say, from a corporate setting, edge chromium has done better than I anticipated. They still throw out significant updates and changes like this without warning. But it has done better than its previous version.

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    Microsoft is bringing PC Game Pass to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service
  • I misread this at first and got excited thinking it meant it was coming to the nvidia shield for some reason. I guess it kind of is, in a way.

  • Cigars @lemmy.ml lastrogue @lemmy.einval.net

    Cigar e-shop recommendations

    For the US, I use https://www.cigarsinternational.com/

    I have only purchased myself from them once, at the recommendation of someone else, and had a decent experience. I bought a cheap $40 USD sampler pack and they shipped me a $75 pack of Gurkha Park Avenue's accidentally instead. I got a few other's that I got what I paid for in the order, but thought it troublesome if that was

    Looking to see what other's would recommend.

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    Bug in UI
  • Oh I didn't realize they were relying on websockets!

    When an update releases, does this instance automatically update? Or do you have to initiate it via ansible, docket pull, or something else?

  • For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
  • I have also found that sometimes you can browse to a remote community to get the federated subscribe option. I'm at lemmy.einval.org, but I can go to another community by browsing like this:

    https://lemmy.einval.org/c/[email protected]

    This doesn't always work, and seems to require performing that search you mentioned first to make it work consistently. Then it can be browsed to directly.

    I hope this is improved on in the future.

  • General @lemmy.einval.net lastrogue @lemmy.einval.net

    Bug in UI

    Interesting UI bug while I was viewing the Death by user count post. The side bar changed to the Beehaw science community, which I had open in another tab. and it says that einval posted it to the science community, not the general community here.

    I didn't know einval was the mod of [email protected]? /s

    I suspect this relates to something in federating with other communities as I subscribed to that community through the einval server.

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    Death by user count?
  • I almost joined lemmy.ml until I saw their post asking for people to find other servers that interested them and federate off of their content.

    Luckily I found this one with some categories I appreciate already.