The far left has created a climate in which there is no consequence for antisemitism as long as the perpetrator is also anti-Israel.

Not a lot you can do with phones unfortunately. You could set them up as basic fileservers using CopyParty or Syncthing. Don’t use it for anything critical - these are not backup solutions.

Set up Tailscale to access it outside your network.

I’ve been told that government auctions canbe a good source for cheap used PCs but I never had much luck there. I suspect that they get snatched up quickly and stripped for parts. Try eBay or Mercari?

Apparently after this he also hit some locals on their fists with his face. I hope the seal and their fists are okay.

I follow more than I have time to listen to. Here are a few:

Stuff You Should Know

Hidden Brain

Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me

This American Life

Oh, yeah. This is a good point. A lot of things require their own apps to do now and quick installation is not always easy. I’ve had issues that were solvable but required some effort like this. Some friends invited me to a scavenger hunt and it took a while to get the app working (another friend on iOS couldn’t get it working either, so probably not a great design). Every parking lot wants a different app these days, which can be a pain.

Event ticketing, work apps, etc may take a little longer than normal to find, install, and get working. Not like you can explain in a group setting, “ackshully, my phone isn’t working because its BETTER.”

I’ve just set it up about a month ago. Some apps work fully and some only halfway. I think it has to do with some kind of authentication that Android is doing. So CoMaps only works for turn by turn, but they have said if it is installed from the Play Store, then it will work fully. Sandboxed Google Maps works seamlessly.

Audio apps play in the mini player, including basic controls (play/pause, skip, etc.), but I get a crash anytime I try to launch one on the car’s fullscreen console.

As I said, I’ve just set it up and haven’t tinkered with it yet; it could be user error still.

My banking apps mostly work, but with some functionally problems. I can’t get Zelle to work or CashApp, so quick payments and transfers are problematic.

A better question is why the US can’t figure out this kind of payment system. Isn’t Trump supposed to be the crypto President?

I was using CLI exclusively for a year or so, but recently added DockMon and it’s helped with updates and at-a-glance management.

It’s amazing to me how little people are talking about this. Imagine if this was literally any country other than Iran.

What are you on about? Liberal democracy is just about the only system that has historically led to multiple parties.

Communism, socialism, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy, monarchy, are all characterized by single party rule historically.

If you say so

There is a YouTube series about a lie detector like this.

Edit: here it is

What a thoughtful reply from a dev after a detailed, cogent description of tensions and bottlenecks in the ux of the platform they are building.

Interesting, so even you have no way to know whether I was one of the downvotes on this comment?

To expand on standards of transparency in moderation decisions:

Lemmy was built with a public moderation log by design. The ethos of the platform includes accountability through transparency. Every action is recorded and preserved (short of defederation or instance shutdown).

This makes moderation auditable. Mods literally cannot do (much) shady stuff in secret. In essence, moderation policy is discernable from the logs. That’s part of why well-run communities have the rules clearly defined and mods follow their written policy.

If a community/instance wants to make political alignment a moderation offense, they’re free to do so. Many communities/instances are quite explicit about this. If a community wants to make moderation completely arbitrary, they are free to do so. That is somewhat less common, but also not unheard of.

In truth, any community can be designed and moderated in any way whatsoever that the mod chooses.

However, the success of a community depends on the quality of the content and the quality of the moderation. Good content brings people in, but bad moderation drives people out. When the moderation is unfair, it is bad for the health of the community, and ultimately bad for the health of the platform.

It is my experience that transparent moderation, such as announcing changes in policy, techniques, etc., is less work in the long run. It takes a bit of time and attention to roll out changes when they are open for community feedback, but that feedback will come in one way or another. If mods don’t provide a formal outlet, then users will make one. Mods operating opaquely give up their right to have the conversation on their time and terms. They also miss out on the wisdom of the crowd. I’ve been in many situations where community feedback provided a valuable insight or tool to face an obstacle through open discussion about policy.

All that being said, one of the major obstacles to growth of the Threadiverse is the woeful dearth of moderation tools. It’s extremely time intensive to do basic things like identifying alt accounts, vote manipulation, bot behavior etc. It is also subject to a lot of human error. This makes it discouraging for people to moderate. I have heard about tools that use AI to detect CP content and remove it quickly, which I think we can all agree is a good use of the tech. Tools like this are not built into the platform, but cobbled together by volunteer mods and admins to keep the platform safe, legal, and sustainable. If they were built in, then moderation would be far easier (and therefore likely better).

I don’t like this happening, and there should be transparency in all moderation decisions, but some of these points make no sense.

There is essentially no expectation of privacy on threadiverse platforms. Everything is public and probably already being used to train models.

There is no private messaging system. Direct messages are unencrypted and potentially visible to any instance admins. They and should not be used to share anything sensitive.

Pretty interesting how many people are jumping into comments to discredit the source but no one suggesting it isn’t true.

Iran executes 21-year-old karate champion as UN warns of death penalty surge EuroNews

January Protests: Death Sentence of Sasan Azadvar Junaqani Upheld by Supreme Court HRANA

“The agency identified the executed man as Sasan Azadvar, from Isfahan.” France24

I think they meant that publisher should have rewritten it.

Also, the community rules allow for adding context in [brackets] as long as it is not editorialized.

Yeah, Trump didn’t help, but I think it’s more to do with a decade of private equity dropping trillions of dollars into industries that never return any value.