FriendlyBeagleDog

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.

It's absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (7 children)

His friends started responding to his emails for a span covering years? That's a bit strange, I don't understand why or how they'd do that unless asked to and given the credentials.

If those friends are included in the people who haven't heard from him in years, I'd consider that behaviour a little suspicious.

If you can't find any evidence of activity, or anybody to vouch for him - I'd consider filing a report.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They know that suppressing disability benefits will cause excess death, they just don't care.

It doesn't matter to them if their decisions drive vulnerable people to destitution or even suicide, so long as they can feed a few extra bodies into the gears to pump their numbers.

People with mental health conditions and other disabilities need support that the health and social care services can't provide because the government have spent over a decade cutting them.

Instead we get thinly veiled eugenics, a cynical revival of social Darwinism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not as though the existence and mechanisms of piracy are a coveted secret. There's a decent chance that they'll learn about and attempt it independently, and the method they learn about online might expose them to greater risk than if they did it with more consideration.

On that basis, I think that knowledge transfer is at worst harm reduction. If it's immoral, which I don't believe it is, then at the very least your intervention could prevent them from being preyed upon by some copyright troll company when they do it despite your silence or protestations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You might be thinking of the 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics by the Russian ultranationalist and neofascist Aleksandr Dugin.

There have been many reports over the years that it's popular amongst those close to Putin - and there are definitely comparisons to be drawn between the book and actually occurring events.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't speak for them, but I've had a smart monitor which shows live consumption. Took note of the consumption while using the oven against baseline consumption, and the same for the air fryer.

Air fryer consumed approximately half the electricity for an equivalent amount of time in my case, but it's made better by the air fryer needing less time to reach temperature and cook whatever it is I'm making.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not particularly surprised.

By most accounts they're very capable pieces of hardware, but the prices are way too high for current conditions.

Think there's also a case of incremental performance improvements in the form factor becoming less perceptible, and also more people favouring phones and tablets over laptops for everyday use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those titles don't, the person you're responding to is being sarcastic because the article sorta implies that removing the microtransactions from an indie title is somehow novel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not configurable through the UI, but if you're the admin of an instance you can change the character limit with some fairly simple source code tweaks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This data is for South Korea only, which unfortunately itself has the highest suicide rate of the OECD countries.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It felt like it happened practically overnight when Let's Encrypt released.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's especially likely that you'll find consistently interesting, well-reasoned discussion through any platform bringing together anonymous strangers in an ephemeral manner.

I think consistently interesting discussion has shared stakeholding as a foundational aspect - participants need to actually care, either because the discussion is a product of some commitment they've each made (e.g. reading something for a book club), or because the participants are familiar with each other and the outcome tangibly matters (e.g. a physical town hall meeting).

Otherwise, I think you're more likely to get what you're looking for from adopting some tangential hobby and having those discussions with the friends you get through that.

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