Israel could save a boatload on their military and PR budgets if they, you know, stopped killing children and innoncent Palestinians, Lebanese and destroying infrastructure necessary for sustaining life.

You should enter and leave the country with the same passport (important if your country checks passports on exit), but you can switch it up en route. Generally if you need help with something in one of the countries of your nationality you go to that embassy, for example if a disaster hits and you need to be evacuated, whichever embassy would attempt at assisting you to get to that nation.

There was one particular drama I have in mind but I knew as I was writing, but people may come back months later and think the same thing. I still kept it that way as it will still ring true regardless of what the next drama will be.

I know reddit used to have a “general” reddit.com page at the beginning, but here it is more like world shitpost where people put whatever.

You may or not have seen recent cross-instance dramas, but that is part of the reason why I think it is better to have a fragmented and decentralized set of instances instead of one melting pot, so that it’s not one set of admins calling the shots on behalf of all of Lemmy.

Right but essentially the Anthropic Marketing team made extraordinary claims about what Mythos is, pretended like it’s too dangerous for public use, that it can find and patch vulnerabilities undiscovered by human researchers for 20 years, etc. etc. but it’s own technical team and big firm partners haven’t brought forward evidence that it’s all that much. It’s probably not useless, and it might be an improvement in some ways to its other models, but having an “additional researcher” is not really something that is too scary for public use.

It’s like if a drug company was hyping up a miracle drug, but it’s really just acetaminophen and ibuprofen in a different dosage combination. It treats pain and fever fine enough, and maybe better in some cases but not as game changing as they say.

Are you able to attach a reference from the local manager in your application? Can you attach a cover letter?

If you see the listing, can you basically paraphrase each qualification and/or key duty and tie it to your experience on your resumé? I don’t know what ARC role is but for example, “Sorted 100s of files per day as a Mytown Public Library volunteer.”

I’ve seen these Shah-supporting Iranian rallies, I dunno what they want from the US and Israel, but I can tell you already they’re not going to get it.

Since all the Trump previously stated aims have fallen flat on their face, Trump’s current goal right now is finding out how he can personally profit off of it, i.e. tariffing the Strait with the Iranian regime’s help.

☁️✊️😠 “We didn’t need a robot’s help, we were perfectly capable of accidentally sudo rm -rf /* ing our disks on our own!”

I’ll be honest, I don’t like the way AI is pushed and speculation ruining the price of computing, but it has helped me once or twice. For example I used someone’s vibecoded driver patch to get a relatively ancient audio interface working, which was the last thing that I would have missed using Windows for.

They were turned around the first time they tried but sounds like something got worked out.

There’s a lot to fault the Chinese government for, but at least they know how diplomacy works.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

Biggest for me is no promoted garbage. Second is that I can have more indepth conversations than on Reddit. Your replies can get seen if you post on “Hot” even if they’re not cheesy one-liners. Quality of discussion is far better than my last few years of using Reddit full time (until 2023).

Once in a while I glance at the Reddit website and there’s just so much short form video on the front page that it’s so annoying to know what’s going on.

Of course the more popular discussion topics (USA, tech, politics) are largely going to be the same as Reddit.

One advantage of this model is that moderation is more tailored to the instance topics of interest, without losing too much of the wider sphere. So .world can handle most of the popular general topics, but mander can handle moderation of topics from a more scientific lens, .dbzer0 can handle the intricacies around copyright law, .blahaj zone vehemently protects users right to call themselves whatever they wish, so on and so forth. With Reddit, if the site admins don’t like something you do, you get shut down no matter whether the community there accepts it or not. Here, if that happens and is unpopular, people can leave and go to another domain without leaving the federated network. Another is that servers hosted in countries outside the USA (feddit.de, lemmy.ca etc.) don’t necessarily have to follow USA law, while Reddit does.

Many small server instances are paid for out of pocket (you can make your own too, about $60/year renting a cloud server and $10/year for a domain name). Bigger servers rely on user donations.

The Lemmy software development relies on donations as well, but they also receive grants from NLNet. Some of the grants are tied to accomplishing specific features. Third party app developers generally rely on donation support as well, if they’re not doing it just for the fun of it. Unsupported projects tend to get dropped after a while, though, so money does help keep up motivation.

If you can be respectful of the local culture where you’re visiting while you’re there, you’ll be fine. Being an obnoxious American tourist is just as bad as an obnoxious Chinese tourist. Outside of unwarranted xenophobia, your behaviour matters more than your race.

If your company exceeds >35% market share of an industry, the state should be given an option to take control of that company at a set price.

NGL that’s a pretty big “prize” for ditching the NDP.

Trump and his staffers are desperately trying to find a way to TACO but still somehow claim victory like his other two expeditions in Venezuela and Iran (2025), because it clearly didn’t have the effect they thought it would have like when Bush II did it.

Unlike the US, Iranian forces had a plan that was formulated for years. Doesn’t mean things will go as they envision, due to US, Israeli, Gulf state, and internal factors putting a lot of uncertainty in the mix. Iran is okay with the current situation in the short term unlike the US, but there is elevated risk for a potential coup, an Israeli-style drawn out genocide and annexation, just a stalemate war of air defense attrition, or who knows what in Iran. There will be pressure from all sides to figure something amicable between the belligerents, hopefully sooner than later.

I predict: Oil/gas prices will stay high for months, air ship and truck transportation costs will be somewhat higher and goods will be a little higher for the same period. Over the next year, governments, businesses and people will turn to electricity and renewables pretty much out of necessity (look at Indian residents turning to Induction Stoves in droves) that will lower our needs for fuel which will hopefully offset the shock from future oil supply crunches. Optimistically, it could accelerate the world’s efforts to net zero.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

“Production-ready”

I totally believe it’s ready for production at Microslop Corporation. They need a larger % of code written by AI, of course.

Here’s the store:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/caBq5Wog1Nu9iesQ7

Deer in Japan, must be Nara.