[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 58 points 10 months ago

In D&D this would pass a group stealth check because more than half of the group passed.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 74 points 10 months ago

(Unless you’re elected President, in which case, bully for you!)

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 118 points 10 months ago

“Hey dad, the WiFi in my dorm room keeps cutting out”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

“Hey dad, when I try to stream TV, it keeps buffering”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

Someday they’ll get it.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 59 points 11 months ago

That’s my point. This restaurant is try to bait and switch their customers by giving a misleading food price and adding a service charge. It is like a cell phone company adding garbage fees.

As for my initial comment - if you add a percentage for service, that ends my obligation to tip.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 199 points 11 months ago

If you charge me for service, I’m not paying extra for service.

Call it what it is - a junk fee so they can make their prices look lower than they are. I wouldn’t go to this restaurant a second time.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 43 points 11 months ago

I wish they'd go back to their brief pattern of alternating feature releases with stability & performance releases. Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were rock solid releases.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/11257344

Don't forget the 8:07 start time (even though I really like the 6 o'clock starts)

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 108 points 1 year ago

What people don’t seem to understand is that he sincerely believes that every other politician is as corrupt as he is, and is genuinely confused why the DOJ can’t find any evidence to indict Hillary or Biden.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

“Slams” == “Whines ineffectively about”

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

They are probably talking about using it to share CSAM or other illegal content. They need one person to login to be not anonymous so they can give it to the authorities if necessary.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I keep seeing this, so I wanted to clear up some details:

  • Bail isn’t a penalty, it is an incentive to return for trial (to get your money back). Bail was waived for Trump in previous cases because not only is he constantly followed by Secret Service, he is a high profile person who won’t be able to hide for long anywhere in the world.
  • Bail is typically a tenth (or less) of what Trump was given for even some violent felonies.
  • You must pay the entire amount to be released on bail, unless you get a bail bond.
  • A bail bond is when a third party agrees to pay the bail amount if you do not show up for trial. The 10% frequently cited is a fee to the bail bondsman for taking this risk. You still have to provide some kind of collateral to the bondsman to cover the remainder of the bail amount.
  • You don’t get the 10% back. If you have the cash to cover bail, it makes sense to use it because then you can get it all back.

Trump getting a bail bond would be a public admission that he doesn’t have the cash. He’ll find the cash.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 263 points 1 year ago

Yep. The business model has always been "Lure them in and stifle competition with a low initial cost. Then when we have the market we can jack up the price." Enshitification at its best.

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Worth it just for the Mariota breakdown.

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submitted 1 year ago by cerevant@lemm.ee to c/eagles@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4645104

Hey all,

Over the past week or so, I’ve been fighting with the bots running on Lemmy.world. Their CloudFlare protections often threw up errors which caused the bots to choke and die during games. I have been trying to figure out how to work around these issues, though the errors weren’t particularly clear in pointing me toward what needed to be corrected.

This morning, I received a DM from a user (not an admin) letting me know that the bot account @philly_philly@lemmy.world had been banned for spamming the mod log. To be clear: there was definitely a bug in the bot - one I had already fixed but hadn’t pulled to the machine running the live bot. The bot got stuck trying to unsticky a post about every 30 seconds. Even though the issue was more annoying than damaging, banning the bot was the right call in this situation.

That being said, despite their policy requiring bots have contact info for their maintainers, no one at Lemmy.world has contacted me about this. I’m not really surprised about this - the lemmy.world admins are constantly fighting DDOS attacks, and dealing with rogue bots isn’t high on their priority list.

Another concern is that Lemmy.world is having ongoing federation issues with some instances, including Fanaticus.social, that has been going on for weeks. These instances have not been defederated, however some combination of Lemmy bugs and CloudFlare protection has effectively defederated them. I understand that they are working to address this, but again - this is not lemmy.world’s priority right now. They are working with the admin of fanaticus.social, but despite promises that they will fix it, things are still not resolved.

So, all of this has led me to the decision to stop running bots on Lemmy.world. This isn’t intended to be some kind of retaliation or protest, it just doesn’t make sense to continue. Lemmy.world has enough of its own problems to deal with, and I don’t want to contribute to their headaches. I personally am frustrated with their lack of availability, so I’m moving my primary login to lemma.ee so I can reliably access communities that don’t live on lemmy.world.

I am going to continue to run the Philly bots for Fanaticus.social. For those not familiar with it, it is a smaller instance focused on sports communities. The admin is the lead on the Lemmy port of Redball and I’ve been working with him since the start of this effort. Since it isn’t heavily loaded, that instance can survive bot hiccups here and there, and the admin can reach me quickly if there is a serious problem.

I’m open to running some bots on other instances, though I’m going to hold off on running the NFL bot on anything other than fanaticus until we’re confident that it is stable. I’ll also be avoiding running bots on “big” instances. I don’t think hosting communities on instances with a larger number of users is a good idea, particularly if that instance is already having performance or security issues. I’ll briefly state that I think that the fediverse should have large instances for users, small instances for communities. Without digging into that tangent, if you are interested in discussing it further, I’ve started putting some detailed thoughts about it together here.

Redball is open source, so anyone is free to run it on whatever instance they choose. I’ll encourage any questions or discussions about Redball on Lemmy be posted here in !redball@fanaticus.social.

Thanks for understanding. And go Birds/Phils!

C

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submitted 1 year ago by cerevant@lemm.ee to c/phillies@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4645104

Hey all,

Over the past week or so, I’ve been fighting with the bots running on Lemmy.world. Their CloudFlare protections often threw up errors which caused the bots to choke and die during games. I have been trying to figure out how to work around these issues, though the errors weren’t particularly clear in pointing me toward what needed to be corrected.

This morning, I received a DM from a user (not an admin) letting me know that the bot account @philly_philly@lemmy.world had been banned for spamming the mod log. To be clear: there was definitely a bug in the bot - one I had already fixed but hadn’t pulled to the machine running the live bot. The bot got stuck trying to unsticky a post about every 30 seconds. Even though the issue was more annoying than damaging, banning the bot was the right call in this situation.

That being said, despite their policy requiring bots have contact info for their maintainers, no one at Lemmy.world has contacted me about this. I’m not really surprised about this - the lemmy.world admins are constantly fighting DDOS attacks, and dealing with rogue bots isn’t high on their priority list.

Another concern is that Lemmy.world is having ongoing federation issues with some instances, including Fanaticus.social, that has been going on for weeks. These instances have not been defederated, however some combination of Lemmy bugs and CloudFlare protection has effectively defederated them. I understand that they are working to address this, but again - this is not lemmy.world’s priority right now. They are working with the admin of fanaticus.social, but despite promises that they will fix it, things are still not resolved.

So, all of this has led me to the decision to stop running bots on Lemmy.world. This isn’t intended to be some kind of retaliation or protest, it just doesn’t make sense to continue. Lemmy.world has enough of its own problems to deal with, and I don’t want to contribute to their headaches. I personally am frustrated with their lack of availability, so I’m moving my primary login to lemma.ee so I can reliably access communities that don’t live on lemmy.world.

I am going to continue to run the Philly bots for Fanaticus.social. For those not familiar with it, it is a smaller instance focused on sports communities. The admin is the lead on the Lemmy port of Redball and I’ve been working with him since the start of this effort. Since it isn’t heavily loaded, that instance can survive bot hiccups here and there, and the admin can reach me quickly if there is a serious problem.

I’m open to running some bots on other instances, though I’m going to hold off on running the NFL bot on anything other than fanaticus until we’re confident that it is stable. I’ll also be avoiding running bots on “big” instances. I don’t think hosting communities on instances with a larger number of users is a good idea, particularly if that instance is already having performance or security issues. I’ll briefly state that I think that the fediverse should have large instances for users, small instances for communities. Without digging into that tangent, if you are interested in discussing it further, I’ve started putting some detailed thoughts about it together here.

Redball is open source, so anyone is free to run it on whatever instance they choose. I’ll encourage any questions or discussions about Redball on Lemmy be posted here in !redball@fanaticus.social.

Thanks for understanding. And go Birds/Phils!

C

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