festus

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think OP is asking "In the worst case scenario of a malicious instance owner that is able to fork the Lemmy codebase (so could disable hashing) and intercept and record all communications going to and from their instance, what risk do I have as a user of that instance?"

The answer of course is yes, in theory a malicious instance owner could see the password you use and can see all your communications, votes, what you look at, etc. So use a unique password for that instance, and don't use the instance for private communucations whose interception could seriously harm you.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Run 'bash' and then follow the guide, assuming it's too complex to tweak for fish.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

My weird proposal is that I think the western provinces should be permament daylight savings, while the eastern provinces should be permentantly standard time. The impact would be to narrow the time difference between east and west by 1 hour, which should allow for more options in the job market.

For instance, a company based in Toronto may not be willing to start an office in Vancouver if there's only 5 hours of overlap per work day, but may be if there's 6 hours of overlap. Ditto for remote workers.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

On the topic of indie films, can people in-the-known share some suggestions for what's worth watching?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Saskatchewan is effectively on year-round daylight savings time and has been for decades, and they love it. History is not as clear-cut that it will get reversed.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

This is unfortunately only true when a landlord fixes things beyond the absolute bare minimum (massive globs of caulk on caulk everywhere is my experience).

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (15 children)

You get those stories from the mother posting about how a bakery did this really nice thing for her.

From my perspective, if someone advertises that they did <nice thing> then it's just ad spend. Give them kudos for spending a portion of their marketing budget on charity rather than just commercials, but it is still marketing. This can apply to individuals building up their social reputation too.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's "200" (200th episode). S10E06. Basically the characters are imagining different TV shows that could be based on their experiences. The puppets are only a short part of that episode.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Switching to something rolling release makes sense. My Arch setup (btw) has always felt much more stable than when I was using Ubuntu, because with Ubuntu I'd inevitatebly run into a bug, find out it was fixed months ago but won't be backported, and then either live with it or try custom-installing the newer version of that thing. Or I'd install something manually that expected dependency X be the latest version, etc.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My friend is an indie game developer and he once told me the typical refund rate, which I think was only a little lower than this. I don't think the game length is playing that large a role here, rather people use that refund policy as a way to try out a game (like a demo). Probably most of the people who refunded wouldn't have bought it in the first place without that refund policy, so he shouldn't really view this as "because of this policy I lost 55K sales".

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Which is precisely the problem; there's really no way to opt out of the UK's law. Your only options are to either comply or defy them. They leave no middle ground.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Short answer is yes, it requires hardware that to my knowledge isn't available on normal consumer motherboards.

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