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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Please be polite. If you don't like a post you can downvote it. If you would like to comment please be more civil.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Nah, 90% chance that they do something stupider.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I get it. It is definitely dry and it is shampoo 😆

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You are thinking of something else. Bar shampoo is intended to be used with water much like bar soap. Dry shampoo is just sprayed or rubbed into hair without any water.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While Amazon is awful it isn't just them. It is a systematic issue with our economic system. Our society constantly makes efforts to keep the poor poor so that they are forced to work for low pay resulting in a cycle of abuse. Basically every public company will end up in the same situation and we see that with every large company. If a large public company isn't shit the CEO will be fired by the shareholders and replaced with one who makes the company shit.

So yes, avoid Amazon, but also talk to your government representatives. The cycle will always continue until the incentives are changed. To properly exit this shit system we need to change our society and government.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

The "dumb" solution is to just import both into one feed reader then export a new OPML. I assume most readers will deduplicate (at least to a basic degree) on import.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

How is this faulty? The degree of damage is incredibly relevant. We don't make everything that could ever cause damage illegal, because we have nothing left. Laws are a balancing act of pros and cons to society.

A car has far less visibility (they are inside a box with a few windows) will will do far more damage if they hit someone. A cyclist has dramatically better visibility (they have basically an unobstructed 180° view) and especially when going slow is very unlikely to cause significant damage (posing risk of significant harm only the the most frail and elderly).

If not requiring complete stops for cyclists leads to 1% more cyclists on the road (because their travel is easier) it almost certainly causes less harm overall due to how dangerous cars are and also their indirect health effects (both inactivity when driving and the pollution).

So no, the logic isn't faulty at all and probably one of the most important arguments.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I guess it depends how you look at it. From my point of view the speaker isn't actually talking about themselves. That is the "royal" part. And I mean she does say "as if" to back up that yes, she is not actually including herself.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

I use https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/ which is well, fantastic. I have it set up as the default diff for Git and it is really nice.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

No, this is the right meaning royal we. If you say "we are going into battle" it is talking about the person being talked to not the person talking. So in this case "We don't eat that" would be implying that the cat doesn't eat that, not actually saying anything about the speaker even though "we" would imply they are included.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago
[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

It's also super locked down. You are only allowed to use it if Google or Apple says that your device is authorized. So no root, no custom ROMs. Unless your phone is owned by a corporation and that corporation is blessed by Apple or Google you are out of luck. (There are currently ways around this but the gaps are slowly being closed as older devices are phased out.)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by kevincox@lemmy.ml to c/rss@lemmy.ml
 

It seems some lights are on in the YouTube RSS department. Shorts in the feed now link to https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ID rather than the regular video player.

So it is nice that you can filter them, but unfortunately that you get the shitter video player now. But I think overall I'm happy.

 

Is there any service that will speak LDAP but just respond with the local UNIX users?

Right now I have good management for local UNIX users but every service wants to do its own auth. This means that it is a pain of remembering different passwords, configuring passwords on setting up a new service and whatnot.

I noticed that a lot of services support LDAP auth, but I don't want to make my UNIX user accounts depend on LDAP for simplicity. So I was wondering if there was some sort of shim that will talk the LDAP protocol but just do authentication against the regular user database (PAM).

The closest I have seen is the services.openldap.declarativeContents NixOS option which I can probably use by transforming my regular UNIX settings into an LDAP config at build time, but I was wondering if there was anything simpler.

(Related note: I really wish that services would let you specify the user via HTTP header, then I could just manage auth at the reverse-proxy without worrying about bugs in the service)

 
 
 

This is frustrating. I live in a small apartment and my nearest beer store is over 20min walk. I can get to at least 6 LCBOs in that time and dozens of grocery stores that sell alcohol. I'm not even the worst off..

Note that in the map posted the middle location is Yonge and Dundas which doesn't accept bottles. So if you live in the downtown core you can be walking 30min easy (each way).

You can see a map here, but which ones accept bottles or not aren't indicated until you click "show details". https://www.thebeerstore.ca/locations

How is this acceptable? I am forced to pay a deposit on every bottle but have nowhere to return them. Either I save up and haul a giant bag 20min or drive. Either way a waste of space in my apartment and I don't even drink that much.

It seems that we need a solution.

  1. Make LCBOs take bottles back. (or anywhere that sells alcohol, including Beer Store delivery)
  2. Remove the deposit and recommend recycling (sucks for bottles which are better washed and reused rather than crushed and reformed).
  3. At least make the Yonge and Dundas store accept empties. This would at least give options in downtown core that are less than 15min away. Still not great but closes a gaping hole.
 

I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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