I would say it is specifically a problem with crypto, i addition to what you said.
you wouldn't be able to do the above with a bank. They'd just make the transaction not to have happened.
with crypto, e.g. btc, you'd have to convince 2-3 of the big mining pools to undo the transction, so random private actors. and it undo all other transactions done as well.
maybe that it happens is not due to crypto. That it cant be remedied is certainly because crypto.
One problem with reporting private messages on Lermy is, as an admin i don't see who sent the message. I only see who reported it. And i don't have any actlon available, other than marking the report as handled.
with reported posts, i can ban the poster. With reported messages i'd have to ask the reporter who it was, trust their answer, search for the account manually and then i could ban. Not really efficient or fast if there ever was a spam wave.
of course sparmers could then just register a new account on a open instance and i might need to defederates which would lead to a fractured landscape of spammy open instances and likely inactive private instances.
there's also not even rudimantary spam filtering in lemmy.
The main saving grace is that Lemmy is too small to attract a ton of spam yet.
maybe some of the above is just due my pick of clients (jerboa and the web interface), and there's better tools? If so, i'd love to hear. But as things stand right now, there's a lot to be desired
Apple TV the devices or the streaming service? Because the streaming service has pretty good content, especially compared to the other streaming services. Pretty stupid to have named those two the same, though, so many people dont know that it's just a regular streaming service that works on every device.
everything else Apple sucks though
i have a venta lw45. same principle, but instead of a wick, it has these rotating disks that the water sticks to (with a little soap in the water). Works incredibly well, still uses next to no energy (<8W) and the disks are super easy to clean. It's a beast, goes through 9 liters of water in a bit over a day. All the parts are easily accessible for maintenance and there's replacement parts if anything ever were to break (though i havent needed those yet).
the disks are especially nice when you have hard water, the calcium can be a pain to remove from a wick, but you can put the venta plastic disks (and lower housing, if you can fit it) in the dishwasher to get them good as new. And calcium does not stick to them weld, so a quick rinse under a strong showerhead is usually enough to clean the disks. Definitely one of the best appliance purchases i ever made.
It's also the plot of Forego Quest (a short novelette included in the book Dragons Banker). the hero is not just the chosen one, he's THE chosen one, as in, the chosen one of every prophecy and myth. His body is covered in different birthmarks from hundreds of prophecies, he stumbles on unique magic weapons to defaet a dark lord at every coner (they sell for a nice profit), every inn he enters, the maid is suddenly super pretty and starts going on about actually being a princess in distress or some such. And he's having none of it.
i quite enjoyed that one, and as a novelette it's short enough to not overstay its welcome.
The main book was ok, had some nice ideas but nothing too spectacular. It's about some magic kingdom intoducing bank notes instead of gold and a dragon hiring a banker to convert its hoard of gold into this new currency without being noticed or crashing the market.
Looking through hugo/nebula nominations.
friends
i used to use goodreads but since it's owned by Amazon, i don't trust it an switched to thestorygraph.com which has really nice recommendations. of course it recommends based on my usual tastes but often also has some books i would never have checked otherwise, which i quite appreciate.
Fair enough. As I said, compared to some other european countries it's still relatively bad here. Though 52 hours vs 45 is a whole extra day of work. And while I don't care about the religious stuff, and there is some convenience lost with (most) shops not being open on Sunday, having a specific day that is generally off for everyone so you can spend time with family/friends is kind of nice. And I think one important thing is that most of these things aren't negotiable by a contract, otherwise they'd be meaningless imo, at least in the sense of preventing low paid workers from being exploited.
There's also lots more rules I didn't mention, like acceptable hours you can work before you must take a break, number of hours you can work in a row (with breaks) before you need to get a half day off etc. A lot of it is focussed on giving workers an opportunity to regenerate properly.
tbh, for european standards, that still sounds pretty bad.
for examle here: 45 hour work week, sunday labor is generally banned, with 6 sundays/year being the limit and having to be paid 50% extra for that work, plus being required to compensate for that day by taking an extra day off the following week. Overtime 2 hour/day, 170 hours/year, 25% extra pay or compensate by taking off same amount of time. Of course there's also exceptions, same as everywhere.
and this is still relatively bad compared to e.g. france with its 35 hour work week.
Viel Diskussionen um das Thema im Moment in der Politik. Natürlich schön, nach dem das Armeebudget erhöht wurde, ohne dass die Armee überhaupt weiss, was mit dem Geld machen.
Hoffentlich wie in den letzten paar Malen wird das an der Urne abgelehnt, weil Leute erstaunlicherweise keine Freude haben, wenn Sozialbeiträge gestrichen werden.
https://www.republik.ch/2025/02/03/die-verborgenen-milliarden-der-schweiz ist auch ein guter Artikel zu dem Thema
Für Navi funktioniert das super. Das einzige, für das ich noch keine gute Alternative gefunden hab (wie im Artikel erwähnt), ist Restaurants in der nähe zu finden, mit Bewertungen, Fotos, Öffnungszeiten. Vor allem beim reisen. In OSM/OrganicMaps findet man da vieles nicht, und wenn dann nur Name/Adresse.
Falls da wer ne gute Alternative kennt wär das super.
Buddy Guy. the concert was pretty posh (think bankers in suits), with everyone having arranged seating, audience sitting still and quiet like at a classical music concert.
he was like 'fuck this, this isn't a proper concert, my guitar is wireless, let's stand up, go to the entry hall and jam'. so he's just standing in the middle of the crowd and going nuts, at like 83 years of age. That was amazing.