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No posts or reply's from a VPN anymore on Lemmy? WTF? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh. lemmy.world doesn't even load in my browser any more, due to cloudflare settings. Score +1 for lemmy.ml,

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago

It seems to have been a win 7 innovation. Personally I gave up on it after XP.

How do you discover new music in 2025? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Well for example I saw this on mastodon recently: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/jwz-mixtape-253/

There are no happy people, only happy moments in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is only this moment, the rest is a lie.

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows in c/[email protected]
It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Behave yourself, or I'll come over there and behave you the hard way.

1955 - Moomin's desert island (25/74) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Traditionally, desert island does mean one that's deserted.

What's a movie you can watch often and it never gets old? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The greatest cinematic masterpiece of the 21st century, of course: Shrek

1955 - Moomin's desert island (25/74) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

It seems like "false beacon" is a phrase that hasn't had much use these past few decades. I guess everyone just uses GPS now rather than relying on lighthouses and such.

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Civil liberties groups, refugee advocates, lawyers, Amnesty International, Oxfam, the United Church, PEN Canada, CUPE, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the YWCA, Citizen Lab — and now the EFF. The diversity and the sheer number of civil society groups and NGOs that find C-2 absolutely unacceptable is unprecedented to my knowledge. If it comes anywhere near passing into law it will be a travesty of government.

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a repatriate full of cryptobiotes.

Would eating a 3.75Oz tin of sardines a day raise concerns about consuming too much mercury or lead? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Most of the mercury that ends up in the environment due to coal is from emissions that happen when it is burned. It settles all over the land and eventually gets washed into the ocean.

Building renewables does not solve this problem; only ending the use of coal will do that. For now, worldwide coal use remains near record highs.

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Well there's a principle I didn't expect to become controversial: Media should not be censored based on its country of origin. (fedia.io)
 

Well there's a principle I didn't expect to become controversial: Media should not be censored based on its country of origin.

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nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout: (fedia.io)
 

nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:

We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.

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oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (openwall.com)
 

The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

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Well, I finally found out how to subscribe to c/baduk from here. Any baduk players still hanging around? (fedia.io)
 

Well, I finally found out how to subscribe to c/baduk from here. Any baduk players still hanging around?

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Sarcasm blindness is an epidemic. If you're thinking about adding /s to something just go ahead and do it. Please. It's only two keystrokes but for some people it means all the difference. With your (fedia.io)
 

Sarcasm blindness is an epidemic. If you're thinking about adding /s to something just go ahead and do it. Please. It's only two keystrokes but for some people it means all the difference. With your help, the irony deficient can lead normal and productive lives.

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"We cannot tolerate anarchy on the internet" — Arif Virani, Canadian Minister of justice (fedia.io)
 

"We cannot tolerate anarchy on the internet" — Arif Virani, Canadian Minister of justice

I disagree. What we need is a return to anarchy on the Internet, as opposed to the #technofeudalism that has in large part replaced it.

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(fedia.io)
 

you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock

I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.

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Tip for web designers: Converting a time you're displaying into my local time zone does not obviate the need to tell me which time zone it's in if I have no way to know whether or not you've done (fedia.io)
 

Tip for web designers: Converting a time you're displaying into my local time zone does not obviate the need to tell me which time zone it's in if I have no way to know whether or not you've done that.

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That I have now heard about the "dwarf" tag on Steam from two unrelated sources reassures me that my social media feeds are keeping me well-informed about the important news stories of the day. (fedia.io)
 

That I have now heard about the "dwarf" tag on Steam from two unrelated sources reassures me that my social media feeds are keeping me well-informed about the important news stories of the day.

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Help @[email protected] become Mayor of London. (gofundme.com)
 

Count Binface, intergalactic space warrior, democracy-lover, and croissant-price-cap crusader.

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Site Blocking and Age Verification for Twitter, Instagram, Snap and Twitch?: Age Verification Lobby Confirms it Wants Bill S-210 to Cover All Social Media Sites - Michael Geist (www.michaelgeist.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne, was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The bill raises significant concerns with the prospect of government-backed censorship, mandated age verification to use search engines or social media, and a framework for court-ordered website blocking

This bill passed second reading in the House of Commons. It is a serious threat. The age verification lobby is making its push, trying to bring this arrant nonsense to Canada before we and the rest of the world realise how little good and how much harm it can do.

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I agree with Pierre Poilievre: The next election should be about the carbon tax. (fedia.io)
 

I agree with Pierre Poilievre: The next election should be about the carbon tax.

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