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Federal judge reverses rule that removed medical debt from credit reports in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Without even reading the article, it’s a Trump appointed judge in some backwater Texas town isn’t it?

Edit: yup

Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

It’s like playing Mario Kart on Kalamari Desert. Sometimes you’re stuck waiting for a train and Luigi pulls up behind you.

Irish tourist jailed by ICE for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Seconding this, I’ve had the great fortune to spend almost 18 months of my life in Mexico, visiting over 20 states. I’ve yet to feel unsafe in all that time. It’s an incredibly beautiful country with an extremely welcoming culture, stunning architecture and natural beauty, and unmatched cuisine. Mexico is a bucket list destination for sure.

The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Lmfao, what a scale!

Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Par for the course for Apartheid Space-Karen.

Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yea, that’s actually a more accurate way to phrase it. Ask it to generate something with Hitler and it’ll happily oblige, ask it to generate something supporting trans rights and it’ll block you.

The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It’s an extremely niche product, to be fair. The general public was never going to buy it, and diehards will buy it at a premium price. When you consider the small manufacturing runs they’re probably planning, the price seems less ridiculous IMO.

I wouldn’t pay $300 for it, so I don’t claim it’s a “good value”, but I can understand from a mathematics of manufacturing standpoint why the price is something like that.

Israeli settlers beat American to death in West Bank; US says it’s aware in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

That’s it? “We’re aware”? We do a prisoner swap with Russia and release a notorious arms smuggler, just to get back a weed smuggling basketball player. But when our “good buddy” Israel literally murders one of our citizens, we’re just “aware”?

Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What guardrails? Grok was intentionally designed without any. Don’t believe me? Go on the website and ask if to generate something awful - it’ll happily comply. Really disgusting way to handle AI.

Israel plans to concentrate entire Gaza population into 'humanitarian city' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How does a people that experiences the horrors of concentration camps and genocide, just a few generations later, get to the point of perpetrating the same crimes that their predecessors were victims of?

Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can’t delete a torrent. Just saying. Keep seeding, Lemmings!

Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Is this the peace and love they’re always telling us this Jesus guy talks about?

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ich_iel (lemmy.federate.cc)
 
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[OC] Sunbeams peek through a cloudy sky in Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400) (lemmy.federate.cc)
 
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[OC] Azaleas grow in front of a volcanic caldera lake, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400) (lemmy.federate.cc)
 
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[OC] Crystal clear waters off the coast of Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400) (lemmy.federate.cc)
 
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China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen (www.thebeaverton.com)
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Planned downtime for maintenance: Tuesday, January 2nd (lemmy.federate.cc)
 

I’ll be pulling the server offline for a few hours on Thursday the 2nd for a database migration and an update of Lemmy to 0.19.8. Unfortunately the upgrade paths are always very fragile as the Ansible situation for Lemmy is not great. I expect this will only take a few hours, but historically these updates have gotten a bit spicy. So don’t be surprised if we’re down for part of the day. That said, Lemmy is designed to catch up, so you won’t miss any content.

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An excellent use of company time (lemmy.federate.cc)
 
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Finally found it. Darmok and Jalad would be proud. (lemmy.federate.cc)
 

Apparently this is the name of a construction/engineering firm here in Lisbon Portugal. Amusing coincidence

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[Meta] This community is moving to feddit.org/c/europe. This sub on Lemmyworld will be sunset in the coming weeks. Please update your subscriptions. (lemmy.federate.cc)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

The main Fediverse community for Europe is located at [email protected] - please don’t submit many new posts to this sub on Lemmyworld. We are considering the board to be sunset and in a transition period for the next few weeks, after which it will be locked for new posts. Thanks.

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...and we're back! (lemmy.federate.cc)
 

Sup lemmings!

As you probably noticed, this instance was dead for the majority of last week. Sorry about that. An update to the latest version using the official method was less than successful, and the documentation less than informative.

At any rate, the site is back up now, though I’d expect slowdowns over the next day or so as all that backlog from the fediverse filters in.

Sorry about that!

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How do you mention a user on Lemmy? (lemmy.federate.cc)
 

Is there an equivalent to doing /u/user in The Bad Place, to notify and summon someone?

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Federation not currently working with non-Lemmy instances (kbin, mastodon, …) (lemmy.federate.cc)
 

Currently 👀 an upstream issue that’s preventing non-Lemmy instances from federating with us; this is preventing interacting with Kbin among other things. Hoping this will get merged in soon, otherwise I’ll probably have to monkey-patch our instance to get this working. Kbin has a large user base and so the ability for us to subscribe and participate in their communities (“magazines” in their parlance) is important to me.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3354

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