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douglasg14b , to World News in American arrested in Turks and Caicos over ammo found in bag gets suspended sentence of 52 weeks*
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You just completely switch the argument with a red herring.

It doesn't matter whether that person is a safe gun owner or not here. And a lost round of ammunition is such an armchair take it makes me question if you should even have an opinion on the subject...

A round of ammunition in your bag should not equate to years of prison, end of story.

I had a box of .22 rounds in my backpack that I was bringing back from the gun store. Lo and behold it was loose, and some had unknowingly fell into my bag. I didn't notice they were there for years until I did a deep clean of my backpack. No one counts throw-away ammunition.

douglasg14b , to memes in Lifehack
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Oof, this is definitely a:

Every lie incurs a debt to the truth

Sort of thing. It's not going to be fun when your child understands that there is no school on weekends, you'll lose a lot of trust overnight with this.

douglasg14b , to Technology in T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans
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Same. I have 5G off because it's just so bloody slow and unreliable.

Let's not even talk about the problems where periodically I can't make any outbound calls and no one can call me. Which has been a problem for at least the last 5 years, for both me and my wife.

douglasg14b , to Programmer Humor in Absolute legend
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Ah, the circle of life

douglasg14b , to Programmer Humor in Absolute legend
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They usually do yes however it's all about prioritization.

You may have hundreds or thousands or open requests and issues.

With tens of thousands of closed issues that were either not reproducible, not actually problems, or largely indecipherable.

There's usually a feature roadmap which is where most of the development money and time is spent. If it's an older business application then certain bugs might easily take weeks to find, fix, test, validate, go through user acceptance, A/B test, and then deploy. But fixing is expensive work, so if the bug isn't severe it's usually deprioritized next to higher priority work.

douglasg14b , to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
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If north America & Australia's biggest exports start having effect they will be very pro-regulation. Just pro-regulatory-capture.

douglasg14b , to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
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How does taxing revenue from digital technology where it's generated work?

Can you explain what that means for me.

douglasg14b , to World News in 'Stop threatening Taiwan', its new president William Lai tells China
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I like how they say Taiwan Independence is a dead end.

Taiwan is already independent. China wants to undo that, but they make sure to word it as if Taiwan is a rebelling State instead.

douglasg14b , to Technology in Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices
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Yep, and Google does the same shit.

On Pixel phones you have the search bar at the bottom, which you cannot remove, replace, resize, or configure.

In the EU you can configure it to change your default search engine. In North America you cannot, and are forced to use Google.

And on Google forums anyone who complains gets attacked by a wave of simps saying "Then just don't buy a pixel then, go somewhere else if you don't like it".

So tired of this shit.

douglasg14b , to World News in "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It
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Seriously and it's a hot topic so it's going to get this sort of attention.

Let it sit for a while and it'll become normalized and these sort of antics will die off.

Just let people express themselves as long as it's not dangerous holy crap.

douglasg14b , to Technology in 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
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I mean, that's not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.

The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.

They could OSS their server side code ofc, that'd be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don't really blame them on that one tbh.

douglasg14b , to Not The Onion in GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
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Remember, this is not only the kind of shit that would get proposed but would be the kind of shit that would pass in a future Republican controlled state with Fuhrer Trump at the helm.

It sounds ridiculous and insane now, but remember, there are representatives that actually believe in this, and don't think it's rhetoric.

Their voter base as well would happily see "the other" carted off, in good fascist fashion.

douglasg14b , to Technology in 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
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Can you list some of those, I'm curious.

douglasg14b , (edited ) to Reddit in If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
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I thought I explained that pretty well no?

If you had a grain of rice that tasted unimaginably, unmitigably, good. The highest quality grain of rice ever seen in the world, in all of history.

It will not change the flavor of 30k bowls of rice.

We're talking an absolutely tiny amount of users here. And we shouldn't delude ourselves over it, circle jerking for being the "higher society". Reddit didn't change because we left, the number of users on Reddit change more on a daily basis than 5 Lemmy's.


That said, the smaller niche subs definitely saw some hits. I won't deny that. However, by definition, a small number of users leaving from small subs isn't a "gotcha" moment for what I've stated. That's is, almost by definition, what would be expected.

The discussions here are of higher quality for sure. But you'll still notice that in many threads it's almost indistinguishable from Reddit in many ways.

douglasg14b , to Reddit in If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
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I last did this math a while back so let me redo it.

Lemmy != The fediverse. Lemmy is fairly small with 45k monthly active users. https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Reddit has 430 million monthly active users (70m daily) according to their disclosures for IPO.

So a 0.000104 multiple. Or 0.01% a little less than 2x my previous calculation. So, still a tiny number.

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