Kodachrome

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Before an anti-trans event at a Vergennes school, a prominent Christian law firm issued a warning (kbin.social)
 

Hosting an anti-trans speaker in a public school would tell “queer and trans youth that they are not welcome in public spaces,” Amanda Rohdenburg, associate director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit Outright Vermont, told VTDigger on June 16, four days before Heyer’s talk.

Behind the scenes, however, school district officials were receiving a different kind of message about the event: warnings, from the high-profile Christian law firm Liberty Counsel, against canceling it.

https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/27/before-an-anti-trans-event-at-a-vergennes-school-a-prominent-christian-law-firm-issued-a-warning/

Scamming the scammers: Using multi-lingual chatbots as fake victims to disrupt the business model of scam callers in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

If you think scambaiting is good entertainment and you've somehow not come across Lenny, today's your lucky day:
https://www.youtube.com/@ToaoDotNet/videos

It's gonna be wonderful to watch the Lennys of the world become increasingly more sophisticated/human-seeming and less random.

I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's annoying AF, much like the habit of people posting comments consisting of "Based" all over the place in recent times. The latter is dying down fortunately, and I hope the R meme meets a quick and painful death very soon.

In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? in c/foss
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The Thunderbird desktop mail client is far better (feature-rich, stable, interoperable) than any webmail or phone app mail client I've ever seen.

What is a good hobby/skill that most people should give a try, and why so? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My Dad was hugely into ham radio throughout the time I was growing up, and yeah, it was the quintessential nerd hobby before home computers came along.

Subreddit replacement directory in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds great to me, but I'm not sure how many average people would be willing to learn to use git and get an account at the repo host just to submit update suggestions. It would be nice if the site owner had some documentation up explaining their plans, if any, for how this will operate in the longer term.

Subreddit replacement directory in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's not obvious, the referenced site is https://redditmigration.com .

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Subreddit replacement directory (redditmigration.com)
 

I saw this posted to Hacker News just now. Looks like it might be the start of something useful. I assume that one can suggest additions (or other edits) by emailing the curator using the address on the upper right of the page.

What are some magazines you'd like to see on kbin that don't exist yet? in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Kodachrome@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A handful off the top of my head (not sure if these sub names are case-sensitive in any way or not):
QAnonCasualties
PeopleofWalmart
Engrish
Spokane (the city in WA)
Seattle
Boston
AntifascistsofReddit
Scala
Fsharp
fatlogic

I didn't think to save my subscription list (duh) and I'll be damned if I'm going to log in again to do so. I'm done with Reddit at least until they fire that absolute ass of a CEO and back off on all of his dumbshit money-grubbing schemes. That means 'probably never' and I'm 100% fine with that, fuck them and a hearty hello to the fediverse.