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This is how the grip of the American empire is loosened.

I’m sure this time it’s worth all the theft, resource usage and environmental destruction…

Asahi: Successfully reverse engineers undocumented silicon and releases first of its kind firmware upstream where possible. You: (of the Asahi devs) “demonstrated sheer technical incompetence.”

Asahi devs: receive abuse, harassment and discrimination from a website, often personally directed at minority team members. Ask the websites mods to do something about it, get ignored. Asahi devs: Block traffic from said website (and some collateral traffic) to do what they can to protect their team from harassment. You: “childish pettiness … not worthy of being relied on”

Maaaateee… you got blocked from looking at a website, it’s at most a mild inconvenience to you. Maybe recalibrate your outrage. I’m sure someone of your technical competence can find a way to circumvent the pop up, if you care even a little.

For comparison I got no such pop up.

Nice, looks slick

I don’t see her going anywhere, she doesn’t mind being the PR-fall-guy for the Tories least palatable policies (in fact she seems to revel in being the ‘bad guy’) and she throws plenty of red meat to the Tory right. That’s two good reasons to keep her around.

That’s just not good enough.

A sign telling someone not to do something is not a good enough control measure. It should be locked and access restricted. If this is business critical as they claim they could have done >100 things to prevent this.

I work a lot in safety. If you had a safety critical system just ‘guarded’ by a sign and someone got hurt when the sign was ignored you would be extremely liable for the damages. That sign would be no defence in court. In general nobody reads signs, ever. And that’s if indeed they even can read the signs. Was the cleaner literate? did they speak the language? Do they have comprehension of the sign’s instructions?

To give a vaguely topical example, imagine a submarine with a switch that could open the doors even underwater, that just had a sign saying “don’t press button when submerged”. That would be a truly dreadful design. A better design would have actual control measures e.g. the door motors cannot overcome the pressure from the depth of water preventing opening, depth sensors that lock out the control, the button behind a locked switch cover that only trained, competent staff members have the key for etc. A sign is not a control measure, ever.

I mean ooops, big error from that cleaner, but I kinda feel like this is on the lab. The lesson here is that it probably shouldn’t be set up so that it is possible to turn off sample freezers so simply. And if sample storage is so critical perhaps they should have distributed storage so one freezer loss isn’t such a disaster. What happens if that site loses power for a significant period of time? Why is there no alert system of temp rises?

In computing, if a data storage company stored all their data in volatile storage with an easy ‘power off’ switch (that makes an annoying sound) and no backups for their data I don’t think any one of their clients would be very impressed with them when the exceedingly inevitable happens and they lost all their clients data.

I’ve only ever used one keyboard off Amazon, and it was a Durgod TKL board with cherry mx browns which was very nice. Still use it from time to time. They do have some full boards (with num pad) if that’s your thing.

But to be honest the keyboard landscape has changed a lot since I bought that durgod board though and I think it’s now overpriced compared to the competition.

My advice would be if you know what kind of switches you like (linear, tactile clicky etc) find a cheap ish keyboard you like the look of with those switches. As a beginner cherry switches are a good bet, they’re not the best, but they’re far from the worst and a good starting point and a lot of other switches and keycaps are compatible with them. It would be good idea if the keyboard is hot swap enabled so you can swap the switches out to try other types of switches or even convert the whole board in the future if you like without soldering. But most importantly start cheap, don’t buy something expensive when you’ve never tried mechanical keyboards before and don’t know what you do and don’t like.

I’d like to second this. Apollo had a nice feature where you could flip an option in setting to change the text to just say “account”. Also while you’re reading, long pressing the account button to switch users was pretty nice too… Loving the app!

This is the issue.

How are new users meant to know what instances federate with which other instances and which are blocked? E.g. that Beehaw defederated with the Lemmy.world instances?

What (most) users want is to be able to see a sane set of defaults and from there make their own choices about what they do and don’t want to see. But by the time they’ve made an account. Subbed to a few communities etc there is a wall to leaving for another instance if you don’t like the way something is being run given there is no easy way to migrate your profile to another instance that may suit you better.

Now don’t get me wrong, online harassment sucks to put it lightly. Nobody should have to put up with it and it’s entirely (to reuse my previous example) beehaw’s right to block harassment causing instances, but that doesn’t make it any easier for new people trying to get into the lemmy ecosystem.

There is no way we’re stopping climate change. There is just too much value to be created for shareholders in ecological destruction.