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The point he makes in this episode about the menu prices. This is probably the same reason your supermarkets don’t include sales tax on the pricing. If they did most people would go to the “cheaper” one.

Most of the world have laws to require this, and things are much clearer.

No one will change this behaviour voluntarily, as they showed people will see the ones that don’t change as cheaper, even when in reality they’re not.

If everyone has to change to meet legal requirements, then they will all need to change and it’ll be fine.

Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

Well, you should at least mute the microphone/turn off the camera on teams/zoom first. Just common courtesy.

Well. Here’s what Trump and Musk have in common. They’re both incapable of taking advice from people more experienced in a subject than themselves.

So I’m going to bet he’ll ignore any and all warnings.

Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.

It’s actually not a bad idea. “The front page of the threadiverse” so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they’re generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.

Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.

Well. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I’ve mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you’re not missing anything I think.

No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there’s a lot with very similar <somethingnnn>@gmail.com. Some don’t do anything and so far I’ve left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.

If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don’t really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.

No, I think it’s just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.

Mind you I don’t really advertise the instance either. So that’s likely why.

I suspect people coming from reddit don’t understand the fediverse (I know I didn’t when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).

Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.

From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don’t have enough regulation as it is. There’s only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that’s the top 1%. It’s just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else’s expense.

1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I’m sure.

I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.

No, I don’t really feel safe even this far away. We’re not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.

I think the top one might be the culprit. But it might be the guy’s account was hacked?

On his repo he has a fork of WSL and the repo is called “free-palestine”, he tried to merge the branch “freedom”. So that PR seems likely to be linked to this. Other than this, activity seems normal for a terminal githubber with 444 repos…

Oh, good. Maybe they will stop trying to scrape my websites at some ridiculous rate using faked real browser UAs. I just blocked their whole ASN (AS45102) in the end.

I’m pretty sure he called them hostages on Monday.

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don’t want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

Why? Because you can. But in terms of useful reasons?

Cellphones, Internet they need infrastructure to work, and that can be disabled either during a natural disaster or war situation. Even by your own government in some cases.

But if I want to communicate, I just need a piece of wire, somewhere to hang it, and a 12v battery and I can communicate for thousands of miles.

Personally I just think that’s cool.

The “Interesting” is very Muskesque. I also think if it was DMs to someone else, even in the USA that’s got to be some level of a legal privacy issue.

Not just tech. For big business Trump is good news for them I am sure. For their employees, not so much. But for the leaders, it’s 4 years of very favourable policies for them.

You know. I can actually imagine Trump sees the whole thing like a WWE match.

Imagine you’re someone that started testing this back when this was launched on home microcomputers. You’re 40+ years into the real live test. You own UPS and diesel generators to ensure your system is kept powered through nuclear Armageddon.

You have a multi-generational plan to test this properly in real-time. Then, some dork releases this paper.

I’d sue!

Didn’t have the link to hand. But a search turned this one up: https://reggiodigital.com/blog/nginx-rule-blocking-bad-bots/ it looks to be the same list, and you can see the ones I’ve added to the end of that list.