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Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy instance here in beautiful New Jersey. I also post from my Pixelfed instance.

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CrimeDad OP ,
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So, if I remove a community, does it save my instance from any work or storage related to getting new posts and whatnot from that community?

CrimeDad ,
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Food grade lubricant?

CrimeDad ,
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We've got to do something about these mods, folks.

CrimeDad OP ,
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I'm not sure which version of pict-rs it is. The Yunohost package is based on Lemmy 19.11, so I presume the pict-rs version is whichever one normally ships with that. Looking through lemmy-ynh/conf/pict-rs.toml, I see a commented reference to version 0.4.1.

CrimeDad ,
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I just bought two cartons of large white eggs for $6 a dozen, here in New Jersey. Half of them are for decorating (and then eating). The organic brown ones on the self above were $13 a dozen.

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Most of the violence and oppression gets exported, so it's probably best to just sit tight here in the heart of the empire.

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  • CrimeDad ,
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    Vance himself was a DEI student at Yale. Hypocrisy doesn't matter.

    Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k?

    I keep up with most of the dumpster fire that is current US news but I'm sorta lost on this one. I contribute to my 401k every week and have a few thousand saved up, as well as stock in the company I work for. Is all of the bad news referring to the stock market crashing? Is this general across the board or more ...

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    How long until you retire? If you've still got another thirty to forty years of wage slavery ahead of you then don't worry about it. Just keep contributing and make sure to get all of your employer's match, if any.

    CrimeDad OP ,
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    Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the issue was with the follower approval feature. Apparently on Mastodon, users have the option to review all prospective followers. With this setting enabled, no one is supposed to be able to just follow your account with a click. You have to approve each one. Pixelfed wasn't honoring this setting. I think it's a bad feature that gives anyone who uses it a false sense of security.

    CrimeDad OP ,
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    I didn't even consider that, but yes if votes can't be private then it's bad to pretend that they are. It looks like there's been some debate on the topic, but the decision was apparently to keep pretending.

    Recent "vulnerability": Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances ( fokus.cool )

    The author of the article characterizes their findings as a vulnerability in Pixelfed, that it was treating all follow requests as approved. An update has already been released to make Pixelfed honor that setting, but the vulnerability still exists with ActivityPub in the feature itself. It gives users a false expectation of ...

    Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF ( www.middleeasteye.net )

    Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a "lynch mob" of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. ...

    CrimeDad ,
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    The problem is this case is that 'a lynching' implies that the mob is going against the authorities, which is absolutely not the case when it comes to settler violence. The Israeli soldiers are there to protect and facilitate the settlers in their attacks against Palestinians. Under no circumstances does the IDF deserve the benefit of the doubt and the article makes it clear that they are the ones who abducted Hamdan anyway.

    CrimeDad ,
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    Part of what makes a lynching a lynching is subversion of the criminal justice process and yes that probably often involved cops joining the lynch mob. However, these Israeli settlers aren't subverting anything. They are not vigilantes. They are attacking and terrorizing Palestinians without any pretext of justice.

    CrimeDad ,
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    You should consider how using the wrong words for things might be playing into the hands of Zionists. Maybe you are.

    CrimeDad ,
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    The lynching narrative presupposes that the perpetrators are a mob of otherwise normal people driven to take justice into their own hands by extreme ignorance and prejudice that can eventually be overcome by education in tolerance. Is that how you feel about the Israeli settlers? The way I feel about them is that they are not normal yet severely ignorant people. They are invaders who know exactly what they are doing. There is no pretense of justice for them to take into their own hands. They cannot be taught to coexist with the Palestinians they are trying to ethnically cleanse from the West Bank. They need to be driven at gun point back to Long Island or at least Israel 1948. Calling it lynching minimizes the settlers' culpability.

    CrimeDad ,
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    [extremely space orc voice] Gotta be red to build faster.

    CrimeDad ,
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    My response from the last time I saw this question:

    • Trillbilly Worker's Party - Kentucky-centric Marxist jokers hanging out. They always know how to put a smile on my face, even if they're talking about bleak stuff.
    • Fun City - Well produced live role playing of Shadowrun. The game is a few years in and I am just invested.
    • ALAB - Lawyers talking shit. They're funny and I like learning about interesting cases. One of the characters they covered actually sued them and settled for an interview on the show.
    • Desert Oracle Radio - Joshua Tree-centric paranormal stuff. Good for an old X-Files head like me.

    German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab' ( www.bbc.com )

    Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. ...

    CrimeDad ,
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    I really don't think it's that hard to believe that some postdoc in Wuhan screwed up and let it loose accidentally.

    CrimeDad ,
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    At least the lab leak hypothesis isn't as sinophobic as the "wet market" one.

    CrimeDad ,
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    That seems like a reasonable challenge to the lab leak hypothesis, but I have to defer to my wife on it. She has a relevant background in microbiology, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology and says that something about the structure of the viruses suggests convincingly that at least one of the COVID variants was of man-made origin. She's also been working in labs for almost twenty years and has seen too many accidents and near-misses. As a lay person, that explanation makes enough sense to me to find the lab leak hypothesis plausible. Also, I'm not going to disagree with a well-published scientist who is also my wife.

    CrimeDad ,
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    I don't have any bookmarked, but I did a quick search and found this one from 2023, which looks at the available data and circumstances to argue that the lab leak hypothesis is stronger than the wet market one. I'm not aware of any evidence that has been published that definitively proves or disproves either.

    People seem to have a stronger aversion to the lab leak hypothesis, which I don't understand. To me it seems like the simplest, most benign explanation. However, it does open up the possibility of sabotage. Maybe that's the issue.

    CrimeDad ,
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    Okay, sure, but to what end? It's not clear to me how accusations of an accidental release are bad for China. Is the purpose actually to cover up intentional sabotage by an anti-China entity? It's not clear to me either who it helps or hurts for the COVID-19 outbreak to have been a completely natural occurrence.

    CrimeDad ,
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    China already gets a lot of (undeserved) bad press. An experiment breaching containment and causing a pandemic is bad for scientific research everywhere.

    CrimeDad , (edited )
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    Means, motive, lack of scruples: it's all there.

    I wonder if proof of sabotage actually exists, but whoever has it is withholding it from the public for blackmail.

    CrimeDad OP ,
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    Some important corrections

    Corrections to what? Does the article get any of these points wrong?

    • The article says nothing about opening the doors from the inside; if you are ever in that situation, cybertrucks have a manual release under the rubber mat of the "map pocket" in the doors (source)

    That's an irresponsible, deadly, anti-human design feature, but thanks for the tip I guess.

    CrimeDad OP ,
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    Lol absolutely not!

    CrimeDad OP ,
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    What is wrong with you?

    CrimeDad ,
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    I read this article by Yanis Varoufakis that provides well reasoned explanation and criticism of Trump's plan: https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/

    Somehow, the possibility that a plan exists is reassuring.

    CrimeDad ,
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    Got one!

    CrimeDad ,
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    It beats having a landlord.

    CrimeDad ,
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    If you can afford the down payment, it really makes a lot more sense to buy your home than rent it.

    CrimeDad , (edited )
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    Maybe anarchists are necessary to help keep the revolutionary state honest. However, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call myself an anti-Leninist.

    CrimeDad ,
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    For a while, that's probably how I would have sorted myself, but how are the anarcho-syndicalists on taking power from capital and wielding it? How does that differ from Lenin's guidance? (Part of why I don't call myself an anti-Leninist is that I haven't read any Lenin lol.)

    CrimeDad ,
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    Every day; all sorts of stuff from simply feeding people to high level assassinations, including a POTUS. Anarchism is a means by which the people can embarrass the government and compel corrective action to its deficiencies.

    CrimeDad ,
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    Yes, include a disclaimer and consider using the Peer Production License as well, which compells for-profit, non-cooperative developers to compensate you for using your work.

    Hamas urges Trump to meet released Palestine prisoners ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )

    Hamas urged US President Donald Trump on Friday to meet Palestinians released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip after he met with Israeli captives held in the Strip and released by the movement. ...

    CrimeDad ,
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    There was never any long-standing taboo against meeting and negotiating with governments of allied countries. It's always been "we do not negotiate with terrorists", with Hamas being among the worst, but here we are, finally.

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    Loyalty comes in different forms. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    CrimeDad ,
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    UPDATE: the battery fire obviously didn't help, but according to new reporting it turns out that the Cybertruck really did trap the victims inside.