There’s way too much hidden plumbing for that. I wouldn’t trust that the piss is actually staying at the grave. It should just be a gravel pit with PVC pipe that goes straight down into the ground, with a funnel on the end for people to piss into. Could even have two different height funnels (one near the ground for the squatters, and one raised a few feet for the standers) so it is fully inclusive. Anything more elaborate would be a waste of taxpayer money.

Yeah, they’re full blown “the End Times are nigh, and we’ll all be raptured to heaven if we help it along” level crazies, but they vote like clockwork.

Well you got an account made, and that’s a start! Lemmy’s UI may feel familiar if you’re an old.reddit user. There are apps like Voyager that feel like spiritual successors to AlienBlue and Apollo, so if you used those apps before they were killed, you’ll feel right at home.

The best way I’ve seen to describe the platform is to think of it like email. An @gmail account can send email to an @yahoo account just fine. The specific platform is agnostic because they all use the same email backend. That’s essentially how federation works, with a bunch of different servers/instances agreeing to use the same data sharing backend.

So you’re on lemmy.zip, so you’ll be able to see and interact with any instances that lemmy.zip is federated with. Federation is simply the decision to actively share that data. And defederation is when a server chooses not to share data with another instance. One of the biggest impacts your server choice makes is which instances it is federated/defederated with. That will determine which communities you can access, as you’ll only be able to see communities on local or federated instances.

The one big caveat is that defederating from an instance won’t stop you seeing posts from those users on another instance. For example, I’m on dbzer0. Let’s say dbzer0 and zip decide to defederate. You’d stop seeing communities on dbzer0, and vice versa. But if I posted to lemmy.world, you’d be able to see my post as long as you’re still federated with lemmy.world. The third instance (lemmy.world, in this example) essentially acts as a proxy to allow both to see each other. So defederation isn’t the same thing as a filter or block, as it only stops you from seeing things that are posted on that defederated instance.

They’re only “really cool” because the ml admins are so heavy handed with moderation. From the outside looking in, it looks like calm waters. But dig into the modlog, and you’ll quickly discover that it’s only calm because the admins only leave a very small and tightly controlled window for discourse.

Yup, I’ve said this for years. To antivaxxers, those old diseases are boogeymen. They legitimately don’t believe the diseases are bad, because “well people survived for thousands of years before” (survivorship bias) and the fact that they’ve never been personally affected by it.

They never lost a childhood friend to measles. They never saw entire hospital wings full of kids in iron lungs because of polio. They never watched a friend or family member go deaf because of a childhood case of mumps. They never had a brother, uncle, etc have to come to terms with being unable to have kids, because a childhood case of mumps left them sterile.

But you know what is real to the antivaxxers? Autism. Everyone knows (or has seen) someone who was severely autistic. It doesn’t matter if the link between autism and vaccines is fake; the imagined threat of autism is a bigger threat in their minds than the very real threat of these diseases.

Yeah, there is definitely a moisture problem somewhere. Could be from the fact that the shower is just a fucking floor pan in the middle of a room.

Yes. Pets’ worlds are typically extremely small. They only experience what you allow them to. For an indoor cat, that’s basically just the inside of your house, and whatever they can see outside the windows. Dogs are only marginally better, because they get walks and time outside. Why would I essentially restrict them to the inside of my house, and then restrict them even further by disallowing them from sleeping where they want?

My cat is sleeping on my knees as I type this in bed. The dogs can also sleep wherever they want; one prefers his crate (the door stays open so he can come and go) and the other usually prefers the couch or his bed. They’ll sometimes curl up on the bed, but it’s usually during the day when my partner and I aren’t already there.

It’s because “attack” isn’t specific enough. Everything in DnD is either a weapon attack (typically a physical attack using whatever weapon you have equipped) or a spell attack. In general parlance, “I punch the kobold” translates to “I use Unarmed Strike to make a weapon attack on the kobold.” But that doesn’t mean the Unarmed Strike is a weapon. Since generic attacks aren’t allowed in the rules, you have to designate it as a weapon attack, instead of a spell attack. Oftentimes, the distinction is because there are certain spells or effects that use your weapon as a spell focus, or trigger when making/taking weapon/spell attacks.

For instance, Booming Blade requires brandishing a weapon to channel the spell before you make a weapon attack. The spell component literally lists “a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp, which the spell does not consume.” Then if you hit with the weapon attack, the spell triggers. So your fists could make a weapon attack (using Unarmed Strike) but would not count as a valid weapon for the spell. Even if you could convince the DM that your hand is worth at least 1 silver piece, it still wouldn’t be a melee weapon. So you wouldn’t be able to cast the spell if you were unarmed.

There will inevitably be some YouTube video that explains how to do all of this, and it will be followed without question by thousands of 12 year olds who don’t understand the security implications. They just want to play the new shiny game, and their parents told them they’d only buy the game if they got all A’s on their report card. So now their computer is orders of magnitude less secure (and likely running some mining/botnet in the background) because they wanted the game for free. This is just going to be the current generation’s version of “accidentally nuked the family computer with LimeWire downloads.”

Exactly. And that’s honestly why I doubt it will ever truly contend with Plex. It’s fine for sharing with friends who can figure out how to connect via VPN, but it’ll never be robust enough to share with your tech-illiterate grandparents on the open internet. Plex wins handily in that regard, because their sign in process is basically the same as Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc…

Plex has problems of its own, but (at least as of me writing this) it doesn’t have any major known security vulnerabilities. They had some level 10.0 vulnerability last year, but they followed standard CVE protocols and patched it before the vulnerability was actually released.

There has been a known “anyone can access your media without authentication” vulnerability for seven years and counting, and the Jellyfin devs have openly stated that they have no intentions of fixing it. Because fixing it would require completely divesting from the Enby branch that the entire program is built upon. And they never plan on refactoring that entire thing, so they never plan on fixing the vulnerabilities.

The “don’t expose it to the internet” people aren’t just screaming at clouds. Jellyfin is objectively insecure, and shouldn’t be exposed.

My coworker (A) had a stroke a few months ago. She is still recovering, but is back at work and doing well. Another coworker (B) casually complimented her cardigan, and then said “hey I think it’s inside-out though?” Coworker A started to take the cardigan off, before coworker B said “April fools” and grinned, expecting a laugh.

Now here’s where the real funny part happened: Coworker A played dumb. She was like “wait what is that? April fools? What does that mean? I don’t know, did I forget it because of the stroke? Is my cardigan actually inside out? Rehab said I was good to dress myself again, but maybe not.” It went on like that while coworker B was desperately backpedaling, trying to both apologize and explain the concept of April fools. She 100% believed that coworker A had forgotten what April fools was because of the stroke.

Then coworker A got a shiteating grin, and went “April fools. I know what it is, I just wanted to play the uno reverse.” Coworker B was absolutely stunned, because she had been in full blown “oh god I just played a prank on a stroke survivor and now I’m the bad guy” spiraling.

No, a machine won’t even contact the pihole if it finds the address in its hosts file. Hosts is step 0 for DNS, so if it finds something there it doesn’t even bother with contacting an external server (like a pihole).

They’ve stated that they have no intention of ever fixing some of the biggest “anyone can access your media without a login” vulnerabilities, because it would require completely divesting from the Kodi branch that they initially used to start the entire project. And they never plan on rebuilding that from scratch, so those vulnerabilities will never be fixed.

Implying you have access to some major Docker 0-day exploit, or just talking out of your ass? Because a container is no more or less secure than the machine it runs on. At least if a container gets compromised, it only has access to the volumes you have specifically given it access to. It can’t just run rampant on your entire system, because you haven’t (or at least shouldn’t have) given it access to your entire system.

Yeah, “I’m cheap/broke” is a reason to pirate, but so many people shy away from admitting it. Simply because they feel the need to morally justify it in some other way. I guess because saying “I took this shit for free. I could pay for it but I don’t wanna” doesn’t feel good.

Yeah, rallying against SSL is a weird way to go about it. SSL is one of the biggest and most meaningful changes to come about as a result of the Snowden leaks. The leaks were literally what prompted http to shift towards https instead, because it shined a bright spotlight on how insecure http truly is.

In the short term, it made self-hosting more difficult. But nowadays, with things like nginx and Let’s Encrypt, enabling SSL on your self-hosted site is as simple as selecting a few drop-down boxes, pasting an API key, and automating a cert refresh.

The true “has the potential to gatekeep the entire internet” existential threat is when a company like Meta or Google becomes the authority for things like ID verification or SSO.

Yeah, the lockdown was enlightening. I lived alone through the entire two year shutdown. I still saw coworkers (because I was working for the government and forced to come into the office) but that was the entire extent of my in-person socialization. And I was perfectly content with that. I’d hop on Discord with some friends after work, and would socialize all night long. On the weekends, if I was playing a single player game, I could easily go two and a half days (Friday evening into Monday morning) without saying a single word.

But extroverts lost their goddamned minds. Half of them were power-walking in the overcrowded local park, even though they had never visited the park before. They just wanted an excuse to leave the house. The other half were ripping their houses down to the studs and completely rebuilding the interiors… Because they never spent any time at home until that point, and suddenly small annoyances about their living areas built up to major complaints. Half of them were rallying against masks, just because conservatives were promising a return to normalcy.

FWIW, some become firefighters because they enjoy lighting things on fire. The correlation between firefighters and arsonists is very strong. But even then, nobody (except maybe some cops) has ever seen firefighters roll up to a scene and thought “well my day just got worse.”

1. It depends on what you’re referring to. Sex and gender are two different things. “Biology” is unfortunately a common talking point for transphobes who inexorably link the two, so it immediately makes lots of people doubt a good-faith conversation. Transphobes like to use “biology” to try to prove that sex and gender are hard binaries. In reality, biology is all kinds of messy. But that’s an entirely different tangent. From a biological sex perspective, it would (likely) be factually correct. They have XY chromosomes, were AMAB, etc… (Not every trans woman will fit that description, because of situations like intersex people who don’t fit into nice neat little male/female checkboxes. Again, biology is messy and imprecise. But for the purpose of this conversation, I think we can agree that it is generally correct.) But again, transphobes will often try to pounce on that to falsely exclaim that you believe trans women are really men.
2. Not really, because of the whole “gender isn’t sex” thing. Biologically speaking, they could be a half-male-crab-half-female-porcupine abomination for all I care. It still wouldn’t affect their gender, and I still wouldn’t give a fuck which restroom they used.
3. I think I just did. Biology doesn’t determine gender. Simply make sure to cover the whole “gender isn’t sex” thing, to stave off the transphobes who think I’m agreeing with them. In reality, the best response is usually a half-hearted “yeah, so?” Because the people making statements like this usually aren’t doing so in good faith. At best, they’re sorely uneducated about sex, gender, society’s effect on the two, etc… And at worst they’re trying to bait an argument or set up some kind of gotcha moment. Sometimes the best response is to simply not take the bait, because we have better things to spend our time on.
4. Because gender isn’t sex. Trans women are women, because genetics or hormones don’t determine your gender. Someone can simultaneously be both biologically male and identify as a woman. It’s not a zero-sum game where one negates or overrules the other, because they’re not linked.