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Pika

@ Pika @sh.itjust.works

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Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.

People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.

been trying to lower my social presence on services as of late, may go inactive randomly as a result.

  • I'd rather a simple "no thanks"

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  • I hate that companies have to be above and beyond on rejection if they do them.

    Like i'm glad they give them but, how hard is a:

    Subject: Application/Interview Rejected

    body:

    Dear name,

    We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue with your application/interview process due to X,

    We appreciate your interest in this company,

    HR Name

    With X being the reason.

  • Inadvertenly losing game save data

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  • Samsung uses a pretty standard factory reset procedure unfortunately. The A50 should be following the same reset sequence.

    The reset sequence requires the phone being powered completely off, and then volume up and power on being held during the power on process. This will open the recovery/boot menu for the device. On this menu she would then have to use the volume keys to accidentally select the erase data partition or factory data wipe option, and then also confirm that same option to actually have it wipe.

    The fact that she's managed to do it 3 times now is actually impressive in a twisted way since there is like 5 separate options on that boot menu and factory data wipe isn't until like the 4th or 5th down, and the default option on that menu is wisely reboot.

    I can't really give you a very good alternative because that same process is usually fairly universal across all android devices. Outside of corporate controlled devices or custom implementations, most are going to use the hold volume up to access recovery menu shortcut which will allow for a factory reset.

  • Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law

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  • I would like to know the percentage between if they break the law and regardless if they break the law

  • Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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  • I was meaning more of their Android by default phones, like most retailers are going to only sell the android version

    they specify the grapheneos devices so I'm assuming they have a dedicated graphene OS product line.

  • Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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  • is this only on their graphine devices? or are they leaving their android stock devices unlockable as well

  • What us the best way to add remote access to my servers?

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  • Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers

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  • I feel like it's mostly temperature. I expect that they want to continue using untreated water to be able to have cooler temperature. That way they're not having to spend money and time cooling their coolant down.

    That's my expectation anyway.

    Reading the datasheet that someone else posted earlier on, it seems like that's the case while they're going to be doing temperature control. They're making sure that the temperature stays within the criteria that they currently are required to do. And as such, means that they're not having too cool it as much.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • I lack the use case for this service but, it looks good on paper. Nice!

    If I understand the project right, this would be a great opening for non-profit communities to make a page for the town and add the services, instead of the typical static pages

  • Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: "You'll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC."

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  • I read somewhere else that one of the suspected reasons for it was actually the rising cost of components. Microsoft and Sony are big companies, and have the swing to be able to acquire hardware way easier than the everyday consumer, so in a case of limited supply causing hardware prices to soar, they will get the parts first.

    They don't need to worry about prioritizing the PC market if the only new gamers around are going console due to affordability or availability.

    Being said, I already have a 5, I got it a few years back and I lowkey regret it because as a sony fan all my life... it just had nothing for it. Everything I did on the 5 could have been done on the 4 and I don't feel like the current releases are (or at this point are ever going to be) worth getting, which was likely a big reason for their push into the PC market in the first place.

    With the supply and cost issues, that reason isn't present anymore.

  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • I use DDG as well. Have for years now, it's actually gotten to the point where it gives similar if not better results than Google Search for me now.

  • Gulf of America/Mexico

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  • If you look at the gulf from basically any other countries location (via vpn or otherwise) it's still named as Gulf Of Mexico in most map software.

    As much as Trump doesn't like the thought, this name change is not going to be permanent. Names need to be accepted universally, you can't just take something and say "yea its called this now" while everyone else laughs at you and expect that it's going to stay.

    for perspective, this is what it looks like on google maps (top) and apple maps(bottom) while vpn'd into Toronto. (excuse my poor copy/paste skills) Both clearly show that the gulf of Mexico is named the gulf of Mexico, and then add in parenthesis the new name that the US wanted to implement.

  • What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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  • It worked, and was better than my previous instance.

    I have problems with control and lack of choice, when my first instance started de-federating willy nilly I started growing distaste on it. To me it wasn't about what /was/ being censored, to me it was the fact that they were doing so in the first place, while doing so with very little public input. It gave really large Karen/power trip vibes and made me feel like at the end of the day, they didn't really care about the userbase.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Extremely bad. As in like people are dying emasse. It also wouldn't be an immediate decision either, there would need to be research into whether A was leading to B and then on-top of that getting either society as a whole to ban it, or getting the legal framework to ban it in place which also takes quite a bit.

    Without the legal framework banning it, if its something that would allow for personal gain, narcissists will use it regardless of the cause. Heck if its too bad of an outcome, anarchists or world-ender doomers could intentionally do it with the hope that said bad outcome occurs.

  • How did you choose your username?

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  • Mine is super basic as well. It's just based off my favorite pokemon growing up (Pichu)

  • Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent.

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  • I dislike the concept of mega-threads. It has always sounded to me like a way to drown out information instead of allow for easy access to information, and lowers the importance of the individual post in favor of whoever is more popular.

    I think a better option, would be enhancing the crosspost or tagging system to be able to categorize posts by a category, and then for "megathreaded" posts you can just assign a tag. A few front ends already allow you to do usually by putting your tags in parenthesis in the title.

    To add onto what you said, yes I fully agree its not a good look to be like "You need to put that in the megathread" I'm less apt to put it in the thread and more apt to just not post it at all at that point.

  • What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?

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  • I agree, there is room for reasonable doubt, I do believe if they manage to throw the bag out of the evidence he will get his doubt. I just don't see them throwing the bag out.

    I don't think there is room for a non-guilty verdict though. At minimum he will have stalking conviction, at maximum he will get murder conviction. Outside of the jury nullification I don't see a full innocent being done, but that will have to be done on both the state and federal cases.

    To go back to your actual question though: Due to the publicly available evidence, I believe the older folk will have issue with if he goes free. I don't believe any fights will happen in regards to it, but it would be a clear abuse of process (in the eyes of the public). It would be like OJ Simpsons "If I did it" all over again.

    It's a big reason why im firmly against the public getting involved with cases like this. It doesn't matter what the jury says, the general public thinks he did it, due to the amount of news given on the case. His battle won't end at the courts, he will have to fight that claim for the rest of his life and thats not fair to him if he is actually innocent.

    The only way I can see the general public being ok with an innocent verdict, is if they make it absolutely clear that the evidence given to the public was embellished and not actually correct. That would be an insane turn of events though. If it ends up being a case of the evidence was thrown out/not being able to be used, or a jury nullification did somehow happen, people are going to complain and call it a systematic failure, regardless of cause or reasoning. Innocent until proven guilty is only correct in the court process. With current day media coverage you are guilty until proven innocent.

  • What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?

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  • All I have is the publicly available evidence, but that pretty strongly indicates guilt.

    he was found a state over, at a mcdonalds. With a fake ID that was the same name that was used to check into manhatten, and for transport. with a bag containing a loaded unmarked 3d printed handgun that matched the footage.

    He also had writings which are not public but have been stated to indicate his mindset prior to the murder, and a notebook that contained detailed travel plans and how to avoid capture.

    Like pacifist said though, the police are tripping this case up, the biggest defense for Luigi at the moment is the ineptitude of the police during the arrest sequence and investigation. They have already succeeded in throwing out medical records due to improper acquisition, have been found wiretapping attorney lines (which IMO should be an immediate opposing party wins regardless), and are in the process of trying to throw the bag out that was found at mcdonalds due to improper search and seizure claims (although I don't personally think this will happen, it's pretty clear the search and seizure laws in that state clarify that a search will happen on any arrest regardless of case)

    the only way I can see him getting a "innocent" verdict is Jury nullification, so I am not leaning on that, because even if found innocent on the second degree murder charges, based off publicly available evidence the prosecution still has a fairly strong case of stalking charges. Plus he still is facing the same charges at the state level as well, as the judges ruled it isn't considered double jeopardy for someone to be trialed both federally and state side (which IMO is wrong but I digress)

  • What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?

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  • I don't see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there's going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • That's amazing to see, Regardless if it's only one direction, that should still help wonders, thank you!

  • NSFW

    There's another NSFW instance

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  • I definitely understand your reasonings for that. And I do agree having it default on does help raise awareness of communities.

    My main reason that I'm against a default on is I'm always strongly against any type of action that does something on the behalf of someone else without it properly being relayed.

    if the person who made the community wanted to advertise their community, they could reach out and send a message on their own, or they could turn it on, but having it default on creates cases like this, Where they weren't even aware that it was making a post, it seems, until people started messaging them complaining about the amount of spam.