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  • To keep the analogy going, they would have to have raped and beheaded the occupants of the death star before actually blowing them up...and the Death Star would have to have been an Imperial tourist destination with not just Imperial citizens, but also visiting citizens from all across the galaxy..but if that's what George Lucas had filmed, I think there would have been a lot less sympathy for the rebels.

  • I've always heard that Alberta is the 'Texas of Canada' (presumably for the oil & being politically conservative). But since Canada only has 10 provinces, I guess that would mean each province needs to represent 5 different US states.

    If Alabama and Texas are two of them, what are the other 3 for Alberta?

  • No, you're not paranoid. I'd call it diligent.

    The premise of the statement you quoted is faulty to the core. A device internal to your home network knows a lot about the design of your home network and it knows a lot about the other devices on your network, and it can be used to facilitate/relay malicious access to your other devices if it becomes compromised.

    Wyze has always struggled with security problems...and I'll admit that I do have several wyze cameras...but long ago decided their security was not trustworthy and created an entirely new virtual lan to run just my IOT stuff from. That, at least, reduces the exposure for some of their security issues. I certainly would never have interior cameras built by wyze - that's too risky even with robust network security on my side of it.

  • Corporations should be held responsible for the emissions caused by their employee's commuting.

    This would really change the discussion about return to office.

  • Your comment is textbook sealioning.

  • Your employer is ALWAYS looking for a way to either get more work out of you for the same compensation, or replace you with some one or some process that produces the equivalent output for less cost. The entire idea that employees should be loyal to their employers is one of the most successful propaganda campaigns ever spawned by capitalism.

  • Here are some basic definitions:

    Instance: a Lemmy server with its collection of local users and local communities

    Federation: allowing users of one instance the ability to participate and interact with the content and users of another instance

    Defederation: "blocking" an entire instance and its users from participating and interacting with the content and users of another instance.

    Every instance maintains a publicly visible "instances" list where you can see which instances are allowed/federated (listed as "Linked Instances" and which other instances are disallowed/defederated (listed as "Blocked Instances". That list is always at the same predictable URL for every instance ( https://[instance]/instances ). For Lemmy.World, that list would be at https://lemmy.world/instances.

    Instances operators also have the ability to surgically block specific users or specific communities from other instances. This doesn't mean they have 'defederated', it just means they have blocked a specific use or instance. These are considered moderation activities and show up in an instance's moderation log (also called the "modlog"). Every instance's modlog is public and visible at the predictable URL of https://[instance]/modlog. For Lemmy.World, the modlog would be at https://lemmy.world/modlog. The modlog has a "filter by action" dropdown making it easy to find certain types of moderation activities. If you search the modlog for "removing communities" you can see the communities that an instance has removed or blocked.

    In the case of the piracy communities, they were removed from Lemmy.world, but federation still exists between Lemmy.world and the other instances where those blocked communities still exist.

  • You specifically cite the example of piracy going away as a reason for wanting to compare instance's defederations, but that activity had nothing to do with defederation. Lemmy.world is still federated with the instances that hosted the piracy communities.

  • Non-human predators that hunt, kill, and eat other animals...do you consider them unethical, or is it only unethical for animals capable of inventing the concept of 'ethics'?

  • You really should be directing your angst at the bastards who respond to advertising. If it weren't for them, there would be no advertising at all because it would be completely unfeasible. Nobody would be willing to pay for something that has no return on investment.