hackaday.com mostly.

Everything else is “big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for”.

I’ve been out of the church since I turned 18 and bolted out the door on my own, but here’s a very simplified explanation from my own experiences.

Do you think that’s because people fear reinterpretation, or is it just resistance to any challenge of belief?

Yes, to both.

Anything that makes a religious zealot think is pretty much automatically considered satanic, evil, of the devil, etc. Anything that challenges their sect’s interpretation / dogma is also the devil’s work / temptation.

Anything that isn’t strictly in line with the sect’s teachings is “of the world” and to be avoided. The only things they approve of are things that reinforce their existing interpretations. Basically, an echo chamber.

I wish I was joking or exaggerating, but at least in the religious environment I grew up in, that’s how it was.

Here’s the joke / not-a-joke answer: Jesus was a long haired white guy. That is not a picture of a long-haired white guy.

There’s a few services (Fediseer and the Lemmy Canvas event) that auth via Lemmy. It’s awkward, but it works.

Basically you enter your username@instnace.xyz there, and it sends a DM to your account with a code (similar to an MFA token). You then complete the login on the app with that code.

Yep. It’s for an outdoor weather node on a metal pole, so damage would be fairly minimal if it had a bad day. It’s also only charging at like 200 mAh (max) since it’s got only a small 1W solar panel hooked to the charge controller. The only other concern would be summertime temperature, but I worry about that regardless of the cell.

Yeah, and my newer powerbanks all do PowerDelivery for 5, 9, 12, and 20 V.

I’m assuming watt-hours would be universal for them all (watts are watts, as the saying goes).

I may be re-thinking my morals for things like that here soon. My legitimate career relies heavily on federal grant money, and my skills aren’t rare enough to hope France will adopt me. Maybe I’ll start a meme coin or something lol.

That’s true, but this one came from a known (local) vendor. I took it back, and they were happy to refund it. Since they were gonna toss it, I asked if I could keep it (it works well enough to power an ESP32).

I’ve thought about selling out my morals, but realized I could never live with myself.

I guess they could still lie about watt-hours, but buying anything based off of the reported mAh capacity is a crapshoot.

Ended up with a clearly fake 18650 in my collection. Weighs way less than an older 2200 mAh one but it’s label says 9900 mAh. Again, it’s an 18650.

The culprit:

I’m the Tesseract UI dev, and I just released version 4.1 today: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

Just a regular statue, but it’s on a hinged platform so it can be a tourist attraction where you can line up to tear it down (and it resets for the next person).

It’s a free attraction, but there is a donation box with the proceeds going to help those whose lives were upended or destroyed by his regime.

But comparing CONTINUED or active support of tesla, to ford or german car companies, is wrong.

I’m doing no such thing.

That pos ford has been dead awhile, and the company has been no more awful than any other car company since then.

The point was that in 2017 when I bought this car (which is an analogy for a Tesla), Musk was just another eccentric shithead not unlike most other CEOs. “Henry Ford Jr” is a placeholder for whoever the fuck is in charge of Ford these days, not the literal man himself.

So if Henry Ford Jr (remember: he’s a stand in for the current CEO) went full mask off, the argument from the mob is that I should have had a crystal ball to foresee that all the way back in 2017 AND that I should always have enough money to throw out and replace a MAJOR INVESTMENT, on a whim, just in case the CEO of the company that made it starts doing Nazi things at some undetermined time in the future. And if I can’t afford to do that, then the mob calls me a Nazi sympathizer, bootlicker, and deems me a valid target for vandalism.

Can you see how goddamned illogical and insane that is?

I’m done.

My car’s paid off. So, put your money where your mouth is and write me a check and cover the new car payments or STFU with your illogical purity tests. And the same goes to the rest of you.

Thank you!

Just because someone owns a Tesla doesn’t mean they’re bootlicking or some kind of Nazi sympathizer. And I’m sick and tired of social media frothing at the mouth for any excuse for violence.

Jesus. It’s a car! Cars are major investments. I don’t own a Tesla, but if it was Henry Ford Jr. doing this instead of Musk, you can bet your ass I wouldn’t be bending to the whims of the bloodthirsty mob to sell the car I’ve had for close to a decade because they demand it as a purity test or else I’m a target for vandalism.

FUCK THAT, AND FUCK THEM!

I can’t afford a new car right now. I don’t want a new car right now; I like the one I have. My ownership of this car is in no way an endorsement of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Jr, or any of their board members nor their actions, personal behavior, etc. It’s just a car, I like it, it’s paid for, it gets good mileage, and isn’t a smartphone on wheels.

Replace “Ford Motor Company” with “Tesla” and it’s the same thing.

If you step back and think about it, so much of human society revolves around people wearing the right costume for the occasion.

Sometimes it makes sense (protective gear, etc) other times it just seems like “that’s what we’ve always worn for X [occasion | profession | etc].”

How does removing your hat imply respect? What is the purpose for standing up when the judge enters the courtroom? Just a bunch of stupid rituals that may have made sense at one time that we keep doing for…reasons.

Nope. Just ZZ Top and “sharp” being easily replaced with “shark”.

We’re not a general purpose instance, we have a defined mission statement, and the site info clearly states the rules apply to local and federated accounts. 🤷‍♂️ And the ban syncs are no longer needed as later versions of Lemmy server do the same thing automatically (our automod just implemented something almost identical prior to Lemmy adding that natively).

If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha

Those are easy to bypass (or a human can spin up a bunch with throwaway emails and plug them into bots). I recommend enabling registration applications. While not foolproof, it gives the admins eyes on every new account. Also, consider denying any application that uses a throwaway email service.

All while the environment and electrical grid weeps.