I refuse to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe, even though for most humans that bar is pretty low.

When I finally “die” I’ll no doubt get kicked back out into the real world and have to plug in another quarter.

Look up Japanese Kintsubi - Repairing with gold.

It’s never going to be the same as before it was chipped, so accept that and make it better by making the damage part of the story beautifully.

Yup, they did a great job at driving away people who cared. Now they’re left with shitposters and spammers. The downside is they’ll still make a killing selling the free content everyone gave them to train AI models. But they’ll get no more from me.

I don’t want to wish misfortune on Spez, but i certainly don’t want to wish fortune on him either. What a colossal idiot.

I’ve been using PIA for years for my downloading purposes, as well as having a VPN when I travel. No issues at all and completely reliable. Don’t know if I’d trust them to leak state secrets, but not an issue because I don’t have any.

VPNs are one tool to help. They’re not the end-all-be-all. If the VPN provider is reliable, they can protect your IP address and keep your internet link more secure if using public network facilities (wifi or cellular) as the VPN tunnel is (should be) encrypted.

That said, if you are using software that fails to protect your user information by defect or by design, it can still leak data at the endpoint you are using, even though your connection is (hopefully) more secure.

I think all of the Toto washlets do?

[edit: deleted, echo chamber here]

My experience dealing with healthcare, ambulances and hospitals in Canada.

No matter how you get to the hospital, ambulance, driving yourself, taking a cab, etc. When you get there, a triage attendant will check your condition for severity. If you have something that can kill you quickly (abnormal heart rate, extreme high or low blood pressure, signs of a stroke, difficulty breathing), uncontrollable bleeding, some sort of penetrating injury (shot, stabbed, impaled, etc) they’ll bring you in immediately.

If it’s something not as critical (broken appendage, bleeding which can be controlled by pressure, etc., unspecified pain), you’re going to wait until anyone in the first category has been taken care of first.

Count your blessings if you have to wait, it means whatever you have is not that bad. May be in a lot of pain and otherwise suck, but it’s probably not life threatening.

When I went to a hospital with a heart arrhythmia, they didn’t break stride as they brought me in and hooked me up to many machines to monitor everything. That’s an “oh, crap!” moment. I’d much rather be told I had to wait for a bit, means it’s not too bad, and I can keep occupied as long as my phone battery holds-out.

At least in Canada, it will be cheap, if not totally free. Had heart surgery that would’ve cost $80,000k in the US. In Canada? I complained about paying for parking for the day.

[edit: deleted, echo chamber here. Android good, Apple bad. Moving on and blocking this community, can’t have a reasonable conversation, just like reddit I guess].

After going to Japan, I ordered a genuine Toto washlet (warm water, heated, drying, all sort of goodies) and gave it to my wife for Christmas.

It’s her favourite Christmas gift ever, even after almost a decade. The only gift that still gets daily use :). We had a problem with it a few years back and sent to the North American service centre. Flat rate for a complete refurbish. Awesome!

Not sure if it will get any front page traction, but I’ve already gone out of my way to write some (hopefully good) posts about my favourite NAS technology, unRAID ( https://lemmy.world/c/unraid@reddthat.com ). I have a number of other information and problem solving posts I’ll migate over from reddit before I delete my content there.

As a Canadian, this makes me really appreciate our one-party consent laws even more (I’ve never had to use them myself).

Spez really dug his own hole with this one. He thought he was gonna get away with murder and now everyone knows him for the piece of shit he really is.

They may still manage an IPO, but it’s not going to be anywhere near as successful as it would’ve been if this had been handled properly. If they were concerned about Ad revenue, all they had to do was say that all 3rd party clients must serve ads to anyone who isn’t paying for a reddit premium account on top of potential app payments or subscriptions. Easy peasy. Nobody would’ve batted an eye because we’ve come to accept ads as the cost of a free service.

The end of reddit may take longer than the end of digg, but the writing seems to be on the wall now.

“We’ve made a business decision we’re not negotiating on” sounds an awful lot like “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”.

Is that what we are Steve-o? Reddit terrorists?

Fucker has lost everyone now, Digging the hell out of watching reddit fail because of mismanagement now. You don’t double-down when you rely on your users to create your company.

What an idiot.

As usual another insightful article from Ars. It’s nothing short of remarkable how cowardly and selfishly Reddit management is treating people.

To the reddits still closed: “Don’t open up again like we say, and we’ll just appoint new mods that follow our orders.”

Reddit management stands to gain tens of millions (Never work again in your life amounts of money) based on free content provided by users and free moderation provided by users.

Those users won’t see a single cent of that money. Not one cent. Ever. For all of their free labour that reddit takes for granted and brushes off concerns about. Reddit is the Nestle of the internet now.

Power Delete Suite is the one people seem to be recommending, though I’m sure there are others.

I think that’s the point though. I’d rather have all of my posts be edited to vanish instead of contributing them for free to an evil corporation.

Yup, the one that’s been recommended is Power Delete Suite

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

That’s why I’m not deleting my account, only editing my posts to something like “I have revoked Reddit’s license for this post due to the actions of Reddit’s management towards 3rd party app authors. You may contact me on Lemmy instead”.

I never gave them money, but I gave them free content. That is now done and gone. As soon as Apollo’s API is deleted, I’m editing all of my old comments and posts to remove any content and let readers know what. Some of it was very helpful stuff to help others troubleshoot PC and server issues.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

meaning: the users are our enemy and they hate us…

No Steve, we just hate management, that’s who better not wear reddit gear in public… Not the rank and file who don’t make the braindead decisions that kill platforms.