GreatBlueHeron

joined 1 year ago
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

It has no bridge mode. It has a DMZ function, but it is not reliable. I just use it as a router and dhcp server. I use my own access points for wifi. Unless I use a VPN they can see all my traffic anyway so I'm not really losing any privacy by using their router.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Sometimes you have no choice. I'm on Bell Canada fibre and as far as I've been able to determine there is no way to connect to that fibre other than their modem/router.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On a Commodore64?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it's up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don't?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nothing that exciting. I just live in a very small community, quite a distance from any larger community, and I'm pretty sure that at the scale of that map - my community doesn't exist. If I zoom in enough, maybe there's something there, but I think it's digital compression artefacts.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think I am - and I do like it.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

India has 17% of the world's population - on a scale like this image, that's not far off "about half"! It looks right to me.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago

This argument goes around and around every time someone says ACAB. There is a culture of protecting your own in police forces - it seems to happen all around the world. This culture causes otherwise good cops to overlook actions of their peers that shouldn't be overlooked. If you let someone get away with something illegal, when your job is to uphold the law, then you are not doing your job and are really not a good cop after all - you're just as bad as your peers. ACAB is a much simpler way of saying all that.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm really dismayed by your political system - I can't put into words how much it disturbs me. I know it's a good thing that the Harris Walz campaign is doing well, but all I hear when seeing news like this is how much money politicians are taking from "average" people to give to insanely rich advertising firms, to develop ads, and even more insanely rich media corporations, to run them. It's messed up.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wow, that brings back memories. Slackware 3.x was my into to Linux in the '90s.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried to just downvote and ignore you, but I'll give you my perspective instead.

Nature is cruel - lots and lots of animals survive by eating other animals. We are just animals that have evolved to, in most cases, be at the top of the food chain. As a species we have used our brains to abuse this position over the last several hundred years. Slowly (very slowly) we, as a species, are realising that this is wrong and are starting to use our brains to move away from animal consumption. I applaud those of you that have made a commitment to be the leading edge of this change, but I'm not there.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks perfect, if I weren't in Canada.

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