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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 6 days ago

Here in the UK, it generally used to be 1 year, then moved to 18 month, then two year "contracts" (that are essentially paying for the phone). They will of course (if you don't realise) continue to charge you the increased price after you've paid for your phone...

Recently I was looking at upgrading, almost clicked confirm on a price that seemed suspicious. Until I saw "48 month contract"

Nope. Bought the phone outright, interest free credit over 1 year (I'm done with that in 3 more months). A few months later, swapped to one of the "virtual" networks we have here. £8 per month (first 3 £3), unlimited/unlimited/30GB data (I don't need much), plus roaming to Europe (a frequent destination of mine) included.

100% here it works out a LOT cheaper not to buy through the provider. I have no doubt it's the same pretty much everywhere too.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 47 points 6 days ago

I've never had AI create working code anyway.

But it will generally point me in the right direction. It's useful for:

  1. Helping get your train of thought back in the right direction
  2. Automating what would be a lot of boilerplate/repetitive coding. Just beware you will still need to check it over.

You need to be skilled to spot the mistakes it will definitely make.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm probably a bit further to the right than most on the fediverse with this opinion but...

I think, once you have been informed of someone's pronouns, it's flat out rude to not use them. I don't know if it's a banning issue but that's for the moderators on your instance to decide or the instance the community is on. Even if you don't agree with someone's lifestyle, it's just polite to address people the way they'd like to be addressed.

But surely there's a difference between intentional misuse and accidental. I think banning someone for not looking up someone's pronouns before a public interaction seems like pushing things a bit far here. I certainly am not checking such things. But, then in general when online I will use gender neutral wording because frankly, for online interactions someone's rarely information that matters for the interaction. I don't really need to know.

My view is, I think it is almost always clear when someone is being malicious and thus transphobic and when someone makes an honest mistake/did not know better. We, as a whole, really should be differentiating between obviously malicious and non-malicious cases.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well. You'd need to avoid windows, tea, people with umbrellas (OK not directly Russian, but soviet era eastern europe), aeroplanes, cars. And if they really want to get you, they'll go old school and use a gun, or perhaps even a missile if you annoy the right people enough.

I'd just skip Moscow as a whole personally.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does, at least now. It was the 11th.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 11 points 1 week ago

I feel she should have at least tried the shaggy defence.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 week ago

If you mean they shouldn't. I'd agree. But, as has been seen a lot on youtube. "They" can DMCA anything they want, and the only route out is usually to take them to court.

I mean I'd hope if they're going in this direction they will be decent about it. But, it's not the way things seem to be lately.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 11 points 1 week ago

Just post that you think it'd be impossible to port to rust and linux. Then someone is bound to do it :P

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If they're moving away from open source/more monetisation then they're going to do one of two things.

1: Make the client incompatible (e.g you'll need to get hold of and prevent updating of a current client).
2: DMCA the vaultwarden repo

If they're going all-in on a cash grab, they're not going to make it easy for you to get a free version.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? Administrators/liquidators will have an entire list of assets owned by the bankrupt company.

They will be looking for a buyer to take on the whole company (assets and liabilities) or sell off the assets to cover liabilities.

Those boxes are still owned, they didn't magically become fair game because the company owning them went bankrupt.

If people advertise that they stole one of these boxes, they become fair game to be pursued by the liquidators/administrators or any entity buying the ownership of them.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God, the number of ‘swing voters’ you can have a conversation with and find out that they know nothing about either party’s actual politics is… just horrific. People who call themselves anti-gun-control and support stricter gun control measures than I, a Berniecrat, do. People who talk about the horrors of open borders, and then when you talk to them they support significantly liberalized immigration law and a path to citizenship. ‘Pro-life’ supporters who, if presented with the loosest abortion laws in this country, express support for such ‘reasonable’ measures.

Here in the UK I sometimes think most people know more about US politics than domestic politics. So, I know how this kind of ignorance can happen.

But then, if you're suggesting talking to people with fascist views, then that's also the point I'm making too. Because that's finding out why they think the way they do and perhaps changing their mind by telling them which things they've been told were wrong all along. My experience has been that the indoctrinated people will listen to what you say, perhaps even agree. Then, in short order revert to the old talking points.

Regarding the "embarrassed" conservatives. I wonder if they're more just conservatives that are following the flow of their fellow conservatives, not really considering the full impact the result may have. You don't need to look further than the running mate, to see how republicans are happy to endorse trump, even though they don't stand for most of what he says. Because winning matters most. I wonder if some conservatives are casting a blind-eye to the fascist undertones, because overall they will otherwise get what they want?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean if you think they can be beaten, sure. As an outsider I don't think I'd dare try to call the result of the US election for example and that's probably a pretty good way to measure the level of fascism there no?

My thinking is that there's usually a root cause for this. If that's something that can be addressed, then it probably should be looked into. I'm not ruling out that a large proportion of people are just stupid and/or easily led though.

From my point of view I see a shift to the right happening in Europe too. So, there's definitely a trend. The question for me, is why is it happening now? Outside influences for example?

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