I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).

If I stick my finger in someone else's but, will it be me with the finger stuck in the but, or that other person?

Bears ☠️

They actually get dangerously close to them, to pet them and take photos of them and feed them, then these tourists wonder why are they being attacked...

Să avem și noi faliții noștri, nu?

Perhaps you are interpreting their request to not use username and site name and instead use email, to instead use a long form Lemmy username?

No, I was saying to use their Fediverse username and their Fediverse password. Sorry if I got misunderstood. Nothing to do with the actual email address used at signup.

To do so, there would need to be a centralized or federated list of all accounts

Why would there be? The app would just search for the domain name first (let's say "aussie.zone") and then your username (in your case "hitmyspot"). That's kinda how email works as well. What centralized database would you need to interrogate a server on login? It's no different than the current implementation, only that you do not need to remember the website first, just enter the whole username in one go.

Email providers also have oauth

It's not really hard to type a website, it's rather hard to remember it. You remember your username. Okay. But where were you? mastodon dot what?

When you use your full address, it's not that hard to remember it.

În sfârșit. Ce bine ar fi fost să își fi păstrat toată Europa de Est industria de armament ca să nu depindem de americani în situații de genul...

Multe chestii or să iasă la iveală după ce pică și ce a mai rămas din influența rusească din zona asta cu adevărat.

SMTube still seems to exist

The military-industrial complexes always have something to gain in wars (provided they manage to adapt in time). But there's no other alternative industry that can supply the needed hardware to win a war, when an invasion happens. It just seems that's all what our species can do best: kicking each other, then having a rest for a few dozen years and starting over.

There are not, and probably will never be, as they require proprietary blobs (e.g. see this issue in Catima)

No, I don't think it will go like that.

But if piracy would go away, then it would mean we live in a great world:

• Software: FOSS/Freeware/Donationware software prevails. People want to use this kind of software, and this is the go-to for any appliance. People would be deeply affected if they could not use free (as both in freedom and/or money, as mentioned before) software - gone will be the days of everyone needing Adobe products or MS Office for their professional work, and the year of the Linux desktop would be in the history books.
• Movies and TV shows: They would be available anywhere, on demand, in any format. Or there would be this website where you would go to and watch whatever you would, without ads. It would kinda be the same with music.
• p0rn: I don't have enough knowledge in this field, I just go to certain websites when I need. Guess it would be like on the previous point? idk.

As long as those points are not achieved, there will always be a need for piracy, and people will always find new ways to get their content. So far, I do not see us being somewhere even close to that ideal world, so there are plenty of reasons for piracy to exist.

I personally try to pirate things more ethically, for example I try to buy music and games whenever I can, but I know several people that pirate stuff just because they can.

Something like that. I always heard it from my parents and grandparents that "it's with fleas" or "you can see with fleas" when that happened. I never knew what was the link between those, but it sounds funny all the time, lol.

fleas

Friendica is really versatile. To get started, I'd suggest you watch @anubis2814a's videos (on the tagged PeerTube account or on YouTube) in order to get used to all the functions on the platform. There's also a Wiki on their website (and likely on the node you may choose) or you can post any question on !helpers

Și în a 8-a zi Dumnezeu a zis "Să fie Firea!"

Și apoi Bucureștiul a intrat în faliment.

I cannot reply to a previous comment, due to it not federating here, but the children of 2020s will literally be online from day one!

There are countless parents that are posting pictures of their newborns on social media, on Instagram or Facebook, straight to a server in California, so imagine that every single person whose parents are like oh, I don't care about privacy, I got nothing to hide bro will have at least one photo there.

And it's not only that. They'll just never get to experience how life goes with no computer in sight, with no smartphones, not even cellphones at all. No computer, and more importantly, no internet, just cartoons on TV such as Life with Louie or Courage the Cowardly Dog or the Looney Tunes series. And even more importantly, no social media. None at all. Nothing to distract you from actually living.

US-controlled and domiciled site - yes, but I do not see it having a monopoly on information at all. Sure is big, has lots of info, pages, it is a rather good resource in linking stuff to the various concepts that you want to explain others e.g. in an argument.

But the very fact that anyone can edit information makes it not recommendable in academia, for example (really, when I was a student, all my professors were generally not recommending it for information because, as one of them said, even grandma could edit it). So I don't think I would trust ibis on scientific articles either, at least not in the fields I'm directly interested in - maybe for some random trivia/did you know stuff, idk.

limited / niche wikis

But this is where I think it would really shine, indeed, as one could make a wiki about a game or software more easily, probably link pages from different instances, etc. (as others said already).

Don't know what else to say, it just seems like an interesting project. Congrats to anyone involved on this first release and looking forward to see what this project will bring.

If only those apps could have the ability to use an open protocol they were actually built on, that would allow this exact interoperability needed instead of a proprietary half-assed solution, what was its name again...?

E o cocină

I go to your wedding

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

Probably they just want to use the same app they're using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there's no tracking, and it's just a different experience overall.

Same with Transilvanians. It's just a historical region between the Carpathian Mountains and that's it. Learn a bit of Romanian and you can get along with anyone from Transylvania, Crișana, Maramureș, Banat, Oltenia, Muntenia, Moldova (both sides of the Prut river) and whatnot.

The only problem I see there is for the Roma people, but their problem is not nearly as big as the one of the Uyghurs. It's not the 1800s anymore.

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn't it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

Well, those who did not vote are complacent to the majority vote. So I'd say that's a win.

Always go out there and vote, regardless of the option you choose. That's what keeps a democratic system up and running. If you don't, you just agree with what is decided by others and stay complacent.

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

Probabil or să le pese când or să vadă tot mai mulți efectele. Eu am RedReader și l-am folosit de ceva ani înainte de scandalul cu API-ul. Chiar am răsuflat ușurat când am văzut că nu e afectată aplicația respectivă, pentru că e cam cel mai bun mod de a intra pe Reddit pentru mine (da, am încercat mai multe aplicații, nu toate ce-i drept, dar parcă mereu reveneam pe RedReader). Însă, nu știu dacă e placebo sau dacă nu are legătură cu API-ul, dar parcă Reddit-ul chiar nu mai e ca înainte.

Îmi plăcea r/Romania că era un mix între shitpost, inside jokes și știri de calitate (din surse nepărtinitoare politic de obicei). Și acum sunt știrile destul de ok, însă sunt multe comentarii care se vede că sunt părtinitoare față de partidul x sau y (sau contra), sau care efectiv îmi dau brain damage.

Și da, se vede că sunt și mulți oameni aterizați de pe Facebook și care periodic își mai aduc și memele de acum câțiva ani cu ei (și care for some reason sunt susvotate ca și cum ar fi ceva extraordinar de amuzant - probabil așa farmează oamenii ăia karma) - din alea gen Vlad the Inhaler. Pentru oamenii de genul, faptul că stau mai mult pe Reddit decât pe Facebook e un beneficiu imo. :))

Însă eu, chiar și pe RedReader nu simt că am vreun câștig din a intra pe Reddit.

Probabil dacă și când vor descoperi că există o platformă pe care vezi în majoritate conținut românesc (eventual una numită feddit 👀) or să facă schimbarea de curiozitate (sau din patriotism deșănțat) cine știe?

News articles also in English from:

• Washington Post
• WSJ (Archived link)
• CNN
• The Guardian

Can't they add some sort of vegetation or something and make sure it's watered as regularly as possible? Maybe something specific to the area (besides cactuses) that can keep more shade.

Finally

This is the keyword for such a city. It should've gotten such a system already by now when reaching the first million. All these arab/middle eastern cities seem so extremely focused on car infrastructure to a rather disturbing degree. And all the carbrains I know think these cities are the pinacle of modern city development: all just gigantic glass skyscrapers and highways circling around them - nothing else.

Also, back on Facebook/Instagram, there's not a single person who had the money to visit Dubai once and post pictures from there (at least that I'm aware of), that is not car brained. I'm sure they all use their car everywhere and nothing less, they could even be doing their basic shopping from the corner store with it, I think.

That's why I set up 2FA on whatever account I can grab my hand on. It sucks that I cannot do it on every single one I have (e.g. some popular names like Spotify, last.fm, Bandcamp or Feedly do not support it, for example), but for every account that I do have, 2FA has become critical lately.

To each their own. My jacket does not have a hood good enough to protect me, it sometimes falls off my head, doesn't protect my nose etc. So I prefer an umbrella.

::: spoiler spoiler

On a side note, I can also hang out with another person under it. But that would make me pretty gay, of course.
:::

That remembers me about this older video. It's in Romanian, but it says "stay away from water" and the images are from some sparkling water commercials presented as the consequences of anyone drinking water.

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This looks rather like a discovery issue and is quite common with newly created instances on the Fediverse. You have to search for everything you want for a couple of times before you make your instance aware of the content or other instances aware of yours.

You can more easily overcome this by connecting your instance to an ActivityPub Relay, but I don't know how this is done on a Kbin instance.

The key downside is that they need tracks: this makes them much harder to divert around some kinds of temporary obstructions which buses can easily manoeuvre around.

If you have a more dense network, you can always divert lines on other streets if there are any issues. My city is also using temporary switches and trams with driver cabins at both ends whenever there are works going on.

My city has started separating tram lines from the roads with fences, and it's all just great. We had next to no bus lanes until this year, and I still have none where I live. The bus sits in traffic and can stop for around 5-10 times at a traffic light, while the tram only stops once. Sometimes even the bus driver opens the doors before getting to any station. This never happened with trams. On the other hand, if one tram breaks, the others have to wait for it to be moved - although this doesn't happen that often on the line I'm using the most.

Another thing to note is that even when there is no separation from the traffic and the lines are asphalted, it's still illegal to go on the tram tracks (albeit this is one of the rules that is not that well enforced, because our police sucks, it's good that it's there).

Our municipality also purchased longer trams and plans to purchase some more, some even longer than what we have now, but it's great. It's a good way of making public transit more attractive for the people, hopefully getting them out of the cars and solving congestion.

We also have a metro system, which is also great and highly appreciated, but it doesn't go anywhere in the city, and its extension has been rather slow in the last 30 years. The company managing it is also owned by the government directly, so that's another hurdle in its development. The tram network, on the other hand, is owned by the local transit company, and is denser. I'm sure there will be more extensions to it if the municipality will throw the right money at the right projects.