It’s called remote deposit cheque fraud. It’s a fake cheque. If you cash it, it will eventually get flagged as a a fake, and the bank will take the money back, even if you’ve already spent it or sent it to the scammer. And if you never send money to the scammer, they get nothing, but it also costs them nothing to make the attempt, because you’re the one depositing the cheque and wearing the risk.

Vernissage. It’s a federated photography sharing platform. In theory it’s similar to pixelfed, but more like flickr, and less like instagram

I do the same. My name is pronounced differently by hispanohablante folk, and I use that pronunciation when speaking Spanish.

My “thrill” is in not funding corporations that are speed running enshittification whilst also making bank off of bigotry and hatred.

I doubt I’ll ever get bored with that…

The same thing happens in trans communities, but the answer isn’t for the old guard to try and handle everything themselves, burn out and then shut down newbies that are looking for community and help.

The answer is for the crusty old guard to create the space and keep the worst offenders out, whilst letting the people that aren’t burnt out support each other and keep the community thriving.

Sometimes that means letting common questions be common, because if you’ve got a positive community, someone will always be there with an answer and a link to an even more detailed resource.

Interesting that he frames LLMs as both a tool that he needs to use to compete, whilst also framing their use as a scarlet letter that will tank sales if he uses them.

Our piefed instance (which hosts our remaining communities) should be back up soon!

Don’t worry, we’re back again :)

For what it’s worth, I absolutely want to see duplicate communities across multiple instances. Even if it’s a backup community, folks shouldn’t be left without a space if an instance goes offline, or if an admin goes rogue. I want to see more communities for vulnerable folk across more instances.

I wish there were more queer first instances too, and hopefully, this incident pushes someone in to spinning one up!

FWIW, I’ve only ever heard it used that way…

Unrelated to the larger topic, but how do you find Endurain? I want to dump Strava, but last time I looked at self hosted Strava alternatives (maybe a year ago?), none of them really came close to parity in features.

DARVO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Because I value community, and I’m not interested in a community filtered through the interests of a profit driven company

That instance is closing down in July, so many communities are likely moving (or the members are)

I’m in this picture, and I’m ok with that :P

Two party politics

What am I missing? If someone steals your laptop they can just mountb the drive in their own hardware irrelevant of your bios.

Nope. I’m not telling anyone to avoid Framework or anyone else.

But they’re not the “ethical” choice. They’re another shitty company doing shitty things that hurt people. That should be a factor in your purchasing decision, but it shouldn’t be the whole of it, because it’s pretty much impossible to exist without supporting companies like that in some way or another.

And I’d argue that positioning their company as the moral choice makes their decision to support bigots worse than if they’d never positioned themselves that way in the first place. Which makes them basically no different to HP or DELL.

The question was are they moral. They’re not. The fact no one else is either doesn’t excuse that