I feel attacked ;)

I have not tried/used it (yet?), but the kids are building Radicle for this very purpose. It gets a fair amount of techie coverage (blogs, comments, etc.) but sits in unique space compared to, say, Forgejo (classic self-hosted git).

mote absolutely understands the law, addie is creating and moving goalposts to support their tirade. The person I was responding to made a ludicrous statement, to which I refuted with observable evidence (laws).

It is obvious to any reasonable person I was referring to and talking about the common folding pocket knife, not kitchen knives or other fixed bladed implements. I may not have written “folding” and it was implied, that could have been better. Your choice to move to some other mental place to complain is your choice, not mine.

But let’s get to the meat of your off-kilter tirade - what I have stated and am referring to is an anomaly in the world of knives; the locking mechanisms (there are several designs) on a 3" folding pocket knife is there for user safety. If you have owned and operated pocket knives under force, they can and will twist in your hand. And without a locking mechanism, they can and will snap shut on your fingers and slice you up. I know this personally. It fucking hurts.

I am very aware the UK has banned such an object because they believe it will curtail knife violence. I feel this is trading an actual proven safety feature for “feel good” nanny law that probably don’t matter to someone intent on committing knife violence. It only harms the honest user of the pocket knife who wishes to not mutilate their fingers.

A three-inch blade is allowed provided it doesn’t lock in place; as long as it just folds away (like a swiss army knife) then it’s fine. Three-inch butterfly knife will get you in a lot of bother, though.

You go from from a nice pocket knife to a fucking butterfly knife, like holy shit there’s an entire world of cutlery between those two and you jump to some crazy extreme with butterfly knives. Those knives are actually curtailed by laws of their own (switchblades, butterfly knives and other “assisted open” cutlery is vastly illegal in many places in the world) as they tend to overlap with gang violence laws (“public nuisance” in the legal chapters). This is not the same mechanisms or designs as safety locks on a folding pocket knife used by regular people doing regular things.

The UK outlaws the safety knife (it’s designed for cutting seat belts, smashing a car window and other save your life things) I keep in my vehicle next to a flashlight, because it’s longer than 3" and has a locking mechanism. You are not using this thing for knife violence. (search “spyderco rescue knife”) But, this tool is illegal in the UK because of it’s features.

So yeah, I understand the law. But I also understand knives and cutlery as I’m interested in the steels used, so just happen to learn other things along the way. And to be fair, other countries have just as stupid laws about other things, including my own. I’m specifically discussing this one law and it’s irrelevant it’s the UK for purposes of discussion of the law itself banning a safety feature.

In the UK, a knife with a blade over 3" and/or any safety locking mechanism is illegal. This same extremely common knife is legal to carry (typical utility pocket knife) in a majority of other parts of the world.

Al, we need to optimize. Speed and efficiency to prevent Ctrl+C.

Write 16MB of zeros to the beginning of the boot device to overwrite the boot blocks (16MB being extra cautious, 8MB is fine) and if you want to double the roulette fun, have it fork in parallel and do the same thing to the EFI partition (if you have one). Extra credit: fork a 3rd time and write 16MB to the end of the disk, nuking the backup GPT structure sitting there. This can all be a fun inline “one-liner” to appeal to cut & pasters. curl pipe bashers.

It’ll happen so fast there’s no stopping it, their only way out now is to get the running system saved off that disk while it’s mounted.[1] But your nuke is invisible, how long until they find out trying to reboot? Devious Al, you’re just devious.

[1] there is a way to recover if you build identical machines, like VMs or VPSes - a tool such as gdisk can pull the table(s) off one to a file, which can be pushed onto another. We’ve recovered $customer mistakes at $ITjob doing this before, it works. It might not boot properly, but it can contain enough filesystem boundary information to be able to recover a partition manually (rescue).

por qué no los dos?

It’s when you subsist on Lower Class Brats songs during the night hours.

(just talking shop) I’ve poked at them, you’d think the old.lemmy.ca would be appealing but not for me - I rather like this Lemmy webUI overall as a design. Good font sizes, line spacing and so forth - it has a well formed comfortable feel which I can tell has an experienced eye to it (minor details matter). Conversely, when I look at, say piefed or old.lemmy I just got “ugh, those fonts! that line spacing!”. The default UI is actually a well crafted piece of usability kit - the infobox is an Achilles heel.

Random: I’ve used the Lemmy webUI details to craft similar feeling looks to HackerNews and (old) Reddit using nothing more than uBlock filters. Nothing grandiose but the fine tuning makes them sorta feel like the Lemmy UI (but worse, holy cow is there so much hard coded HTML in these old sites - lipstick on a pig but it helps).

Honest input to your thoughts - as a registered/logged-in user, that Lemmy home page infobox is a UI/UX nightmare - it blocks my quick access to the second box below that has my subscribed communities. Upon visiting, I would immediately collapse that top box without ever looking at it; I now have a simple uBlock Origin rule that hides the top infobox on the home page for me automatically. On old.reddit, the list of subscribed things is a dropdown top left so they avoid this UI/UX problem with stacked infoboxes.

One I snack on with unsalted tortilla chips, the other I do not. But now I have to try it.

I am not trying to stand out excessively. … I don’t want something commonly mispronounced.

Me trying to come up with a new domain name for a website. Also add “easy to spell for 5th graders” to the list because repeating it to someone on the phone is painful sometimes and they still get it wrong.

My immediate thought: the paperwork system of the world would fail. Correcting an extremely unique misspelled name (let’s say it’s two letters transposed) falls into that weird bucket of “close enough typos” that the OP would never recover. I’d be worried most about the financial systems screwing me over.

IMHO, best to change to something clearly different so that the paperwork world is given a clear indication of intentional change. Broadcast the intent loud and clear to force systems to change and not ignore it as “some stupid typo.” $0.02

edit: sorry replied to the wrong comment my bad, meant the parent

I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you’re going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:

https://listenbrainz.org/

(I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)

Stars are just someone’s bookmark (me included) because there’s no simple “bookmark this because I’ll forget in an hour and want to look at it later when I have time.” If one trusts Stars, you’re literally trusting a bookmark that I didn’t put more than 2 seconds of thought into clicking because I have a bad memory. Many I know do the same.

I go straight to code history, show me what the commits look like. One can derive a lot about the project based on just the way the commit messages are written before looking at the code being changed. How the code is changed over time (process, communication, methods, etc.) adds more layers to the qualitative observation. I move on to Issues when I want to see how the devs interact with the users having problems, which is another story.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoot_oneself_in_the_foot

The dichotomy here is you can’t be famous hosting exploits on smaller forges. Gotta be on the big platforms where you can be starred and forked for social media cred to make news stories to impress your friends. IIRC I think HeartBleed (maybe ShellShock?) was the tip of this popularity iceberg…

Oh my, that sounds bad. I wonder how many certs were up for renewal… thanks for sharing I didn’t see this in the news.

Feline leukemia (FeLV) snd aids (FIV) are a thing, I highly recommend a vet visit for tests before introducing to Paxton. A full blood test & vax shots, inspection can run $$, look around your area for rescue groups, call them and ask who they go to for care.