Looks great!

If you end up pinning any related communities in the sidebar, there is also !ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works

The original article: https://guessingheadlights.com/trump-and-xi-agree-on-one-thing-canada-shouldnt-be-building-cars/

Welcome! :)

The government definitely could have been the ones to take the lead on this. Reading the article, it seems like the solution is for Canadians to get on the platform and show that we’re here

Lamrock said that most of X’s value comes from the days when it was Twitter and the fact that many governments are still on the platform from those days.

The City of Fredericton recently stopped suing X, but spokesperson Marley McLellan said the decision was made after a survey that showed residents were using X less and less to find information about city services.

“The city looks forward to continuing to share information and connect with residents on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, the website and through newsletters,” McLellan wrote in an email.

Are people really getting government updates through LinkedIn?

I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

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To be fair, someone else did post about it last week and they had rules about that.

I love having new people here, but I also don’t want newcomers to feel spammed. Nor give Reddit any justification for going back to auto removing any discussion of Reddit alternatives.

Thanks 😄, I tried to help out the best I could

Pretty much, that’s what I understood it to mean anyway

I assume the phrase has been used in other contexts too

You can see a CT scan of one of these

https://www.techspot.com/news/105863-usb-c-cable-can-hide-lot-malicious-hardware.html

I understood “making it” as accomplishing what you were pretending to be, often in the context of self-confidence

• someone is scared of public speaking and thinks they’re no good at it
• they pretend that they are someone who is good at it, in order to get through situations where they need to do public speaking
• they eventually just get good at it

Regional Instances for Quick Join sounds cool, looking forward to it :)

Last I saw, they had rules against self promotion. I’m not sure if this qualifies, but at the very least we could post it in their self promotion specific thread.

Check out !selfhosted@lemmy.world for questions about selhisting, and !lemmy@lemmy.ml for questions about running a Lemmy server

I’d recommend including a lot more details in your post about your machine, your budget, why you want to do it, etc

I’m also thinking of video games, but mine isn’t as realistic:

https://www.bloonswiki.com/Grape_Shot_(BTD6)

Whoops, I meant to say “only downside”. Edited it

There are lots of positive differences

Not sure how you mean. Is it too complicated to make a pull request and edit the file I linked above?

Not at all, I accidentally quoted the wrong text in my reply. I meant to reply to this bit: “Most instances are uncategorized, and country selection is by server IP so Germany also has pixelshot.it listed. Manually specifying countries would be more reliable (but also more effort)”.

I was proposing having an automated system that uses the server IP (or another method), and then overriding it with any manually entered information from that file. That could be paired with an extra visual indicator or filter method to differentiate between the two.

Its not random from the whole list, but selected from a curated list (currently only lemmus.org and thelemmy.club, see #545). Its displayed like this because a lot of people complained that choosing an instance is too complicated.

That’s fair. Maybe you could add a line above those buttons saying something like “We have picked a random instance for you to try:”

That might be enough for the user to understand that the highlighted instance is not official / run by your team.

The images are not great, I will make a similar post soon to get contributions, and feedback for better texts.

Sounds great, looking forward to it!

Unless I misunderstood, it will eventually dry up? Investors aren’t going to be willing to give money with no returns indefinitely

Even more baffling is the claim:

Warner Bros., for its part, has managed to find continued success with theatrical releases, both blockbuster franchises (the DC universe) *{and two small budget indie films that turned into hits and tripled their budgets, for a business nonetheless still bleeding profits}

The DC Universe is WB’s leading success story? The universe with famously more flops than box office winners??

Didn’t they also cancel a bunch of smaller projects for tax reasons

The only difference downside really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.

I’ve been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can’t install otherwise

https://open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/vsix-manager

RadioShack is still around. Not sure how good it is.

Interestingly, it started as a mail order business in the 1920s, switched to retail stores in the 1960s, and then in 2017 it switched back to an online only / mail delivery business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack