Yeah, I just updated the post. I blocked both of their /16 blocks today. No response, acknowledgement, or drop in spam even after close to 50 unique spam reports over the course of 2 and a half weeks. None of those customers are any my org would be dealing with, anyway, so fuck 'em. If they want to be a big boy player, then they need to take responsibility for what their platform is being used for.

All I know is he officially left the platform by choice. Even if I did know more, it’s probably not my place to say.

Guess it’s up to me now that we lost Squid. Here ya go:

Sounds about right lol. I’ll have to see if that’s available on YouTube when I have some time to dig around.

I just love that “Truss” is the accepted metric conversion of “Mooch” lol.

Disagree. 2025’s motto is basically “But wait! It gets worse” so I’ll take “no change” as a “win”.

101 days. That’s 9.2 Mooches or 2.3 Trusses if you prefer the metric system.

101 days. That’s 9.18 Mooches or 2.3 Trusses if you’re using the metric system.

Watched the latest season of Black Mirror. It was pretty good.

They can still reply, you just won’t see them or get a notification.

So there is a bit of FOMO to get over when blocking, but it’s not too bad. Kind of like realizing you have no control over what people say behind your back. I’m just like, “If I cared what they had to say, I wouldn’t have blocked them in the first place”

We’re getting a heavy dose of “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.

It’s become apparent to even people that normally don’t pay attention that, despite being less than we want, a lot of our tax money actually does go toward things that help the citizens.

Other than that, I got nothing. These policies, decisions, and the people making them are all a disaster that are going to take decades to repair.

“Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”

The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).

Edit: I’m realizing now your screenshot is probably for a web course.

I can only speak for myself, but the quick settings menu has been terrible (IMO) since 12. They’ve gotten worse each release. So the “overhaul” is mostly just going back to the way it already was before they made it garbage. The exception being it’s still oversized and unwieldy.

Peak quick settings (A11):

The way I learned it is that “whom” is to “who” as “me” is to “I”.

Granted, there’s some cases where “me” is incorrectly used but sounds more correct. e.g. “You’re smarter than me” which sounds correct, but should actually be “You’re smarter than I” due to the implied verb (am) which is omitted at.

Yeah, I saw the steps for VLC and they’re similar. I tend to prefer CLI, so that’s what I did / wrote up.

Yeah, I don’t think I would like them at all. I had the audiobooks for a whole series by one author, and they were all read by the same narrator except the latest book. I couldn’t handle it; it was a real person, not AI, but they were just terrible (but still better than an AI-generated voice).

Did it do distinct voices for the characters? I could maybe see biographies being tolerable read my a machine (though ironic), but books with multiple characters interacting would be a mess. That’s one of the things I appreciate about John Lee (who narrated almost that entire series). He even used the same voices for the same characters across books.

I just don’t know a good way to deal with that, TBH. I wish I did.

how to make them be honest about their motivations

It’s tough. If I get a funny feeling about an account and think they might be a concern troll (I think that’s the term that applies here; if not, someone please correct me. I think “false ally” is a sub-class of that, but I’m shooting from the hip here),

I’ll typically look back through their history, try to put things in context, and get a feel from there. The ones I blocked were pretty much all one-trick ponies, so that was easy (though tedious as it took a while “vetting” each one).

The problem there is, yes, you’ve identified that person. But everyone else needs to do the same legwork and come to the same conclusion. You can’t just put up a sign that says “Troll” lol. Depending on the community/instance, you could report them, but that often puts mods in a sticky situation because they usually don’t want to suppress anyone’s viewpoint as long as it’s not violating any rules.

or, in the case of those few who are genuinely being taken in by this garbage

That’s even tougher. First, you have to figure out if they’re the troll or the one who was trolled (troll-ee lol?) . And one, very rightfully, can’t /shouldn’t just start calling people trolls or shills. For one, they might be the troll-ee; going out of the gate with name-calling and accusations is definitely not the way to convince them to re-evaluate their views. For another, it just sets a bad tone and gives the impression that “everyone who disagrees with me is a troll”.

But sometimes they are. What do you do then?

Wish I had an answer that didn’t involve writing multiple theses on a number of topics as they try to sealion me into submission lol.

Same (with respect to gaining respect for someone who properly uses the word ‘whom’).

The way I learned it is that “whom” is to “who” as “me” is to “I”.

Granted, there’s some cases where “me” is incorrectly used but sounds more correct. e.g. “You’re smarter than me” which sounds correct, but should actually be “You’re smarter than I” due to the implied verb which is omitted.

• Claiming to be leftists
• Encouraging leftists not to vote or to vote for third party candidates
• Highlighting issues with the Democratic party as being disqualifying while ignoring the objectively worse positions held by the Republican party
• Attacking anyone who promotes defending leftist political power by claiming they are centrists and that the attacker is “to the left of them”
• Using US foreign policy as a moral cudgel to disempower any attempt at legitimate engagement with the US political system
• Seemingly doing nothing to actually mount resistance against authoritarianism

Except for the one example you listed that I omitted here, you’ve just described, like, at least 1/3 of Lemmy, maybe more.

The obvious ones I blocked long ago. There were some I didn’t block, but a good chunk of those up and disappeared right after the election in November, so that was not suspicious at all.

Frankly, I’m just about done with anything “political” on social media and am just going to start employing keyword filters. I’ll just have to find some other void to shout into when I need an outlet lol.

Offtopic, but the headline writer should have used “by whom?”.