Last I checked you can only thread a conversation one level down from the channel and that's it (when I last used it like 5 years ago).
To me that's practically unusable for what it's supposed to be. Slack even does a better job, in my opinion.
I find Australia's travel advice contradictory.
No offence to people living in the US, but I'd say most people in Australia would think many places in the US are not generally as safe as here.
For political reasons (we are the US' vassals, see $300 bn submarines), we will likely hold out a long time before heightening headline travel advice, but to me some of the advice given does not fall under the category of exercising "normal safety precautions" as is claimed by DFAT:
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Violent crime is more common in the United States than in Australia. Gun crime is also prevalent. If you live in the United States, learn and practice active shooter drills.
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There is a persistent threat of mass casualty violence and terrorist attacks in the United States. Be alert, particularly in public places and at events.
Practicing active shooter drills isn't normal. At all.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america
I agree 13 -19 in English are out of place, and 11-12 are left over from duodecimal, however changing some spoken order is way less cursed that doing fraction multiplication.
I for one, would love if we started saying ten-one, ten-two, etc.
This small part of Danish is definitely fair game to tease. It's all in good fun!
I hate that saying "they are fascists" is not at all in the slightest hyperbole :(
WTF is this timeline?
Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.
Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it's within the realm of possibility.
I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work...
And if anyone doing these illegal deportations is tried, and even convicted, the president can just pardon them.
Presidential pardons are dumb and were always waiting to be abused, change my mind.
This is me. I've always been too lazy to switch (I have some of the worst hardware for it. I'm running my old surface pro into the ground and have hardly any internal storage so hard to dual boot for testing).
But now, well hey, Windows 11 is stupid, windows 10 has been spying since forever.
Linux it is, thanks Microsoft for giving me the push I needed.
You know, later in the year. When I have to.
I'm only human
People are going to die because they'll have a heart attack or something while exerting themselves at work...
What a nightmare :/
Thanks for the summary! I'm not using conservative in the US sense (which yeah, doesn't really have left-wing parties with any power), but more as a catch all for parties in the anglosphere such as: Australia: Liberal/National, UK: The Tories and I suppose for NZ: the Nationals and ACT.
They're practically aligned on most policies whenever I hear about each.
Just thought: there's no way a left-leaning party would think of rolling back something as obvious as making wage theft a crime.
And I'm not surprised I guessed right haha
The difference is locks on doors truly are just security theatre in most cases.
Unless you're the BiLock and it takes the LockPickingLawyer 3 minutes to pick it open.
and current parties are discussing rolling them back to 'support small businesses' from having to do that
Having not looked into the current parliament (I'm from Australia), let me guess, the conservatives?
Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha
I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.
You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).
The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.
Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha
YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)
DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.
Quite the opposite of being shadowbanned in fact. Unless an instance is doing something custom, you can peruse an instance's modlog: https://lemmy.ml/modlog
Using lemmy.ml as example not because I'm painting the entire instance with the same brush, just came to mind because I had a comment removed for being "reactionary".
Can't recall what I said, perhaps there is a time limit on how far back the mod log is accessible.
I really want a Facebook (the old Facebook timeline) replacement, but end-to-end encrypted, and decentralised so there's longevity.
Edit for clarity: I'm looking for a way to share things online, end-to-end encrypted to a wide-audience that knows you but doesn't necessarily know each other.
This is why messaging apps don't fulfil this requirement, and chat rooms (like Matrix) also don't fit.
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I love Lemmy, I like the idea of Mastodon (twitter-like sites just aren't my thing. ActivityPub rocks. However, none of them are encrypted.
PixelFed is neato, but I don't plan sharing my personal photos with the whole of the internet, which seems to be the only choice with ActivityPub.
Signal and other encrypted messaging apps are great, but are for direct messaging. Where are the encrypted social media apps?
Matrix is cool and all, but it's aimed at groups. Like discord / MS teams replacement.
Someone told me about Futo Circles, which seems to tick all the boxes and built on top of Matrix, but it's currently abandoned.
Are there any other alternatives? My wallet is open, I would very much like to use such an app. I am no programmer, so sadly cannot take on the mantle of continuing the Futo Circles project.
I'm aware of how to set up chat backups on Android, but this only makes local backups that you have to manually upload or copy.
I'm trying to find a solution where I can set and forget backups to the cloud.
My requirements are:
- It doesn't require me exposing the rest of my file system/cloud storage to a third party app without scoping (filesync works, but doesn't meet this criteria).
- It can upload directly to a cloud service
So far, no dice :/
Is there some workaround?
P.S. my potential solution is move Signal to my Shelter Work profile, where I do have filesync installed, but then I won't have contacts access, which is a slight pain (and because I don't want to create contacts in my work profile).
Most recent example: I was asked to participate/lead our team's Movember campaign at my company.
How I politely declined: oh sorry, I'm a bit too busy with my personal life and work projects this year.
My unpopular opinion I couldn't say: it doesn't align with my values.
Movember raises money and promotes awareness of Men's health. Nothing wrong with the organisation themselves, but frankly I think the paltry couple of thousand of dollars our (pretty large) company manages to raise each year is a waste of time.
If we taxed corporations a fraction of a percent more on corporate profits we would bring is orders of magnitude more money than individuals asking others, out of the kindness of the hearts, for money.
Health research shouldn't have to beg for money, the government should just fund it with tax dollars. Taxes that you don't get to choose to pay. Other than by voting.
I hate fun runs, and do subtly judge those who participate in them, especially because (I think) they skew towards wealthier people, and it's their way of making themselves feel good for raising money for cancer or whatever, and then turn around and vote for tax cuts, and use accountants to make their tax liability as low as possible - something poorer people can't afford.
I used to give money to charity when I was younger. But I honestly think it's silly now, and it ought not have to exist.
(Mods, this is politics adjacent, but I feel is general enough to be compliant, since I'd say most people view charity organisations mostly favourably)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21049862
> The only numbers I will ever spell are one and zero, and only when using them as a pronoun, or for emphasis, respectively. > > Is there ever a reason to not to use symbols when dealing with numbers? Why would "fourteen whatevers" ever be preferable to "14 whatevers". It's just so much easier to read numbers as symbols, not spelled out. > > (Caveat, not including multipliers, like "273 billion").
The only numbers I will ever spell are one and zero, and only when using them as a pronoun, or for emphasis, respectively.
Is there ever a reason to not to use symbols when dealing with numbers? Why would "fourteen whatevers" ever be preferable to "14 whatevers". It's just so much easier to read numbers as symbols, not spelled out.
(Caveat, not including multipliers, like "273 billion").
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?
Edit 2: I bought my Pixel 6 phone outright, directly from Google's Australian store. I have no creditors.
Were the courts not enough control for creditors? Since when are they allowed to lock you out of your purchased property without a court order?
I don't even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?
Edit 1: You can check it's installed (stock Pixel 6 android 14) Settings > Apps > All Apps > three dot menu, Show system > search "DeviceLockController".
I highly recommend getting NetGuard, you can enable pro features via their website if you have the APK for as low as 0.10€, but donate more, because it's amazing. You can also purchase via Google Play store.
Especially when there's some mad person with a folder where they put ALL their markups, correspondence and revisions in the same folder, with no sub folders 🤢.
While you're madly running about getting the store ready and dialling in the coffee.
And they're mad that you're not open before the opening time...
https://lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes
/c/engineeringmemes@lemmy.world
Saw that this hasn't made it over during the Reddit migration so have decided to start it myself (ChemEng).
Engineers and all others welcome, architects too if they enjoy some bants.
