The new registration application asks people if they want to divulge their ND, and if so, assigns these flairs.
Neat, the form's changed quite a bit since I applied! Could I have AuDHD flairs? Thanks :)
Whenever I run into this on steam I'm able to refund with the reason "does not work on linux" even after hitting the playtime cap
I appreciate you posting some receipts and acknowledging that you probably shouldn't have commented that.
I think there might have been an issue with this:
...consider !trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone or another trans-friendly community. While Hexbear claims to be trans-friendly,...
It kind of implies that you don't see hexbear as a trans-friendly place which is very strange as they have very strict polices regarding transphobia. You can argue all you want about not wanting people to migrate to hexbear, but they are undoubtedly a trans safe space. It comes across as disinformation which might be why you copped a ban. The ban might have also been for other reasons not apparent in your screenshots, but we ideally need a dialogue between both parties to understand better.
It might have been helpful if you included some of that reasoning in the ban reason.
Are we able to see your removed post? It might help to understand the context here a bit better. You might have been transphobic either in that post or somewhere else, but I'm not the one who banned you so I wouldn't know. I've seen that you are cis from some comments (please correct me if I am wrong), so please know that you might have accidentally said/done something iffy even if you didn't think that was the case. I'm not accusing you of being transphobic, but that doesn't mean you aren't that per se. I'm inclined to trust a trans mod's judgment here for a trans community.
Regarding your edit, I contacted db0 beforehand in regards to the nature of this proposal. I was told that this was within scope of this community. I didn't know about the matrix chat, but feel that this should be a community decision rather than behind closed doors and obscure modlog entries. I also didn't want this to be a drama-fest so I did not post this to yptb.
It happens way more often than I'd like to admit 😅
I also get the same with chores sometimes. I really need to do the thing while I'm thinking about it otherwise I'll have "done" it mentally but not physically.
effects be handled automatically
inb4 some software bug bans us all haha
Granted, the optics of this are not great though.
Yeah, it looks really bad from the modlog perspective, but I still think an instance ban is too much for this. The pinging of the user while knowing they are instance banned really looks bad lol
Anyway, if the ban is expired as it seems from your screenshot...
I'm not sure if that's the current ban or if it was a prior ban that had expired. You might want to double check that.
There is a larger discussion to be had at some point about what to do about campists spreading bad faith slander like this.
For sure. It really needs to be discussed. In this specific case, I think reversing the ban will aid with discussion and hopefully some dialogue can form.
Background:
August 26, 2024 a dbzer0 instance admin instance banned a user, @marcie@lemmy.ml per "Sanctioned mod due to slanderous & unsubstantiated community ban and zero response to appeal. Ban to be lifted once issue is resolved."
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=9924804
From what I could gather, she received the instance ban after banning an instance member from a community (!transgender@lemmy.ml). Whether or not the community ban is justified doesn't really seem to be an issue here, an instance ban is an extreme response to a community ban and is inherently an unbalanced action that has vastly different ramifications. This means that no local users can interact with or see the instance banned user compared to one local user not being able to interact with one community on a different instance. The instance ban has much deeper implications than a community ban and should not be used rashly in response to a community ban.
https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14758?page=1&actionType=All&userId=892112
Something that may be worth to note is that the community banned user is a dbzer0 instance admin; however, I don't see how this could be much of an issue here, especially in terms of moderation, as there are other unbanned instance admins that can access that community. It just seems that this ban was done for personal reasons, possibly in revenge, that perhaps don't align with this instance's userbase's interests.
In fact, being an admin here seems to be part of the reason why it occurred. i.e. Would this instance ban have occurred if the moderator had banned a non-admin user?
If an instance ban on a moderator banning a local user is an appropriate course of action in this instance, then why is this not the case for any other users banned? I have never received an instance ban for community banning users, but should I be banned? Should db0 be banned from dbzer0 for community banning users? Should all community moderators be sanctioned?
Obviously, there isn't a precedent for this here, and I particularly don't want one and this is not a proposal to enact one. This is a proposal to reverse an instance ban on a user who I believe is unjustly banned, as an instance ban is not an appropriate response to a single community ban.
Although, if the admin is upset about the community ban, I implore him to visit !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com rather than pinging the user who's replies cannot even been seen here due to the ban (https://lemmy.ml/post/22023367/14664616) (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/14455427).
I'm wondering if the editors are actually just ChatGPT
The amount of trolling and debatemebros keep going up each thread and it looks like people are just trying to start drama here now rather than report actual mod abuse. I'm not sure how you could improve this, it seems like every one of these kinds of communities turn into drama communities with people at each other's throats each thread lol. I think temp bans would help for the most egregious offenders, but locking threads after a certain timeframe might be better? Considering the comment threads keep going on and on for some of them.
Lemmy world is a blocked instance on vegan theory club. @Arcanepotato@vegantheoryclub.org won't be able to see your comment.
Haven't seen a train stopped on platform 2 for quite a while. Kind of an ominous feeling considering the platform barricades are still up.
Also me doing the wash is bringing the rain
Thanks. Raining here right now! I should probably also wash my clothes for extra effect.
Thanks for posting. I'll keep doing research on them, but I'm pretty sure I need something similar as it's too hard to keep up with the dishes currently.
My north and south walls are shared with neighboring units, sadly. I have massive east-west facing windows and have asked for awnings to be installed, but no luck yet. Awnings are really cool though, and if given the privilege to choose where to live I'd prefer to be in a place that has them for sure.
Never stop posting, Hamid. These are great. I especially love it when you piss off a bunch of cop lovers, gets me every time! (Although seems like most of them have blocked you already... shame)
ACAB
Lemme know if anyone wants pics
I'm quite curious as to what it looks like if you'd like to show. I've been thinking about getting one and appreciate the info you've provided :)
The foundation does not advertise this much, but they run a really lean operation and it would probably help to donate a bit to them. You can donate directly to them via a few means; PayPal and card, bank transfers, and Bitcoin.
Currently OSM are having issues with their ISP and still are operating from their backups in read-only. Having more funding so they can afford better redundancy may help them in future situations like this.
Also, OSM is very important imo and it would be terrible if they didn't receive enough funding to continue existing. Donating should help safeguard against that.
OpenStreetMap.org is currently offline due to network outage. We are investigating. UPDATE 11:30am UTC/GMT. Website returning read-only on backup infrastructure. The outage affecting our primary services continues. UPDATE: All up and running again (17 Dec 2024 13:45 UTC/GMT)
The whole site is down and I can't upload any changesets. It doesn't appear maintenance related.
You can see some stats here:
https://prometheus.openstreetmap.org/d/5rTT87FMk/web-site?orgId=1&from=now-1h&to=now&var-instance=%24__all&refresh=1m
https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/113654874274344902
Hopefully this is not another purposeful attack on OSM.
Edit: Site is up now, but the database is read-only. See: https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/113656639378201391
Edit 2: Everything may be operational as of Tuesday evening (Europe)
Edit 3: Everything's back.
Oh snap, we can't find this page. Create your own online election with OpaVote. It is cost effective and easy to do!
> Of the 1971 voters in this election, 740 cast ballots. Craig Allan, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha, and Héctor Ochoa Ortiz are the winners after counting the ballots using Scottish STV.
> Investigation finds that the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of personal information and to protect personal information from unauthorised disclosure
The report: https://ovic.vic.gov.au/regulatory-action/investigation-into-the-use-of-chatgpt-by-a-child-protection-worker/
> # Investigation into the use of ChatGPT by a Child Protection worker
> In December 2023, the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) reported a privacy incident to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OVIC), explaining that a Child Protection worker had used ChatGPT when drafting a Protection Application Report (PA Report). The report had been submitted to the Children’s Court for a case concerning a young child whose parents had been charged in relation to sexual offences.
> Despite its popularity, there are a range of privacy risks associated with the use of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. Most relevant in the present circumstances are risks related to inaccurate personal information and unauthorised disclosure of personal information.
> After conducting preliminary inquiries with DFFH, the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner commenced an investigation under section 8C(2)(e) of the Privacy and Data Protection (PDP) Act with a view to deciding whether to issue a compliance notice to DFFH under section 78 of that Act.
> OVIC’s investigation considered whether the Department took reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of personal information and to protect personal information it holds from misuse, as required by the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) and Information Privacy Principles 3.1 and 4.1.
The full investigation report:
https://ovic.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DFFH-ChatGPT-investigation-report-20240924.pdf
Figured that this community would appreciate power tripping lemmy world admins :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550
> (posting to both communities) > > A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets". > > As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it. > > I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever. > > > ! > > > !
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550
> (posting to both communities) > > A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets". > > As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it. > > I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever. > > > ! > > > !
(posting to both communities)
A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets".
As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it.
I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever.
A small sample of farm workers is enough to confirm fears about H5N1 outbreak.
Preprint study \(mentioned in the article\): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.27.24310982v1
Abstract: (emphasis mine)
> Background: In early April 2024 we studied two Texas dairy farms which had suffered incursions of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) the previous month. Methods: We employed molecular assays, cell and egg culture, Sanger and next generation sequencing to isolate and characterize viruses from multiple farm specimens (cow nasal swab, milk specimens, fecal slurry, and a dead bird). Results: We detected H5N1 HPAIV in 64% (9/14) of milk specimens, 2.6% (1/39) of cattle nasal swab specimens, and none of 17 cattle worker nasopharyngeal swab specimens. We cultured and characterized virus from eight H5N1-positive specimens. Sanger and next-generation sequencing revealed the viruses were closely related into other recent Texas epizootic H5N1 strains of clade 2.3.4.4b. Our isolates had multiple mutations associated with increased spillover potential. Surprisingly, we detected SARS-CoV-2 in a nasal swab from a sick cow. Additionally, 14.3% (2/14) of the farm workers who donated sera were recently symptomatic and had elevated neutralizing antibodies against a related H5N1 strain. Conclusions: While our sampling was limited, these data offer additional insight into the large H5N1 HPAIV epizootic which thus far has impacted at least 96 cattle farms in twelve US states. Due to fears that research might damage dairy businesses, studies like this one have been few. We need to find ways to work with dairy farms in collecting more comprehensive epidemiological data that are necessary for the design of future interventions against H5N1 HPAIV on cattle farms.
Does anyone have a good source for vitamin d supplements? I'm deficient and need to supplement it.
Most of the supplements I could find online were not vegan, and the ones that were are exorbitantly priced. Like, surely vegan vitamin d3 can be bought in bulk for cheap? I'm probably not looking hard enough, but searching for "vegan vitamin d" kept giving me lanolin and "plant based".
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Edit: I'm from Australia, so things might cost more if importing from overseas.
This is the best one I've found:
www.uproar.org.au/shop/deva-vegan-d3-5000-iu/
90 x 5000 IU @ AU$32.95
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Edit 2 (2024-04-07): Adding this here just in case anyone reads this in future. I haven't received my order from uproar and have had no successful contact with them. It's been a month now, so I'm ordering much the same at iherb. I've opted with the deva brand.
This is a community for vegans by vegans. Its aim is to enable discussions about veganism first and foremost. We don't owe it to carnists to let them come here and walk all over our values just because they feel offended by our existence. This place is meant to be a safe space that is welcoming and kind.
After several incidents of brigrading by carnists and at the request of community members, I (and others on the mod team) have decided to be more strict in enforcing the rules here and ensure that the conversation isn't overrun by anti-vegans.
I've cleaned up the rules a bit and made it a bit shorter, I'd like feedback on that (also any mods feel free to change them up, it's more of a draft lol). I've also started following up by looking at the modlog and banning repeat offenders.
We also have new mods and I am sure that there would be room for others once we organise what we have currently. If you want to help now, please report comments/posts especially the ones that make the community unsafe for vegans.
I'm committed to making this place much less hostile, but oh my, some of these posts really do blow up at the worst of times.
Please, please, please be kind, not just to other humans and yourself, but to all the earthlings ✌️
Government says legislation designed to strengthen state’s response to animal security, while critics describe move as ‘ag-gag by stealth’
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/melbourne@aussie.zone/t/620286
> Government says legislation designed to strengthen state’s response to animal security, while critics describe move as ‘ag-gag by stealth’
I don't think I've seen every strawman argument against veganism all at the same time in the same place like that last thread that reached the front page the other day...
There's one moderator on the community, but that's not enough to stop the trolls coming here to derail any semblance of vegan discourse. Like, banning carnists here isn't gonna happen (unless it does I guess), but we could have mods with copy-paste anti-strawman arguments with proper citations on standby, so hopefully it never gets as bad as the other thread.
I'm not a fan of heavily moderated places, but maybe having a rule like "don't post post x y z argument and watch a b c Earthling Ed video instead" would help cut out some of the "good-faith" antivegans. But then again, the omis were excusing their behavior as it "reached the front page of lemmy", that means murder is OK now! /s
Curious to see what the community's thoughts would be. Do we just need to relegate ourselves to the circlejerk communities from now on, or would this community actually be by vegans for vegans?
Edit 1: I am now a mod of the community. I've reworked the sidebar and added some resources on veganism, rules, and links to other communities. I am interested to gauge feedback on it, and if anyone has any suggestions please comment them :)
It seems that for me whenever the meds "kick in" I can't really mask properly anymore which causes undesired social issues with some friends (especially in an outdoor setting like this meme implies). Wondering how many others experience this, and does anyone know why this happens? I haven't found any good reading on it and the psychs I mention it to just dismiss it.
I am looking for alternative knowledge sources to mozillazine that's a bit more up to date.
Specifically, I am after something that explains advanced about:config options and what each sqlite file and storage directories in my profile are actually used for. When I search online for things I get unhelpful support articles from mozilla and random reddit threads with conflicting information.
I've played around with a lot of things through a lot of trial and error (I can share some about:config values if anyone's interested in them), but I'd like to be directed somewhere I can go to and check first to make sure I won't break my profile tinkering.
I already use ffprofile to set up my user.js, but I'm looking for something with more documentation without having to resort to reading the source code of firefox.
20s ADHDer, queer af, 🌱, she/her
Certified Zoomer.
Arch btw
Supposed radical vegan extremist. Kinda based waow.