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Chinese authorities demand schoolteachers and other public sector employees hand in their passports as President Xi Jinping tightens his grip on society
  • Funny enough, I’m the opposite. You’ve seen a few different countrysides you’ve seen them all. But cities are bustling, vibrant and unique with all different cultures coming together, and Hong Kong (like you said about New York) was at the top of them. I’m really disappointed about how you describe Shenzhen because that’s my worry that will happen to Hong Kong

  • Nintendo Switch Modder Who Refused to Shut Down Now Takes to Court Against Nintendo Without a Lawyer
  • We don’t want them to win either. The comment was a glib remark that usually people who go in without a lawyer get the book thrown at them. If so, a perfectly plausible outcome is actually being sentenced to jail. If so, that could look very bad for Nintendo. It’s all just hypothetical extrapolation.

  • How to successfully transition out of IT at age 40+?
  • That’s honestly part of the reason I moved into management. I can ensure that my pay keeps going up, and I don’t always have to understand the minutia of every tech change. I can still learn the basic concepts, and work to develop my team so no individual is doing it all. This also in turn helps them grow too.

  • Anyone having trouble with Zotify and the like?

    I know that recently Spotify requires a credentials.json file and not just a user name and password. I can’t seem to find a method though that works in creating that file. I’ve tried librespot and librespot-auth, both of which should expose themselves as a speaker on my network for Spotify to cast too but it doesn’t show up. I’ve tried them both in a WSL instance and compiled directly for Windows with no luck.

    Is there another way I’m missing to generate those credentials? I have a valid account, so I know there’s not an issue there.

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    (Religious) What would i be labeled?

    I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.

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    What causes a CFL to suddenly start working again?

    I have a CFL in the bathroom that went out on me. I’ve been too lazy to change it because there are other bulbs that are working. Well after a couple weeks, it magically decided to turn back on. It’s nowhere that it would be jostled or anything, so I found that weird.

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    WYR: Be Invincible, Immortal or Invulnerable?

    Invincible - Live a normal life span, can get hurt, but won’t be killed, still feel things

    Immortal - Live forever (stop aging in your mid30s) still capable of being injured and dying via unnatural causes

    Invulnerable - Live a normal life span, can’t get hurt or killed, but in return can’t feel anything (emotionally or physically)

    Took a little liberty with some of the definitions to provide enough separation for the question.

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    AskHistorians @lemmy.world ramble81 @lemm.ee
    How do historical parts of active cities end up so far underground?

    I was thinking about Rome and there is one place that’s a 17th century church, on top of 14th century monastery on top of a 1st century apartment. And if you go to the Forum section it’s visibly below the surface of the current city.

    For the fact that the city has been active for thousands of years, how do things end up getting buried? Does that mean the elevation of the city is higher now than it was in 0 AD?

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    Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail.

    I was listening to a Weird Al song about prank calls and realized you can’t really do them anymore now. Also it was funny that he mentioned dialing 7 digit numbers instead of 10

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    Women of Lemmy, do you mind being called cute?

    Or do you prefer other adjectives? Do you consider it to be insulting or do you take it for a compliment if it was meant as one? (Assume an amenable relationship between the two people, not a random stranger or creeper)

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    Texting has probably enabled more affairs recently

    Due to its asynchronous and discreet nature, people don’t have to be in physical proximity or expect immediate responses.

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    I don't like sleeping in dark rooms

    I don’t like to sleep in near pitch black rooms. It just feels unnatural to me. It may be more the fact that it prevents the gradual transition to daylight unless you’re using an artificial light, so that bothers me more because you don’t know when morning is. But even when traveling I love to keep the curtains open through the night and sleep to whatever the natural light level is around me even if it’s in the middle of a city.

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    Hidden Photos available via USB

    Well this is interesting. I plugged my phone into my computer to pull some photos off of it and I just happen to start browsing it via Windows Explorer since the device shows up there. Imagine my surprise when I saw things that were in my Hidden folder show up clear as day. It seems that lock is only at an application level and just browsing the file system it’s there to see.

    Does anyone else experience something similar? Is there a note I missed that it’s still be available via other means?

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    [Bug] Feed blur settings no longer per account

    In previous versions I could set the nsfw blur settings (Settings > Apperance > Blur NSFW) for my feed on a per account basis. This was good for having a nsfw and a sfw account that I could easily switch between. As of 2.12.4, it seems this setting is now global forcing me to have to switch it each time i switch accounts. This can also be problematic if i forget to re-enable the blur when switching back to my sfw account.

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    See all communities on another instance?

    Is there any way to see a list of communities either on the instance you’re subscribed to, or better still a remote instance? I can go to Local and New posts to see what’s been posted, but that’s really about it. Even if there’s a way to see communities of an instance you have an account on, I wouldn’t want to sign up for multiple instances just to get a list on each one, then flip back to my main account to subscribe to them.

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    Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages?

    In the US for example the standard is 110V for voltage and 80psi for water. In Europe, voltage is 220V, is water pressure different there too?

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    Tourists (and tourism) are a good thing.

    Quite often you see people saying “tourists need to go home” or “we need less tourists” and there are some valid issues with how people can be, but overall, having tourists is a good thing. It shows that the middle class actually has means of traveling. It also tends to stimulate a local economy with additional revenue and can offset taxes for locals through hotel and other tourism fees. Those that do travel also tend to develop a broader world view then being in their own little sphere.

    A reduction in tourism means that only the rich will end up traveling, and everyone else will be stuck only in the place they’re born, relegated mainly to pictures and videos “of a far off land” and will foster deeper divides of “well that’s just them over there” instead of getting to experience it firsthand.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml ramble81 @lemm.ee
    How quickly do changes get pushed to the ActivityPub protocol?

    Let’s say I hit submit on a post or reply, and then immediately notice a typo and edit it. Or I accidentally mis-swipe and downvote and then change it to an upvote.

    In both cases, do both actions immediately get posted to the feed, or does the Lemmy instance wait a minute and combine (or overwrite) the actions so that only a single action gets published?

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    People who still wear masks (and aren't immunocompromised)...

    How long do you plan on wearing a mask for? Will it be for the rest of your life? What will change your view?

    This isn’t meant to be inflammatory. There’s someone at work who wears one everyday and I’m too afraid to ask them.

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    askmenover30 @lemm.ee ramble81 @lemm.ee
    Men who shave...

    How often do you shave? How long does it take you? How do you do it?

    Just curious as it feels like a chore for me. I usually do a with the grain shave with a safety razor and no product since I don’t have a lot of time and that gives the least irritation, but it’s not a close shave. I see guys that get stupid close shaves and I often wonder how much time they spend on it.

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    What's with all the "weed" shops popping up?

    Driving around town I’ve noticed quite a few places in San Antonio are offering free weed and are now selling it. Did I miss something being passed? I thought only Delta-8 (and variants) were available and that THC was still banned. Was there a loophole discovered or will the city no longer prosecute?

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