Hexbear emotes are not rigorous theoretical statements.
404s for me. This link works: https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2023/11/08/this-week-in-rust-520/
But one of the requirements of eIDAS 2.0 is that browser makers trust government-approved Certificate Authorities (CA) and do not implement security controls beyond those specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
State-mandated backdoors seem bad
Edit: Not sure why, but many instances don't show crossposts out of dbzer0.
In order for a post to show up as a crosspost, it must use the exact same URL, rather than re-uploading it each time. It looks like each crosspost so far has used a separate URL except your !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone crosspost.
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https://lib.lgbt/post/252855
"Thanks, I'll add a note to make a schedule"
makes schedule never
I use Nitter Redirect, which redirects any twitter URL I visit to a Nitter equivalent.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/nitter-redirect
Not Firefox: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mohaicophfnifehkkkdbcejkflmgfkof
If it's working, visiting this link redirects to Nitter: https://twitter.com/DrLongissimus/status/1474279234239619087
So we're scrapping the 26th amendment, huh?
Our current supreme court considers constitutional amendments to be unconstitutional, so I wouldn't be surprised if they rule in favor of scrapping it
@Dolores@hexbear.net responding to your comment in an old megathread here, since that mega is locked:
very confused, is this a bug or does that comm have basically no upvotes? i'm seeing the highest at 3? how'd that get on anyone's feed?
Votes from before federation don't get federated, so old posts look like they don't have votes until more people vote on them. It looks like there's some votes now, though.
The prosthetic goes out way too far. Actual Bernstein:
I tried to find a comparable profile shot from Maestro, but they seem to be avoiding showing his direct profile, I couldn't find one in the trailer
Threads can only display ads on their app
What is stopping them from adding ads to the website?
if lemmy.world adds ads, people can just not use the lemmy.world website
That's what I imagine happening, a few people can't stand it and leave or use uBlock, and the rest of the userbase gets served ads
As far as i know they cant force other apps to show ads
Not unless ads are a footer or something in post or comment content. That's an intellectual property gray area, I wonder what will happen.
You can avoid that notification by switching to i3
They're totally going to run ads
However Meta decides to serve ads on Threads or Threads content. Whatever it takes, Threads will definitely do ads, as they are owned by an advertising company, but we don't really know how LemmyWorld will do ads until those ads are live.
It's not the vaccine, but while you're waiting, Covixyl (a nasal spray) is available over-the-counter and reduces viral load/severity for 4 hours
To anyone else waiting until the new vaccine is available in September, consider protecting yourself in the meantime with Covixyl, which is a nasal spray. It doesn't keep you from getting COVID, but it reduces the viral load for 4 hours, so if you do get COVID, it will be less severe (though you should still get Paxlovid at that point regardless).
[...] it sounds like you're arguing that the downtime is because of massive user registrations and not from an attack like they said themselves [...]
I have no idea where their downtime is from. If it is DOS-related, though, they would protect against it using a DDOS protection service like CloudFlare, which costs $$$
Lemmy.world hasn't done anything to suggest they would be a significant privacy and security risk to users, at least not yet
They have, though. The LemmyWorld admins doxxed a user who they believed (incorrectly) to be Hexbear admin CARCOSA@hexbear.net. Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1754850
[...], pushing ads to federated servers or collecting and selling user data would absolutely change that I guarantee it.
We'll see, but the larger they grow, the more permanent they get, and ads only affects that so much.
I didn't and won't go as far to accuse the instance owners themselves of being behind the attack but I won't say it isn't a user from Hexbear because nether you or I can prove that it isn't.
Hexbear is not more suspect than other instances, and there is no reason to name-drop Hexbear, alone, in particular. If they're being DOSed, then whoever is responsible is most likely involved in a community that has a culture of DOSing in general, like a Chan, maybe the same one that has actively been responsible for vandalizing Lemmy instances.
How do they expect to serve ads to people with that abysmal uptime that they have.
The probably see it differently, that their uptime is limited by their funding, and additional revenue would help uptime.
Maybe it will maybe they'll be financially successful but I bet they're probably also going to get defederated and therefore not platform successful.
The current logic I've seen about why instances continue to federate with LemmyWorld is that they're "too big to fail", the same logic applied to Threads, and I don't see ads changing that. If Threads uses a more PR-friendly way of running ads when they inevitably do, maybe LemmyWorld will copy whatever ad-serving method that is.
[...] and that's probably just from one person from hexbear who's pissed at them, [...]
You probably saw someone else say this, rather than making it up yourself, but Hexbear does not DOS anyone, please don't repeat misinformation
They're not risking legal troubles unless they receive and don't comply with a DMCA takedown request. Like I said elsewhere, this is about making their site friendly to advertisers.
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It's been over a day of federation. Does it take longer, or does someone have to manually add Hexbear?
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,00
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> UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of these negotiations. We’ve changed the game, battling it out day and night to make sure our members won an agreement that pays strong wages, rewards their labor, and doesn’t require a single concession. This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.
Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:
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Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
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Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
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General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
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Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
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Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
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New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
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All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
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Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
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All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
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No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
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UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
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The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
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More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.
> By Alexander Tin > > A panel of federal advisers voted Wednesday to back a drugmaker's request to sell a kind of birth control pills over-the-counter, clearing the way for the Food and Drug Administration to approve the first sale of oral contraception on U.S. store shelves without a prescription later this year. > > The unanimous vote follows a two-day joint meeting of two FDA committees to weigh a submission by the Perrigo subsidiary HRA Pharma, for their proposed Opill brand product. > > Opill is made up of norgestrel, a kind of "progestin-only" birth control pill that was first approved as safe and effective to be prescribed by doctors in the 1970s. This is different from birth control pills that are largely prescribed today, which are newer "combined" formulations that also use estrogen. > > The committees had been asked to discuss and vote over whether there was "adequate information to conclude" that the benefits of making norgestrel tablets available over-the-counter outweigh the risks of consumers taking them without a doctor's supervision. > > Ahead of the meeting, Perrigo told investors Monday it was expecting the FDA could decide on approval of over-the-counter Opill within the next three months. If approved, Opill could be rolled out as early as the end of this year, a company executive said. > > "FDA's approval of Opill for over-the-counter use would address a key unmet need for contraceptive access, be a groundbreaking expansion for women's health nationwide and a step forward toward ensuring people can have improved access to contraception without unnecessary barriers," said Perrigo's Frederique Welgryn in a statement following the vote. > Birth Control Pills > This illustration provided by Perrigo in May 2023 depicts proposed packaging for the company's birth control medication Opill. Perrigo via AP > > While the panel's vote is not binding, the FDA says the expert input plays a key role in helping agency reviewers sort through tricky questions posed by drug company submissions. Advisers had wrestled with a range of concerns voiced by the FDA's reviewers with Perrigo's request, including around whether a key study might need to be re-run. > > Several participants in a study designed to simulate over-the-counter use of Perrigo's drug reported taking dozens or even hundreds more pills than they were dispensed to take. > > "This finding of improbable dosing in this study is really quite extraordinary. This is not something we see in a typical actual use study. And the results have to be incredibly extreme to show up in this kind of a study," the FDA's Theresa Michelle told the panel. > > Almost a third of study participants reported taking far more tablets than they were supposed to receive, a result that the FDA worried cast doubt over the validity of all of the results from the study by Perrigo's contractor. > > "You really have to wonder about what happened with the other two-thirds if they also over reported, but just not to the extent where we could pick up on it," said Michelle. > > But FDA officials also acknowledged the stakes riding on their looming decision, especially as women face growing hurdles in trying to access contraceptives or abortion care. > > "The public hearing yesterday was filled with courageous, compelling stories testifying to these challenges," the FDA's Pamela Horn said. > > The advisory panel members were skeptical that keeping norgestrel in a prescription-only status, for which it has already been long-approved, would be any better for patients. > > "I think all of us, that have had experience taking care of adolescents and adult females, realize that it is very difficult for people to long term take even birth control pills, when they see a provider, the same time every day," University of Texas Medical Branch's Dr. Abbey Berenson, a member of the committee, said. > > ## Benefits and risks of norgestrel > > While birth control pills are widely prescribed in the U.S., nearly all American patients take a newer "combined" version that includes an additional estrogen hormone. > > Only a small number who need to avoid estrogen take progestin-only pills, which the FDA says must be taken on a stricter regimen to be effective. > > "The progestin-only pill is less forgiving, for the reasons that were discussed: it's once daily, and at the same time, allowing for a three-hour window," the FDA's Christine Nguyen said. > > Americans also weigh more on average than they did when norgestrel was first approved in the 1970s, a factor which the FDA says research suggests could further diminish norgestrel's efficacy. > > More than a hundred countries already allow sale of birth control pills without a prescription, a disparity the FDA acknowledges makes it harder for many Americans to access birth control. > > However, the FDA cautioned the panel that most of those countries had widened access to the pills within required guardrails unavailable to U.S. regulators. Pharmacists overseas still screen for issues that could make it unsafe or ineffective for patients to take it, like around potential drug interactions. > > "There is no third 'behind the counter' class of drugs in the U.S. like there is in other countries. Drugs in the U.S. are either non-prescription or prescription," the FDA's Pamela Horn said.