Rob Bos

Market cap? Which stock symbol is it? 😉

Ah. Really, I thought it was. Thanks. :/

See Wikipedia: “France ceded to Canada the perpetual use of a portion of land on Vimy Ridge on the understanding that Canada use the land to establish a battlefield park and memorial.”

Canada also had a land border with France. Vimy Ridge is sovereign Canadian territory, ceded by France after WW1.

So, in a way, we’re already a European country.

I’ve noticed that every different social media medium/site has its own Eternal September moment. I think, optimistically, that we’re still before that point. If we get popular and the general population arrives, it’ll also attract the predatory ecosystem of state actors and corporate bullshit.

I think Lemmy and the Fediverse in general is resistant to that, but not immune. I expect an effort to create One Big Instance that most people use, or an oligarchy of large instances working together, like Microsoft and Gmail and co do with email.

Sounds like isekai.

As well as owning the board itself and being able to change the rules. It’s a sucker’s game to fight on a battlefield controlled by the enemy without overwhelming advantage.

There is, and maybe. But reforming our system probably shouldn’t be done with American input.

How do you feel about swearing allegiance to HM George, King of Canada?

At one point I rebuilt a server by fully abandoning the package database and reinstalling everything as overwrites. Converted a slackware install into a Debian install in situ by cannibalizing it from the inside out. Pretty proud of that one, even 20 years later.

edit: oh gods… more like 24.

Debian stable, I guess, has both people sleeping on cruise control. Fine until it stops being fine, and then a flurry of activity.

Edit: or maybe a train. Boring, except for updates and dist upgrades.

Great stories. Tiny bit of surviver bias.

Redhat 1997. Slackware, Storm Linux, then Debian 2001 to present. A brief year on the OSS Solaris release.

Im assuming you’ve looped in @[email protected]?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.

It’s a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.

This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.

Bugs me that in all of his examples he does the thing for the user instead of having them do it while he guides them through it. I have a ‘sit on my hands’ rule for cases like that. But it has been a while since I’ve done desktop support.

yeah, I haven’t had issues getting a webcam to work in years, just plug and go

That would be a very interesting virus.

I’ve been using rspamd for a while. It may be extensible to do token based classification like you want but it may take some work.

Not necessarily, I find it moronic too. Like why is it even a discussion? Let people do what they want. It doesn’t harm anyone and might make them a lot happier.