Rough headline, I thought they were already arrested somehow.

A little bit (also in the central us) but its not that frequent

much more common on amtrak

windows did it already

we do already have rentfr.ee

I’d be willing to bet that no progressive legislation will be pushed through with “Strong Mayor powers”.

Never. It’s always just more policing, more secrecy, less accountability, generally thuggish behavior, with the occasional highly publicized veto battle

I’ve had the opposite experience tbqh. So far just about all the most principled communists I’ve met in real life are not vegan, some even a little bit hostile to the idea. I don’t know how to feel about that but it’s what happened. I thought there would be more. I guess I haven’t asked everyone, but it has come up with many of them

no zyn pouches down under?

I see those fuckers everywhere now. I’ve seen piles of them in a fuckin urinal

wow. I don’t follow him nearly that closely. fuck this guy tbh. A lot of people were doing that post oct 7 but still, coward shit

given your use case the ffmpeg incantation wins out but just for posterity I should add that if you are producing a podcast or other audio medium you can do this in Audacity as well pretty simply

people used to be able to book passage on freighters

still a thing though I think it costs more than it used to. Much like long distance train travel in the US, it takes so long that you end up paying more than the flight would have been (but it comes with lodging, meals and a unique experience)

with the amount of care and feeding that people demand as compared to cargo, and considering the gnarly fuels often used in ships, I wonder how much better it really is. of course it’s better pound for pound for shipping cargo, but when you add up all the amenities multiplied by the days/weeks spent aboard, I feel like it probably isn’t that great.

just because you’re white doesn’t mean you’re a boer

also damn south african anti-colonial slogans go hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Settler,_One_Bullet

porkbun is the one yeah. There are other options but they all kinda suck and so far I haven’t seen anything bad with porkbun

don’t use the big 3 cloud providers (aws, google, azure), they’re ridiculously overpriced for what you need.

There are ways you could do it from your home internet connection, but it makes it slightly more complex especially if you want to be at all anonymous. Cloudflare, if you’re cool with using them, does offer this capability I believe. But of course you’ll be limited by the quality of your internet connection, stability of your power, and keeping your computer on at all times. But there’s advantages too (you could have full disk encryption, cost is lower, you’ll likely have a more powerful PC at home than the server you would rent, etc)

I actually agree about just about all of that but if you have knowledge that a request is illegitimate why should the site ban you from sharing that info? that just feels wrong. its not like there’s a huge history of constant fights over metaposting and stuff (they are rarely actually made, 1 this month), and anything over the line gets removed by mods. I can see how it could turn into a slapfight I guess, but it’s been allowed for the past however many months or more and it hasn’t been much of an issue in my view.

I just think there’s monetary incentive not to engage with the comm in the way you’ve laid out, and people are (understandably, they’re struggling) mostly not going to do it unless it is an enforced rule or nets them more donos.

Whether or not such a rule actually would do more good than harm, I don’t know.

:carrot:

I just don’t think, especially with money at stake, that it’s reasonable to hope that every single user who ever uses the comm will do so in good faith, or be obvious enough in their bad faith to be sussed out. And even one person with an axe to grind could potentially get someone banned with fabricated evidence. I think we have to build systems that are resilient to abuse where possible and the strong possibility of disciplining a user in need of help feels worse to me than allowing someone to collect donos and not update the post to reflect them. I guess you could say that any mod action being taken requires multiple reports from established accounts showing a pattern of behavior, not just one and done. That would help.

but frankly sending screenshots back and forth offsite also overcomplicates the process of both donating and receiving donations. It just doesn’t feel like a well fleshed out plan to me

I definitely get the instinct here, but the status quo is that metaposting is allowed (just not direct reply comments) and I count two metaposts in the past month. The one that incited this post, and one of someone thanking the donor who came through for them, weeks ago.

I don’t think that’s an unmanageable level of metaposting or being done in bad faith. If they were proposing opening up more metaposting I’d agree with you but the question being posed is keep the status quo or shutting off all avenues for feedback or calling out anything, because the mods don’t want to be the ones to handle concerns for ethical reasons. So that kind of nixes handling it privately.

I appreciate that reactive comments just harassing people asking for help are deleted and agree we need to clamp down on those as strongly as possible, but I don’t see that problem happening with posts, historically

the inciting incident for this post was a meta-post recently but the history goes back years. its messy.