overview for eric5949

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago

Expansion of the surveillance state, you go uk.

*patriotic guitar twangles* by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

The name of the song itself is a huuuuuggggge dog whistle, imo. Tells me everything I need to know about the target demographic.

Why is most content on Lemmy just old memes? by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because the people who left reddit for lemmy are the people who left digg for reddit, mostly. So old Internet people. Hence old memes.

Edit: my phone decided digg should be high. IDK.

Hexbear admin just sent me this. by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Fuck. Tankies.

What happens to my account if the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance? by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago

Did like none of y'all read the article?

196

How does reporting work on Lemmy? If I report someone on another instance, do the mods from the community I report from get that report? (lemmy.cloudaf.site)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

39 comments fedilink

Asking because I get reports I make, it would seem rather silly to me if I can't report misconduct because I'm on my own instance.

Edit: so the answer is yes, another user kindly helped me verify by reporting my test post in the community on my instance. It looks like it sends the report to the relevant people just also sends it to my local admin account for whatever reason lol.

Despite having two bullets in her, one eye and a slightly wonky rear leg, she will steal your pizza without a hitch by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bro who shoots a cat? There's a special place in hell for those people.

Why are folks so anti-capitalist? by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

*gestures vaguely at everything*

I'm not even full on anticapitalist but come on that's just obvious.

It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !! by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

Yeah until they don't anymore lol.

One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

How tf does that make sense?

122

What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? (lemmy.cloudaf.site)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

181 comments fedilink

I'll go first, I took my mom's college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to run my games on it, and man wine was not nearly as easy to use (or as good) as it is nowadays. So I switched back to windows until around 2015 or so when I spent the next few years trying to replace windows as much as I could. Once valve released proton, I switched fully and have t looked back, unless my still there windows partition tries to take over my computer when I restart it at least.

Executives who helped create Fox News say network has become ‘disinformation machine’ by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago

Isn't that exactly what said executives wanted? Wasn't fox news created to prevent a second Nixon not by making sure no crimes were committed by future republican presidents, but by making sure they could mislead the public into thinking they weren't crimes in the first place? I'm sorry but now that it's clear to the entire world what you built and why you built it you don't get to sit here and go "oh my how could we ever have known it would turn into this!" Like bitch you wanted this.

People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”? by eric5949 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Had a guy tell me he was going to sue me, personally not the store, and financially ruin me because I told him to put on a mask in like April 2020. He didnt do either. I'm sure anyone who worked with the public during that time has some story lol.