Proper dental hygiene is something that one should make a habit from a young age. By the time one realizes its value, like I did, it might already be too late.
Ditto with sleep hygiene. Those two are habits that I think should be learned and reinforced from a young age.
And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I'd even understand if he'd go low profile from this point on.
The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).
It's not just OPs strange and mysterious predicament that has made this thread epic, but also the genuine efforts of some of us to help OP in the midst of wild, off the wall, guessing.
And then there's the misplaced reply that ended up in the perfect place.
And I'm glad to have seen it first hand.
Granted, but your thoughts are transmitted to the person looking at you.
Oh no, they did literal shit posting, didn't they?
EDIT: I had to go check it out (via Teddit). They're not posting literal shit, but it's funnier than I thought.
I'm a bit out of the loop here, what might have happened on June 18 that have precipitated this spike in new accounts?
On a possibly related note, over here in Lemmy.world, there's a post by the admins that have touched a little on automated account creation. I don't know if those two are connected though.
I went to their wiki and looked at their commenting rules. I don't think I see anything about comment editing and deletions:
However, I might have run afoul their "absolutely no bots" policy. I have set my deletion tool to edit my posts before deleting. It might have been detected by their own bots and have flagged my account accordingly.
I've received this message on my inbox just a few hours after deleting my posts (all of them) last night.
I'm just glad to know where they stand.
And yes, I know that a lot of people have unsavory views about that subreddit, but I guess there's just no accounting for taste.
It might just a tiny thing, but it makes me irrationally happy that an IRL friend joined Lemmy. I wasn't expecting them to join since they seem to be aloof from this kind of stuff.
Update. I asked a friend of mine to take a look at the Lemmy.world front page via his browser (vanilla Firefox) and it works as expected.
I also did an earlier test on a chromium browser and it also works as expected.
It might just be that my browser is breaking stuff, which I need to investigate deeper.
When trying to access Lemmy.world from the desktop, I see this blank-ish page (see attached screenshot). And whenever I try to click Subscribed, Local, or All, the same error message pops up on the lower-left-hand side of my screen:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
I wonder if it's connected to the work our admins have been doing recently.
For disclosure, I am using LibreWolf and a userscript to make Lemmy pages look like old.reddit. I've turned off the userscript to check if the error disappears, but to no avail.
I may have missed more details that might be helpful, but I'm willing to give such details.
That's awful. I wonder if there's a way to automate deleting all of our posts and replies—and repeatedly run it on a schedule via a cron job or something, maybe once an hour or something. And let it run until their API becomes locked down.
The charges of terrorism are strongly rejected by the defendants. They denounce a political trial, a prosecution and a lack of evidence. In particular, they point to decontextualized remarks and the use of trivial facts (sports and digital practices, reading and listening to music...)[3]. For their part, the police acknowledged that by the end of the investigation - and ten months of intensive surveillance - no "precise project" had been identified[4].
The state has just been condemned for keeping the main defendant in solitary confinement for 16 months, from which he was only released after a 37-day hunger strike. A second complaint, awaiting trial, has been lodged against the repeated illegal strip-searches to which a defendant was subjected in pre-trial detention[5].
If those translations from DeepL are sufficiently accurate, at the very least, the main defendant was arrested has been held for 16 months.
As for the rationale, I suppose it's their relationship with the ‘far-left’ that have caught the police attention. There was a link to the French Wikipedia article on the arrests and the entire incident. From there, I gleaned that the ‘far-left’ relationship is with the YPG.
According to the Wikipedia article, there's still ongoing cases against the defendants.
I hope someone else who've got a better grasp of both the French langauge and the Rovaja/YPG situation give their two cents since I've got no idea.
That first article, though I have read it through a translation app, is truly insane. The judge's quoted statement is just terrifying:
> « L’ensemble des membres de ce groupe se montraient particulièrement méfiants, ne communiquaient entre eux que par des applications cryptées, en particulier Signal, et procédaient au cryptage de leurs supports informatiques […]. »
Translated via DeepL: > "All the members of this group were particularly suspicious, communicating with each other only via encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computer media [...]".
Clandestine behavior, he says. Is the judge seriously thinking along the lines of “if you've got nothing to hide…” and associating ‘clandestine behavior’ to being a criminal? That's scary.
EDIT:
English language version of the first article (much thanks to @[email protected]): https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/
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Duolingo, the language learning app that profited so much from volunteer input, only to kick them out once they outlived their usefulness.
Reddit, the content aggregator whose lifeblood is user-generated content and whose distinctive feature is its army of volunteer moderators.
Do I hear an ironic echo here? Or is it just me?