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Democrats Will Win Again Once the Economy Tanks in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

A bit of that, a bit of ordinary inflation, and a bit of Putin's war. I find it unlikely the current president had reasonable options to prevent any of that.

Democrats Will Win Again Once the Economy Tanks in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 43 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

The trend is that when the economy is bad for the average person, it hurts the incumbent.

I don't think the people whose votes swung the election in Trump's favor know how tariffs work or what policies Musk has in mind. They don't even know why eggs are expensive (bird flu); they just know things were cheaper last time Trump was president.

Of course that's assuming there's a free and fair election next time around.

On a scale of 1 to 5, how offensive is the middle finger? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

In the context of ad-supported algorithmic social media, offensive is the wrong question. It's about brand damage.

Showing an ad next to something that actually offends people can damage a brand, but even something a little edgy might turn off customers of a brand with a more formal or conservative audience. The algorithm's ultimate goal is to get people to watch ads, so something a little edgy might reduce the reach of that content. Censoring it prevents the algorithmic downrank.

American voters were asked about the economy. The overwhelming answer shows why they picked Trump over Harris in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Everyone with a reason or responsibility to inform the public about the economy has not been effective enough.

  • Why are eggs expensive? There has been an ongoing bird flu outbreak for the past four years. Government policy might be able to mitigate the impact some, but the virus does not care who is president.
  • Why is rent expensive? Not enough housing, mostly, with a bit of facilitated collusion thrown in. The president has little to do with the former; if anything, Trump is more likely to tolerate the latter.
  • Why is gas expensive? A president does have a big role here, but it's Putin, not Biden or Trump. It's also not up a whole lot from 5-6 years ago.
This can't be real can it? in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work

Having debated a couple who are quite intelligent otherwise, I'm going to have to dispute that.

Sure, they know broadly that exposing the immune system to something that looks like a pathogen primes it to respond to that pathogen in the future, but they tend to be way off on the implications. I've heard it suggested that too many vaccines cause people to run out of immune memory. I've heard that all antibodies cause inflammation. I've heard that previous attempts to produce coronavirus vaccines killed the majority of test subjects years later.

None of those claims are true, and the only way they could be true is if everyone in the field of immunology is lying all the time.

This can't be real can it? in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'd really like to know how many people didn't hear Trump call Brad Raffensperger and try to get him to throw the election. I'm shocked anyone could listen to that and think it's OK to give him power again regardless of their position on any of the issues.

Florida’s abortion amendment fails, leaving 6-week ban in place in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Florida is a solidly red state in which Trump is winning by a 13 point margin with most of the votes counted. The amendment has 57% to Trump's 56.2% at the time of this comment.

Some states require a simple majority, but Florida's ballot measures require 60%.

Election day carry in c/edc@sopuli.xyz
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Talisker promo, not sure who the OEM is.

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Election day carry (lemmy.world)
 

I fear if I carry anything else today, I'll lose it or cut myself with it.

On Oct. 7, an Israeli college student opened her phone. What she did next landed her in prison. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

"We" only condemn countries that are geopolitical opponents of the USA, while Israel is the strongest regional ally of the USA in a potential war with Iran.

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Cory Doctorow in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

It's probably more fair to call its claim of being decentralized fake or disingenuous. There doesn't seem to be any way to participate in the ecosystem without going through the Bluesky relay, a central point of failure with strong incentives to eventually do something shitty.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

propagating and caching images

This leads to the problem of abusive users trying to cause legal issues for server owners by introducing CSAM.

This is why I still use an Android custom ROM in 2024 in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

nobody is refusing to offer their sevices on linux because it is vulnerable

That's not quite true, though in that case it's about the service provider being unable to verify that the user isn't running a operating system configured or modified to work against the interests of the service provider.

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EDC just came up in another community, so it's time for a pocket dump (lemmy.world)
 
  • Old leather wallet
  • Flashlight (Skilhunt H150)
  • Knife (Spyderco UKPK)
  • Pepper spray (Sabre Red, with a pocket clip from a random flashlight)
  • Phone (Pixel 4A)
  • Keys, and another flashlight (Skilhunt EK1)
  • Flash drive (Sandisk 128gb)
  • 1.38€
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The HP35R, a new heavy-duty headlamp from Fenix uses 2x21700 batteries and runs at 1200 lumens all night (www.fenixlight.com)
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Recommend a server-side email classifier (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Zak@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

I've been self-hosting email with Maddy for a bit, but haven't shared any of the addresses widely yet in part because I haven't set up a spam filter. I'm pleased with Maddy; there's much less to learn to get a server up and running with sane default behavior than with the email software of old.

Ideally, I'd like to go beyond just spam filtering and have something with arbitrary categories like newsletters and password resets. I would prefer that it learn categories when I move messages to IMAP folders from a mail client. Maddy can feed messages into arbitrary programs and pick a destination folder based on their output.

Web searches turn up a ton of classification programs, most of which seem to be more interested in playing accuracy golf with well-known corpora than expanding functionality beyond simple spam filtering.

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Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts (lemmy.world)
 

I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.

I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.

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Anduril firmware adds dark mode (github.com)
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What RSS readers should I recommend to others? (lemmy.world)
 

If I want to quickly pitch "you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]" to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?

I want at least web (not self-hosted), Android, and iOS options. Native apps for Mac and Windows would be nice as well. Linux users probably already know what RSS is.

There absolutely must be a free option good for at least 25 feeds because unfamiliar tech is a hard enough sell without having to pay. I'll grudgingly accept ads if that's the tradeoff for something beginner-friendly.

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Image uploads blocked by Cloudflare (lemmy.world)
 

When I attempt to upload images to lemmy.world via the desktop web UI, I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Looking at network traffic in dev tools, I see that I'm getting a 403 page from Cloudflare saying:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access lemmy.world Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks....

I also get error messages when trying to upload images using Connect and Sync on an Android device. I successfully uploaded images in the past.

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2000 subscriber giveaway (lemmy.world)
 

We just hit 2000 subscribers! I’d like to thank everyone for showing up here to create a new community, and what better way than giving stuff away?

I’m giving away the Nitecore MH10 v2 I reviewed. I can ship it anywhere in the USA or EU, but EU winners will have to wait until mid September. This is a basic, beginner-friendly flashlight that can accept almost all 18650 and 21700 batteries.

To enter, leave a top-level comment on this post before midnight UTC on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Only accounts that have posted or commented on /c/flashlight prior to this being posted are eligible to win.

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Kaidomain has 3000K high-CRI SFT40s (kaidomain.com)
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Today's knife and light (lemmy.world)
 
  • Skilhunt M150 v2 (519A swap)
  • Kershaw Launch 5
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Webpack hashing problems after Mastodon server update (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zak@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink
 

I just updated my Mastodon server to the latest version due to a security vulnerability. I got a 500 page and error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported in the logs from mastodon-web.

I could reproduce by running bin/webpack from the command line. Some searching led me to try Node 16 LTS, but then I get an apparently blank page when I load the site and call to eval() blocked by CSP in the browser console.

The API works normally; this only affects the website.

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