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  • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) toProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•yes
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    3 days ago

    Does it prevent the initial .gitignore from being commited too?

    For example, what if a file name had sensitive information. It’s bad practice, but someone might want to ignore the file while also hiding the ignore rule itself.

    /test/fake-person-first-last.json
/test/real-person-first-last.json

    Someone might want to selectively omit the second file while keeping the first, but not show what they are hiding.

  • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) toLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.ca•I'm going back to Reddit...English
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    11 days ago

    That makes sense!

    For me, these days it’s mostly on subreddits/posts that are discussing the fediverse, or are a source of a lot of users coming to Lemmy (or lemmy.ca specifically, such as the case with r/buycanadian). In the discussions, I try to answer questions the best I can, and I’m honest about any limitations that people bring up. If someone sounds like they want to talk more about it, I might talk to them over DMs, modmail, or on other platforms. You can see some of that here: https://www.reddit.com/u/otter_fedecan

    In the past, I also had conversations with my personal account, but I prefer to keep that separate now that I have this one.

    Sorry for the rambling, sometimes I just have too much to say.

    Not at all, I found all of that relevant and helpful :)

  • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) toCanada@lemmy.ca•‘Buy Canadian’ movement just as strong 19 months since trade war began: poll
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    11 days ago

    I find that the CBC gem newsletter helps. CBC Gem isn’t a full replacement to all other streaming platforms but it does help reduce usage of the other ones. It’s hard to switch over to Canadian options all at once. Another factor is how difficult it is to hear about content that isn’t popular on social media. Even with content that is on a large streaming platform, people will come across it months of years later wondering why people didn’t mention it before

    CBC gem has a lot of pretty good procedural type shows (ex. police dramas), especially when you mix in the content from the UK, Europe, Australia/New Zealand. There are some good sitcoms too. Schitts Creek and Kim’s Convenience are popular, but there’s also content from american networks like Animal Control.

  • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) toWorld News@quokk.au•Botswana condemned for slaughtering elephants for independence celebrations
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    13 days ago

    I love elephants and I really hope that Botswana finds some other way to handle their concerns, but I wouldn’t be quick to ignore them outright.

    I know how lucky I am to live where I live, and don’t want to ignore the difficulties of the poorer people living there. It would be easy for me to criticize how they choose to feed themselves when I don’t have to worry about that myself.

    Take trophy hunting for example. I am a lot more critical of the rich hunters that travel there to kill the animals, than the local governments that use the money to keep their communities safe/alive. I would 100% support alternative industries that can eliminate trophy hunting for them, even financially if the stores near me are selling ethically produced goods. I would also criticize them for choosing trophy hunting over a promising alternative. But until that’s the case, the surrounding context is important.

  • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) MtoCanada@lemmy.ca•White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
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    14 days ago

    There are a few reports coming in from this thread. I’m open to changing my mind on any of the following, but the reason why I haven’t taken action on a few of the reports is as follows:

    I think that it is both valid to question why these people are covering their faces, while also noting that covering your face isn’t “bad” in all cases. The same comment (“if they think they’re right, why hide their faces”) is also used against protestors when they push against the government. Based on the context, I think that’s the point that the other users in this thread wanted to make, but did so poorly. I don’t think those other users are in support of the white nationalists in the post, but rather they picked a bad example.

    The difference between the two situations comes down to why the face is covered and what power that serves. Generally:

    • In rallies such as this, the face covering is for intimidation and group identity, and using anonymity to threaten the targeted minority group. It is also intended to hide the person from their community members, because of shame and embarrassment.
    • In protests, the face covering is to avoid retaliation from the authority figures that the person is protesting against. They rarely hide their thoughts and feelings about the matter from their community members.

    Again, there is some overlap, but that it is why it’s usually more valid to criticize the former and not the latter.

    As for the second argument, I think there is a misunderstanding between ‘human trafficking’ and ‘human smuggling’. Human trafficking is almost always defined as the exploitative practice, where the person being moved is being harmed. Human smuggling can take different forms, but it is not necessarily harming the person being moved. The example of the Underground Railroad and the networks that help refugees and victims escape harm, those would fall under the label of “Human Smuggling”, but the terms are often confused.

    So overall I think the issues in this thread come from users making errors, rather than malice, and so I haven’t taken specific moderation actions. But again, open to changing my mind and taking action if more info is brought to light.

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