I remember it pretty much that way too, but not recently and not at a department store. Heck, I just browsed through commemorative euro coins (no dice) because I felt it was somehow connected to Europe in the nineties…

Thank you. It does feel that way.

Then I am happy for you

“Victim” is an interesting term, but quite accurate. There’s such a an effort and investment into converting people to that cult. I wish you the best with your mother, hopefully the other half of your conversations is more pleasant and eventually overtakes the conspiracy theories.

I don’t. We don’t talk. Relatives of mine, including one of my parents, sank into vaccine conspiracies, then followed that pipeline to Qanon, and then explained to me how they were waiting for Trump to lead his secret army to take down the government of my non-english-speaking, european country.

I gave them their keys back, I got my keys backs, I blocked them everywhere, I nuked my accounts on the social media they use (and where their posts steadily got worse). It’s a hard decision, I still think about it often still (it’s been nearly two years), but I will never talk to them again.

A heating blanket.

Pros:

• It’s warm and cozy
• It keeps achy joints happy in the winter
• It attracts cats

Cons:

• Your cat will claim it and you will feel guilty taking it back

I’m in Belgium. I kept mine faithfully on, because I wanted to be able to somewhat warn people I might have infected them (in the end, I never actually got covid, at least not with symptoms). After our next elections, however, I would need to make sure my privacy is respected. The polls are not looking good.

The article’s call for a decentralized, open-sourced system handled by an organization of specialists is pretty much what I would hope for.

I have always loved the Breath of Fire series, especially BoF IV, where the storyline, graphics and atmosphere really captivated me. I feel like it genuinely stood out, and yet I don’t often see it discussed nowadays, nor the rest of the series.

I would pay good money for new BoF games.

The article mentions a centralized system in Singapore, TraceTogether: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55541001

I have been saved from that by being too dumb to figure out how to do it.

I’m just fixated on “the topic of lemmy” in general.

Save me, I am at work.

I can explain why I never finished it just fine: I suck at it. Still loved it. Maybe someday I’ll get past the final boss.

Hollow knight. The gameplay, the smoothness of the controls, but also the universe, the atmosphere, the fantastic music. Absolutely wonderful game.

You just saved me from future explosions.

I’d only use it for tools for my own use in any case, 100% uptime wouldn’t be important. Your technique seems like a great lead.

Oh neat! I’m looking into it right now!

I get my hosting for free from my workplace, which is cool but doesn’t give me much leeway on what I can install. It’s a plain PHP/MySQL system. Docker is out, and a lot of stuff with it. I’d run a server from apartment if I could, since I’m sitting on piles of old hardware, but I’ve yet to figure a way around my ever-changing IP address.

Right now, I have FreshRSS and my own websites, and Rss Bridge

I’d love to run more “Old School Tools”, I just need to find them :)

It does, the link is next to the filters atop communities

Ex: https://beehaw.org/feeds/c/technology.xml?sort=Active

Thanks! I’ll give it a try if I ever edit the bloody novel someday.

Also your warrior-monk sounds absolutely badass.

Technical question: while the instance is federated, its users can post here, right? Do you have any moderating tools that allow you to monitor incoming comments from users from a “fishy” instance as they come in?

My fear is that they have not accumulated enough of a mass of users yet, and enough of an interest in a “small” platform like Lemmy yet, but that the crowd will come once Lemmy becomes an established platform, which will make real infiltration efforts worthwhile.

And then we’ll have to deal with the usual tactics: brigades organized offsite (on discord, telegram…) to drop on anything trans/immigration/etc. related like a plague of locusts. Teams of users posturing as the “sane one” and “crazy one” allowing the “sane” actor to push far-right points that “make sense” next to pure extremism. Threats sent as PMs to individual users. Doxxing, online stalking. And, behind that, their host doing nothing to prevent- or facilitating - the behavior.

I’m fine with you not taking action for now, but would you be ready to drop the hammer if they become problematic and user-level blocking of instances is not yet a thing?

Edit: I commented on the wrong account, but I also have one on Mander.

So I got RF4 based on this thread’s glowing recs, and I like it a LOT! The extremely anime thing is more than fine with me, except for Arthur’s bangs. What the heck, Arthur. What kind of haircut is this?