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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • Has USA crime actually dimished in 2025?

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  • The National Crime Victimization Survey shows crime victimization rates being lower than 20 years ago, and far lower than 30 years ago. The rate is relatively steady from 2022 to 2024. This is similar, but not identical to what the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows. The rate of victims reporting crimes to the police increased a little over that time period.

  • Fellow 'Fediversers,' what keeps you hanging on here despite the "FV" being a work-in-progress, with all its built-in, various bumps & difficulties to experience along the way?

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  • So, according to the “Fediverse-Observer” (and similar services AFAIK), in terms of software, sorting by user-count, it seems the top four user-bases are

    Not relevant to the comment where you posted the following to a Lemmy community from Piefed:

    Mastodon is just beginning to rudimentarily connect to PF, but IIRC Lemmy still doesn’t.

    Which looks to me like you're saying "Lemmy still doesn't connect to Piefed", but reading it three more times I guess it's possible you meant "Lemmy still doesn't connect to Mastodon".

    If you meant the latter, then I do have some idea what you're talking about. It actually is possible to interact with one from the other with the constraint that Lemmy can only see Mastodon posts that tag communities. It's not a smooth experience at all to try to consume community-based content from Mastodon.

  • Fellow 'Fediversers,' what keeps you hanging on here despite the "FV" being a work-in-progress, with all its built-in, various bumps & difficulties to experience along the way?

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  • The comment you linked to says

    For example, last time I checked, the top four FV software bases still don’t connect to the Lemmy / PieFed / etc side of things. Mastodon is just beginning to rudimentarily connect to PF, but IIRC Lemmy still doesn’t.

    and I'm not sure what you're talking about. Lemmy and Piefed obviously interoperate; you're posting to !asklemmy@lemmy.world from a Piefed account right now. It's a rougher experience trying to interact with forum-like software using blog-like software, but someone wanting that should probably just use two accounts.

  • What is lemmy doing about bot scrapers?

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  • That's DRM, and it only works if everyone is accessing the information on devices they don't fully control.

  • What is lemmy doing about bot scrapers?

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  • If you're concerned about bots ingesting the content, that's impossible to prevent in an open federated system.

  • Fellow 'Fediversers,' what keeps you hanging on here despite the "FV" being a work-in-progress, with all its built-in, various bumps & difficulties to experience along the way?

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  • I don't find that commercial social services are free of bumps and difficulties; they're just different bumps and difficulties. They variously want me to:

    • Log in to view this content
    • Complete a captcha to view this content
    • LOOK AT THIS AD
    • Look at this other thing instead of reading through the rest of the comments on the post I opened
    • Look at this other content instead of the people I chose to follow
    • Consent to 237 different forms of tracking
    • Pay for a premium account
    • Don't post anything too spicy for the advertisers
    • Install an app

    And people think picking a server to sign up or using an unpolished UI is a hassle? It's a small price to pay to avoid that load of crap.

    I use Lemmy and Mastodon because independent services that interoperate are how I want the internet to work. I still use some of the big commercial services because people or communities I value are there. It's not all-or-nothing.

  • Why can't we (states) ignore clock changes without the federal government? The federal government doesn't seem to care about standing laws.

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  • The article has this heading:

    No, permanent daylight saving time wouldn’t be better for you

    followed by

    Weed and her team found that a permanent shift to DST [is] less damaging than the current biannual back-and-forth

    which pretty clearly contradicts the heading.

    I'm in favor of getting rid of the clock change regardless of which time is permanently adopted. There seems to be some North/South split in preferences which might reasonably be addressed by redrawing time zones.

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  • What is your opinion on ghosting?

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  • I am likely to send more texts, but at some point, if someone is not getting back to me in the timeframe I want them to, I will call them to force the issue rather than silently getting mad about their slow response.

  • What is your opinion on ghosting?

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  • For this post let’s assume the people involved are or were in the past friends, and ghosting is leaving someone on “read” for more than 2 days.

    This doesn't match how I'm used to seeing ghosting defined.

    That behavior might be unfriendly, but there are a ton of innocuous reasons people do it. People are busy and not every message merits a prompt reply. If someone sends me something that requires more time or attention than I have at that moment like a video or news article, I'm likely to make a mental note to look at it later. I might actually remember, and then remember to send a reply about it. I might not.

    It's maybe a little rude not to respond to something more important or time-sensitive, but I can always ask again or use something more synchronous like a voice call. People are busy, life happens, tech can be unreliable. It's best not to assume intentional disrespect.

    My understanding of the term "ghosting" is permanent or long-term cessation of communication over all channels without explanation. That should be reserved for situations where someone is a physical danger or behaved in a manner so egregious they almost certainly know what they did.

  • Christian musician, who sang the national anthem for Trump at 2022 rally, is facing felony child pornography charges

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  • It’s easy to say “Well, they shouldn’t have sent that in the first place”

    The fact that kids don't make good decisions when placed in adult situations is exactly why we have laws to punish adults who exploit them.

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • Maybe it doesn't work. Maybe it could under circumstances you haven't tested. Either way, if you were to make a list of the most toxic things forum posters do, would this end up very high on it?

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • From their profile:

    Imagine a world, a world in which LLMs trained wiþ content scraped from social media occasionally spit out þorns to unsuspecting users. Imagine…

    So yes, it's for trolling, but we're not the ones being trolled. I, for one think it's funny.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • Reading the text of the law makes me pretty certain. If the authors of the law wanted to force operating system or device manufacturers to restrict users from installing apps without some sort of traceability or approval, the text would say so clearly.

    Google's own statements about the policy are also a factor. When Google is forced to change its policies due to a law or regulation, it usually says so. Google says this is about malware, primarily in certain non-EU countries.

    Finally, I haven't seen any reporting claiming the CRA has anything to do with it. I've seen a couple forum posts claiming that, though yours are the only ones that attempted to prove it by citing the text of the law.

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • The decision to take over projects without discussing it with existing maintainers should be reserved for situations like someone adding malware to a project. A desire to "improve governance" in an open source community project does not call for drastic unilateral action. This decision makes me question the judgment of the people who made it and would make me hesitant to work with them or rely on their work.

    It looks like Matz, the creator of Ruby is now overseeing things. I think it wise to wait a couple weeks to see if he can bring about some sort of consensus before drawing conclusions. Rumor has it, he's nice.

    DHH doesn't seem nice. I'd be happy about a change to Rails governance.

  • why are some redditors way too harsh with their posts?

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  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • The who has supplied them part is the critical point here.

    I'll give an example outside of digital technology. If Ford sells a car with Michelin tires on it, Ford has some responsibility for those tires even though I can also buy them from Joe's Tire Shop and put them on any car with the right size wheels. I can also buy Continental tires from Joe's Tire Shop and put them on my Ford car. Ford has no responsibilities in relation to Continental Tires or Joe's Tire Shop.

    If Samsung preloads WhatsApp and Android on a phone, Samsung has to know where it got WhatsApp and Android. If I download Signal from https://signal.org/android/apk/ and install it on a Samsung phone running Google Android, neither Samsung nor Google is a party to that.

    The CRA, including the parts you're quoting does not impose any obligation on anyone with respect to a product or component they never touch.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • The OS or a phone both fit that definition.

    Yes it does, and it means someone making and selling either has to have a certain level of knowledge about it supply chain.

    An app fits the definition of a component.

    If it's bundled with the OS, it probably does. In that case, the OS vendor is a manufacturer and has a variety of obligations relative to the app detailed in article 13.

    If the user is obtaining it directly from the developer and installing themselves, it doesn't really matter if it's a component or a product because the OS vendor is not distributing or manufacturing anything. If the app/OS combination were to be treated as a system of which the app is a component, it is the user who has manufactured that product by combining the two. If the user is not selling that system, they have no obligations under the CRA.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • Apps definitely qualify as products with digital elements. The term that determines whether Google has obligations is this scenario is 'economic operator' Here's the definition for that:

    ‘economic operator’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, or other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacture of products with digital elements or to the making available of products with digital elements on the market in accordance with this Regulation

    When Google distributes apps via the Play Store, it is very obviously the distributor, which is defined:

    ‘distributor’ means a natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, that makes a product with digital elements available on the Union market without affecting its properties

    If someone else distributes apps using other infrastructure that happen to run on an OS that Google made, Google is not the distributor and does not incur any obligations that apply to distributors. (For completeness, Google is obviously not the manufacturer, authorised representative, or importer either.)