[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

This will be the comment that starts the war between Britain and Australasia. During the first wave we'll just drop millions of plugs pin upwards on your streets, there will be severe foot damage on a scale you cannot fathom

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine's plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 106 points 1 year ago

It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.

Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

A human can not eat for several days and still stay active.

I'm looking at my bulging waist and feeling incredibly guilty right now!

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I say this as someone who considers themselves a leftist....

The lack of civility shown by left leaning people online is almost certainly pushing moderates into more extreme communities and the unhinged takes are perfect meme fodder for those with a bad agenda. Instead of channeling your anger at the person you're corresponding with through your keyboard, channel it at a lack of empathy and understanding in society as a whole and respond with kindness and disengage when the conversation is not honest.

Repeat above for the use of "nazi". The use of the word has become devalued because people like to fling it at folks with milquetoast centrist opinions, save it for people who are legitimately evil.

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Buy a nice home, upgrade it to my liking (CAT6 to all parts of it, solar panels/energy storage/network cabinet/make it watertight and safe for the next 50 years), buy a shitty looking van with a petrol powered pressure washer and indemnity insurance and spend my spare time going around cleaning paths and monuments etc. in my local area.

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

A discussion medium that both predates the internet and continues to exist on the internet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software.

Some definitely have a legitimate fear - incorrectly linking their closed source app with a GPL 3 project can put them in a place where they need to disclose their source to an end user. Some people refer to GPL as "poisonous" for this reason.

The RHEL issue one is definitely an interesting beast, though. It will either improve their sales or piss off enough people in the community into not maintaining RHEL support and telling their large customers that RH/IBM are no longer trustworthy. This could be Oracle's time to actually give something back to the community and shepherd a new 'open' enterprise standard distribution, but given their track history....

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The only permanent platform on the internet is usenet.

Hopefully Lemmy matures into something beautiful, but if not, usenet will always be there!

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I don't use Tiktok but I gather that this is a big problem over there as well, so it sounds like Twitter is working just as well as the site it's riffing off.

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Keeping my computers, phone and the firmware of any devices up to date. Doesn't matter what it is, I like the latest and greatest.

Consider my SIP VoIP gateway, I maybe make one call a month through it and get a couple of scam calls a week, it's stable as hell. Yet the second I get a notification saying there is a new firmware version I'm downloading it!

[-] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

BBC News. They do a fairly good job of being impartial since both main party voters here in the UK hate it and accuse it of being biased to the opposition!

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I guess my first question is "is this the right community for Lemmy instance support?"

Assuming the answer to the above is "yes", is there a problem with image uploads today? I've tried several times to update my community's icon, background and upload an image post and it always returns JSON errors through Chrome, Firefox and Jerboa.

Also are there size limits (in pixels or kilobytes) for image uploads?

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