Van Hasselt said he thinks the blade’s inscription has religious ties that are written in Latin.

…if it’s written in Latin, couldn’t they just read it? What is it I’m missing here, making this theory somehow worth reporting?

Or for any other crime, for that matter.

It’s insane how much crime we’re willing to tolerate as long as it’s committed by rich white people.

Studies have shown that if you ask people to make a plan for voting, they are more likely to actually go out and vote. It’s even cited in the FAQ of cards against humanity.

So we ask people to make a plan because it’s an efficient way to make them more involved and more likely to actually go out and vote when the day comes. Not because it’s so hard that they need a plan (unless you live in certain states of course), but because it forces you to think actively about it rather than just passively.

I’m not having problems with it in Firefox on my end, but it is full of mp4 videos and interactive elements, so I can see how it would cause trouble on some devices.

It’s powered by Ghost, which is quickly becoming an ActivityPub service as well. So not as off-topic as you might think!

I would guess it’s rather just not implemented as a feature yet, as it’s probably not a development priority.

Or maybe they figured the ClubAll-community could be closed off. But in general, it seems to be a project where missing features is the likely result of it still being at an early stage.

I don’t think this will be much of a problem for the rest of us, as the users over there will also not be interested in posting in communities where they get fewer interactions. It sounds bad for people who want to start a community at cluball, but unless it somehow gets larger than the rest of the threadiverse combined it’s not really much of a problem for the rest of us.

Any reason why they should be defederated, other than “we don’t like closed source around here”?

I really don’t mind closed platforms being federated as long as it doesn’t hurt the rest of us in any way. If it brings in some users who are drawn in by the interface, that’s great.

Of course, being a single site it might draw the wrong crowd, and end up having serious moderation problems. In that case of course defederation is a natural choice.

A problem is also the idea of “doing it” as the key phrase here.

What is “it” exactly? Is “it” drugging women and raping them? That might even be fewer than 1/200. I sure as hell hope it is. In either case it’s surely too many - enough that you should never fucking leave your drink unattended.

Is “it” being a bit lax on consent? She’s drunk, you’re drunk, you’re in bed together, she’s so drunk it’s not really clear what she wants. You made it this far, surely that’s consent enough? In this category of rape, I think there’s a whole lot more than one in two hundred.

Your partner says she doesn’t feel like it, but you’ll go for it anyway - it’s not like she’s fighting to resist you either? Yeah, a whole lot more than one in two hundred.

Groping someone in a club when drunk? Hell, we’ve all seen it happen from people we genuinely thought knew better.

I like to believe that the amount of men who would, say, drug and rape someone, is in a very tiny majority. But as for men willing to make arguments about “blurred lines” where there is none, I’m sadly less optimistic.

It’s a great example of why teaching people about consent is important. Some of the men on trial claim they thought it was a consensual kinky game played between husband and wife, and that they were unaware they were raping anybody.

I don’t expect they will have much success with this argument in court. But it’s the kind of shit one might fall for if one has not received the training to know with immediate certainty that consent is only established by an active yes, never by the lack of a no, and that it needs to be personally gathered by anyone involved in the act. And that without consent, it’s rape.

It’s fucking obvious, but I can totally see how some people could buy into their claim of good faith and act as if it means something. Not necessarily because they’re bad people, but because they lack the training to understand what consent means and why it’s important.

Because the FOSS crowd is always so pleasant!

I’m happy to have it as the default behaviour, as long as it can be easily changed. Similar to Vivaldi I guess.

Gosh, I didn’t realize the tabs couldn’t be set to horizontal. That’s a likely deal breaker for a lot of people.

I figured I’d give vertical tabs a chance (I usually keep too many tabs open to see their name anyway, and I understand the rational behind them), but not at all sure I’ll stick with it. Hopefully they’ll add support for horizontal tabs soon.

I am currently testing out Zen browser, and it seems fine. I am not sure how much it can be customized vis-a-vis Firefox, but I wanted something that remains Gecko based and relatively close to FireFox, and it seems to deliver.

I tried LibreWolf, but I quickly realized it’s not for me. Not allowing websites to detect dark mode preferences is a level of paranoia I hope I’ll never reach.

This trial is a huge event in France. Hopefully it will lead to some real cultural change, and with any luck the rest of the world will be able to learn something as well.

The bravery of this lady for going public and beating on the pots and pans as loud as she can is incredible.

It’s a crisis! Let the wannabe sun king do whatever he wants, it’s a crisis!!

He just wants to fuck up the country enough that it’ll be beyond repair by the left by then.

I just hope the left gets strong enough not to have to depend on Melanchon. I hate him as much as Macron. Maybe more.

It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still… Fair enough. I’m hopeful :)

That’s great!!

I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It’s nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it’ll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.

I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That’s https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)

I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.

Great post!

I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

I guess I’m a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I’m wondering if we’re, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we’re a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

Edit:
Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I’m sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn’t of course, but what a blast it would be.