I think teachers are not like cops in that regard. I have a friend who got accused of hitting a young student (immediate suspension with “investigation” pending for months and not going anywhere over whether the event actually happened or not) and they are not succeeding at finding any new job.

Why are four-month-old articles showing at the top of my feed lately?

Canva surely would become assholes if they had a monopoly, but it’s a loooooong way from “gaining some market traction” to “Adobe is defeated and powerless to compete”

Updated Dec. 11, 2025

not sure why this is at the top of my feed right now but if any other time travelers are reading this….

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All my serial devices need careful handling and will happily destroy themselves or start a fire if given the wrong instructions — my 3D printer, my laser engraver, my inverter/solar/battery monitor-programmer.

None of them are remotely prepared or hardened in any way to protect from malicious or careless commands.

I don’t generally trust websites and I do not want any website to discover those devices and interact with them.

I do not want this.

I really enjoy her comic so there

How well does clipping the antenna actually work?

If my FM radio antenna rusts and falls off, my FM radio still works. Reception will be shitty but it’s absolutely still usable for nearby or powerful stations.

When the GPS antenna inside my much-abused phone came loose, GPS got very unreliable but still often worked in a glitchy way.

If I clipped the external antenna on a car’s cell modem, would it not be the same way? Based on my experience with those other kinds of antennas I’d expect maybe the manufacturer would lose the ability to track me while driving in remote or mountainous areas, but generally in cities or highways it would still connect. Is it not so?

Now do it with the new ones that have eSim

Oracle are not fast movers. But also this is not their first recent layoff.

Reddit went absolutely bonkers overboard every year with dumb April Fools posts to the point where it crowded out every real topic and made the site unusable for the day, even back in the early days when it was otherwise very usable.

I personally never saw that level of bullshit overload anywhere else.

One of the things I like about Lemmy is that it avoids (somewhat) the everybody-piles-on-same-joke plagues that swept through Reddit. I’m hoping we as a community can keep avoiding them (somewhat)

Sorry for all you beans and Stör enjoyers. This place is big enough for the both of us but sometimes it does get uncomfortable.

This shit is dumb. It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here. Why do we want to make ourselves suffer obnoxious fake news once a year?

What is actually the attraction of reading progress indicators on webpages?

I get that it’s fun to do active things with CSS instead of javascript, sure.

But aside from goofing off and/or tech demos – is there a target audience who is excited and happy to have a progress bar on their pages and misses it when absent? I’ve been seeing this feature frequently and for me it’s kind of annoying.

Yes, that’s the confusing and un-detailed instruction I was talking about :D

Do you ever wear neatly crisply pressed and ironed business-formal shorts to work?

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I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.

People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.

Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”

I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.

Edit: also this user violet08 appears to talk mostly about sexy shit so 🤷

High something Not Rich Yet — people who have a shit-ton of income but blow it all on whatever instead of hoarding it properly

Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.