Shocked expressions, big red arrows pointing to nothing, titles based on shock, surprise or open-ended questions are videos I tend to avoid. I don’t particularly care to watch a video where the first emotion had is sympathy for desperation. (It makes you almost question the emotional state of most of the users that “the algorithm” tuned itself for, TBH. I say that only as an observation of scale when looking at the sheer numbers of viewers that YouTube has.)

Sticking with the subtle stuff is just fine. A picture of the host smiling with an informative title and thumbnail is OK, and not very gag evoking.

Blaming “the algorithm” for having to do that shit is likely a very real thing. However, I will religiously watch channels that produce good content first.

Either way, I have conflicting views: A person has to earn a living, but when emotional exploitation is used in this way, I don’t know what to think. Is it really harmless? Not sure about that yet.

Not true. If they piss off richer, more prominent pedophiles they may accidentally fall out of windows or simply hang themselves in jail.

I did. All the important things have time to gracefully shutdown now. (Except my for my rack of 4 DL360’s, which need something a little more robust than a Walmart UPS. They aren’t critical and only exist to handle weird one-off projects anyway.)

This happens, too. A burst of local brownouts killed an OPNsense firewall of mine once. (The hardware was fine. The data got wrecked.) The firewall would boot, or almost finish booting, and then another brownout would hit. After the third or fourth cycle, the poor thing was toast.

I should thank the power company for free resilience testing.

There absolutely is a darker side to Lemmy, but for the most part, many of those “legacy” instances have already been pruned from the federation that we are in now. (I suspect there are smaller, highly niche, “Lemmy” bubbles that even I wouldn’t want to go looking for that have never federated with the larger group. There are also various branches you can explore via instances that keep their doors mostly open.)

On the surface, and depending on what you consider toxic, the misinformation campaigns that are run on Lemmy seem fairly normal, but can get fairly dark if you understand the sources and start to do broader geolocation estimation of some of the participants.

There are still the occasional DDoS’s and the occasional CSAM posters, both of those are only a degree or two away from the really nasty shit.

The biggest issue now, and probably will always be, is how easy it is to avoid bans. Some seriously troubled users have generated hundreds of accounts across multiple instances just to troll and appear to generate traffic to specific communities. (“you_emm” being one of the worst, but its posts are fairly easy to sniff out still. It will actively search for untagged mentions as well, hence, my obfuscation.)

But for the most part, the bullshit is easy to filter out. When you stumble across a specific niche, they tend to niche themselves super hard, so beware. All-in-all, Lemmy is chill and fairly quiet which is why I still use it.

In most cases, I believe it’s a mix of hormones and traditionalism. Men have generally been more likely to seek grandeur by participating in violent activities, or, violent activities are demanded by their particular social group. Sometimes a mix of both.

I think it also it boils down to how gender roles are taught by different cultures. If men are taught to be the risk takers, it only makes sense that boundaries and laws will get pushed more by men. After all, intentionally breaking a law may simply be viewed as a calculated risk and not as something that should never be done.

Honestly speaking, it seems too easy of an answer to just blame male physiology. The social aspects of this can’t be ignore either.

I’ll see if I can find one that doesn’t actually contact the back of the phone, but the trial and error to find one of those may end up destroying the autograph.

It’s on the phone itself, unfortunately. The case is off in this pic.

The autograph is on the phone itself, and I have a durable Spiegan case for it. I head out to the art supply store tomorrow and see what options they have as far as spray fixatives go, for sure. (Thanks! Knowing the name of things is usually half the battle and “spray fixative” was not part of my regular vocabulary.)

The first idea is to seal it somehow, and then have the case protect it from daily wear. (When I get sad or something, I can just always have it with me to cheer me up in a pinch.)

But yes, I am also considering the option of this being a permanent display piece or simply even a moment I can simply keep etched in my memory.

Red Rocks is a wonderful venue, too! Awww! Sorry for your loss. :(

I only go there for artists that absolutely respect what that place has to give. It’s a “sacred” venue for me, TBH.

We were at Cervantes Ballroom tonight, and TBH, it’s a bit cramped and can be a little rough for some, but the sound is absolutely peak quality. Don’t turn down tickets for that place either, is my point. (I am friends with a local death metal singer that knows the owner and he said quite a bit of money was spent on that sound system.)

And that is exactly what I have resigned myself into, my friend.

If all other options fail, this exact picture is perfect.

I’ll still remember looking at this completely starstruck while me and my wife (of 25 years this month; hence the TCM+Okenfold concert being the perfect marriage, in itself, of our musical taste.) were sitting on the street tripping our balls off in the wonderful Denver atmosphere of weed smoke and piss smell, all while trying to enjoy the fresh air with a few drags from an American Spirit cigarette. (Incidentally, I was wearing the same cargo pants she bought me for one of our first parties over a quarter century ago.)

In the most literal sense, a picture is worth a thousand words in this case. It’ll be an instant flashback, at anytime.

He is kinda my heartthrob as I have seen dozens of his shows over the last 20+ years. It’s invaluable to me, and that is the important bit. :)

That is a sick idea, and not actually out-of-scope.

I’ll need to think on that as the “pristine” nature of it in its current state would literally get etched away. Alas, it is slowly fading now anyway, so the memory still could be preserved for a lifetime.

As they say: Think, but think fast.

I may end up just buying a new phone, TBH.

That’s why I started running at age 45. Unless I get injured and can’t run any more, I am kinda hoping that my heart will just explode one day on the track, and that’ll be it. (I have already surpassed my one mile running pace from my 20’s and have no plans to slow down.)

The injury bit would really suck, as spending the rest of my days not able to walk would be really bad. Even more so as I am using running as a way to delay the process of arterial stenosis that has already started at my kidneys. (I suspect my life would get really suck, really quick, if I can’t actively manage that. It’s already put me in the ICU once, just about one year ago.)

I got a small glimpse into how my body is breaking down already and decided focus on the things I could actually do to slow that down.

Still, even with the risks, I am able at least point my physical health and well-being in a much better direction that should pay off (hopefully) in my last 40 years. (Quitting booze a few years ago probably ensured that I would still have a family around that gives a shit about me, so there is that as well.)

I can’t predict the future and eventually my body will still give out regardless. Doing what I can now to ensure a smooth path out is just about the only thing I can do.

Uno has rules?

So a Lemmy shitpost is just a reddit cross-post? The actual OP didn’t give any context to the images. Even if this isn’t a bot post, it might as well be one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1u8qzwv/bathroom_doors_i_painted_in_a_bar/

Not yet.

I think there is a much higher probability of oil prices being manipulated in the short-term.

Compliance audits are usually handled by a third party and I am only familiar with SOC2, SOX, PCI and ISO27001. GDPR is a beast, from what understand. I do suspect it’s also ran by a third party during an audit period.

Most of the above compliance programs require network architecture reviews and checks to ensure that their policies actually match how their internal processes and software actually works. This typically includes compliance enforcement mechanisms, such as what we were discussing.

More often than not, GDPR data deletion requests work for just about anyone. Companies don’t really have the time to validate what country you are currently in so these kinds of processes are usually just generic. (It’s a compliance requirement and usually only gets the bare-minimum effort and funding to develop correctly.) Since any company asset is in-scope for compliance regardless of the country, companies that reside in the EEA must also purge any data for servers that may be outside of the country.

It never hurts to attempt a data deletion under the context of GDPR, regardless of your country, is my point.

But just to clarify “it depends on the country”: Of course it does, but the country where the company is based out of, not where their servers are located. (Of course there are one-offs or weird situations. That kind of “data protection” is expensive and reserved for bulk data that companies really need to hide or keep out of scope of compliance.)

Peak shitpost. Well played.