Friedrich Merz (Germany) 🤝 Doug Ford (Ontario, Canada) it seems 🫠

I mean, it was obviously a mistake but fair to judge even if it’s on a completely different scale to half your country eagerly electing a modern day pedophilic fascist a SECOND time who has proceeded to fuck over most of the world and repeatedly threatened to annex my country.

You could have mentioned Canada’s treatment of indigenous peoples and the residential schools that went on as late as the 1990s which would have also been a fair thing to judge (I judge it too) but I’m still going to judge the USA harshly for enthusiastically electing a shit starting demented pedo nazi

Americans sad that they’re being collectively judged and punished

We’re not […]

Nah you guys definitely are being judged

Oh, nice glad it’s working! ps fuck you

Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have

Not American but living at the same latitude in Canada, the 10pm sunsets makes up for the endless dark that is winter. When spring comes, I take any sunlight that I can get

I assume you don’t live somewhere where it gets dark at 3pm in winter. The morning will be dark regardless, let me have that little bit of sun coming home from work

We’ve been ready to get rid of the switch for ages in Ontario and Quebec but because of international business we’re stuck waiting for New York to also get rid of it

It’s mostly to maintain the structure of a comment tree in my best guess. It’d be strange if a comment under your comment just bumped up the tree to being a reply to the person you were replying to.

Continuing to show your username on the deleted comment is a UX design choice that I understand and sympathise with questioning but it’s kind of irrelevant when you think about how ActivityPub and the Fediverse works.

Basically, even if Lemmy did hide your username, any ActivityPub server connected to any instance connected to your instance will have received that comment and you clicking “delete” is basically just asking everyone (possibly hundreds of servers) to please delete it. A server lagging behind on syncronisation, a server modified to discard delete requests (maybe for archival purposes) or even one that just pretends to delete comments for malicious purposes will still have that data

I guess a TL;DR would be that it’s a UX choice but kind of an ant hill compared to the mountain that is the Fediverse. It’s not a bad thing but it’s definitely a trade off you should keep in mind

Also your upvotes and downvotes are also public

From the original email I received from them, it sounded like they have an AI detection tool that would automatically apply the AI tag. They said they’re starting with tagging songs that are 100% generated but will expand that to any AI songs once they have the tech for it

I don’t know if you mean me but I’m a guy from Ottawa and it’s nice to see you too!

Oh yeah, I forgot that directly impacts American citizens giving them the right to commit war crimes. Fuck the USA

The other response already clarified why its not free but there’s also a $1 USD min spend per month to have an account on their platform meaning it’s $1 USD/mo at minimum. It’s just free if you’re already spending that with them

I mean, they’re used everywhere still and aren’t exactly a dated form of timekeeping or anything even if digital clocks are preferred on computers

Yeah, obviously my wife who just enjoys having cute interactive wallpapers is a pedo creep, right? It’s fucking strange that your mind even goes in that direction

The US and its allies are delivering reconstruction plans for Iran worth at least $300bn

So… Israel? I’m not sure the US actually has any other allies anymore

macOS Golden Gate brings the era of Intel Macs to a close.

Genuinely makes me sad since this will likely kill off Hackintosh. I have an M3 Pro MBP and run Linux on my desktop so it doesn’t directly affect me, but I spent so many years running Hackintosh that it hurts to see its end (as we know it now). I’m sure there’ll be projects to run MacOS on third party ARM chips but it won’t be the same as now where you can usually get MacOS booting on any random hardware. At one point I was able to boot Mountain Lion on a cheap Dell Chromebook

I’m not a fan of TikTok but like, what exactly do you mean? Like online platforms requiring user registration are the only services where online user records are leaked?

What’s your use case? If you want to replace Windows on your device then the answer is not really, however, if you just want a Linux shell then you can pretty much one click install a Linux distro inside of Windows with WSL2

Ubuntu used to offer a tool that was only a bit more involves than that