Morning all! I'm heading up north for training for the next few days. First time I've been sent elsewhere for training!
Hope your day goes well everyone!
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Travelling for work is fun the first few times! Even better if you have colleagues coming with you.
I have a computer-based job but this morning I got to move heavy machinery and bust out a bag of grease. I learnt that my nose is programmed to itch as soon as I get all mucky, and our fancy bathroom soap is no match for whatever blue gunk I was using. But the machine in question still goes and sounds a lot better than it did before so I'm counting it as a win.
But was it softofblue or really blue
It was far more confident about itself than I am, a really nice shade of blue while I tend to dither about how blue I really am at heart.
For grease, grab a handful of clothes washing powder and rub it all over your hands dry, then wash off.
Morning everyone. A bit chilly up here this morning. Just had a txt from our next door kiwifruit orchard, it’s Hi-Cane time again. Won’t be going into the garden when that happens.
What's hi-cane?
It’s a spray that encourages the kiwifruit to bud and flower so the harvest is easier as all the vines fruit at about the same time. It has had a lot of hate due to its potential for waterway pollution and harm to animals, birds, and humans.
I can understand why the orchards use it, but it is pretty noxious.
I had no idea. That's... Disturbing
Luckily it’s just a one-off spray, once a year in late winter before the growth starts.
Kid just came up with a handful of (their grandparent's) coins, and asked if I could take out "two hundred million dollars".
.... Well could they?
I think you guys with lemmy.world accounts should consider joining a smaller instance. They have blocked some piracy communities over some pretty bs reasoning. Who knows what they’ll block next depending on their whims.
100%. Was just reading that shit show myself. There's definitely both up and down side to the fediverse
Can't you just use your lemmy.world account to join communities on another instance? Or is leaving a moral stance?
With their size, I'm wondering if they are starting to get cease and desist notices.
Edit: ~~oh shit, they defederated an instance because of piracy on that instance~~? That's a different ballpark.
Edit 2: seems they blocked cetain communities on another instance? I didn't think lemmy had that built in.
Looks like a bit of discussion here: https://lemmy.nz/post/981948
As far as I’m aware discussion of piracy isn’t illegal. I haven’t seen any direct links to content on the dbzero instance (admittedly I haven’t been looking).
The fact they went along with it after a new account on a different instance asked them to block it is concerning though.
Laws are complicated. As mentioned in another post, the server is hosted in Finland, by a German hosting company, run by a Dutch admin, behind Cloudflare bot protection based in the US. Any of those countries could have a law that makes this illegal.
But even worse, a comparatively small website run on donations doesn't need to break a law to get shut down, they just need to have enough legal challenges to make it too costly to continue (they likely could not afford even one court case, even if they were likely to win).
As an instance admin this stuff is always in the back of my mind. Another reason I'm keen to not grow too quick, so we can sort out these sorts of issues.
I get what you're saying, but it wasn't like they received a dmca notice or cease and desist. It was just a random new user asking them to do it. I just don't see how they could have got in trouble immediately without the option to defederate or block those communities in the case of a legal notice.
In any case piracy communities all know not to post or host any direct links. Even reddit's piracy subreddit has lasted for a long time.
I guess the beauty of the fediverse is that it's simple enough to move to another instance instead of just losing access.
Yeah it definitely comes across as a bit of an odd sequence of events. I seem to recall there were more examples of similar actions from lemmy.world as well.
Joined a smaller instance, got access to the removed piracy community, but lost access to any Lemmy.world communities.
As long as the instance you joined is federated with lemmy.world shouldn't you have access to it? I don't know, maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in
I expected that every instance anywhere should be able to see everything else. I’m guessing the instance I tried isn’t federated to lemmy.world. But I don’t know how it all works.
Today went well. Flight went smoothly and I've met some good people. Broke my phone screen tho which sucks 😞
At taco bell for the first time. It was surprisingly satisfying tho I only got a chrispy chicken taco. I see they have a bell on the wall saying "did we make you happy" should I ring it?
I rang the bell... Nothing happened