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[–] Limonene 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Costco used to be a symbol of overconsumption and large scale consumerism. Now they are one of the few retail companies pushing back against the wave of anti-DEI.

[–] Limonene 11 points 1 day ago

What was the context of the fake conversation? Was it a dating site? Those have been scams forever, loaded with fake profiles, so the jump to fake AI profiles would be no surprise. Or was it Facebook? I haven't been on there in years, but nothing's too terrible for them these days.

Online, you have to find people, sites, and news sources with a history you can trust.

[–] Limonene 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Watch out for scams, as most of them probably are. Ideally, you could look for one operated by a known bank. Crypto .com looks like a scam to me.

Coinbase used to be considered legitimate, but I'm not sure if it still is.

Sorry I don't have anything more concrete. I don't think a lot of people on Lemmy use cryptocurrency.

Most things worth buying are probably available with cash or credit card.

[–] Limonene 59 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Meanwhile on Openstreetmap:

name Golfo de México

name:en Gulf of Mexico

official_name:en_US Gulf of America

Showing just enough acknowledgement to confirm they've discussed the executive order, but they aren't going to follow it.

[–] Limonene 7 points 2 days ago

Wisconsinite here. I'm hoping the great lakes area is occupied by Canada after we lose WW3.

[–] Limonene 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use it often, and have never walked out to someone waiting for it. If I did, I wouldn't feel bad, because I take like 1 minute to poop.

[–] Limonene 1 points 2 days ago

No. Check my previous comment -- this is about hosting on your home ISP, and turning that on or off directly affected the blocking. There is no way to host a webserver through any commercial VPN service.

[–] Limonene 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I don't think he can. If he somehow illegally forces the US Mint to stop making pennies, it doesn't solve the problem that no law allows stores to just round to the nearest 5 cents. Congress would need to pass that first.

[–] Limonene 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It seems crazy to me too, but I tested it numerous times. Closing port 80 and 443 stopped the blocks, and re-opening them started the blocks again.

[–] Limonene 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

From several years of experiencing it in person. Datadome was the worst and most consistent. It stopped the moment I switched my webserver onto an exotic port number (above 10,000).

Datadome sent me captchas at every domain they firewalled. After correctly solving, I would always be completely blocked:

(not my screenshot)

[–] Limonene 1 points 3 days ago

Here is a page listing some system requirements for Peertube. It says 4 cores and 4GB RAM for 1000 viewers, which some Raspberry Pi systems have.

[–] Limonene -2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Yes. However, hosting things from your home connection will make it difficult for you to visit many websites. Blocklists such as Datadome, Cloudflare, and F5 will give you endless captchas if they detect port 80 or port 443 open.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239

Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

 

All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users -- only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.

This doesn't seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It's more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.

Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

 

2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

 

Every time I visit that site it always says the same thing. I'm not on a VPN, I'm on a residential Internet connection, connecting directly from my own home.

 

This is a screenshot of https://twitter.com/ . As you can see, you can't even view the home page any more without signing in -- it instantly redirects to a page to sign in. It's the same for viewing tweets. It's been like this for a few days.

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