#DigitalRightsForLibraries

2w ago

Removed

In the year 2000 we had the 2nd season of "that 70s show"
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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2w ago
The stars saved us time and went straight to jail for sexual assault.

2mo ago

Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

You cannot for example just get rid of your US citizenship - you have to pay to get rid of it...

I wanted this to be false but I see that there is currently a minimum renunciation fee of $2,350. I assume there are likely other consulate fees that may bring it closer to $2,500 at the very least. What a scam.

Edit: typo

2mo ago

Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

the one where Fry and Bender join the army for gum and get sent to fight balls

The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

2mo ago

It would be hilarious if, one day, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided by no rules cage fight. Pay per view, of course.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

...Or to post on shower thoughts

2mo ago

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

And Mathias Döpfner is himself an out of touch billionaire-class nut who applauds the tamping of freedoms (including of the press) and jumps at every chance to breathe life into lies that advance his oligarchic wet dreams. The kind of person who says horrible things, then lies about saying them, and when confronted with the receipts, pretends he was just being "edgy" or "provocative" to provoke the plebs.

News organizations that exist to accurately report the news and properly inform the public are the exception now, I'm afraid. The rest have an agenda, and it never involves the common good.

2mo ago

Sharing File

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I stumbled upon it a few years back when I was looking for a way to send files directly to peers. I can't remember if it was from a list of similar services or if I used a search engine. It's been pretty useful for me.

2mo ago

Sharing File

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

https://wormhole.app/

E2EE and simple

2mo ago

If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I'm lucky! Mine (2015 pro) has been awesome, except for when it was going through a Demon AVR. Its fine when direct to the TV or through the Onkyo. It has flaked out before though, and I never updated to the "experience" version that introduced ads on the home screen.

2mo ago

If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I think that's the same OLED I have. B7 or C7. It's starting to band on red, but I got at least... 7 (?) years out of it, and the bands are only mildly annoying. Similarly, I have never connected it to the internet, and don't use any of the apps.

It's not very bright, but I'll take that over washed out or blotchy blacks. I'll shop for a used OLED like this when I'm ready.

3mo ago

Payment privacy

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Ahh, crap

Who can use Privacy and do you need a bank account?

Privacy is currently available to US citizens or legal residents with a checking account at a US bank or credit union, and who are 18+ years of age.

3mo ago

Payment privacy

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

privacy com

3mo ago

If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

And for the click-averse:

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

-Credited to Arthur Schopenhauer

3mo ago

For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I haven't yet. Actually, the corrupt bureaucracy has withheld residency status so far without bribes. That said, here was the path I thought I was on when I moved.

The idea is to have been in the country for most of the year (no less than 14 days out of country), at which time you can apply for residency. Once you have residency, you must maintain it for 5yrs.

Citizenship for Permanent Residence Holders
You have been a holder of Permanent Residence for a minimum of 5 years.
You have been resident continuously in Belize, this means that upon being granted Permanent Residency you have not resided outside Belize for periods that exceed thirty consecutive days or accumulate to a total of three months in any twelve month period.

I didn't want to muddy the waters with the reality of what happened once I moved, as the OP was about motivating factors. Power corrupts. And ultranationalism is infectious to other countries.

Edit: If I could do it over, I would form an offshore company or similar and get a work permit. Two attorneys have recommended this, even though on paper it costs more; there's less headache running to renew visitor status every 28 days (they claim 30-120 days, but no immigration office will renew you for more than that unless you bribe or are over 70 years old). It's been humbling (scary) going through this process legally and being afraid on several occasions that an angry official will wave their hand and deport me. I can only imagine being deported because of my skin color or where I shop would be even more scary.

3mo ago

For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

When my country first elected a rapist con man president, I started looking. I was born and raised in (and never left) New England, and so I also wanted a place that's warm year round. It took me four years to tentatively settle on Belize, in late 2019. I made my first visit in Jan 2021, as the pandemic messed up my 2020 plans. By October, I had sold EVERYTHING and moved with two cats.

Reasons (or things I didn't even know I wanted):

-No DST messing up my sleep schedule.-No more days with 17+hrs of darkness.-CARIBBEAN!!!-Every Belizean I met (exception: gov't employees and police) is friendly and warm. In N.E., people avoid making eye contact and answer greetings in a way to stop further conversation, but in Belize, the people genuinely want to know how you're doing and remember everything you tell them.-No car required-Culture with proud participation from the public; holidays with vibrant parades, and entire village ecstatically engaged in all aspects.-Tarantulas walking in the street (my partner and I love them!)-Path to citizenship without $0.25M investment-Citizenship there comes with a CARICOM passport, meaning can live and work in most Caribbean nations.-Food! Fish caught 30 minutes before it hits my plate.

Things that pushed me away from the USA:

-Truck nuts-Nazi and/or Confederate flags on trucks everywhere-Cost of housing doubled from 2017 to 2021-Consumerism -Embarrassed to be a US citizen

3mo ago

Have there been any technological advances in bouncy ball technology in the last decade or two?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

3mo ago

/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Watching from the sidelines as a LOS ROM user, I'm disappointed by the replies from the devs. From mischaracterizing surprise, anger and generally negative feedback as positive praise to completely ignoring the two main asks of the community. For me, there are other red flags, but I'll leave it alone.

Ego seems to be coming into play here, and the repeated references to GrapheneOS seem to reinforce that. Handwaving new and unique criticism as if it is a continuation of an older conflict is pretty poor form.

The basic issue as I see it (as a non-user of their platform) is to market your OS the way they do while also adding this feature without notice or explanation. Their claim that they want to stay relevant and include popular features is a straw man. There are other ways to implement it, and other ways to introduce it to the community. But that's not relevant. Their explanation could be used to justify abandoning their stated objective of anti-big tech in any/all ways. Saying people want big corporate tech features is weak and obviously not in parity with the stated mission of privacy-first.

It's not always the poor choices that sink user trust; sometimes it's a tone deaf response or unexplained motives, or opaque financial incentive structure.

Sometimes it's all of the above. This seems to be one of those cases.

Ty @Luffy879 for sharing.

E: spelling

3mo ago

Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I got sick of GP when they announced AI learning on user photos (or actually that's just the last straw). I use a combination of these two apps now:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid/

4mo ago

At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink.

Think again, señor:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shortly after they began guarding a Los Angeles federal building Friday, U.S. Marines detained a man who had walked onto the property and did not immediately hear their commands to stop.

The brief detention marked the first time federal troops have detained a civilian since they were deployed to the nation’s second-largest city by President Donald Trump in response to protests over the admin[...]