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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
  • Not every country has elections either.

  • Where Easter Monday Is a Public Holiday
  • Scotland: we have such a massive hangover on New Year's Day that we need the day after off too.

    Rest of the UK: heh, OK, so you can work on Easter Monday instead

  • Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price
  • They offered it to me. I've not been on reddit since the API issue kicked off.

  • What Podcasts are you listening to?
  • Upvote for "Cautionary Tales". Just discovered that and loving it.

  • AI Girlfriends
  • I believe it's youth speak for "respect". Being cool as we old people might say.

  • Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing
  • This is what puts me off.

    Runar BjĂžrhovde, an analyst at Canalys, said return rates of foldables are 5-10 percent, far higher than traditional smartphones and a deterrent to repeat purchases.

    A phone costing me four digits with that high a return rate. Nope.

  • Life of a 30's
  • Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

    But life was good, on the whole.

    And still is.

  • What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
  • That would have been Slackware, which in those days came on a stack of 3.5" floppy disks. So early 90's (and hence I was in my mid-30s) but I was still mainly using Windows 3.1 and Trumpet Winsock to connect to the Internet.

    I think the first time I really took it seriously was in the mid 90's with Debian, a copy of which was posted to me, on CD-ROM I think, by Ian Murdock himself (back in the days when he was still with Debra 😏).

  • Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
  • BTW there's now an OSM community !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

  • Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
  • We update it a lot. We also have a product (for walkers in the British Isles) called WayMaps (used by a variety of walking web sites in the UK and also our own demo site https://waymaps.the-hug.net/) which uses the geodata from OSM and other Open Data to produce our own map tiles. We love OSM.

  • Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic
  • I was paying US$3.95 a month if I remember rightly but I think it's now US$5.95.

  • Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic
  • That's what Reddit Premium was for, which I had. No adverts in return for a monthly fee.

  • is it me who not seeing reddit stuff on lemmy??
  • Failure to understand the paradigm error at line 1.

  • tallpaul tallpaul @lemm.ee

    Semi-retired Internet geek living with my wife and dog in Nairn, Scotland. When I'm well enough I'm trying to make the world a better place through the application of technology but I'm also the SNP councillor for Nairn & Cawdor which is taking up most of most of my time.

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