Source: a friend of mine personally telling me what happened the last time he was in mainland China.
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Friends of mine who have moved away from China. One of them had police at their door in China for social media posts that were friendly to Uyghurs (not even anything to do with the genocide, just general friendliness as a “we’re all Chinese” kind of message). Being taken to police stations for even slightly questioning the state narrative is terrifying.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•The Snap Dish Doesn't Make Sense3·5 months agoDocs are good, but the main thing is that there are just fewer steps due to good tooling.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•The Snap Dish Doesn't Make Sense52·5 months agoAs an application author, Snaps are much easier to create than Flatpaks.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Seeing your other half happy1·5 months agoBG3 has couch co-op, which is pretty neat
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto News@lemmy.world•New Zealand Covid inquiry finds vaccine mandates were ‘reasonable’6·7 months agoOur restrictions were basically lifted after four weeks in 2020 because that was enough to eliminate the virus. I think going a bit authoritarian with the lockdown maximised our freedom in the long run that year.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto News@lemmy.world•New Zealand Covid inquiry finds vaccine mandates were ‘reasonable’25·7 months agoWe had a four week (incredibly strict) lockdown in 2020 and then life returned to normal because we eliminated the virus. In late 2021 the delta variant ruined all that and the government attempted a half-assed lockdown which didn’t do much and that’s where a lot of the anger came from.
That could be a malita filter, which has a flat bottom.
What’s wrong with a paper filter for a pour over?
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?13·10 months agoIt uses other signals too, like what other sites you’ve visited with that checkbox on it, what CloudFlare has seen your IP address doing in the past, etc.
The google one is able to see if you’re logged into a google account and take that into account.
There’s even a new variant of the Google captcha that is invisible and doesn’t even bother to show a checkbox.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect; when experts find articles published within their field to be full of errors, but trust articles about other fields in the same publicationEnglish4·10 months agoThis reminds me of a great video about this sort of principle in reverse: https://youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto News@lemmy.world•Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline1·11 months agoIt’s different in different markets. In Australia and New Zealand it’s usually a reasonably well made medium-dark blend.
You’ll get much better at any dedicated café, but it’s also miles better than sbux (who don’t even use real espresso machines).
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto Fediverse@lemmy.world•PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communitiesEnglish31·1 year agoI enjoy OpenMW and I’m happy to host if you want, although my instance is basically just me and a few friends right now.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Totally logical and expected functionality1·1 year agoI’ve used a number of different Linux distros (including Debian) on laptops over the years. Although most recently my XPS 15 was running Arch.
nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devto politics @lemmy.world•Devout Christian Mike Johnson shows up to hush money trial to defend a guy accused of cheating on his wife with a porn star7·1 year agoIt’s falsifying business records, which becomes a felony when combined with it being a campaign finance violation.
Not as strong of a case as the docs one but it is a crime.
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