I will start by saying I have toyed with posting this because as soon as someone says they don't wanna see it, someone will make a community for it. However I feel like some of the stuff that makes Reddit annoying is creeping over. And just because I don't like it does not mean its not a valid community. So if it is least put in the right place (rather that the bigger generic communities) I can then just filter or block it.

Ill start I don't want to see

• Am I the arsehole
• Relationship drama
• Celebrity worship/drama

So what communities DON'T you want to see here?

Ive wanted to do alot ever sense i was a kid, one of the things ive wanted to do was be a gaming YouTuber or something, buts let be honest letsplays are overdone usually.

Im not sure if i should go with youtube or some other platform?

What would you all advise i look into? what do you think?

Can love happened at any age? at 58 also? actually my mom is widow, so one person proposes her so it's good?

It's the late 90s and I was working in IT for a small (200 employees) company.
One of my tasks was performing daily data backups, which ran for about four hours and started after everyone else had left for the day.
We had an intercom system in the building, where if you picked up your phone and dialed a specific extension, you could page someone, or make announcements so everyone could hear.

One night I was in the process of running Ethernet cable from switches on the second floor down to individual terminals on the first floor, so there was a lot walking around the building.

I like to have music when I'm working, but I didn't have an MP3 player at the time, so I thought... "I have music on my PC and no one is around. Why don't I just...", and I went around and cranked the volume knob on every ceiling intercom speaker in the whole building. Then I dialed into the intercom from the phone in my office, put the handset up as close as I could to my PC speakers, and boom, music throughout the building.

Cut to a few hours later, it's late, I'm tired, the backup is finished, so I close down the system, hit the lights, lock the doors, and go home.

The next day, I come in, not thinking about anything from the night before, and get to work. About 11:00am, the owner's secretary got on the intercom to page someone.... and blew everyone out of their seats. There was an almost collective, "What the fuck??!!" from everyone, and an "Ohhh, shiiit" from me, because of course I immediately knew what happened.

I ran around like a madman, turning the volume down on all of the speakers that I had forgotten the night before, while saying, "No idea... Yeah it's crazy... No no, it's fixed now..."

No one ever found out exactly why the volume was so loud that morning.

correlation does not equal causation.

indeed it does not.

but correlation can lead to discovering causation or even larger phenomena. which is why i pay attention to "it" when appropriate. do you?

All nations within the Anglosphere (US, UK, CA, AU & NZ) have JD imposed towards citizens. I know that the US & Canada both inherited that from Britain, which explains why they have it. However, should it be entirely only the judge making the conviction (some countries operate on a lay-judge system meaning juries aren't used, such as Finland or Japan for example) rather than leaving that decision up to jurors?

I don't even know where to start.

I have known them for over 10 years, it always been very clear to me they are neurodivergent, I've known that from day one.

A few months ago they were given a formal diagnosis of autism. I can completely see it, I can completely understand the diagnosis, and I think it is in perfect alignment with many of this person's characteristics.

I really do not know what the hell is going on in their mind, if the diagnosis has triggered some deep feelings or...

But the problem is this... Ever since they got the diagnosis, they have started to mimic the behaviors that are often seen in people with Down's Syndrome. She has started to mimic the speech patterns, and tries to crunch her face and squint.

It's just annoying as fuck. They are purposefully acting like somebody they are not. I am becoming absolutely exhausted with this behavior, especially because they have not changed as a person, they are the exact same person as prior to the diagnosis, they've just started acting like an idiot. (E: and I'm also getting SICK of her besmirching people with Downs by ACTING like she has the IQ of a cat)

I am at the point where I don't want to be around them anymore, but before I limit my contact, what are some compassionate ways I can have a conversation with this person?

For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.

I would also include anything that was initially a flop on its original release but then found a following later such as movies like Momento. This still counts as commercial failure for the sake of this question.

Brain-based management is getting too exhausting, and isn't even fully possible with a larger quantity of online accounts.

Celebrate holidays. Cool, it's halloween, eh I'll eat a couple pieces of candy. Cool, it's christmas, let me chug down at least some egg nog. I just can't get into the habit of decorating because to me, it's just more work.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1436427/where-can-i-upload-videos-to-embed-them-here-on-piefed-lemmy

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I mean other than making surfing the web slow as molasses.

I’m developing a cross-platform desktop/mobile application for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.

My company already has an official digital certificate issued by Telekom. It is recognized for legally binding electronic signatures and document signing. In other words, the state recognizes the certificate and the identity behind it.

Yet that apparently isn’t enough for the major software platforms.

Apple wants an annual developer fee if I want normal macOS signing/notarization and distribution without scary warnings.

Google wants developers inside its Play Store ecosystem for normal Android distribution and updates.

Microsoft expects software publishers to use its accepted code-signing trust infrastructure, which usually means paying a commercial CA or using Microsoft’s own signing services if you want Windows to recognize the publisher without warnings.

So my question is: Why are these companies allowed to create their own private definition of “trusted developer,” even when a developer already possesses a legally recognized digital identity certificate?

I understand the technical argument that document signing and code signing are different certificate purposes. But from the developer’s perspective, the result looks like this:

“Your identity is legally verified, but we still won’t treat your software as trusted unless you participate in our approved ecosystem and, in many cases, pay.”

Why isn’t there a vendor-neutral mechanism where a legally recognized organizational certificate can establish publisher identity across operating systems? Is this mainly about security, liability, PKI design, platform control, commercial incentives, or some combination of all of them? And more importantly: what prevents Microsoft, Apple, and Google from abusing their position as platform owners to turn “trust” into a paid gatekeeping mechanism?

Gaming. I'm in my 30s and the 30s was the age bracket I've heard where few can carry on gaming through, because it has a tendency to die here. I piss away so much time doing other things that gaming just takes a backseat. I'm not even married or have kids.

For me it's time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don't understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That's it. I don't understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn't give you anything.

My wife will hear a song and go "Oh neat, it's in 5/8." And I'm like "How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?"

I want to just delete my Discord, FB, Reddit, Second Life and other social sites so I can just be focused on myself. But I can't because the guilt of seemingly deserting those I have left, will be hard to deal with.

These days, it seems that I am feeling love again and getting more nuanced on love. I just wondered if people here once had a life outside screen and fall in love with someone. When you met your first love for the first time in your life, how did you meet them? Were you classmates, co-workers, neighbours, or what? I was in 7th grade when I can say that I felt that for my female classmates. I could not tell them cuz they were already interested in another guy. I was a very weird person so they were more annoyed with me but never knew what I felt for them. Although they forgave me and we remained classmates and they are doing fine (one is posting about her university life on Insta, another one is anonymous), but yeah this experience just makes me realize that how much time has passed.

Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.

(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)

What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?

Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, share anyway.

I'm trying to de-Google, and that means finally getting off of Gmail. I need a new email address for shopping/corporate spam. Where should I park all the emails I get about coupons, shipping updates, new product features, policy changes, etc.?

Considerations:

-I don't want to just give all my shopping data to another big AI company. (So, not Outlook/Microslop.) I don't want a provider that will sell my data to third parties, either. These emails don't need top-level privacy protection, but random third parties don't need to know whether I buy cheap or expensive shoes.

-I'd like to use email aliases for different companies so I can figure out who's the leak if I start getting emails from an unexpected source. (Although maybe that can be a separate service from the email provider?)

-I don't care what country the email provider is based in. I don't care if the CIA can theoretically find out what shoes I buy, I just don't want businesses giving me higher "personalized" prices because of those shoes.

-I'd prefer to stick with a free email provider if possible, but maybe that's not compatible with the first point, IDK.

Suggestions, please!