AnyOldName3

joined 2 years ago
[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

Iran is a great example to bring up when tankies insist that starting a revolution is always a great idea and always makes things better.

Iran used to be a democracy, but the party that won their last election ran on the promise that they'd nationalise their oil industry. This upset the British oil company that owned all the oil infrastructure in Iran, so the British and American governments led a coup to install a dictator friendly to their interests. The Shah was a very unpleasant leader whose main priorities were repressing his opponents and trying to make the country look rich and western, e.g. by banning religious dress and spending loads of money on buying Concorde aircraft.

Eventually, a coalition of groups, mainly various flavours of leftist and religious entities, started a revolution that overthrew the Shah. Unfortunately, once the Shah had been deposed, the largest religious faction had all the leftists immediately assassinated before a new government could be formed, and then exploited the power vacuum to install an authoritarian theocracy. For a lot of people, this made things even worse. The consequences for disagreeing with the government were still torture and/or death, but the things you were forbidden from doing were different, e.g. religious dress switched from being banned to being mandatory.

Unsurprisingly, Cowbee disagrees (based on an argument we had where he carefully destroyed any respect I might have had for his opinion) - there were leftists participating in the Iranian Revolution, so it must be a Marxist/Leninist utopia where everyone's happy with everything all the time.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

They claim Palestine isn't a separate state, but don't give Palestinians a vote, so that's not a good candidate for functioning democracy.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

You might find that your hardware exposes 3.2 features via Vulkan and that if you configure your machine to use Zink rather than native GL, you can get a 3.2 context.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Wikipedia management shouldn't be under that pressure. There's no profit motive to enshittify or replace human contributions. They're funded by donations from users, so their top priority should be giving users what they want, not attracting bubble-chasing venture capital.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

WD-40 dries sticky so you really shouldn't use it to lubricate things or label it non-cooking non-stick spray. It's designed to get water off things and leave them with a waterproof coating.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Like a real powertool, if you unscrew the safety features because you feel they're getting in your way, they no longer provide safety. Having the guard from a chainsaw in your back pocket does nothing to protect you from the chainsaw you're holding.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

If geometry dash is a legitimate game, why am I always having to remove links to it posted by spambots to OpenMW's forum?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It could still be to cover up war crimes that the BBC team hadn't got quite close enough to discover yet, but the IDF were concerned that they might have if not scared away. It could just be for opsec, but them having been competent at stopping the BBC seeing whatever it was they were hiding isn't proof that the thing being hidden was benign.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Variations of this meme get posted every week, but I've never experienced it, despite having had tens of grub updates murder-suicide the Windows boot loader and grub itself across five or six different machines. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to rebuild a Windows boot partition, but the frequency that I'm hit with this problem is one of the major reasons I avoid using Linux. Eventually I'm going to have to switch, but that's driven mainly by Windows getting worse rather than any of the pain points I've had when trying to switch full time in the past having been fixed.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You don't necessarily want to just ask for volunteers as that's a great way to summon exactly the kind of people you don't want to put in charge of online communities. The best way is usually to notice people who are already part of the community and consistently make positive contributions, then ask for their help. If none of those people want to, though, you're stuck.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It depends on the kind of acceptance. If you accept that certain things will be harder for some people and make reasonable accommodations so they can get on with their lives, then people can get on with their lives. If you accept things will be harder so use that as an excuse for people never doing anything without removing any of the obstacles stopping them doing things, they'll never get anything done. It's really just addressing the problems versus deciding the problems are inevitable and giving up. That said, giving up can be a lot less miserable than refusing to acknowledge problems and yelling at people when they don't keep up.

 

I've just been switched from Freestyle Libre 2 to 3, and (at least in the UK) these need to be requested directly from Abbott instead of via regular NHS prescriptions that go to a pharmacist. To do this, you have to use their patient portal, so you need a password and need to go through their password reset process. The listed requirements are a minimum of eight characters, five lower-case letters, one upper-case letter, a number and a symbol, but there's either also a maximum number of characters (I typically use way more than eight) or a restriction on which symbols are permitted. If you don't meet the hidden extra requirements, you'll get a 404 during the password reset process (which isn't even the right error code for this kind of thing).

It took a lot of tries before my password manager came up with something the website was happy with, and no one seems to have written anything on the searchable parts of the internet about it, so I wasn't sure it was going to work and thought I might just have hit outages on both days I tried, so I'm writing this here in the hope that the next time someone sees the same error, this will show up in a search, and they know they need to change the password they're trying to set.

I'm not going to go into what eventually worked and which characters were allowed, as obviously that'd give away more information about the password I ended up with than I'm comfortable disclosing, so sorry for not specifying precisely what the real requirements are.

 

I've got a 3D printed project, and went over it with a couple of airbrushed coats of a 50/50 mix of Tamiya X-35 (their alcohol-based acrylic semi-gloss) and Mr Color Levelling Thinner. As far as I can tell, it looks good so far, but now the room next to the one I sprayed in smells of solvent a few hours later, despite extractor fans running. I knew the lacquer thinner was nasty, so bought a respirator, and haven't been in the room with the model without it (hence only knowing that the next room stinks), but would like to know when I won't need it anymore. The best I've been able to find with Google is the ten-minute touch-dry time, but I'm assuming the VOCs will take longer to be entirely gone.

 

Edit 1: I'm attaching the image again. If there's still no photo, blame Jerboa and not the alcohol I've consumed.

Edit 3: edit 2 is gone. However, an imgur link should now be here!

Edit 4: I promise the photo of some plugs does not contain erotic material (unless you have very specific and abnormal fetishes). I can't find the button to tell that to imgur, though. You can blame that on the alcohol.

Edit 5: s/done/some/g

Edit 6: I regret mentioning the dartboard, which was a safe distance below these sockets, and seems to be distracting people from the fact that one's the wrong way up. I've now replaced the imgur link with a direct upload now I'm back on my desktop the next day.

 

When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
 

Test post for @testman@lemmy.ml to test posting.

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