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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m willing to bet that this is one of those sketchy knockoff cables. The usb-c standard, called USB power delivery doesn’t support 10 amps. Likely it never could because it would require thicker cables and more heavy duty connectors than what USBC actually has. Anyone who knows anything about basic electronics already knows this, more specifically what happens when you put too much current through a cable that’s not rated for it.

    All I can say is that I hope there aren’t devices that try and actually pull 10 amps through a cable like this, it would probably not end well.







  • It probably is a good idea to consider it. Something that should be kept in mind is that Instance blocking isn’t an alternative to defederation because of how it works it doesn’t do anything for the most problematic aspects of an instance, its userbase (instance blocks only target communities). Also since blocking is one-way only, it’s really only useful for non-objective or opinionated problems like disagreements, or personal opinions, it’s basically useless in cases of harassment or discrimination since they’ll just back-bite you without your knowledge, possibly even spread lies about you (was a real problem back on Reddit until they revised it to be two-way).


  • They’re making a post here because bot spam is generally considered a problem on Lemmy. Not something that people just don’t like, but actually something that is against the site’s terms of service.

    Honestly we really need to stop delegitimizing these concerns and default to telling people to close their eyes because they “don’t wike it 👶” (that’s what encouraging people to block it is) because people bring real problems to the table that need to actually be addressed.

    Lemmy isn’t a free speech platform where everything goes and that’s kind of the point. Part of that is that when people or communities step past the threshold of what is acceptable, somebody needs to report it or speak up so that it gets addressed. And that’s what posts like these are.








  • I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

    We should put our efforts and energy towards fighting back against the companies that do this and not against each other. Pointing fingers at each other doesn’t do anything.

    These companies have their own intelligence divisions whose job it is to find out about projects like this. They don’t find out about it from the news they find out about it from their intelligence divisions long before it becomes popular.

    If anything projects like this being popular is better for them because it means people like us can copy them and redistribute them faster than they can issue takedowns.

    If anything I would say that this mindset is exactly what these companies want, they want these projects to be obscure and copied by very few people so when they issue the takedown, it’s not saved by anybody else. They also would prefer it over the retaliation that some people might do to them, I mean just look at what people are doing to Rockstar right now. They would rather we fight with each other, then fight back against them. They are the enemy and they always have been, the sooner we realize it the better.