sobriquet

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[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Get your own domain quickly! Or you might be myname@myname2.com

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That is definitely not true. Even in Australia, which has some of the strictest gun laws, we don’t have a “total ban”. If you have a legitimate reason to have a firearm, you can get a license. And yes, legitimate reasons can include “guns are fun” - it just means that if that is your reason, the gun is only used at a gun club, and you can’t walk around the streets with it.

Edit: reading your other posts, it seems you mean “carried in population centres”. Stored and/or used in controlled environments within population centres, and even open carried by appropriately licences individuals (eg police) is still a far cry from a “total ban”.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

What country has a “total” ban on firearms?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

The XKCD one is interesting, but seems to be missing the transfer to/from the storage medium sent by FedEx.

If I want to move data from my computer to yours over the internet, the internet bandwidth between our devices/networks is the main consideration. If I’m FedExing SD cards or HDDs, I’ve also gotta take into account the transfer times to get the data ONTO those devices.

I wonder how the analysis would fair when taking into account:

  • speed of internet
  • TB/kg of storage
  • storage medium transfer speeds
[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But of course, they’re only looking at one small aspect of the overall issue. Just focus on the airline industry, rather than actually having decent privacy legislation that prevented any industry from (legally) misusing individuals data?

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

All, team, friends, everyone, folks (preferably prefixed with “howdy”)…

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

As a Australian, I tend to shy away from USAisms as a matter of course, but I 100% agree. English lacks a formal plural form of “you”, and while Australia has its own informal variation (“youse”), I’m a big fan of y’all.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ExpressVPN is based in the British Virgin Islands, meaning it's outside the Five, Nine or 14 Eyes jurisdictions

British overseas territories are outside the UK’s jurisdiction now? 🤔

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 6 points 9 months ago

I used to have an email address “myfirstname@i.am”. I thought it was really cool… until I kept having issues logging into sites that didn’t understand how email worked. I now use “companyimgivingmyemailto@myname.com”, and I just confuse humans who think I work at their company, and that I don’t understand how email works…

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 20 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I know you said “no nextcloud”, but I often see posts from people who say nextcloud was overkill for them, but they don’t realise that almost every component of nextcloud can be uninstalled if you don’t want it. It can be pretty barebones if you want it to be.

I don’t see how you’re going to get away from the domain requirement, though, unless you’re just going to connect to your raw IP address? (And if you are, I didn’t think that nextcloud required a domain?)

Sorry I can’t be more helpful with a different solution, but hopefully someone out there knows of something that would suit your needs.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, that’s not fair! OP could also be from Myanmar or Liberia.

But, for those not in Myanmar, Liberia, or USA: the reason this seems to be an issue is that a pound is apparently 16oz (not 12).

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