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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m confused a bit by this honestly. Power strips are easy to hide where they are not visible. In their case, an LED is actually preferable to know the state of the power strip and I have several power strips that don’t have any LEDs. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a power strip with a blue LED. None of my charging adapters have LEDs and it’s extremely rare for me to find one that does. The default iPhone/Android chargers don’t have LED and you can adapt them to work with like 90% of electronics these days because everything just uses USB. If you don’t want an digital clock, then don’t buy a digital clock? I also searched for a floor fan and 95% of the results appear to have no LEDs.

    If LEDs are such a problem, I’d recommend not buying things with LEDs in them? It seems like it’s actually difficult to run into the problem you’re experiencing.




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    1 year ago

    I’m seeing a lot of worrying trends.

    The whole idea of Reddit is changing. It used to be the front page of the internet and that encompassed basically everything. Now it seems like there’s a lot of focus on making it advertiser friendly

    Then we see Spez basically spitting in the face of the community. Mocking them, calling the unpaid mods “entitled” and just showcasing that he actively seems to despise the users.

    Now we’re seeing Reddit do shady stuff like undelete comments. Destroying any trust the community may have had in the website.

    The 3rd party app issue was just the kindling that ignited all the other issues


  • I get that, there’s a bunch of unethical associations with everything we use. But right now the main developer of Lemmy has his profile setup with Chairman Mao as his background, his Github repo avatar is Che Guevera, and he has an entire repo filled with propaganda copy-pasta. In the past people have also pointed out that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml resolve to the same IP address although this is no longer the case. Lemmygrad supports the DPRK and transitively one of the most horrific dictatorships in the world, and yet it’s advertised on the “Join-Lemmy” website.

    Even if the software itself is apolitical and we can see through the open-source nature of it that it is not going to be abused to further those agendas, there’s no doubt that as that knowledge becomes more commonly known that it could severely impact the whole idea of a Federated Reddit alternative.

    I guess the most important thing to consider is that the software, being open-sourced, can easily be forked if this ever becomes a problem.