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Pooh Bear

@ poohbear @toons.zone

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Weirdo by day, lunatic by night.

Disney•Pixar and animation aficionado, travel tragic. Code monkey as my day job. Aussie in the US.Admin @ toons.zone • @poohbear@toons.zone

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  • Malaysia ‘second worst country’ for transgender community, study finds

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  • Agreed. Brunei in particular is really just a Middle Eastern country cosplaying as a SEA country.

  • Former Coles executive admits stealing $1.9m from supermarket giant in ‘brazen’ fraud

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  • Imagine having committed a crime and being so daft that the judge goes “you’re not evil, you’re just an idiot”, and makes you go through a psychiatric assessment because your judgment is questioned that much. Absolutely insane.

  • Australia set for cheaper solar power as supply of panels soars, says report

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  • Great to see panels coming to commodity pricing - the challenge is still storage but optimistic that battery cell prices will follow suit as well

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2

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  • I disagree that the punching bag strategy is effective - even looking beyond the obvious example w/ knock-on effects Elon has done from Twitter -> Tesla, you've got Adam Neumann w/ WeWork, Travis Kalanick w/ Uber, etc. who've taken similar personality deflection strategies - it only caused more long-term harm than good for both medium-term operations and brand reputation.

    It's not a sustainable strategy and it's pretty cringy to see it happen from an investor perspective.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2

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  • Wrong? No. But leadership is about communication and diplomacy as much as strategy. Short term gameplay aside, it doesn't take much effort to pretend to attempt to placate power users and it doesn't cost anything besides pride to do so. At least Reddit had a half-decent communication strategy with the Boston Bomber debacle - can't say the same with this one.

    In any case, whilst you won't get the r/funny's of Reddit going private forever, you do have some big ones like r/iphone saying they're blacking out indefinitely.

    It's pretty myopic of the leadership team to think that you shouldn't at least attempt to make an user relations play here.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2

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  • The Verge: Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

    There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

    That's an absolutely tone deaf response from spez. The talking points are exactly what I expected and I'm not surprised, but man, whoever's running PR at Reddit is really dropping the ball.

    If they do IPO, anyone who buys into it wholeheartedly deserves the deep losses the company will incur long term - it seems no-one on Reddit's leadership team, or anyone egging the company to float, understands what makes their own product tick.

  • 'If the Australians were around, I would hug them': Ukraine's soldiers thrilled with Bushmaster performance on battlefield

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  • Despite absolutely decimating our car industry, it seems like we've still got it with making half decent vehicles.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2

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  • Yeah, don't hold your breath for a Lemmy/kbin port of Apollo:

    The amount of work it would take to port all the API endpoints over to Lemmy or Kbin or something, that would be a gargantuan amount of work that I’m not sure I have the capacity for. And then just the complexity of making it work. Long term, it’s a big question mark for me that, at this stage, I’m not sure I’m totally interested in pursuing. But it’s also one of those things where I completely wish it the best. And if something that was decentralized kind of became the norm, I think that would definitely be a win for everybody.

  • Is Reddit watching us?

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  • "Busy" might be the wrong word - despite a couple of one-liner statements to news outlets, they haven't released a single press release about the blackouts or even last week's AMA PR disaster. The PR team's got time whilst they twiddle their thumbs hoping this just blows over.

  • 'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin

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  • Did you want crippling claustrophobia? Because this is how you develop crippling claustrophobia.

  • Easy Deepfake Voice Cloning technology is an emerging risk to organizations

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  • Everyone needs to start the conversation with their loved ones as soon as they can to question anything that seems out of character. It doesn't matter if they sound like or look like them - if anyone is asking for money or sensitive information, question it no matter what.

    I know a lot of folks may feel like that's an impossible task, especially with parents and older relatives, but it's possible - I just recently had a conversation with my parents, and I was bracing myself for it to be an uphill battle, but they were switched on and got it. You've gotta at least try.

  • Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home

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  • I try to have the best of both worlds - my home is primarily run on a Zigbee network from a Raspberry Pi with a Conbee, which is then linked up to Homebridge which talks to HomeKit (being in the Apple ecosystem).

    This means I get the creature comforts of a consumer home cloud service like Apple Home, but I get to call all the shots - controls are all local, and if I wanted to get my home off the cloud, I can without any reprocussions.

    It’s surprisingly very reliable as well - I haven’t had a single minor hiccup for more than 12 months, and even then, the last one just required a reboot of the Pi.

  • How are you dealing with all these new anti-trans/LGBTQ+ laws?

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  • Oh stop! That house sounds gorgeous and you’re making us all jealous!

  • How are you dealing with all these new anti-trans/LGBTQ+ laws?

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  • Between Manhattanites and the upstate weirdos… I’m not sure that’s an upgrade (jk :P)

    Yeah, I get missing the place you had roots in; I moved to the States and thought bigger country = bigger opportunities to connect and grow, but it still doesn’t fully replace what you leave behind! But you do what you have to do, and you make the best of it, and ultimately you find make new ties to compliment the old ones :)

  • How are you dealing with all these new anti-trans/LGBTQ+ laws?

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  • I’ve heard the flak you’re talking about with similar discourse here in FL - I’m sorry to hear you had to go through that to what I bet was already a tough decision and/or move. Unfortunately there’s so much judgment in what is already a marginalized community!! But I think everyone should do what feels right for them and what they can do in the current moment - I sincerely hope you are in a much better spot where you are now!

  • How are you dealing with all these new anti-trans/LGBTQ+ laws?

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  • I’m actually staying put in this increasingly hostile state because I still think, maybe naively, hearts and minds can still be won over, and I’m not going to let the obnoxiously loud minority bully me out of the community I’ve implanted myself into that I now call home. There’s a size full amount of us out here doing so.

    Granted, I’m speaking from a point of privilege where I have access to out of state inclusive medical care from my employer, and social & financial mobility if things got extremely messy - I totally understand if you need to escape and do what’s best for you, especially rights/medical wise. But I’m taking this privilege, staking my flag in the ground, and being out and proud & show that I’m not going to be deterred.

  • Reddit already looks different for me

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  • Even a change in atmosphere with communities from this would be substantial, though - even if there isn’t a day and night change with active users, if enough of the power users have left and discussions don’t really meet the “vibe check”, that’ll just naturally kill off user activity and it’s pretty much the same result

  • Why I am here

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  • Thank you for sharing your story ❤️ I was in the same boat as you growing up, and I like to think by being able to show up in the world the best way you can in the present is the best way to honour those struggles and use it for good.

    And look, it’s brought random strangers all around the world together - what can be more serendipitous than that?!

  • How to initiate federation to an instance

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  • TBH, the UI of Lemmy is rouuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. I'm confident through attention with more ex-Redditors joining + through open source contributions, it'll get better and better, stuff like this will be resolved (even with something as simple as a loading spinner)