I’ve come across some pretty levelheaded people from that instance too

This was me (for some definition of level :D)

I joined .ml before I really understood the differences. Even once I realised the connotation, I didn't switch until I realised that !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works was blocked on that instance. That made me think about what instance I wanted to join (based on what communities I was most active in) and then I switched over here.

So, there are definitely a mix of people on each instance. It makes me sad when I see people jump to conclusions based on instance, although I also understand it if 90% of their experience is of a particular type of person.

Thank you for the recommendation! After deliberating back and forth over whether to go with this or a DIY solution, I ended up buying this one.

I saw a tildes comment talking about this adapter. I'm thinking that, once we finish the first couple of refills, we can decide whether we want to get a bigger donor cylinder to refill them through this.

And then, if this ever does break, we can switch to a full DIY solution at that point, since we'll then have more hands-on experience with the larger cylinders. So, we can gradually ease into a more DIY approach once we've shown we'll stick with it, and have a bit more confidence.

The breach happened in June but Open AI only became aware of it in August. It notified the government via an email, external to a general inbox on 10 September

This is just atrocious on every level. First of all, they're hacking everyone with impunity. Then, they're taking 2 months to find out about it, and a further month to report it. So not only can they not control their AI, as a company they clearly have no systems in place to report it either.

Who decides what goes on that list? How do you ensure measurement/enforcement of these rules is accurate and fair? How do you prevent takeover of whatever body manages/enforces this list by people with bad intentions?

I would love it if people who disagreed with my fundamental beliefs weren't allowed to vote too, but I think it's the wrong level to attack the problem. You have to have a political debate and bring people on side instead. Otherwise, why do we have a democracy anyway?

I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.

The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is

ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry

About the immigration policy of the party:

Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." [46]

About the foreign policy of the party:

In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

Time and again it seems that the entire purpose of the royal family is to seem a bit mystical and special to the Americans.

I'd like their constitutional role to be completely removed from the UK, but we should just not tell the Americans them and keep sending them over.

Because they're probably doing ok, and they don't want to think about how much is out of their control, and how easily they could be in the same situation.

The idea that success is just down to hard work is comforting, because they think "if I just keep working hard then I'll be ok", and "I'm deserving of this lifestyle". It also lets them not feel any guilt or spend time thinking about those less fortunate - they can simply say "well it must be their fault".

There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher's insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend's dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.

Will you be allowed to lie about the age? If yes, then it's a pointless law. If no, then whoever is checking needs to have more control over your device than you do, DRM style. That's gives them an entry point through which they can put whatever they want without you being able to control it.

Personally, I donate less to more projects. But, if you don't have a strong opinion of what to donate to, you can get the best of both worlds by donating to NLnet.

They fund open source projects up and down the stack, from open source CPUs all the way up to applications like Lemmy, and everything in between. Some are quite speculative and others are tangible improvements to existing projects.

You can trust the software in your distro's repositories (if you run a distro with well-maintained repositories). This is because, generally only well-known software gets packaged, the packager should be familiar with both the project and the code, and everything is rebuilt on the distro's own infrastructure, to ensure that a given binary actually corresponds to the source.

It might still be possible for things to slip through, but it's certainly much safer than random programs from online.