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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The end of Skype.
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    4 months ago

    I don’t use Skype for business, I use it for the video calls and for the ability to have international VOIP numbers that I can ring from/to, and send texts and stuff.

    Not sure what service I’ll migrate to once this is gone, I guess I’ll lose my numbers too :-(

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents".
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    10 months ago

    How is this invading someone’s privacy? All it’s doing is detecting if children are smoking in a room or space at school and then putting an alert up about the detection on a screen.

    They have zero right to privately smoke at school, or anywhere for that matter, smoking is illegal for children and not something to be taken lightly.

    Similarly, adults have no right to privately smoke whilst in the workplace in the bathroom or other non-smoking designated areas. This is also illegal and not to be taken lightly.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash
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    1 year ago

    There’s very few products which everyone can objectively say are designed for killing.

    Agreed, it’s very rare, guns are absolutely one of those things though. They’re the perfect evolution of the personal handheld killing tool. You just point it at the thing you want dead, push the button, and you’ve got a good chance of deadding it immediately with your first try.

    Guns don’t have a secondary use, like how a knife can whittle a tree branch into a nice spoon, or cut some thread, or skin an animal. Guns cause massive damage to whatever they are pointed at, and sometimes to the things around that thing too, if you’re particularly unlucky.

    They’re the solution to a problem when you need the solution to be “escalate this situation to 1000% and start killing stuff”.

    Gun manufacturers who say they’re made for defence and not killing must be delusional or confused about what their products do, or just lying to their potential customers for… who even knows what reason.

    They are made to defend yourself by killing the person you need to be defended from. Pure and simple. They are truly as cut and dry a tool for killing things as there is.

    Nobody is out there shooting people defensively with some non-lethal mode built in to their high speed projectile metal lumps that tear through the human body, causing parts of it to explode and massive trauma to the surrounding tissues and organs.

    Do guns exist that fire beanbags, or tranquilliser darts, or such? Absolutely, but none of us here are talking about those types of more specialist guns. We’re talking about your standard gun, the kind they sell to lots of civilians in countries like the USA.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•OpenSubtitles HostilityEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What’s the deal with this support person being unaware of how to use basic capitalisation and punctuation in sentences?

    We learned that when we were 6.

    Deeply, deeply unprofessional. If I had an employee that was this bad at presenting themselves to those outside of the organisation, I’d either insist they learn how to write properly in their own time and apply it at work, or possibly let them go.

    It may seem harsh, but they write like a child, and that would reflect very badly on us as a team and organisation in every interaction they had, every day.