It has been 0️⃣ days since I saw someone post an image where they had covered up their address on a package but not covered up the barcode underneath

So here's your safety reminder: always, always, ALWAYS censor any barcodes on mail and packages when photographing them! It is often your address or something very close to your address (such as your street). Barcodes may be printed very faintly or in fluorescent ink; double-check before assuming one isn't there, and cover it no matter how faint it seems! If it's a bunch of lines of any kind, it's a barcode!

It has been 0️⃣ days since I saw someone post an image where they had covered up their address on a package but not covered up the barcode underneath

So here's your safety reminder: always, always, ALWAYS censor any barcodes on mail and packages when photographing them! It is often your address or something very close to your address (such as your street). Barcodes may be printed very faintly or in fluorescent ink; double-check before assuming one isn't there, and cover it no matter how faint it seems! If it's a bunch of lines of any kind, it's a barcode!

That is really amazing, I love Street Complete on android and have recommended it several times already.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Palestine in Pictures: October 2026

electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-october-2026/51750

A monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists.

reading through that gnome thread with a screen reader is so funny. all these people talking about violating the cock

@glennf @mwichary @joshua

multiple monitors is really powerful, agreed

i've always craved that setup!

space is tight in my work situations at home in nyc alas

@serge Man the fediverse is just hellbent on not disappointing us isn't it?

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/reflect-orbital-giant-mirror-in-space

Overall good article about all the terrible things that are going to happen if Reflect Orbital actually launches mirrors into orbit. Among other things, "people should not have to be afraid to look at the stars through a telescope because of the actions of a single private enterprise."

But boy I'm really tired of journalists giving Reflect Orbital the last word. I hate this company with ever fibre of my being.

i dont see any goofy self promotion videos on lemmy the way reddit has them. there is just less HailCorporate crap here. and the fixed-by-the-duet garbage that is just really uninteresting except WHEN LOUDLY YELLED AT YOU.

@gabrielesvelto "AI" fans: wow, the technology makes toothpicks all by itself! 😲 the technology:

I find it mildly silly that some people in tech are still talking about whether "artificial intelligence" tools work or not. For their cost it would be irrelevant even if they worked. Did you actually look at the numbers of the companies involved? Oracle has now a >4 debt/equity ratio, CoreWeave has almost 9. Values above 2 are considered abnormal and dangerous. This is the financial equivalent of smoking in a factory that produces explosives.

Whimsical Westcoast rural scene.
Roofing #peacock.

#birds #farm #rural #CountryLife #Saanich #peafowl #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW

We transed Montana! [high five]

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6m7rbdgaz5vyg4bnbefi7kh6/post/3n22p3elpk22p

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117599427636587555

Americans are only 4% of the world's population. So why is an American government agency allowed to make decisions that affect the other 96% of the world?

Surely there should be international consensus for something that degrades the entire planet?

“Sad”

It's finished! I built a potting bench and I'm so happy with how it turned out. I decided to just paint the majority of it a dark green and finish the top with stained Danish Oil. The peg-board was my idea and not in the original plans, and I'm already loving it. I've already used it a few times and it's so nice having the ability to mix potting soil in one of the storage bins under the table top panels.

#woodworking #gardening #houseplants

With the online prevalence of AI, identity verification and propaganda, the field can no longer be called IT because the web is no longer a reliable source of information.

To reflect these failing, it ought to be known as Pseudo-Meaningful Technology instead.

#IT