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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What is a pubnix?

Edit: Short for Public access UNIX apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They literally just answered your question. Rhetorical questions don't really transfer well online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, I am seriously considering it. I just have a hard time justifying the purchase to myself. I kinda worry that I am just acting on a somewhat emotional fear of being watched.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

That's an email client. Do you have a email provider you like that is compatible with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Crimes of opportunity are not need based, they are want based. People take something because they want it and are unconcerned with the potential consequences of taking it. Even the cop quoted in your linked article admitted that 'Cars stolen for the purpose of committing another crime are not what's behind the majority of thefts. '

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I would say my OC at least applies to the people who get caught. Maybe not always to those who actually do the crime.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I call it virtue signaling. It's the same idea, just a clearer term for it.

Do those mythical organized thieves really exist? I think 80+% of crimes are crimes of opportunity done by vulnerable people like crackheads, mentally ill, or other low income people.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Politicians passing laws based on things they don’t understand?

aka virtue signaling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, I was referring to official forums for technical support or feature requests and the like. I don't really think that everyday people were usually the ones who setup forums, it is website operators and other techies who set those up. The people who setup an independent forum are not the same people who setup a discord community. Discord has a much lower barrier to entry that usually results in a lower quality information and moderation than a forum would.

I mean, yeah, forums are harder, for sure. $20-35 monthly for a mail provider seems to high to me; I would expect that to be about the yearly cost. But, I don't really have much experience with an email provider for that use case. Really the problem lies in that a website operator and a community maintainer are 2 very different types of people that rarely intersect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Discourse is a forum software. Maybe you are mixing it up with something else like disqus?

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