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Netanyahu: Iran regime change will come a ‘lot sooner than people think’
  • He cannot seriously believe the things he is saying.

    And I cannot imagine someone having the absolute gall to make an international address and blatantly lie to the face of every person around the world.

  • Israel: Settler group advertises new properties in southern Lebanon
  • If an Israeli shows up in Lebanon and says "mine now", Israel will back that claim.

    It's delirious dreams of crazy people, yes, but those people have a lot of guns and other materiel from the US and other countries.

  • Anyone Else been following the countdown at blackmesa.com?
  • Prior to Nov 2022, the domain just had a spam page. After that, it just had this: https://web.archive.org/web/20221105002601/https://blackmesa.com/

    And it was like that until recently.

    The Black Mesa team has support from Valve, but I don't think they're actually employees or anything.

    Edit: yeah the more I look into this, the more certain I am that it's an ARG.

    Wait.

    Black Mesa Technology, Inc. is a real, registered company in the state of Massachusetts: https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=_HQ3ku.qlnLpl8nUgbgbwS_ZHmpGWTQOFgh1PxfQUAs-

    Current business address is 9 Alfred Cir, Bedford, MA 01730. Google Maps has that as Lexington Alarm Systems, but their site says they moved out of that building in Jan 2019, which somewhat lines up with Black Mesa turning up.

    Maybe they really are a real company? But if they are, they're doing a real good job of making it look like they're not. Maybe for free advertising.

  • Anyone Else been following the countdown at blackmesa.com?
  • It's definitely a marketing campaign. The logo is literally the Black Mesa logo, and it has a picture of a headcrab on a scientist. I guess the team is releasing a new campaign or something.

  • Pixel 8 Says "Charging on hold" while not plugged in.
  • That quote doesn't support what you're saying. The page that screen links to, however, says this:

    Adaptive Charging may turn on to charge to 100% one hour before you unplug

    https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7106961?visit_id=638632664567131340-1406770578&p=adaptive_charging&rd=1#adaptive_charging

    So maybe it does. Unfortunately Android doesn't chart battery level while charging. I just plugged mine in and adaptive charging turned on, and Ampere shows about 1.5 A, so not trickle charging.

    It would be nice if Google actually stated what it does.

  • This post crashes Boost when you see it in the post list

    Link to post: https://lemmy.world/post/19274834

    If you tap that link in Boost it'll probably crash, so don't do it unless you're okay with that.

    I'm guessing the problem is that the post URL is a magnet link.

    Edit: oh yeah, to work around, you'll have to open it in a browser and hide it.

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    Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot?

    I got banned earlier today with the message "rule 1", no other information about why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one, which just says "We want the bot gone. That’s it. It’s really that simple."

    So I checked the modlog for other bans, and @aniki@lemmings.world was banned today as well, also just for "rule 1", probably either for the comment saying "a stupid bot writing useless bullshit" or "This is what you call "Not listening to criticism."", neither of which are an attack on any person.

    (Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca was banned with the message "fuck off", which I'm pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but doesn't appear to be related to the MBFC bot.)

    One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee was banned, again just "rule 1", last comment being this one, again not an attack on any person.

    So what's the deal here? I couldn't find any rules for mods on lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?

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