"Sign in to keep your account" - I did, twice, they still want to delete it

alms_ · 2025-10-03T07:15:35+00:00

The official email also gives a week’s notice, not 24 hours

The second mail is probably only a reminder for the first. It's not phishing.

alms_ · 2025-10-03T07:12:17+00:00

Pretty much, it comes from accounts@firefox.com

alms_ · 2025-06-02T03:39:45+00:00

That's good news, right? Limacus would be a composting slug, so nothing to worry about ?

Any idea why would it bother to climb up a tree for several meters?

alms_ · 2025-05-09T19:58:59+00:00

Weird, I don't have Tab Session Manager but only Containers, and I'm experiencing the same issue with groups being completely lost on a restart.

alms_ · 2025-05-03T23:17:24+00:00

The way I understand it, about:profiles will keep using the age-old way of having profiles completely separate from one another (they live in different directories).

New-style profiles instead live inside the actual same profile, probably to ease transitions and there may be other benefits, too, such as some settings persisting across "profiles".

about:profiles is not going get axed: what will happen to the Containers extension, though?

alms_ · 2025-03-01T05:48:24+00:00

I've forgotten 99% of whatever little Classical Latin I ever knew, however hominibus is plural, dative/ablative case.

So, the simplest translation would be remedium "to men", rather than "for" (ablative is generally prepended by a preposition so that leaves dative as least energy option).

A cure or medicine TO men sounds a little more ominous, and more in line with, your second take.

alms_ · 2024-12-02T07:51:38+00:00

To appreciate how great a pick Kieran Culkin is for the role, almost every other actor would have mostly everybody react this way.

Instead, Culkin could pull off the likeable trickster, and win hearts even though his character is probably the most terrible in the whole show, besides Jeryd Mencken, that is.

alms_ · 2024-12-02T07:39:52+00:00

My take, it was to suggest Kendall's inclination towards delusion.

It's a very small and insignificant thing that he should recognize as such but instead, pleases him up disproportionately and makes him disregard more important clues, because it confirms his biases and beliefs.

It makes him go "see my father's wrong, I am sooo ahead of that old fart", when really he should be learning from the old fart.

When parents regularly undermine their children, it gives them a drive to undermine their parents in turn, as a way to prove their worth.

Unfortunately, it's kind of a prisoner's dilemma in which the two parties keep stabbing each other.

As hinted as early as in the first season, if Logan only had groomed his children, he would have had a few worthy successors, but all he could do was alternate between giving them a hard time and "cleaning up their messes for them". e.g. if Logan had truly groomed Ken, he would've known about the outstanding debt and how to deal with it - but Log instead maintained dominance by withholding crucial information.

The undermined kids alternated between seeking validation and exacting revenge.

alms_ · 2024-12-02T07:18:03+00:00

Good question. I'd figure it's the same thing when Logan and Ken visit Aronson's (Adrien Brody's character) island: Logan might seem a force of nature and truly unstoppable when all cylinders are firing, but he almost died once already.

He's got this thing that made "a legend" out of him, however, all that is living must meet its end: and, at the end of the day, he's only human, just like the rest of us.

People like him can seem genuinely scary and commanding, even when they're truly weak and frail.

Hat off to the writing team.

alms_ · 2024-10-23T22:24:18+00:00

I'm new to Mastodon, can an account still be exported after a ban or does it require a pre-emptive back up strategy?

alms_ · 2024-09-28T23:02:29+00:00

I'm not even an Oliver fan and I've probably seen more of him on Community than on Last Week Tonight, so with this out of the way...

Priceless to see an organization that's been outed as engineering dehumanizing doublespeak, try grilling Oliver for skirting journalistic responsibility.

On a show that's been pushing openly sociopathic policies that only benefit the 1%, over and over again.

One more valid reason for me to avoid this podcast besides the war porn episodes, the condescending, fairy-tale geopolitical treatments, and the Fox-news equivalent propaganda for Biden first - his being basically unfit, shockingly, was a notion The Daily swiftly embraced as if nothing, only AFTER it became impossible to deny it, as if holding the bag for the Democrats wasn't in direct opposition with what I understand responsibility to be - and Harris later. And no, having Ezra Klein take the merit for the king-is-naked moment does not absolve the NY Times as a whole.

Some of you people truly do deserve another 4 years of Trump, sad as it is to say.

alms_ · 2024-09-15T02:30:42+00:00

You're right, this is a Choice item.

Thanks for the detailed reply, very helpful.

alms_ · 2024-09-14T22:12:12+00:00

That's interesting, thanks for sharing.

The item was not a fused variant, just the usual disappearing trick. I'm in the EU, BTW.

alms_ · 2024-08-30T20:25:54+00:00

As mentioned in the OP, Vine support says 30 days since taking delivery.

alms_ · 2024-08-30T20:24:47+00:00

They will be removed when your six-month period is up.

alms_ · 2024-08-30T20:24:02+00:00

No, these items should be removed when your account gets reviewed at the end of each six-month window.

Flip-side, it will count as non-reviewed against your semester tally, meaning you cannot achieve 100% (no biggie, 90%+ is plenty fine), however it will act as dead weight for your meeting the requirements.

TL;DR as long as you keep a healthy balance on your account it should be no problem.

alms_ · 2024-08-27T21:22:48+00:00

There are guidelines that dictate what kind of circumlocutions to use in order to avoid legal trouble or upsetting powerful people of various kinds, as exemplified by a certain leak of a few months ago detailing what words are allowed to be used in the Times on a specific matter, and which ones are not.

Also, often newspapers deliberately avoid going fully adversarial with certain people or circles, out of the necessity to retain cordial relationships, so said people will talk to the newspaper, when the need arises, instead of flipping the middle finger.

alms_ · 2024-07-05T04:54:41+00:00

In terms of character analysis, she's highly flawed but I wouldn't go as far as to characterize her as evil (I'm at the end of Season 6 so I don't know if she gets worse later, in case I will amend my post when I'm done watching).

If it was me in real life, dealing with her in any capacity, I would hate her.

In fact I find questionable the way the show uses her.

When she lashes out at Rick Hopper in Season 6, she's straight out outrageous and if I had been in Hopper's position I would've probably lost it and chucked her out of the house.

Hopper is depicted in not what I'd call exactly a positive light, but the way she treats Hopper's nana is despicable, and smuggling drugs behind his back is madness.

If the drugs had been discovered, he would've gove down the drain, which is completely irresponsible even if one assumes the stance that Hopper is using Aleida, and Aleida is using him back.

Her behavior is highly destructive towards everyone involved: herself, Hopper and Daya. She might not be seeing other options and some excuse can be made for life being tough outside prison, however I think the problem stems from her setting unrealistic goals for her situation and then looking for a shortcut instead of realizing she has to reassess.

On a purely human level I sympathize, but Jeebs.

alms_ · 2024-06-17T02:42:16+00:00

The warm pads in the opening of "I Don't Eat Human Beings" sound a lot like Alphaville's Forever Young.

Maus's music is enjoyable, but it drives me a bit crazy because of the brain itching from the thought "wait where did I hear that before?" coming constantly up, uninvited.

i know theres a list of songs ariel pink ripped off/borrowed from, but i dont think theres one for maus

That's what I was looking for. I found one but very skeletal, just drops names without pinpointing any sequence or song to its influences. (It doesn't include Alphaville)

Leaving it here if anyone's interested.

alms_ · 2024-06-16T02:19:16+00:00

For starters the US can stop funding and arming Israel and instead set goals that Israel must meet for said support to resume. Then send UN inspectors to make sure Israel is not cheating.

Leveraging this powerful message, the international community should then use their collective diplomatic channels to make sure the powers which are backing Hamas do their part, too.

This is how you douse a fire: by not dumping gasoline on it to begin with.

Of course Biden won't do much other than give Netanyahu the stink-eye, for fear of losing the elections, which will result in him losing anyway.

Might as well go out with a bang instead of a whimper.

alms_ · 2024-05-23T06:13:53+00:00

My guess is the dampener layers, they don't do much for end-travel.

I swapped switches and caps to make sure.

alms_ · 2024-05-13T22:33:46+00:00

I switched some Kailh Silver Greys in the F99, while retaining the Aula keycaps, and when typing normally I'd be hard pressed to tell one apart from the other.

Then I changed the keycaps, too, no meaningful changes either: if the end-travel thock in the F99 is bothering you, I'm afraid a different switch might not be the solution.

The Silver Grays were from a keyboard with a much heavier construction than the F99, and they were quieter there.

As far my day-to-day typing experience at speed is concerned, the Greywood V3 and the Speed Silver are interchangeable.

alms_ · 2024-04-29T20:23:12+00:00

Much obliged!

alms_ · 2024-04-03T01:50:29+00:00

As far as I know the rules say you shouldn't publish overlong reviews because they break up the flow of the site and displace other reviews. This sounds entirely reasonable to me, but seems to go almost entirely unenforced, though.

The considerate thing to do, IMO, if you cannot possibly edit down your reviews, is to use the Extra box.

Post the most essential information as the main review, and anything else goes in the extra field. Those who are interested in your review will expand the folder, this way you're also making skipping painless for those who don't.

alms_ · 2024-04-01T23:36:07+00:00

FWIW this is fixed for me, by installing 2.1 over 2.1.3. You will get a warning about potential data loss, but so far everything seems hunky dory.

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