[–] 3 points 55 minutes ago

I can't say why people are using czar specifically but people have been called the "lord of X" or "Y king" practically forever without being literal kings or lords. It's just an emphatic way to say they're seen as powerful within a given space, it's not a claim that they're literally a Russian ruler.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You haven't raised any concerns, what exactly did you expect people to address? Literally the only thing you did was whine about people having a different opinion and strongly suggesting your view is the only "sensible" one. There's nothing to discuss there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    This new regulation protects the victim since they'd no longer have to get that information, they can get compensated directly from the owning company. The company can then presumably try to claim damages from the rider, I'm betting there'll be a clause you agree to when renting which says you'll have to pay up, but the victim doesn't have to worry about any of that.

    From the article it seems like they're more focused on damage caused by leaving the scooters in dangerous places anyway, in those cases it's much harder to identify who caused it. Making sure victims don't have to wait around for that investigation seems reasonable, that could take a while if the owners aren't liable since they won't really care. It might even encourage the company to make sure their scooters are always stowed safely. Probably not, but it's nice to be optimistic sometimes.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you're living somewhere with hard water you're probably already used to the kind of issues you'll have, mineral deposits will build up over time and make it less efficient so you'll need to clean it regularly. I can't imagine vinegar would cause any damage but you should probably check the manual first, there could be maintenance instructions in there.

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  • submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/meta@programming.dev
     

    Not sure exactly how long this has been happening, but it's been bugging me for the last week at least.

    Running Firefox 129.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint, it seems like the login session is just constantly expiring. Every time I boot up my machine the first time I open programming.dev I have to sign in again. Closing all programming.dev tabs and navigating back to programming.dev without closing Firefox seems to always preserve the session and not require a new sign-in.

    Closing all Firefox windows then opening Firefox and navigationg to programming.dev is a semi-reliable way to reproduce, about 75% of the time it requires a new sign-in even when I'd signed in less then a minute ago before closing the window. Further testing shortly before submitting this post and those steps no longer reproduce the issue, I'm signed in even after closing the window. Maybe it's a recurring transient issue with login service?

    Potentially relevant add-ons are UBlock Origin (0 blocks, shouldn't be an issue) and Privacy Badger (also 0 trackers blocked). I'm connected through VPN, but the issue seems to appear regardless of whether I stay on the same VPN server or switch servers. Firefox reports Content-Security-Policy issues but these seem unrelated and also appear when the session is successfully preserved.

    Possibly helpful, occasionally when I open programming.dev I'll see it's signed out then automatically signs in after a second or so; this might have been a known Lemmy issue at some point with delayed authentication as a (now insufficient) solution. A good chance that's a dead-end, might be worth checking anyway.

    Edit: It's worth noting that I'm also signed in via the android Jerboa app on another device and don't get signed out there. This could definitely be relevant if it turns out the Jerboa session somehow interferes with the Firefox session.

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