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Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.

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Christian is releasing the final update for Apollo, allowing users to opt out of the refunds (mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I just released a really important Apollo update that adds the ability for users with remaining subscription time left to decline an automatic refund. Devs pay refunds out of pocket, and this will be about $250K, so I thank you for your consideration. ❤️ Also, this update includes an amazing "Goodbye Apollo...

Apollo refund screen with the following header: "Apollo will shut down on July 1, 2023 due to not being able to afford Reddit’s drastic and sudden API pricing increase. Building Apollo for you has been the dream and journey of a lifetime. Thank you. ❤️ Please consider the option below to help with my out-of-pocket refund costs. - Christian (u/iamthatis)” Then with the option to decline a refund: "If you've been happy with Apollo and don't need me to send a pro-rated refund out-of-pocket for remaining subscription time, please choose this option. I thank you.”
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A king among men. o7

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Much cheaper to break up the monopolies and change the system to prevent them forming in the first place. Subsidizing new entrants without changing the environment that creates monopolies will just feed the beasts with fresh meat.

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It seems like a very nice ferry, the Wolfe Island ferry.

Nice pic.

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This doesn’t bother me. If a Shopify vendor is pulling down enough money to be taxable, it should be in the CRA’s data ingest for verification.

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Excellent step in the right direction.

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Reddit has shitposting, we have … whatever this is.

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Can you split it into a few smaller files? That is honestly too large for any spreadsheet.

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I just wish their hours were better, the one in downtown Vancouver is far and I work when it's open. If they had more roaming units, say at workplaces, or better hours, I'd donate far more.

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Or, they aren't actually a problem and they are trying to convince us to waste resources on them with misdirection.

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I think some of the recalcitrance came from there being very little between Arbutus and UBC, so customers served per kilometre wasn't high, that the vast majority of traffic served by the 99 B-Line went away after that point.

New developments in Point Grey could very much change that equation, plus, a new city council means a fresh look at the question every so often.

I am hopeful.

It sounds like it'll be a really nice place to retire when it's built in 20 years. :P

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Apparently the development has "90% less parking than is stipulated by Vancouver by-laws" which is bloody fantastic for the house pricing. Having to build underground parking supposedly adds $100+k per home cost for a condo tower.

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I think this is one of those cases where we have to build out the infrastructure in order to remove future friction.

Corey Doctorow (I think) observed in a recent post that companies going public need "hockey stick" growth to impress investors. If they don't see instant and dramatic success, they're basically a failure and the money goes elsewhere to find better opportunities. Open systems don't need that - we can survive on forage for much longer, waiting for an opportunity to access organic growth.

Reddit survived like that for a long time when Digg and Livejournal were dominant. Just another link-sharing service. Then (in Digg's case) they tried to monetize their users too much or (in Livejournal's case, Russian oligarchs) someone wanted the service to die, which left an opportunity.

Just existing, biding time, building out the infrastructure: those are wins. The seeds are laid, we can afford to wait for the rain.

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I'll tip if I'm given any kind of service above and beyond "handing me stuff at the counter". So if I walk up to a counter, order, pay, then receive order: no tip. Otherwise, 10-20% depending on service level.

If they ask for more than 20% they're capped at 15% and I'm going to judge them silently.

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I quite like testing, I agree that for desktop use it's fantastic, but stable has been a real balm when it comes to servers. I don't need the latest bleeding-edge Apache or w/e, I need solidity.

I expect if I were running a computer lab or something, I'd also run stable, just because in large numbers, small problems become big problems.

Do the rules of your home instance apply when posting to a different instance?

I'm new to the Fediverse and I'm still trying to understand how this all works. While browsing the All/Federated home page, I saw some posts which seemed to be pornographic. It got me thinking about the rules of Lemmy instances. Lemmy.ca has a "no porn" rule. Hypothetically, if I were to use my Lemmy.ca account to post porn on...

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If I were running a server, and I saw one of my users behaving poorly elsewhere, I would absolutely consider their behaviour fair game for a ban. It would depend on the behaviour. Someone posting on a porn forum somewhere, meh. Someone posting about how [ethnicity] should all die in a fire, welllll, yeah, I don't want that person. Find somewhere else to be.

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I have just created one for SFU: !sfu

A university instance may come eventually, but I have approximately zero expectation of that ever happening.

I've also contacted the mods of the Reddit community and invited them to moderate or take it over.

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