Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

@nrcha idk, it's not in the list of my subscriptions, but I think that I got tricked by the #UI.

To cancel subscription one needs to click four times:

"Cancel -> Cancel anyway -> Continue cancelling -> Complete cancellation"

The fourth step shows a screen where they present alternative subscription modes.

What I think has happened is that after I clicked "cancel anyway" and then "continue cancelling", I just assumed that it's cancelled because I got presented with options to what I thought was to resubscribe.

It still qualifies as a confidence trick, there is no doubt that they measure the amount of failed cancellations and optimise UX to maximise this metric. Hence "scam".

I cancelled my #Audible subscription in December. Just now I got billed by #Amazon. They want me to delete my whole account and thus lose access to downloads, but I won't do it, instead I'm disputing the charge with my bank as scam (which it is).

@SnowshadowII also when one fires all the non-compliant people from intelligence services there are a couple of things that follow immediately:

1. the average competence of the service reduces as competence is often (but not always) is concentrated in those who speak up
2. small number of ex-operatives defect or start spying against the state

Both well studied and understood by learning the history of kgb.

In result, your grim take is only more probable.

ruski петя is killing my friends, евакуація
american matt is building Guantanamo-Auschwitz
both of them have their names oh so christian
varbūt tā sanāks, ka mēs karosim biškīņ

@fixiemama that's fair, my demo was more of a rant against google being garbage. :)

Thank you for telling more about Aaron, I have been unfair to him. Perhaps he (just like I) simply doesn't care about #Linkedin anymore.

If anything, this conversation has increased my follower list by a bunch of nice and wholesome people ❤️

@fixiemama I won't sink much more time into this, but it seems like the guy is very-very washed – https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-rupar-0b56071

It's ok to have no job since 2021 on principle, but he flexes his work with #Vox, which, no doubt was great (I didn't check)! It just screams "washed" to me.

Also, and I can't stress that enough, if you are fighting for a cause and make a claim, attach a source. "A journalist" is not a source (even when they actually are a professional journalist, which is a stretch in this case).

Mind you, "a newspaper" is also not a source, nor a link to an article in one which doesn't mention sources.

Anyway, seems like we're on the same page, except I am not sold on the whole troll label. Just an unpleasant man with whom I would prefer not to be in the same room.

Still, none of this is a good look for the cause.

P. S.

1. Brief Search, Latvia
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vq5qUOFQhrk
2. Brief Search, UK
https://youtube.com/shorts/_IgV71BGCXc

@SnowshadowII I saw already! 🙇

@SnowshadowII ❤️ you're wise and kind

@isabel lfgggg

@SnowshadowII I kid you not, in good faith, I couldn't find the source in a brief search. Maybe because I'm stupid, idk.

But importantly, I think it's not only ok to assume disinfo, but advised to, while getting engaged with extreme claims *even about the nazis*. That's actually what is different between us and them – we are mostly making judgments based on evidence.

Also, let's be real, even practically, the burden of proof (or evidence provision) is on the person who makes a claim. In fact, I find it disrespectful when people post sensationalist stuff with hearsay sources. Not quite irritating. What I find irritating is when someone chooses a quote or a part of conversation they had irl, rephrases it in their own words (ad absurdum) and then toots a straw-man around it. I normally ask for details in such cases and unfollow if they don't provide them (because I respect my time).

But even if I'm insulted, I wouldn't use the words the guy used. But let's conclude this, I think we just have different thresholds for different kinds of social interactions.

I'm also Latvian – pleasantries weren't invented in my country when I was growing up. We're polite but often very direct. 🤷

@CStamp ok, ending with Cpt. Hastings cosplay...

Did you know that a lot of screenplays for #ITV #Poirot were written by Anthony #Horowitz? Later on he wrote Moonflower Murders, a novel in a novel, which features a character named Atticus Pund, whom it is impossible not to "read" as Hercules Poirot.

Actually, everything by Horowitz is a banger after banger.

@CStamp good lord!

@CStamp I say, I've just closed the second book. It is, indeed, about time. It sort of doesn't compute that it was written in 201x, so colonial it feels (if lighthearted). 🙃

I actually think, I'll continue with the Marlow series after this one, if I'm to return to the author...

@darkling NO

WAY

OMG

@SnowshadowII idk, I hope the guy actually insulted someone first, because in my mastodon client it shows only roughly four toots as I described. Last job of the source I've been able to verify was an editor at Vox in 2021... I wouldn't ever use the horrible language that guy used, I don't like him, I like you, but this, again, from the toots I see, is a weird look. 🌜

@SnowshadowII what happened? I only see the toot where he asks for a source, then gets called "stupid" and lashes out. ("via Name Surname" is not a source; posting disinformation even for our cause is actually detrimental to our cause source: John Oliver 😂).

But I may be missing something! I hope I do.

@botahamec I mean, the person you discuss doesn't know how to behave and is toxic and antagonistic, but my point is that it's not an argument for or against Rust. Also, and I may be wrong, CoC should protect people, especially vulnerable. I may be wrong, but this seems like a beef between maintainers at the perimiter of subsystems.

@Xhuul #NixOS is #Archlinux done principally right.