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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself.

    Do you actually know & speak to people in El Salvador? Pretty much everyone I know there (family/friends) are ecstatic that there are no more gang members running around unchecked. The country is safer now then it has been in years.

    Nothing is perfect of course, poverty is still a major issue, but not having to deal with gang members every time you ride the bus, go out shopping, even just drive around, it’s a huge deal over there.

    Sure I get what you’re saying but for most people there it’s been a positive development.

    But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.

    True… to be honest I suspect those people are imprisoned for life. No one expects gang members to be let out of prison while Bukele is still running the country, that’s going to be something that gets revisited when/if he’s out of office. It’s a massive human rights issue but at least for now the majority of Salvadorans consider it a net positive.

    The funny thing is that this article is about bitcoin & most Salvadorans don’t particularly care about that at all, it’s just kind of a headline that isn’t going to win/lose Bukele any support in the short term at least.




  • The one I was at just gathered everyone together to let them know layoffs were coming. I was also part of the tech support for the office so I stayed a bit longer to help them wind down systems, wipe hard drives, that sort of thing. The owners were pretty nice/upfront about the whole thing, basically gave everyone something like 2-3 month’s pay upfront & told everyone the business is winding down.

    The owners did try to find a buyer for the tech & maybe break even or recoup some losses but that didn’t pan out. AFAIK the investors just took it as a loss, it’s a startup and sometimes startups fail.

    We weren’t in fancy offices or anything like you see in movies & whatnot, it was more like working in an industrial warehouse converted for office use. Like the kind of building that doesn’t provide hot water unless you install water heaters yourself, no central AC, that sort of thing. We had one final party & trashed the space on the way out LOL. I think they just walked away from the lease, it’s not like there was any $$ coming in to pay it anymore.

    In the last few months after moving out a few remaining people (the owners, tech support, etc.) worked from within the investment group’s own offices (they gave us a spare room to work in). Mostly to deal with the old systems/hard drives & prep the existing data in case the owners found a buyer.


  • Admins yes. But maybe regular users should avoid Lemmy’s 2FA implementation for now (unless they have lots of experience with this).

    With the current implementation it’s way too easy for an average user to attempt to get this set up & get themselves locked out of their own Lemmy account.

    • Lemmy doesn’t display a QR code like every other website/app using 2FA
    • Lemmy doesn’t force the user to successfully test that the 2FA is working before saving the changes
    • Lemmy doesn’t give the user any backup codes, unclear what the procedure is if you don’t have a backup code, lose your 2FA device and need to reset
    • Lemmy’s 2FA implementation is SHA256, not all 2FA apps support that (e.g. I tried adding this to both Google Authenticator and andOTP and came out with 2 different 2FA codes, maybe because Google’s app doesn’t support SHA256)

    In the end I got nervous & was unsure which if any of my apps were working with Lemmy’s 2FA so disabled it for now. It’ll get better in a future update, just saying be careful going through the current setup.