avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 24 minutes ago:
You might be right.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 54 minutes ago:
Perhaps Servo isn’t apolitical enough. 🥹
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 3 days ago:
Even if they were to use a single cloud for the mabaged instances, this is not at all like the centralization of platform ownership. Here’s the critical difference.
If something happens to Twitter, say a methhead buys it and turns it into a propaganda machine, its users can only stop using it and/or move elsewhere. For this to have a significant effect, the whole network of people has to move. Every individual has to do non-trivial amount of labour to do so.
If something happens to the cloud provider hosting some sizeable Mastodon server, the owner of the server can migrate the instance to another cloud provider, or their own hardware, switch the DNS records and their users would only notice a brief interruptin. There’s no labour needed by the users. Only a much smaller amoubt of labour by the instance owner.
And that’s the critical difference.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 3 days ago:
Mastodon has already been exploring this solution ahead of today’s launch by partnering with clients like the European Commission, the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, the city of Blois in France, and AltStore, a software company making an alternative app store.
Great idea!
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 3 days ago:
There are reports of people noticing it two years ago.
- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 5 days ago:
The oligarch propaganda machine is preparing to shift into high gear. Larry’s son bought CBS and is slated to install Bari Weiss as their news boss. Saw a headline about him also eye a purchase of CNN. Keep all of this in mind in the months and years to come when you see material from there.
- Comment on “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal 5 days ago:
Frankly at this point I think I would rather have China have control over the data and algorithm than Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz.
Ars Technica’s comment section is getting radicalized.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Verified here wirh “us states with letter d”
- Comment on emergency remote access 1 week ago:
0 4 * * * /usr/sbin/reboot
Adjust interval as needed.
- Comment on We Investigated Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s Scarier Than You Think - More Perfect Union 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a very well done vid that mom and pop can understand.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Video] Billionaires gather to praise Trump 2 weeks ago:
You think the CIA isn’t onboard?
- Comment on Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant 2 weeks ago:
This article makes no sense in supporting the thesis.
- Comment on Gotta Smash 3 weeks ago:
An entirely theoretical experiment since in reality they rarey collide. 😄
- Comment on Pi NAS for multi-location backups 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm, have done it this way for years.
- Comment on Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use 3 weeks ago:
And there’s often useful perspectives shared there, even if not always agreeable.
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 3 weeks ago:
This is so true. 😄
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 3 weeks ago:
Oligarchs are unified by their pursuit for profit, not by Russia. The Heritage Foundation that peddles these ideas did not emerge from Russian interference in 2016. Neither did Fox. Neither did the Chicago School of Economics. This has been going on for a lot longer than the last decade. The pushback started as a result of FDR’s redistribution policies that cut US oligarch wealth in the aftermath of the Great Depression. First slowly, then more quickly.
And your “only way out of this” – why you don’t you tell me in small steps exactly how that happens. Lets hear it.
Campaign, donate and vote for “far-left” D candidates at every gov’t level - like AOC, Zohran, etc. Campaign, donate and vote for “far-left” independent candidatss where there’s no such candidates in that district. Join a union. Join a local socialist org. Eventually you’d tilt the balance of power in various gov’t institutions. Whenever you do that, you tax the rich to death. But that goes without saying cause every “fat-left” candidate has that on their agenda.
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 3 weeks ago:
The thinking that any of the current fallout in the US is foreign-led is not giving any good explanations for the reality we observe and therefore procides no good solutions. What you’re observing is primarily driven by the oligarch class in the US finding new ways to extract profit. That drives everything. It drives Fox, it drives the Heritage Foundation, it drives turning both parties in oligarch-serving machines. Feeding this machine with resources from the outside is a bad idea since most of those resources would be captured by the oligatchs. The only way out of this is to get an internal populist left movement to curb their power, reposses most of their resources and redestribute them to the masses.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 weeks ago:
You never buy an individual firm stock unless you have insider knowledge.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 3 weeks ago:
One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel.
Of course they’d use the anti-Israel crutch.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 weeks ago:
You should be getting triple pay to ameliorate the hazard risk it represents.
That’s something a union can help with. Most compensation above poverty wages have been won by unioms at one point or another. Most of them a long ago and we’ve been regressing for a few decades.
- Comment on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification 3 weeks ago:
Many APIs Android apps can use are unavailable to PWAs. Also PWAs typically require server infrastructure to at least load once. The author of my favourite open source unit conversion calculator shouldn’t need to maintain a server so I can use their app.
But yeah, for use cases that require a server anyways and don’t need elaborate mobile APIs, PWAs are probably the way to go.
- Comment on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification 3 weeks ago:
It’s nice to hear from Mark Murphy on this. He’s a legend.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
Yup, makes sense. You do it in the beginning and then you forget about it. Until you change a phone. 😊
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a dev option at the moment. It’s a permission setting and it doesn’t require enabling developer options.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
OK, this sounds problematic. I don’t see any obvious language for opting out and it doesn’t seem there’s intent to opt out. There’s probably going to be a dev option to allow it but that would probably still make installing from sources like F-Droid impractical.
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this problem should be solved via some form of federation within Jellyfin, but if Jellyswarm works well enough… I’m not gonna make a fuss.
- Comment on Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit for PC Video Review 4 weeks ago:
Playing NFS III, split-screen on a Pentium MMX beige box from Taiwan…
- Comment on AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’ 4 weeks ago:
THX-1138
Gotta watch this film again.
