avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on wax on 2 days ago:
U & me both
- Comment on Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms 2 days ago:
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 days ago:
I think the very first step to building resiliency is to sign up for Proton’s cloud services. That will give you access to mail, both from Gmail via forwarding and a new inbox with a separate address. You’d also get a password manager and cloud storage. From there you can start self-hosting alternatives. Probably start with Immich as Google Photos is a big deal and it takes a ton of storage. Proton is a Swiss non-profit so the probability for enshitification is not nearly as high as with Google.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 3 days ago:
To the surprise of no one here. This is the first thing I think of when a system wants me to upload an ID.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s not about our quibbling, we know what’s up. We could use this vid as a great piece of propaganda to educate others if it showed the same month.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Would be even more impactful then if it’s the same month.
- Comment on Mastodon: Our ideas about Packs 5 days ago:
Bluesky pioneered a brilliant solution to this “empty feed problem” in 2024, with the introduction of “Starter Packs”, a feature that allows users to curate and share their own collections of recommended accounts.
Bluesky pioneered, eh? I distinctly remember using a feature called “circles” on Google+ back in 2011. It allowed people to create arbitrary “circles” of people, share them and have others bulk-follow/unfollow the people from a circle. It worked incredibly well and Google+ became a lively social network even with its small userbase at the time.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 5 days ago:
Not quite. Paralegal and juniors in software are two off the top of my head that are here and affected. Maybe the nums are too small to register.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 1 week ago:
The same mechanisms that limit it on Kijiji and Craigslist, plus community labour by mods I imagine.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 1 week ago:
See, there are no innocent people in Gaza! /s
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
Missing /s?
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 week ago:
This is incredible.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
GTMO
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 2 weeks ago:
The Android app finally works the way you’d expect it. The UI no longer lags due to syncing. Syncing is much faster and more reliable.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
Buy generic acetaminophen.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think many here give a flying fuck what the fascists think. We’re just laughing at them.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
Err, the Epstein list hullaballoo came from the republicans. They wanted them released. They campaigned on the promise of releasing them.
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- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe servo didn’t mourn the fascist Charlie Kirk enough: This is Ladybird’s Creator.
Oh boy. Yeah, that’s pretty clear. Anyone putting Kirk in a positive position as a genuine debater of ideas has crossed the rubicon.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 2 weeks ago:
How bout use the increase in worker productivity to provide for the retired population?
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 2 weeks ago:
You might be right.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Verified here wirh “us states with letter d”
- Comment on emergency remote access 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a very well done vid that mom and pop can understand.
