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- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
I understand but I think we call pride also the sense of belonging to a chain of individuals that achieved growth of knowledge, rights, scientific discoveries and engineering results.
It is a meaning of the word that would easily lend itself to manipulation but also one that allowed individuals to contribute and to stand on the shoulders of giants.
In that sense, the highest level one would easily be being human.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
You should be proud to be human.
Not to be born within some imaginary line drawn on a map, in an area that later got “cleaned” as much as possible of everyone else not speaking the same language or worshipping the same god.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 6 days ago:
I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.
Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.
The “bodega romanticism” is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of “bodegas” actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
No, by real AI I meant what we already had before and that now is “disregarded” as machine learning algorithms.
I know it is not the correct technical definition, but AI is mostly a marketing term anyway.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
This is a very good point. I never had the discussion whether real AI, not transformer-based chatbots, would be a boon or a bane for human workers. I mean, we should already have data about it.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 1 week ago:
ChatControl would be going after all messages of all users by default. And CSAM is the excuse.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 2 weeks ago:
ChatControl is pushed with the excuse of CSAM. If that was a true concern of the proponents, we would have a push towards stronger and faster enforcement of the DMA and in particular of X. Instead, nothing.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 2 weeks ago:
And there is our main argument against the ChatControl.
- Comment on Moats are back! 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Wedlock. Little perfect movie with Rutger Hauer.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That is simply not true. There are lots of both French restaurants and French bistros. Have they disappeared since the G.W. Bush “Liberty fries” boutade in the US?
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 5 weeks ago:
One seahorse emoji a day.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 5 weeks ago:
I never understood why Remedy got publicly traded.
- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 1 month ago:
Slavov Zizek is named… In the How To Academy newsletter Epstein has subscribed to.
And yet I checked Slovenian media and they are writing that he “is in the files”.
What a disgrace.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
I have GrapheneOS and use banking apps and tap-to-pay on a daily basis.
I am not in the US, though.
- Comment on Can you help me adapt the Signal TLS Proxy to be used behind NPM? 1 month ago:
What do you mean by pets?
- Comment on Can you help me adapt the Signal TLS Proxy to be used behind Nginx Proxy Manager? 1 month ago:
Not annoying at all. That’s exactly what I meant by “opportunity to learn more”. I guess then I could fire up a container with nginx instead. Is there a way for me to transfer all the settings from NPM to the new container?
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- Comment on Can you help me adapt the Signal TLS Proxy to be used behind NPM? 1 month ago:
Thank you for your answer. From what I can understand, the Stream settings in NPM do not allow for the function performed by ssl_preread_server_name. That means I would have to modify things in the NPM container itself, right?
- Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 1 month ago:
We need a Hudsucker Proxy meme for this.
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 1 month ago:
Question is, is there anyone that is even suggesting to build a moderation tool for, for example, Mastodon, aimed at this specific need?
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
Strikes are organized against one’s own government on topics for which the government has skin in the game.
That’s why Italy, Germany and France see protests against the genocide of the Palestinian people: because those countries sell weapons and buy security systems from Israel.
Now tell me what exactly you think any of those governments could do against the decades long fall into fascism and plutocracy that the US is experiencing, while the same billionaires fund our own local nazi parties.
The only thing that we should keep saying is don’t touch the sick corpse.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
Depends on how much we (finally) detach from them and start acting as a world power.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
I get all of those already. Don’t need them in a general advice community.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
Tell me how I could do it from here (that is not sofa activism like “like and share”) and put THAT in a YSK.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
I am in the EU. There’s no reason why I should know this. Keep the US in the US-related communities, thanks.
- Comment on YSK: 1930s Germany used Jim Crow America as a model, which was a resurgence of Antebellum American racist policies — segregation, imprisonment, enslavement, and homicide. 1 month ago:
The scale at which it was applied, both geographically and in number of individuals, was and possibly even remains, unprecedented.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As I am now on GrapheneOS, tell me if I have it understood: this is talking about apps getting notifications when the phone is unlocked, right?
In GOS even this option is already there, but to have the notifications hidden on the lock screen I believe has been there since forever, or is it a false memory of mine?
- Comment on Since men have a longer urethra, they can experience the pleasure of urinating more intensely :< 1 month ago:
Okay doc. You didn’t even read any of my replies probably. Let’s close it here.
Thanks for teaching me a new word, although I will probably use it to describe interacting with people like you.