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- Submitted 16 hours ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 1 day ago:
Try talking in them anyway, maybe something general that you can crosspost to all of them at first. I had luck with talking into eternally silent Elite: Dangerous communities.
The beauty of a place without algorithmic feed is that things can surface way more easily.
Also, I wanted to use the Public API calculate a recent activity/users ratio to identify the silent communities that would be more worth interacting with.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 days ago:
I collect all the stars since GTA III.
I also play everything on Easy because I have a life.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 4 days ago:
Show this to Varoufakis.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 1 week ago:
Good enough. Now tell me where it is made and you can call it perfect.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 weeks ago:
Oh well, Augustus was probably bisexual as well, rumored to be a bottom (which was the only thing Romans kind of picked up on) and he was well-known for his serial adultery, although I guess Markie would see this as something cool, while Augustus actually wrote laws against this behavior himself.
- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 2 weeks ago:
I just passed by the settings page and requested all my data. When I receive it, I will delete the account which, according to their full privacy statement, requires them to discard my sample, delete my data AND opt me out of 23andMe Research.
- Comment on How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis. 2 weeks ago:
What I could easily see happening is that if that particular subset of users is demonstrated to be high spending, or if the AI wrapper products that appeal to them are going to prove to be, then this result, no matter the direction of the correlation, is going to be disregarded.
- Comment on Schedule I, a first person drug empire management game, released in early access on Steam (demo available) 2 weeks ago:
I want Steve Levitt to stream himself playing this!
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 weeks ago:
Gaius Julius Caesar, most probably bisexual as widely accepted in Roman society, rumored to have been having an affair with the King of Bithynia and affected by mini-strokes or epilepsy.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 weeks ago:
I bet that if you tell Markie that Caesar was a probably bisexual man affected by mini-strokes and/or epilepsy, he would make those t-shirts disappear in a minute.
Ignorance is bliss.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
Crossing my fingers for Ladybird to be that browser.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
I am not sure about that within US Law, but given what it usually sums up to, yes, it is a risk, which would make things even faster, possibly.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 2 weeks ago:
I guess this is what the first iteration of the Blackwall looks like.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
That’s when we come onto the scene.
I am continuously “translating” news and opinions from here on LinkedIn. Already got banned from a professional Slack that contains most people in my industry for saying in a private conversation that I like watermelon.
Not gonna stop. People are not politically inclined because we kept our knowledge to ourselves for too long.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
Well, you could dismantle it. I also don’t know if in such a sale all product-related patents follow.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
Selling it means receiving money for it. Mozilla without Google support, which at that point would be lacking, wouldn’t have the means.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
I guess for Trump they look shiny themselves, while the Google guy looks somehow not white nor orange enough.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 weeks ago:
I must say that, as a European using a Firefox fork for my daily browsing while waiting for Ladybird, I don’t see that outcome as completely negative: Google, somehow, in America has kept a completely unjustified good vibes feeling surrounding itself. while Thiel is much more evil in the public eye.
If Chrome is associated with him in anyway it can become a more lucid image of itself.
- Comment on John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in 2 weeks ago:
Starting to sound like a new season of Silicon Valley.
- Comment on Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives 2 weeks ago:
What I always miss in these lists is an alternative to Slack, which I also think would be one of the most important to get right since:
- Slack is used in companies and to transfer operational information, therefore contains both HR (personal) data and sensitive business data
- Slack generates a lot of data now used to train LLMs and other ML applications
- Slack is seen as a must-have in most companies and it gets in at an affordable price point which still could be lowered by an EU solution.
I have looked into Whaller, but would still prefer an EU-made open-source version of something like Mattermost.
- Comment on ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer. 2 weeks ago:
Despite what others are saying there is indeed an inaccuracy in calling this a privacy complaint. A lot of people outside of the EU conflate privacy with data protection, but they are not the same and GDPR does not concern with privacy but exclusively with personal data protection.
Accuracy, availability and governance of personal data are indeed important criteria for data protection, and this is what this is about.
Regarding people making shit up, if they make such things public, GDPR governs those just as much, while still referring to the normal legislation for the charges for slander.
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 3 weeks ago:
As an ex-biologist, I think this is just down to a choice of words: as a society, you could see Nature as an enemy.
Man, even as an individual, or even a monocellular organism, you could argue that entropy is your enemy.
If an enemy is a useful concept for maximizing potential within your scope of choice, then be it.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 weeks ago:
I think his worth is mostly attached to Tesla stocks still.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 5 weeks ago:
Zen browser is my daily browser since many months now. Most of your fair criticisms I have solved with Zen Mods and playing around in the settings.
The Widewine limitation is really why I will always keep another browser to fall back to: I recently discovered that all of Udemy is non-playable in Zen.
- Comment on Meow 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but toxoplasmosis is still potentially there with a cat and there other ways to get your immune system debilitated. It’s the reason why the image of cat ladies developed.
- Comment on Meow 5 weeks ago:
Whenever someone suggests me the idea to let in/buy/adopt a cat, I sent them this link:
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
I run an uncensored version on my PC since weeks, there are multiple ones on HuggingFace.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Blonde, light-skinned with blue eyes? Nope.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Very nice episode about this came out lately on the 99% Invisible podcast. Here’s the link: 99percentinvisible.org/…/615-your-own-personal-je…
