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- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 10 months ago:
I mean, it was more like over the course of a millennium, starting with the Roman destruction of the 2nd temple. I’m sure it picked up with the Muslim conquest, but that wasn’t the start of the diaspora.
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 10 months ago:
What’s funny?
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 10 months ago:
Seems to break along subreddit lines.
- Comment on The American mind cannot comprehend this 10 months ago:
“Lots” of American cities seems like an exaggeration.
Some American cities have certain areas which are car-free.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
I think they claimed they’re not discriminating against browsers, they’re just better at identifying adblockers on Firefox or something.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Illegal to do…what? Not offer high-res videos? To have any delay before streaming videos? To refuse to serve you videos, even if doing so caused them to lose money? How would you enforce that on Google, much less on smaller startups? Would it apply to PeerTube instances?
Google sucks for doing this. It’ll drive people to competitors–hopefully even federated competitors. But laws to ‘fix’ the problem would be nearly impossible to craft–and would be counterproductive in the long term, because they’d cement the status quo. Let Google suck, so that people switch away from it.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Well, fair. But even in that case, they have every right to degrade your YouTube experience, as owners of YouTube. As ISP (I mean, assuming NN was still a thing) they couldn’t selectively degrade traffic, but YouTube has no obligation to you under net neutrality.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Google is not an ISP. With or without net neutrality, Google could fuck with YouTube users.
- Comment on The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore 11 months ago:
There’s an important difference, though, especially with Lemmy. You used XMPP to communicate with particular people. When Google convinced, whatever, 70% of users to use Talk and then slammed the door shut, the smaller instances were no longer viable. People on those instances lost contact with their friends. They aren’t going to just chat with whoever else happened to be left outside the walls.
But I don’t look for specific people on Reddit, or on Lemmy. Any large-enough instance is fine. Just like people moved from Reddit to Lemmy, they can move from one instance to another. A major rift could drop the quality of the experience, at least for a while, but the instances would still be viable. They’re not suddenly useless the way an isolated Jabber server was.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
I mean, there’s not a lot of incentive for them to change the way they operate…
- Comment on Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department 11 months ago:
FTX stole from customers. Binance didn’t sufficiently spy on its customers. They are not the same.
- Comment on CORRECTED EXCLUSIVE OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources 11 months ago:
You think Google was fishing for VC money?
- Comment on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says 1 year ago:
H1B holders are chained to the employer (as are other visas), but green card holders are not. Source: green card holder.
- Comment on Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android 1 year ago:
That works if you’re dominant in the market, and you have companies rushing to make software for your platform. If you’re not, you end up as an also-ran platform with a handful of half-baked ports (like every “smart TV”).
- Comment on Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist? 1 year ago:
I shave my head. Where’s my option?!?
- Comment on How I accidentally wiped my server by having a typo in my Nextcloud docker config 1 year ago:
You can label your devices. When formatting, do
mkfs.ext4 -l my-descriptive-name /dev/whatever. Now, refer to it exclusively by/dev/disk/by-label/my-descriptive-name. Much harder to mix uphomeandswapthansdc2andsdc3(or, for that matter, two UUIDs). - Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
Let’s be real, the Navy continued to stick with Windows XP…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m getting there. One by one, I’m leaving the news communities, because they’re so deranged.
It’s frustrating, though, cuz Reddit (for better & worse) was a pretty good source of news, and a good place to discuss it. Yes there was a lot of noise, but most of the time the top few comments were worth reading. Sometimes it was legit deep analysis, sometimes insider knowledge about the politics/business/culture in question. Then below that, there was the bog-standard predictable takes and the shit-slinging.
On Lemmy, you only seem to get the latter. I guess it’s just not big enough, or skews young and inexperienced.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Counterpoint: if you think the world is so terrible right now (relative to…?) that anyone pointing out anything positive must be shut down, you’re probably just a toxic asshole.
- Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. 1 year ago:
Yeah, “small and below 5 lbs” describes like 90+% of Amazon deliveries.
- Comment on Born on the wrong side of the fence. 1 year ago:
I think the joke is supposed to be “the IDF is so dumb, they think this is what a Hamas HQ looks like!”
The real joke is, that is what Hamas HQ looks like.
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
Medieval chores weren’t putting clothes in the washing machine or giving the bathroom a wipe, they were weaving and sewing clothes by hand and then laboriously washing them in the stream, and hauling buckets of shit. Everything was much harder and much less pleasant, and that was how you spent your ‘free time’.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Course Overview 1 year ago:
Nope, you’re not corrected. The expansion tracks are $25, the game itself is still $60.
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
There’s like 3 regular-looking Swedes who make just about all popular music, isn’t there?
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
I think this might be giving the attackers too much credit for strategy. Don’t discount the simple religious aspect: don’t make the mistake of refusing to believe that devout religious people don’t actually believe their own religion.
Take ISIS. A whole lot of their actions made almost no sense, from a strategic point of view: picking fights with everybody, massacring civilians instead of letting them flee, destroying ancient artifacts (instead of either preserving or selling them) if you omit the simple explanation of religion. They wanted to trigger the final, apocalyptic battle that would usher in the end of the world. They said exactly that in their social media videos, but we secular atheists (or non-devout believers) just kinda skipped over that detail.
Things aren’t as clearly religious in the case of the Palestinians, but probably plays some role. Same with the Israeli Right, and the American Right with their unconditional support for Israel. We shouldn’t ignore the impact of religious belief.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
The initial plan wasn’t to give the entire area to the Jews, it was to give some share of it (20% of the land, is the figure I heard). That area is the only place the Jews could really conceivably lay claim to. And the Arabs (specifically the Sharif of Mecca, not the people of Palestine) got huge swaths of land in exchange for their revolt against the Ottomans: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, etc. The British made a specific exception for coastal areas, and there’s debate about whether Palestine was part of that or not.
So…not that simple.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
Still seems like the default in much of Europe and Asia
- Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. 1 year ago:
They did save millions of lives, though, and allowed us to stop the constant quarantines months or even years early, whatever their motivations (and I’m not as cynical about that as you).
Meanwhile, all the Internet smartasses who love to criticize the drug industry non-stop did exactly jack shit.
- Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. 1 year ago:
Much of the research happened long before COVID–at a loss. There’s a reason this miraculous new mDNA vaccine technology appeared out of nowhere just in time for the pandemic: researchers had been working on it for years already, using investments and borrowed money. Government grants just went to finishing the vaccine and scaling up so quickly it was kinda mindboggling. They didn’t just get to stuff it in their pockets.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I know you are, but what am I?
(Just trying to keep pace with the level of discourse here).