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- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 8 hours ago:
Cool, money is more important than freedom anyway./s
- Comment on Dansup promises Loops federation beta 'later this week' 20 hours ago:
Thanks! I must have missed that one.
- Comment on Dansup promises Loops federation beta 'later this week' 1 day ago:
If it is open source and on-device (for personal recommendations) then I see it as a great thing.
Lemmy has demonstrated that it can really work. Quiblr even has personalized recommendations on-device (not open source though).
Mastodon and others should take note.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
By the same argument, owning physical things is an unnatural state. For millennia, the idea of a human being owning a physical object was completely foreign.
People made tools and used them as necessary, then discarded them for another person to use. It’s only in the most recent 5% of human existence that private property had existed.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 days ago:
Mastodon is much better and resistant to enshittification. Bluesky is not federated or decentralized.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 days ago:
So what is that, like 6 or 7 people?
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 3 days ago:
Seems right on to me
The only problem with turning to a profit model is the potential for enshitification.
- Comment on A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years 3 days ago:
I’m a little skeptical about the “10 years of absolute secrecy”… It sounds a lot like “we can’t tell you how it works, just trust us bro.”
- Comment on Breaking: Pikachu accidentally runs half marathon after being let out of pokeball... and finishes 7th 6 days ago:
The hero we need
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I’m pretty happy with Thunderbird on all my devices. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s hard to make an argument that Outlook is better. It’d have to be a very specific use case I think.
- Comment on Join Finamp's first Hackathon Next Week! 1 week ago:
This is great! I can’t do much other than cheerleading, but I’m definitely excited to hear about this. I use it every day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
These are normal reactions that a lot of people experience. It’s not easy to put yourself out there.
I think it’s healthy to spend time finding your “tribe” and putting as much effort into that as you put into interpersonal relationships. Find something to be your third place away from home and work/school.
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 1 week ago:
Or specifically the parts of government that reside there. I see it especially used when there may be dissent in other parts of government.
- Comment on When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch. 1 week ago:
“But there are so many rich people in America!”
Yes, and they got they way by designing the absolute most efficient system in the world for extracting all the money from everyone else.
- Comment on North Korea is launching a new cybersecurity unit focused on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets. 1 week ago:
That’s the opposite of cybersecurity
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
This is a band-aid on a broken dam. Pretty worrying.
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- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 2 weeks ago:
I started out with an old laptop then eventually “upgraded” to a refurbished office surplus desktop. I highly recommend starting out on a project PC as a sort of proof of concept before investing any money into it. Even hosting the family media libraries, I have never had an issue with streaming video, etc. even with pretty dated hardware.
- Comment on SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs. 2 weeks ago:
Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
For years I was a big fan of Roku. It represented a better value alternative from the big corporations pushing their own agenda like Google, Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. They made products that were intuitive and user oriented and carved out a very nice and stable market share for themselves because of it. Now they’re just leveraging their hardware relationships to transform the software into something terrible.
I used to look for tvs with Roku built in. Now I’ve disabled Roku features from my smart TVS and use a separate streaming device.
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, obviously. What a ridiculous question when computers have been making hiring decisions since the late 1990s.
- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 3 weeks ago:
Car for witches Image
- Comment on 4 more months and I can quit one of my part time jobs. 4 weeks ago:
That is a common belief, although it doesn’t stand up to academic rigor. There are many studies that show UBI does not negatively impact productivity or innovation, and may even stimulate more.
It seems counterintuitive, but when people have basic needs met, they tend to spend more time improving their skills, experimenting, starying new businesses, and finding better employment matches.
Governments already spend o lot of money on providing services to individuals, such as social security, pensions, healthcare, childcare, education, policing and corrections, food security, housing subsidies, etc. As it turns out, often the most efficient way to provide services to people is to give them money to provide for themselves.
On the other hand, I’m not aware of any studies that show wealth aggregation increases productivity after businesses leaders are paid more than ~50 times their average employee. The typical CEO today earns 351x more than the average employee, which is more than a 1000% increase from the late 1970s.
- Comment on xkcd #3058: Tall Structures 4 weeks ago:
How big would that sweater have to be?
- Comment on 4 more months and I can quit one of my part time jobs. 4 weeks ago:
The point is not the taxes, it’s the UBI. The wealth taxes are just how you pay for it.
You also need to ensure certain consumer protections, especially in real estate markets, in order to make UBI work well, but let’s start there.
- Comment on If you enshitify it they will go 4 weeks ago:
You can run either one from a server or locally. LibreOffice allows realtime collaboration in spreadsheets only. OnlyOffice I think allows it in all programs. Both have web editors. Both work with Nextcloud /OwnCloud. It depends on what you want to do with your server.
- Comment on 4 more months and I can quit one of my part time jobs. 4 weeks ago:
Retirement is for privileged boomers.
We will work until we die unless we figure out how to get taxes from billionaires and generational wealth holders to establish a universal basic income.
- Comment on If you enshitify it they will go 4 weeks ago:
My calendar is now on Thunderbird, which has an excellent mobile app as well.
I’m having good luck replacing document editors with onlyoffice, Although many people recommend Colabora (with LibreOffice on desktop)
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 4 weeks ago:
Also maybe microdots would be more effective. Not exactly pen and paper, but still analog. Hard to crack a code you can’t find.
