MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 16 hours ago:
Graphene OS says no
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 5 days ago:
<3 thanks
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 5 days ago:
Is there an easy way to see what instances we are defederated from? (I fully support defedding any white supremacist instances, but also love transparency stuff about how the content I see is influenced)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 5 days ago:
Couple things on my mind regarding this post.
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Is there any way for us to have transparency on the bans / the rationale that resulted in the ban? I.e. a ban log with the evidence? Lemmy.zip, feels somewhat like a collective, I know it’s not truly, but I’d like it to lean on that direction, as is many instances of Lemmy. So transparency on when / why people are being banned feels important.
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Love the idea of thinking about the first time user exprience. We should def make those default rules very obvious with explanations on why they’re there, what each of them does, and a one click url or button to remove all pre-added filters. Short and to the point. These communities create controversial content and can be off-putting for new users. Here’s a lost of all pre-applied filters, the rationale for each, and if you’d like click here to remove all filters and start fresh.
Perhaps hosting on GitHub could be good too.
As a whole I’m concerned for Lemmy if/when we become the target of a misinformation / bot campagin, but not sure of there’s anything to do about it til it happens. But feels like it’s relevant for the defed Convo and the pre-applied filter rule. If, for example, some instances have much higher level of bad actors present.
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- Comment on USA | “Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City 6 days ago:
Fucking religion.
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 1 week ago:
The interesting thing about weed and ADHD, is that, since weed is a stimulant, if you find the right microdose (edible) it’s super super energizing and you can focus even better because it’s stimulating the under active executive part of your brain.
- Comment on 'Colossal Failure:' Israel Made Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Worse, Despite ICJ Ruling a Year Ago 1 week ago:
Failure? They accomplished exactly what they intended to.
- Comment on DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead 1 week ago:
Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 1 week ago:
But yeah. Anyone who thinks the app / stock model isn’t going to be heavily censored…
Why else would it be free? It’s absolutely state sponsored media. Or it’s a singularity and they’re just trying to get people to run it from within their networks, the former being far more plausible.
- Comment on USA | Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions 1 week ago:
Right. So promptly stopping funding Ukraine while grand standing about peace is really just capitulation and giving Russia exactly what they want.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 1 week ago:
Lol well. When I saw this I knew the model would be censored to hell, and then the ccp abliteration training data repo made a lot more sense. That being said, the open source effort to reproduce it is far more appealing.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 1 week ago:
Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.
Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%
Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%
Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.
Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.
This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 1 week ago:
Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*
*Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)
Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.
Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.
Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.
- Comment on USA | Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions 1 week ago:
I feel like this is all grand standing. “Look I’m being tough on them” meanwhile working to broker a peace deal that gives Russia everything they want.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 1 week ago:
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. This right here.
- Comment on Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber 2 weeks ago:
Quality.
- Comment on US president Trump pardons approximately 1,500 Capitol attack defendants 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, he has shown that as long as you’re a republican, and do what he wants, the law doesn’t matter. At best, prepare to have the US government robbed blind by him and his buddies for 4 years.
- Comment on Prison contractors are the big winners from anti-immigrant legislation 2 weeks ago:
So fucked. Accused, not even convicted.
Innocent until proven guilty.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the government should get to control what apps, websites, etc… we can and can’t use to communicate with our fellow humans.
Strengthen data privacy laws. Algorithm transparency laws. Look at gdpr and TikTok being sued for sending their data back to China. Etc…
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
Just such a bad precedent though.
- Comment on SteamOS alternative Bazzite adds support for OneXPlayer plus improvements for ROG Ally 3 months ago:
Great! Competition is wonderful.
To be fair, I think the true heart of steamos (besides arch and just being great) is what they’ve done for proton, which all of these alternative distros benefit greatly from and make them feasible. It’s like X or Wayland. Proton is just foundational (thank you wine) to gaming on Linux being successful. So even if they don’t spend the time to support other handhelds running steamos, they really are with what they’ve done with proton.
- Comment on Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads 4 months ago:
Now your car won’t drive due to critical functionality and is bricked til you take it to the dealership.
- Comment on Tidal launches royalty tracking features for artists 5 months ago:
I like tidal. Switched to them from Spotify and have been very happy. Feels like tidal treats artists better and has some lossless quality.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 8 months ago:
Yep. Just ordered 4 12tb hdds for a zfs setup
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe 9 months ago:
malicious compliance
- Comment on Thousands of LG TVs are vulnerable to takeover—here’s how to ensure yours isn’t one 9 months ago:
Hah. Probably not rootable. Except I turned my TV off the Internet years ago. Still running a vulnerable firmware. 🎉
- Comment on Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ 10 months ago:
Totally unvetted source so grain of salt just the first link on a Google search, but this was essentially what I was trying to say: euromedmonitor.org/…/Israel-hit-Gaza-Strip-with-t…
- Comment on Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ 10 months ago:
Lol you all entirely missed my point.
My point is that the total gigatons of bombs that they’ve dropped on Gaza is quite likely quite similar to the power of the original nuclear bombs. Modern nukes are obviously vastly more powerful. I also may be still vastly underestimating the power of the original bombs but my point was ultimately about how much of Gaza they’ve already razed with bombs.
- Comment on Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ 10 months ago:
Haven’t they already though?
- Comment on Server upgrade completed 10 months ago:
Hope you didnt update to xz 5.6.1 ;)
