valveman

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too, my sweet summer child⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the book title was “Kubernetes for Babies”, we’d probably get the same reaction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem bro, most people here don’t know that because it lasted for about 4 days or so. Our first president liked our flag and national anthem from the imperial era, so he said it was bullshit to change them. That’s why this “Republic of the United States of Brazil” didn’t catch on (thankfully), and got forgotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, we were.

  Source: I’m Brazilian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.

  I didn’t know that, thanks.

  Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language

  Look man, I’m not american and I didn’t ask the question to create some debate about the ethics or whatsoever. I just wanted to know if there was a specific word for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, this wasn’t supposed to be an argument, just a question. My native language has a specific word for them (and some other languages have too) and I got curious if english itself had such a thing.

  Latin America people got pissed off

  Maybe it’s because people say “America” and everybody instantly thinks of the USA, even though you’re just another country in the whole continent? For these people you are stealing the word “american” and changing its meaning. People from Asia have the word “asian”, people in Europe got “european”, people in Africa got “african”, but we? We don’t have a meaningful word anymore. And I’m not saying it’s your fault or even it’s a fault of your founding fathers. I’m just trying to tell you why these people get mad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, basically every language has a specific word for US citizens, except english? LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, the word “gringo” is used by latinos to refer to anyone from other countries, not specifically US citizens. But yeah, definitely gringo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, thank you for your great response.

  And yeah, I kinda get that “United States” is just a title, but in my native language (portuguese) we have a specific word for americans: “estadunidense”, which basically means “person born in the USA”

  I was just wondering if there was a similar word in english that could be used specifically to these people, just like we have in portuguese. But again, thanks for your answer.

  Also, fun fact: Brazil was actually called “United States of Brazil” for a short period, and our flag looked like a copy of yours, but in yellow and green. But then our king (thankfully) decided to go just by “Brazil”

• How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure. Totally different from having backdoors to the NSA or collecting massive amounts of personal data for targeted ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to see PeerTube grow just like these platforms, but I think it’s a lot more complicated to get people to use it than mastodon/lemmy.

  Twitter/Reddit weren’t used as a major income source like YouTube and Instagram (I am saying this based on famous people in my country, I don’t know how it goes on other places), and so are easier to replace. The people posting and discussing topics don’t do that for the money, they do because they like it.

  YT and its monetization system made possible for people to make a living from the content they produce, and many wouldn’t like or simply couldn’t sacrifice this income source just to go to a more ethical and private platform like PeerTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Tron: Ares’ Delayed as Director Criticizes “Extremely Frustrating” Strike Talks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope this repeats and big franchises have movies/shows delayed or cancelled, as it seems to be the only way to get these pigs’ attention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine question: what’s the real problem? As a non-american, I can’t get it.

  I mean, it’s not like they’re smuggling these chips to China, but doing a legitimate acquisition. Don’t want them to get access to U.S. tech? Simply don’t sell it to any other country that buys/sells to China, since they could trade or resell those chips to them. Also, AFAIK most international trades are done using U.S. dollars, so limiting U.S. companies from trading won’t solve the problem.

  I’m not an economist, so feel free to correct me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Wired] This Disinformation Is Just for You; Generative AI Makes Disinformation More Targeted and Effective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess we’ll have to follow Norway’s steps if we want to get somewhere. But yeah, I highly doubt anything beyond asking big tech to behave will be done

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You have good points, and yeah, I too want data privacy and everything, but the Fediverse in general always was a niche place. I mean, people only got to know this because the mainstream social media fucked up badly this time (and keeps doing it very well). Now we have thousands of new instances, users and everything, but no one was prepared for it.

  My point is: your proposals are totally valid, but there was no need for this level of security until yesterday, since this was just a niche place with a couple hundreds of users. Give it a few months and we might get some updates on instance infrastructure and the ActivityPub protocol itself to make it safer.