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- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 weeks ago:
Jaimie Johnson who filmed the documentary [Born Rich](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Rich_(2003_film) (and its sequel) pissed off enough of his family and peers that he was almost thrown out of high society for exposing its underbelly. He also lives a pretty normal life echewing his family fortune which is pretty dope. Might be along the lines of what you’re looking for. Good films either way.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 1 month ago:
For anyone on this thread who doesn’t know who Ken Klip is, please check out his free Substack (and subscribe if you can). I wasn’t on Twitter very long (maybe 1.5 years before Elmong took over) but one of the people I value that I ran into on that platform is Ken Klippenstein and I’ve been following him since. He’s amazing at filing thousands of FOIA requests and doing the digging into them that no mainstream journalist does anymore. He also recently quit The Intercept because they were enshittifying far more than he was comfortable with, which for a writer is a huge thing to leave the umbrella of a company like that and a paycheck behind. Writers going out on their own in this climate is the only way we’ll stay even remotely unfucked in the post-information (or misinformation) age.
Klip fuckin rules. Please give him some due.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
NP! It’s a great app, the dev updates it really frequently and I’ve never had any functional issue with it. I keep meaning to drop onto their git issues board and make a couple of small quality of life suggestions for the UI/UX as I use it dozens of times per day for work (there are some processes that currently take 5 clicks/per that could be reduced to 1 or 2 max) but that is a very small and nice problem to have.
- Comment on Has it ever been proven that arsonists stick around for their fires? Or give themselves relief while watching them? Or is it just a trope? 1 month ago:
There are quite a few high profile (in the media anyhow) cases where nutjobs get off on starting fires, yeah. But the really dark shit starts to happen when (ahem) alternative media sources start to imply that all arsonists are paid state actors and/or sexually aroused political players doing all the arson.
It’s usually insurance-related. Or accidental. Nothing that sexy in the vast majority of them.
My favorite was last year during the very real wildfire issues affecting western canada where the flat-earthers kept posting video of actual forestry worker helicopters torching brush piles (something they actually do, during the off-season, to clean up tinder piles) and conflating it with “treaudeauh-paid ANTIFA super-soldiers out to bring in 15 minute cities and permanent state control by burning society to the ground” or whatever the hell. The absurdity of it all kinda turned me on in the other direction, ngl.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
That was the same issue I had with SyncThing, it just seemed to conk out at weird times and I gave up on it (for that purpose). It’s great for centralizing a directory of files from one machine to another but I didn’t love it for keeping a single file up-to-date with changes coming from more than one point on the network.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Oh yeah sorry, I misunderstood. I think what you’re looking for is local (network) versioning which I’ve had trouble finding in the past as well. I had hoped SyncThing would do it but it doesn’t. Versioning is something a service like git does perfectly (i.e. notifies of and/or resolves conflicts in text files on the fly, seamlessly). When I was doing a lot of writing from different devices I set up a private repo on Github (and later Gitlab) and got my text editor to auto-sync-on-save to the repo (from any device) and it worked great. There are very likely self-hosted solutions that wouldn’t rely on the cloud for that, but for me it worked fine as private repos because nobody but me would ever see those drafts (in a perfect world… we all know microsoft has almost certainly trained their shitty A.I. on my terrible writing versions over those years on Github because they own that platform).
I know there are ways to get Git working locally, probably for this purpose, but I don’t know of any simple ones to suggest.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
I use LocalSend between all my devices (work, personal, etc). Mac, Linux, Android, Winblows. All. It’s fast, effective, lightweight. FOSS.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 2 months ago:
Put butter on the outside, throw it in a hot pan and grill it. Even go further and get a sandwich press. NOW YOU’RE COOKIN!
- Comment on Researchers develop lithium-sulfur battery that can be cut, folded - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
👆
- Comment on Researchers develop lithium-sulfur battery that can be cut, folded - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
Boats, planes, drones, phones, bikes… Anywhere that you can maximize storage cell capacity in odd shaped volumes and spaces/designs. It’s great.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I’m a lefty but I didn’t know which instances leaned which way when I got here. I chose lemm.ee because their defed policy itself was neutral and that appealed to me because I can do my own damn blocking thank you.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Yeah I joined this instance not knowing much about any of them and lucked into a very good crew! I did read their defederation policy (not inclined to unless extreme situations) and that is why I signed up here and they’ve been true to that. I think it’s healthy.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Yeah it was, but it was only a few individuals. It wasn’t the entire population of the instance. I do sort by All quite a bit and honestly I don’t see much of note from any one instance other than weird porn or niche meme communities that I block individually as needed. I just nuke communities and individuals that annoy me.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
idk, I’ve seen all the hype around hexbear users being obnoxious around Lemmy (including our own instance debating blocking the instance, followed by several of their members brigading the thread true to form)… but I’ve explored the communities on the instance itself and even subscribed to some of them like mutual aid, gaming etc, and those that I’m watching are actually just normal people doing normal things if more left than some other similar groups. In my experience it isn’t “all” hexbear users, because that would be a dumb generalization.
There are some assholes on that instance to be sure. Show me one that this isn’t true of. I’m glad our instance didn’t block them because I now get to decide for myself. I block communities and/or users if they’re a problem for me. I think that’s a good way.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 months ago:
Basically. If I remember it right I just had my smoke and went inside and later when it had waddled back to whence it came, I hung the feeder in a different place. The squirrel was well fattened for winter. The birds not so much.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 months ago:
Not a boomer and I don’t hate squirrels but one day I walked out onto the porch to have my morning coffee and a smoke and the fattest fuckin squirrel I’ve ever seen in my life was sitting there at eye level in the bird feeder staring back at me too satiated (or smug, I couldn’t tell) to move after having eaten all the feed for several days straight. I was refilling it daily which is unusual but I never thought I’d meet the culprit in this way.
It’s a thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K 3 months ago:
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
Had never heard of Silence thanks for that. Gonna check it out.
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
I miss when Signal still handled SMS. It was so effing convenient.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 3 months ago:
It’s probably some type of cypher. Which will take people exactly one (1) afternoon to crack.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 months ago:
Ghostrunner 2 is 80% off for $17CAD and runs great on the deck. It looks like some of the best speed swordplay vibes from Cyberpunk and I’m stoked to play it.
Also picked up Rage for 5 bucks.
- Comment on X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search 6 months ago:
Who’s even still on Twitter at this point besides racists and transphobes and companies who have no tech department to help them divest to a better platform?
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 6 months ago:
He has a podcast too called Better Offline. Just started it up a few months ago.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing is coming to grocery stores 8 months ago:
Nope.
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- Comment on Threads? 11 months ago:
Thanks for clarifying, this may be the context I was unclear on. As per my disclaimer that I haven’t researched in depth on it yet.
- Comment on Threads? 11 months ago:
I learned something new today that
mastodon.social(I could be remembering this wrong, it’s one of the big instances) is run by, or adjacent to in some way, Cloudflare. So that kinda changes my perception of who’s already in place on the fediverse. I haven’t done any research into this but, this factoid was presented as CF basically already being in a position to hoover up user data, parse it in corpo ways, and do with it what they please. Meta/Threads is obviously fuelling the awareness that big players can continue to swoop in and do this.It’s kinda the way fed is designed. If a community (or group of communities) wanna fight this it’ll take cooperation and collaboration. Think whole neighborhoods of huge cities using bylaws to keep big box stores and fast food chains out. Or rural communities fighting pipelines and freeways from coming through, or huge suburb development plans, etc.
My two cents.
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
I use syncthing for personal and work, and it’s great. Having said that I’ve found it struggles with versioning i.e. editing a document from multiple devices.
Look into something like Standard Notes for cross platform markdown editing. It’s e2e encrypted, works great, the dev is very responsive. Ymmv but I really like it, have it on every device I own and use it daily.
I’ve also just used a private git repo for editing docs from multiple devices. Once you get it set up it’s effortless, and most ide’s are extremely fun to use as text editors.
- Comment on An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... 1 year ago:
Honestly when I told people where I worked, half of them heard Spotify in their mind and rarely bothered to correct them 😂
