Quik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say Snowden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE uncovers over 4M government credit cards responsible for 90M transactions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit cards used for credit card transactions

  More news at eleven

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance Torched The European Elite Face-to-Face and They Absolutely Hated It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this downvoted so much? (purely rhetorical question, of course, this is Lemmy we’re talking about)

  Let’s unpack. Vance, the Vize vize president (sic!) of an American administration that basically sold the position of the president to the richest man in the world, obviously degrading the value of the public opinion (read: democracy) in the process. Also, it should be noted that this degraded well-known narcissist Trump to Vize President, just wait till he finds out…

  Regardless, this representative wants to critizice Europe’s/the EU’s democracies. This representative of the U.S., a country with a two party “democracy” and part of the one of the two parties that is way more involved in antidemocratic practices such as purging voter registration or gerrymandering. Which in and of itself is a bit… wondrous, but still, valid criticism should be accepted from everywhere you may get it from. You just have to keep in mind where you got it from and what could be possible intentions of the entity criticizing you– if Putin warns you that no, you should definetly not start having a working military or being energy independent again you should at least think of in what way he may seek to profit from telling you that.

  Vance probably does not want to actually further stabilize the EU, or actually help them in any way– just a wild guess.

  Still, this says nothing about the quality of the criticism itself, and, if you just care enough to look it up, his general points in this case are valid: Allegations of Russian election interference in Romania stand without proof and the EU is in many ways inherently corrupt and actively antidemocratic, e.g. the EU parliament still has no right to propose new bills, rendering it functionally useless as a parliament.

  Members of the EU Parliament are getting well payed, especially as abuse of funds of the EU parliament is generally accepted– as long as you don’t, never speak out against the antidemocratic nature of the democracy game you’re playing.

  Von der Leyen ptomised multiple times to introduce such a Parliamentary right of initiative– and never did so, while being the person profiting of of a powerless, as she can basically continue her reign over the EU unquestioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For 4 Years, America Had No President | Frontpage Mag⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree Biden was not at all what the country needed, but neither is or was Trump.

  Biden did not have any clear message, any hope, any drive. He just… was there. Which would be okay for being president depending on the point in time, but definetly not right now, and definetly not 4 years ago.

  Trump is much, much worse than that. Under Biden the US government worked and skilled professionals who make up most of government (because running a country is not only politics) were allowed to do their jobs.

  Under Trump’s first administration this was not the case, which alone should be immediately disqualifying. Entire agencies waited for weeks and months for transition teams that never came, the Trump team didn’t even know what kind or number of positions they’d have to fill– and were shockingly unprepared to do so.

  There is a lot of incompetency and neglect that went on here, which goes to show that Trump fundamentally does not care for the American people. If you’re interested in what Trump did (or did not) as part of his first transition and why it was such a failure, I can recommend The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, although there are other pieces illustrating the point just as well.

  As far as I can tell Trump had not figured out how to optimally extract personal gain (mostly monetary) from being president last time and used the discontent of right wing orgs such as the Heritage foundation and the people at Project 2025 with the ineffectiveness how his last presidency to learn how to that “properly”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, though I wouldn’t necessarily say that that’s only a problem with progressives.

  Immigration policy and procedures are relatively complex and the current “debate” on the topic is not very focused on enabling or supporting legal immigration (especially from conservatives).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate of few sites embrace these (now, after some decades) very fitting HTTP response codes, e.g. 402 Payment Required on news outlets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube is/ its ads are are extremely privacy intrusive and there isn’t really an alternative to the platform. Next to the comparatively obvious network effects all social media platforms rely on is also because YouTube on its own is not that profitable and probably only really makes Google money via the data collected on the platform. This means only platforms that have a gigantic ad network themselves and are able to monetize said data as well as Google can can actually compete with YouTube— and as you see, there are basically none.

  Also, the whole blocking ad blockers thing is trying to fundamentally reverse the power equilibrium between the website (the server) and the person visiting it (the client); because for the last 40 years or so, the server had the purpose of delivering content to the client which could decide what to do with and how to present said content. This sharing of responsibility between the two comes in many forms, starting with simple things such as screen readers or a reading mode for the browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not necessarily the case.

  You could only use this new system if the old one fails, ie. only for the say 10% of users that block ads, and so even if it were more expensive it would still be more profitable than letting them block all ads.

  But I don’t think even that is the case, as they can essentially just “swap out” the video they’re streaming (as they don’t really stream “one video” per video anyway), bringing additional running costs to nearly zero.

  The only thing definitely more expensive and resource intensive is the development of said custom software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Considers SNES Mouse Support for Switch Online Games | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does (via the dock and probably directly as well), so that would absolutely work!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a person raising their hands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, don’t love the use of AWS/Cloudflare, while I get that you can simply replace AWS S3 with something else for backups, this server setup is innately based on using Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal Shrek Zone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that an implosion and therefore instantaneous?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hail our true supreme leader⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dementor‘s kiss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cum⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you might mean “post hoc…” which is a more specific case of “cum hoc…” and sets focus on time/order of events

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “problem” here (if you think so) is that if law enforcement in Germany gets to know about a case like this, they cannot choose themselves not to act on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suspect because there is probably space for errors in the detection system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As others pointed out, having the feeling of knowing (about) things without actually having experienced them yourself is a core feature of what one might call intelligence, and as such not insane.

  I would argue instead that the problem isn’t with arguments over stuff you haven’t experienced yourself, but rather people caring too much about their fixed opinion and not about actually trying to find the truth (e.g. though argument) as they might proclaim.

  (I am relatively certain of this point as I’ve seen seemingly good counter examples to this provided by the LessWrong community, where people often discuss topics they do not necessarily have experience with, but rather try to find the truth and therefore not have a fixed opinion beforehand.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to actually discuss the problems I perceive with Yudkowsky‘s take for a moment, before everyone can go on with telling each other how crap his opinion is.

  First, quantifying emotional states is hard, if not impossible at the moment. This could easily lead to misconceptions and misunderstandings, as it is not clear what x% “better” means. Second, people probably don’t always want to live in constant fear of getting dumped by their partners. I mean, I get it, if you are in a relationship where you would leave your partner for someone else it’s definitely not a bad idea to be clear about that, but I don’t think that is the norm at all in relationships “even” apart from marriage. So his tweet about marriages being an agreement to ignore other options is not wrong itself, but he seems to lack the understanding that many relationships outside of marriage include this social contract as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite note-taking application?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Logseq, it’s a lot like Obsidian as it also has knowledge graphs, tags, is markdown-based and self-hostable but, in contrast to Obsidian, it’s fully open source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately doesn’t look too promising on that front and it seems I’m kinda late to the startup/low interest loans and investment party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, have years left until then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby how cold is it oitside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨abandonware empires⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and UDP never did anyway As a CS student I’ve laughed way to hard when reading this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s meant is there isn’t an official ISO to download as it’s not yet that polished for PCs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you update your uBlock Origin blocklists and declare YouTube the war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which doesn’t make this any better of a future to live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pure Evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.