TimLovesTech

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.

  I included it because the article title included it, and I agreed it never would be. I then went farther and said I don’t consider any of those beside Mastodon to be Fediverse because they all are corporations creating platforms for shareholders, NOT users.

  It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.

  To use your analogy, It’s actually more like they have the appearance of a pizza-like substance, but eating it you know it’s not pizza and never will be because it’s made of human waste.

  Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.

  If it was pushing ads, absolutely! I believe the majority of us came to the fediverse to escape the ads/corporate enshitification, so the moment this stuff starts creeping in we can all just defederate them. Every admin knowing this would be the outcome I think also helps keep the fediverse “honest” as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter was already really bad, Musk just brought back the Nazis and fired all the people that were the guardrails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not see Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky as any part of the Fediverse since they are all for profit corporations. Fediverse is about being free of the corporate overlords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think for 99% of people tech has really stopped evolving and we have allowed corporate bean counters to lock shit down and then abandon it. When the nerds ran the show we had innovation and constant improvement of a product because technology is awesome. Then capitalism killed it. Now you get a cool car with a shit infotainment system outdated and never updated the day you take delivery, when we could have some crazy shit with badass HUDs and sensors for everything. We could make it harder for assholes on the road to try and kill everyone. We could make all cars in the area aware of the road hazard driving 45 in a 55 during rush hour. None of that stuff makes the line graph go up though, so we wait for the next nerd with money and a desire to create the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so a business loan, no big deal. Oh … what’s this?

  If Constellation received a federal loan guarantee, much of the risk attached to the project would be shifted to taxpayers in the event of a default. It also would reduce the borrowing costs needed to finance to the restart. The project still needs to obtain regulatory approvals to move forward and would require intensive safety oversight during and after the restart.

  Well that doesn’t sound good, I would like some reassurance. Constellation, what say you?

  “Rest assured that to the extent we may seek a loan, Constellation will guarantee full repayment,” the company’s statement said. “Any notion that taxpayers are taking on risk here is fanciful given that any loan will be backstopped by Constellation’s entire $80-billion-plus value.”

  Ah good. A company that for sure is going to hold to its word and not shaft the state or tax payers. Great!

  Due to the age of the plant, some experts have cautioned that the project may require significant investments in refurbishments and maintenance beyond the period of the restart.

  “The $1.6 billion is just the start,” Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told the New Republic. “Microsoft will be asking for government handouts just like most all other aged nuclear reactor owners have asked in multiple states.”

  Super, a for profit company worth 3.11 trillion USD (as of 1:25pm EDT) that just needs government handouts for it’s business based on choices it has made to further its own worth. That sounds great, I’m sure taxpayers will get a return on that investment right? Right??

  In September, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro touted thousands of energy jobs that will be created by Constellation’s plans at Three Mile Island. Constellation, which plans to rename the facility the Crane Clean Energy Center, has claimed it will generate about $3 billion in state and federal tax revenue.

  OK, so $3 billion minus $1.6 billion equals $1.4 billion, minus whatever Microsoft gets as a handout (likely equal to or more than $1.6 billion) equals potential negative billions? Yay capitalism! I’m so happy that the US is willing to help small businesses like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Revolution Will Be Federated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You may find Harris the lesser of two evils, and want a progressive candidate like I think the majority does, but Harris is certainly running a more progressive platform than any in the past few decades. Again a low bar, but it is a step in the direction I think, and what the majority wants to see. I think as government reps get younger we’ll naturally see things become more progressive/diverse. It’s just waiting out the old white guard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Revolution Will Be Federated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm … Bluesky is “corporate social media”, even if they try to act nice registering as a “benefit corporation”. Still should not be considered part of the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.

  The Day Before only made it 4 days.

  On 11 December, four days after The Day Before launched to widespread criticism, Fntastic announced their closure, stating that as their game had “failed financially” they could not afford to continue operating. The Day Before was removed from sale on Steam later that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need mass surveillance to put down the protests for freedom … errr to protect freedom (white people freedom rich white people freedom).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is he trying to say that he wants to build a crowd source lending institution that uses crypto? Or is this a Mt. Gox situation where they get people to buy their fake coins (a really good look for a son of a former President) and then are “hacked” and think nobody will be able to trace the coins back to them? And you know the whole reason they want to go crypto is so they can do money laundering/bribes and be “untraceable”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be the people that would go through your vote history and then grief you based on it. Kinda like people that sift through people’s comment history to grief them, just now it wouldn’t allow any “anonymous” interaction with posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So to catch a single “serial downvoter” you’d open up all your voting to vote stalkers? If it’s a single person, honestly why does it matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Although a backup is still required or you are gambling on hardware outliving your need for your data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was also cheaper 30 years ago to pay everyone involved in that band’s tour, which all comes out of the artist’s pot of money. So a smaller venue means less for artists and the crews supporting them.

  So, while doing this now sounds great, that would mean your either continuing to pay a road crew no longer needed for these much smaller tours/venues, or laying these people off (when some of these people will have been part of these crews for the bands touring lifetime).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It still makes me angry that the whole music industry left Pearl Jam out to dry on this. Had even half the artist touring joined in solidarity with Pearl Jam it would probably be a much better market for concert goers these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In their current state, I would argue none of them are actually alternatives in the sense of being a real replacement. None of them is setup to scale, making the moderation/filtering point kinda moot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To your point, the amount of money/effort to even try and rival YouTube (and/or Google) would be a hell of a task for sure. Since you would want it to be open, well moderated (but not so much that the majority of people scream “censorship!”), and be able to store/encode/serve a wild amount of video daily. And the later 2 things get exponentially more difficult as you scale.

  It would need to be like the Fediverse on steroids, doing a distributed filesystem allowing every federated member to host/encode/serve part of the burden (like Kazaa/Limewire/DC++) but in some manner that people could be assured node hosts couldn’t tamper with videos. And then you would also need some sort of reward for creators that wouldn’t somehow lead to greedy power struggles causing an implosion of your open platform.

  Ah, to dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just took a look at them, and Rumble is for sure a hard pass. The 2 rows under “news” is all far-right extremist videos, which is great if you are aiming for the Parlor/Truth Social/Nazi and Nazi sympathizers of the internet, but I think you’ll miss most of the world going that toxic on the frontage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What platform are you on that you need to use VLC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever heard of a man Hannibal Lecter he was a “nice guy”.

  • Donald J Trump
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing that came to mind when I saw Reddit was The_Donald.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t say it was. It was an example of a group that has been recruiting via games, the point of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this isn’t about actual gamers, this about bad actors looking for chuds to recruit through games, which is not a new concept. It used to be chat rooms, and then forums, then social media, now games (as many have social features).

  I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the argument is even about privacy, but giving away someone else’s (or in this case potentially a whole network of people’s content), and admins resources in order to drive some corporate profits they aren’t even getting a share of. If someone needs to chat with someone on Bluesky that bad then they should just make an account, not undermine a whole network so they can be lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What has people upset is that the “service” is opt-out instead of opt-in, and one someone else is making for server admins without warning. If this person wanted to run a server and give their own content to the corporate overlords that is their choice, but making something to give others content away without their consent doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but consuming data and using someone else’s data for profit are 2 different things. Don’t believe me, start reposting a large news websites data verbatim with AdSense on it and see how quickly the cease and desist comes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open yes, but Bluesky is not open, they are after free content to make the corporate investors a return at all costs. If a non-profit wants to use my server to add content to their platform, I have no issue with that. But a for-profit can pay me for content if they want it, I don’t work for them or use their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same argument could be used for copyright itself, and why we have non-commercial licenses for things. Just because you are giving something away as free (as in beer), doesn’t mean that some for-profit should be able to just use it to drive up their user base and make the corp more money. I think content creators, or at the very least in the fediverse - server owners, should be able to limit what corporations can suck up to further corporate profits at the expense of the fediverse.

  If you want to run a server and donate your resources to make a for-profit corp money, that is your right, but to tell everyone that they should have no control of their content is unacceptable to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going out on a limb, but the for profit corporation being able to suck up your posts is probably what has many upset. I personally would block such a service as I don’t see these for-profit corporations as part of the fediverse, but as leeches out to Extend, Embrace, Extinguish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen | Yep, cell carriers didn’t have to do this before⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Cloudflare level of transparency should really be the minimum in cases of security breaches for all companies with any user/customer information. And when found to be purposefully hidden that information you should have your right to do business at least suspended in the US.

  A policy as such would -

  1. Incentives disclosure (or your essentially DOA in US)
  2. Increase the IT budget and force more security over profit (because again the alternative is no profit otherwise - or at least many detailed explanations on how the company still isn’t doing anything)