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- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 2 days ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on SuperTuxKart switches to open source Godot engine 2 days ago:
That’s good news! They may get more devs that way. Godot is pretty popular at the moment.
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 2 weeks ago:
As an example: a company starts a free tier offering with no promises. It can sustain that because there are enough free users that convert into paying users - enough to sustain the free tier. But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?
Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 2 weeks ago:
Is this dude complaining that an offering he pays absolutely nothing for is reducing how much free stuff they give out? Seems quite entitled… like the people demanding opensource devs implement something and never contributing back.
- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 4 weeks ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.
- Comment on Anyone get these messages? 4 weeks ago:
Nope. I’d report and block them. Looks like spam to me.
- Comment on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code. 4 weeks ago:
Is this the future of Rewrite in Rust? 🤣 I wonder how it’ll do with something like the linux kernel. It’s quite modular, so it could theoretically be pointed at the code, module by module, and put into a rust module with tests.
- Comment on New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter 5 weeks ago:
There have been multiple crystals like these. I hope they hit the market within the next decade - even if they are write-once. I’d like to have storage that holds data for decades so that I don’t have to worry about constantly backing up and swapping out disks.
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing really wrong with substack. People just like to shit on anything that doesn’t pass whatever purity test they happen to use.
This is big problem in left-wing communities. They just can’t get along and demand purity in anything they do - except themselves. Left wingers will happily and harshly defend their use of whatever capitalist product they themselves use with a bunch of excuses that fan make your head spin. Apple users a great example thereof. They will disparage so many other products and companies but somehow Apple is their baby and immune to criticism.
- Comment on Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature 5 weeks ago:
The eternal problem of open source: people will happily pay for proprietary software and services, complain that open source isn’t ready. Then when it is, they will not donate a single cent to continue development but instead create passive aggressive posts and issues demanding features or shitting on the project.
- Comment on Apple strikes deal with Indonesia, secures future market access for iPhones. 5 weeks ago:
The 2017 regulation requires that 40% of smartphones sold in Indonesia use domestically sourced components. The policy is part of Indonesia’s push to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Europe, take note
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 5 weeks ago:
Fuck off. Nobody really believes that, and of they do, they are clueless. Microsoft can be forced by the US government to turn over data on any client: that means on nearly any government on the planet. The EU better give up their US addiction before it gets terminal.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 5 weeks ago:
It’s called Web Monetisation. It’s a standard that’s in development. In short, you, the user, can donate/pay money on any website that follows the standard. No patreon, no PayPal, no VISA, no yada yada.
Setup: You install an extension or use a compatible browser, create a wallet with a web payment provider, login / connect with the extension / browser.
Example operation: while browsing you happen upon a website (Lemmy.world for example) or web page (tilvids.com/u/thelinuxexperiment or one of the video pages), the “tip” button is made available, you hit it and 1£ is queued to be sent to the website or person on the webpage. At your leisure, you accept the transaction.
This can be implemented any number of ways e.g statistics are collected (locally) about which websites you visited with web monetisation active, at the end of the month, you are shown a breakdown of that activity. Say 10% peertube, 30% Lemmy, 40% mastodon, and a smattering of other softwares. You say “I want 10£ to be split across the different softwares with a minimum of 1£ per transaction”. Or anything else you can come up with.
That’s it. The website operator doesn’t need you to have PayPal, or patreon, or some special bank. You have a " wallet", you decide how the money is transfered and to whom, and you’re done.
- Comment on I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened?? 5 weeks ago:
Are you trolling or is this the first time asking for help?
Imagine if someone told their car didn’t work, you asked what they did, and they said “turned the key in the ignition twice and it doesn’t start”. Would that be enough information for you?
As @just_another_person@lemmy.world said: post configs! What is your OS, what commands did you enter, what are the contents of your yml files, which containers are running, which images are you using, etc. Nobody can help you otherwise.
Add the information to the original post.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 5 weeks ago:
His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.
It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 1 month ago:
But what happens to the pins Humane sold? Well, they are about to become ewaste.
Companies should be forced to pay for disposal in those cases.
- Comment on In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees 1 month ago:
I do my best to block any news regarding the new administration, so this comes at quite a surprise that it was even considered. Always thought NASA was one of the great prides of the country, but it seems like those days are long gone.
- Comment on X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages 1 month ago:
Thanks for the Streisand effect, Musk!
- Comment on How to use Collabora? All I get is "OK". 1 month ago:
I don’t know of another frontend. You might want to try only office instead.
- Comment on Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
It was part of what made the platform shitty…
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
As if you’re on morally higher ground by defending the actions of corporations trying to appease a madman…
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
My point exactly. How do you function in life if choice is too much for you to comprehend? Maybe people just need a website called Lemmy.org that redirects them to a random approved server and that’s it. “UX” problem solved.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
If selecting a server is too much, then directing them to a random on that fits their criteria should solve the problem. Which joinlemmy, joinmastodon, joinoixelfed, and so on do.
If even that is too much, then I’m totally fine without those people as I question what kind of stuff they’ll be saying.
And this isn’t even elitist. It’s not “you have to have the ActivityPub spec memorised” or even know what ActivityPub is. It’s like “which email host should I pick”. No deeper than that.
If Facebook and Apple have eroded people’s brains to the point where such a simple question cannot be answered without freaking out, then we’re in trouble.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
What’s there to understand? Does the average person understand that reddit consists of a frontend written in a frontend framework that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS? Do they understand that HTTPS is used to make the request between the client and server on port 443? Do they know that the request is processed by a back end connecting to postgresql and redis or memcache for faster responses? That most assets are probably delivered by a CDN?
Probably not. And why should they? They don’t need to understand how the fediverse works, nor do they have to understand how email works. All they need to do is select a server, create an account, and start interacting. Same as email.
There’s no mystery. The fediverse isn’t complicated unless you freak out and start realising that the entire internet is more complicated than the shiny, glossy thing on top of it - which doesn’t need to be understood to have simple interactions with.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
Honestly, if picking a server is too difficult, how have you survived this long? It’s literally like picking an email host. That’s the UX people are complaining about. How far have we fallen that making a choice is now a problem? “Pick what you like” leads to people going “OMG, this is terrible, I have to make my own decisions😭😭” No wonder people love AI, because they can’t think for themselves.
The only improvement would be setting a default or giving them themes to choose from which they are interested in and selecting a server for them based on that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Some people never do 🤷 I’m just wondering what people will do once BlueSky becomes the shithole we expect it to be. Maybe by then people will see the fediverse as the next place to swarm?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Given how things are going, I bet you’re right. Maybe Musk will create a Bluesky instance (or whatever that federalized yet centralized thing is called).
@RemindMe@mstdn.social in 5 years to check on the state of bluesky
- Comment on Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. 1 month ago:
What is the connection between your client and server? Is it wireless and going over the router first? Does it work with a direct, wired connection between client and server?
If your connection goes over your router, does your router have a DNS server? What options do you have for DNS config on your router?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
Meanwhile Germany barely provides 5% of its population with fiber and probably less have access to VDSL. Romania, the Baltics and other countries are fast, but I doubt 10Gbs will be normal there even in 20 years.