Omniraptor
@Omniraptor@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 week ago:
This book review (never got around to reading the book itself) made me understand why people think “it’s tradition” is a valid explanation. I disagree still but i couldn’t find any counterarguments.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 week ago:
That situation (apple and Google as sole gatekeepers) is fucked up and should change with the new eu legislation.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 week ago:
you can’t opt out if you want to use bluesky pbllc’s infrastructure
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 week ago:
Germany voluntarily divested from Russian gas for political reasons. If Germany was run by more “rationally greedy” business men I’m sure Russia would have happily kept trading with them despite the war. It’s probably why certain mysterious actors cut off nord stream 2, to make sure Germany’s moral compass would not falter in the future either
- Comment on The Fediverse has a DDoS problem 1 week ago:
It’s not centralization if not everyone trusts the same server, which there is no obligation to
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 1 week ago:
The last two weren’t ever true
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 2 weeks ago:
iirc Friedman changed his mind about the welfare state later in life
- Comment on Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent 2 weeks ago:
Do you know any good write-ups about the ecosystem?
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 2 weeks ago:
Can someone less lazy than me explain how it’s different from sharing images on mastodon or it’s alternatives?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
we begin bombing in five minutes
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
So was google an American psyop for pulling out of China instead of submitting to censorship?
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 1 month ago:
Yes, by being a bigger instance with piss poor moderation. We’d be overrun with trolls and spammers
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 2 months ago:
Peertube uses it already, maybe this will too
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 2 months ago:
Peertube actually uses some pretty nifty p2p tech (not quite BitTorrent iirc but same principle) to mitigate popularity spikes.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 2 months ago:
Idk this has never been too difficult for me, I just piggyback other people’s connections. Like literally find one person seems cool, stalk their likes/follows for other people that seem cool, repeat as necessary.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 2 months ago:
I disagree, Lemmy’s built in search function is much better than reddit’s because it lets you search for comments on any instance that you federate with.
- Comment on Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed 2 months ago:
Amazing, please tell me you actually used an uncensored/jailbroken bot to generate this
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
perhaps not every game is meant to be 100% completed
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 2 months ago:
idk anything about german literature, i’m russian :( but when i was small i really liked the books momo and neverending story
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 2 months ago:
It’s used as a one time account verification thing, not a 2fa second factor. Still not great but at least not a security flaw.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 2 months ago:
Why don’t we replace it with something else that does the same?
This, it is our duty as people with good taste in media to promote better and less popular books to children. Earthsea by leguin, his dark materials by Pullman etc.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 3 months ago:
it used to be but they’ve been leaning heavily into corporate clients the past couple hears
- Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime 5 months ago:
Could you eli5 what frame and epoch are? I don’t get why aren’t unix timestamps a good enough way to store time, they seem pretty easy and intuitive
- Comment on I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz 5 months ago:
I sometimes read ieee spectrum for that stuff
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 5 months ago:
This is how we win
- Comment on Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon 5 months ago:
I imagine mastodon has a lot more developers so they added compatibility first
- Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe 6 months ago:
Isn’t mastodon/the fediverse sponsored by the German government? Maybe we could do something around that
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Wait are you messaging from mastodon?? Is that why the emoji won’t render
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 6 months ago:
I was reading Bruce Sterling’s book the hacker crackdown and it gives the same sense of a period of cultural freedom and possibility, but for the 80s and 90s and of how the open/freewheeling hacker culture got eaten directly by people turning to moneymaking (crime) and by government crackdowns. He even explicitly mentions how the same thing happened to the bohemian drug underground of the 60s
So I suspect this cultural pattern is kind of a regular thing, maybe mirroring our economic boom/bust cycles. Iirc both the oughts and the 60s were “on” decades while the 70s and teens had big economic crises.
For me personally the saddest instance of it is the proliferation of culture and social experimentation in the early Soviet Union followed by well, the rest of soviet history
- Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why 6 months ago:
It’ll likely happen once we move to living mostly in space (if we survive that long ofc)