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- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
“You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, and liked songs curated to reflect their taste, memories, and identity”
Instead you could track your listening habits on ListenBrainz. In doing so you safeguard yourself from Spotify ever restricting access to your data, data which they consider theirs. For ListenBrainz of course you must be willing to share your data freely, but it will be for the benefit of all, whilst if you don’t it will only be used for the benefit of Spotify corporates. You’ll help facilitate a healthy online music ecosystem, because people can built apps on top of the ListenBrainz dataset. You can get reccomdations from algorithms of your choice instead of having to rely on Spotifys algorythms.
Not working for Listenbrainz in any way, just an enthousiastic user that plugs it when he sees fit :)
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
Lol, absolutely not
care to elaborate?
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 2 weeks ago:
We need to reverse this. We need to make sure we only need to win once, to permenantly secure this. This is why constitutions exist. We need these types of things in there. I read that for instance Germany has article 10 of their Grundgesetz, which, (in this translation), states:
“(1) The privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications shall be inviolable.”
But sadly it’s being followed by:
“(2) Restrictions may be ordered only pursuant to a law. If the restriction serves to protect the free democratic basic order or the existence or security of the Federation or of a Land, the law may provide that the person affected shall not be informed of the restriction and that recourse to the courts shall be replaced by a review of the case by agencies and auxiliary agencies appointed by the legislature.”
I imagine more countries might have these half-ass measures. Laws that read '(1) X is a fundemental right and nobody can ever take it away from you. (2) except ofcourse goverment, who can do as they please’. I suppose ultimately it requires legislators to give up power, and obviously that only happens under external pressure.Currently people don’t seem to care enough to put pressure on these types of issues. I mean, if people cared, they’d move to private services, and then this would be less of an issue. It’s an issue precisely because people don’t seem to care.
So what we need people to care temporarily, and then use the momentum to get our constitutions changed. And for that we probably need a scandal, one that’s completely outrageous, while still being quite easy to understand. I don’t know if or how this would come to pass, but I wouldn’t say it’s completely unthinkable. Perhaps we also need some books, like a modern 1984, some AI-dystopia. that atleast gets cultural elites to worry about their freedom, but preferably larger parts of society.
Stay vigilant indeed.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
Why can’t people just be normal. I am being my normal self, but other people seem different. Bastard freaks.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 5 weeks ago:
School shootings kill a lot of kids (in some countries) and that’s a tragedy, but smartphones are destroying entire generations.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 month ago:
sure, it’s nice to do something about loneliness. Makes me think of human libraries, where you can borrow a human to have a talk with. But please, let’s do these things voluntarily and not for profit. There’s something nasty about “I’m only willing to speak to you if you pay me”.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 2 months ago:
LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.
That’s a fair point. I would also be very much in favor of governments subsidizing certain FOSS projects. There’s a lot of work to be done, and people certainly deserve to be paid for it too.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 2 months ago:
FOSS software will win eventually. It may take time, but if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts then a time will come where proprietary software fucks up. And when it does, FOSS is ready to take it’s place. And as soon as FOSS has become a standard in some field, why would there ever be a need to go back to proprietary?
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- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
All fun and games untill obesity sets in, probably before puberty. McDonalds tries it’s very best to instill the habit of regular fast-food consumption in to children across the world. I’m all in favor for fun and games for kids, but I get uncomfortable when you target your fast-food chain at children. Let’s just make a public playground for kids, and let’s not allow the obesity-salesmen to target kids.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 3 months ago:
I am surprised that this does not exist yet for the online food ordering market. Here in the Netherlands JustEatTakeaway has a market share of around 90% and requires restaurants to give them a 14% provision. Restaurants don’t have much of a choice, if they’re not on there they miss out on a huge part of the market, it’s like they don’t exist. Why don’t restaurants unite and develop a FOSS protocol that let’s them federate, so the consumer has a central place to browse the food delivery market, but that makes the providers independant because they can run their own instance if they please. Have these types of ideas been pitched to branche organizations? Restaurants have a clear interest to develop this to free themselves from the platforms with a monopolistic venture-capitol-driven strategy.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 6 months ago:
It took me a while to realize this is actually true. Reality is amazing.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 7 months ago:
Could someone smarter than me explain Matrix to me? In particular,
- What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?
- What advantage would it give me over other services?
- Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?
- How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 7 months ago:
I’ve been using Fennec. Any one got advise on what would be the best alternative? And please explain why.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 7 months ago:
Now could you explain it like I’m 104?
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours 7 months ago:
shorts are not my cup of tea. Pretty sure shorts have a negative impact on peoples attention span. I’d still be happy to see people watch their shorts on the Fediverse rather than at tiktok/yt. Of course, but still…
- Comment on How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up. 7 months ago:
I followed in 2021. What remains is that I use YouTube quite a lot (even though it’s through piped or yt-dlp).
- Comment on Implants 7 months ago:
Is there any particular hate against ‘live, laugh, love’ that I am missing, besides the phrase just being a bit cheesy?
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 7 months ago:
If you have a lot of money
- you contributed a lot to society- you took a lot from society If you’re a successful businessman and you want to contribute, perhaps you could lower the prices of your products, perhaps you could give shares to your employees who do all the work. Not only is it efficient for them to have a stake in the company, it’s also only fair. Not doing so is unfair. We won’t celebrate your ‘success’, a successful thief is a thief nonetheless. You doing so-called ‘philanthropy’ won’t do any good either. Money is power, you exerting your power over us isn’t the moral thing to do. What’s the logic here: perhaps it’s wrong for me to gather so much money and power, but it’s right when I exert this power of everyone? It’s still wrong to the core. Sure, people voluntarily giving money to all sorts of causes is a beautiful thing, but only if money is reasonably distributed among people in the first place. If you take money from society on a large scale and then exert this power, than undoubtedly your views and interests are disproportionately represented. Your intentions are dubious, because if you intended well, why did you keep all the money and power for yourself in the first place? But even if you’re somehow naively unaware of this and truly have the noblest of intentions with your philanthropy, then it’s still a ludicrous idea that this would be an efficient way to distribute money. It’s quite obvious that if everyone got a say in where the money goes, that the distribution of assets would better represent what society deems important. It’s only logical that if you get to distribute the money, it will go to things you deem important. If you think that makes sense, it can only mean that you deem yourself wiser, more moral, than all of humanity combined. It means you are a narcissist. It’s not unlikely that you are, people who are successful money-wise, often think that life it a money-game and they’re the winning players. And they have won because they work hard and are clever. The thing is, life isn’t a money-game, people have moral compasses and strive towards others goal than making money. And even if it was a money-game, you’ve not won because of your so smart and hard-working, it is in a very large part due to your luck. That’s not an allegation, it’s a logical fact.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 8 months ago:
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm.
