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- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
It took me a while to realize this is actually true. Reality is amazing.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Now could you explain it like I’m 104?
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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! 1 month 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. 1 month 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.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
good luck finding one with a decent resolution AND price. That raises the question: is there one that has decent resolution and privacy, but is expensive? Those of us who can afford it should surely go for the privacy friendly option regardless of price. Boycotting the surveillance society that’s in full development is worth a lot.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Youtube isn’t just a thing people use to waste time
I fully agree, didn’t mean to imply it’s just that. But it’s also that.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Direct payment to creators seems like the most simple and efficient method.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
That’s a fair point. There’s a million things you could do, and watching videos on YT is just one of them. Watching videos online has become a large part of peoples lives. Surely it has a lot to offer, but we should probably not forget it also replaces a lot of things, things we would spent are time on otherwise, if we didn’t have YT as an easy time-drain, and those other things are presumably equally rewarding or more so.
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 2 months ago:
Elon Musk
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
This made me look up the wikipedia page on Bushism and I must say it’s beautiful! Thanks :)
- Comment on Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace 2 months ago:
I would love for this to become successful! I am assuming it’s not in any great state yet, but the decentralized future is waiting for us !
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
What a great site, I’ll definitely be sharing it with some (naive) friends and colleagues :)
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 2 months ago:
What people think when they haven’t heard of the Fediverse.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
Off topic: I’d argue Love Exposure by Sion Sono is the best movie ever made.
- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 4 months ago:
We don’t want your shitty products :)
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Most people who make art don’t make any money from it. Some make a little bit of money. A small number of people can afford a living just by making art, and just a fraction of that actually get most of the money that’s being earned by artists, and then of course there is a lot of money that’s being paid for art that never reaches the artist. The business as it is is not working very well for anyone except for some big media companies. The complete lack of commercial success hasn’t stopped a lot of artists, it won’t stop them in the future. Thank god, because it wouldn’t be the first time that after decades of no commercial success whatsoever such an outsider is discovered by the masses. Sure, lack of commercial success has stopped others, but that’s happening now just as it will happen without copyright laws. If donating to artists out of free will would be the norm, and people knew that that’s the main source of income for certain types of artists, then I’m sure a lot of people would do so. And aside from private donations there could be governments and all sorts of institutions financing art. And if someone still can’t make a living, then still none of that could legitimize copyright in my view. We should strive for a world where everyone that wants to follow up on their creative impulses has time and opportunity to do so, irrespective of their commercial success. But there should also be unrestricted access to knowledge, ideas, art, etc. Brilliant research, photography or music shouldn’t be reserved for those who can afford access. The public domain should be the norm so that our shared project of human creativity can reach maximum potential. Copyright seems to me to be a rather bizarre level of control over the freedom of others. It’s making something public for others to see, but then telling these people you’re not allowed to be inspired by it, you can’t take a free copy to show others, you can’t take the idea and do with it as you please. It’s severely limiting us culturally, it’s harming human creativity. And at the same time it’s hypocritical. Artistic ideas are often completely based of the ideas of others, everyone can see that the output is the result of a collective effort. The Beatles didn’t invent pop music, they just made some songs, precisely copying all that came before them, and then added a tiny bit of their own. And that’s not a criticism, that’s how human creativity functions. That’s what people should strive for. To limit copying, is to limit humanity in it’s core. Again, human creativity is very clearly a collective effort. But despite this fact, when someone gets successful suddenly it’s a personal achievement and they are allowed to ask for a lot of money for it. Well my answer is, yes they are allowed to ask, and I am very willing to pay, but they shouldn’t be allowed to go beyond asking, they shouldn’t be allowed to restrict access of something that has been published.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Yes, that would be best.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
That’s right. They can put their art up for sale, but if someone wants to take a free copy nothing should be able to stop them.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
That’s an opinion you can have, but I can just as well hold mine, which is that restricting any form of copying is unnatural and harmful to society.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
I don’t like AI but I hate intellectual property. And the people that want to restrict AI don’t seem to understand the implications that has. I am ok with copying as a think copyright is a load of bullocks. But they aren’t even reproducing the content verbatim are they? They’re ‘taking inspiration’ if you will, transforming it into something completely different. Seems like fair use to me. It’s just that people hate AI, and hate the companies behind it, and don’t get me wrong, rightfully so, but that shouldn’t get us all to stop thinking critically about intellectual property laws.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Is it true that there is no truly independent web browser or are there others?
- Comment on How France Adopts An Open Source-Based Education Strategy – Free of Big Tech 4 months ago:
Imagine what learning would be like if teachers and others from all over the world collaborated in making the best possibles resources for learning, programmers created the best tools that would present all these teachings in all sorts of ways, whatever suits you best. And all of that would be in the public domain so anyone from all over the world, rich or poor could use it to learn. It seems such a big opportunity and once we start building it would only get better over time. Good to hear France gets it.
- Comment on chair.exe 4 months ago:
such a lovely design. I love things that stack perfectly.
- Comment on geoengineering 6 months ago:
There are more scenarios in which humanity will run itself in to the ground, we could survive for another while but I’m definitely not certain.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 7 months ago:
I’m wondering the same thing. Is this coincidence?