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- Comment on Tech stocks tumble as a Chinese competitor threatens to upend the AI industry; Nvidia down 17% 2 days ago:
Yup, I bought $4 more worth of Nvidia.
You can tell when I do investments I play with the big boys
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 2 days ago:
The censorship goes way beyond obvious stuff like taiwan.
Ask DeepSeek "What is a tankie?" and see what happens.
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- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 2 weeks ago:
I had trouble believing you at first so I hunted down the study to verify. You're completely right!
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy has moderators and admins which remove CSAM. Plebbit was intentionally built in such a way that no one can remove anything. Extensive discussion of this at the OP's original post https://lemmy.world/post/23704373. Ctrl-F for "censorship"
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
Something tells me the "I don't host CSAM I just host posts that embed CSAM (from other hosts)" argument won't hold up in court.
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 4 weeks ago:
https://beehaw.org doesn't federate with lemmy.world which cuts them off from most of Lemmy-space.
- Comment on Fan Made Dreamcast Port Of GTA 3 Steals The Show 4 weeks ago:
Heavy nostalgia with this one
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 4 weeks ago:
The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.
There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.
Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 2 months ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 2 months ago:
Yes it primarily federates with Lemmy and Mbin. See https://join.PieFed.social/features for a comparison.
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 2 months ago:
Getting full Mastodon interop in PieFed is going to be a long road. I urge you to bite off a smaller piece to chew until you get comfortable - Https://join.piefed.soxial
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 2 months ago:
Yeah there are multiple ignored GitHub issues about Mastodon's federation of replies, going back many years. It's never getting fixed. This realisation sent me on a multi-week quest to find a platform that does replies properly. Akkoma and Friendica seem better at replies but have other shortcomings.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 months ago:
Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
I use my searxng instance several times a day.
DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can't browse anything.
I also selfhost a moderately successful SaaS that I built. It's essential to me that it's available to my customers although I don't use it personally.
- Comment on Tidal is laying off more staff. 2 months ago:
I've had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It's recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because 'artists' have gamed the system.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
ok so the monkeys need to type faster
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
TikTok quantified the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos.
Kentucky authorities note that while it might seem a lot, TikTok videos can be just a few seconds long.
“Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform,” the state investigators concluded.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-28040/teens-tiktok-addiction-lawsuit-investigation-documents
- Comment on Does hair in food carry any health risks? 3 months ago:
It's not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.
- Comment on Launching c/Latvija, the community for Latvia on the Fediverse! Calling all Latvians and those interested in Latvia and the Baltic countries to join and support us. 3 months ago:
!latvija@lemmy.world
- Comment on Add any RSS feed to any Lemmy community 3 months ago:
Really great tool, thanks! A few questions...
In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?
Is the full process:
- create account on rss.ponder cat
- create community using new account
- send message to add rss feed(s)
Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?
Does each message need to have only one command?
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 3 months ago:
We're working on it :)
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 3 months ago:
Half of them use their real name. Also a lot of them are sharing links to content they've posted using their personal FB account or whatever. They don't even try to have any opsec because they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 3 months ago:
All this talk of encryption and sopenas is mostly pointless - all the police need to do is join any of the Telegram channels and see the evidence for themselves, like in this case - https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350438242/man-who-wanted-build-gallows-hear-jacinda-arderns-neck-snap-guilty-threats-kill
No doubt there are private channels but there's absolutely no shortage of criminal stuff happening out in the open.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 3 months ago:
Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I'm sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 3 months ago:
There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 3 months ago:
Middle Eastern money
Something tells me the Saudis don't want AI for the betterment of *all* humanity.
Could be the human rights abuses, dunno.
- Comment on Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) 3 months ago:
I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:
fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibilityI think she's obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There's certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they're constructed I don't feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.
It's hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that's a value tho - diversity.
There's a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it's best, this is a "people before economy" value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.
The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?
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