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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

  It's just Facebook sucking really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.

  If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.

  Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It's an original piece of writing.

  The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They're right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Might not be easier, but if there are unforeseen problems at this point maybe it doesn't make sense to prioritize the launch of 14 when they'll immediately have to start catching up to 15.

  Fairphone maintains a stock version of Google Android. They've teamed up with Murena to offer Fairphones sold with /e/OS, but they're not responsible for software updates on those devices. My Fairphone 5 with /e/OS is still based on Android 13, for what it's worth. I guess that might change with the launch of /e/OS 3.0 in June.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I'm from you'll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn't want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won't be street legal in Europe anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.

  Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.

  Ask Copilot: "What’s this code doing?"
  It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.

  So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:

  • Great with syntax
  • Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
  • Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
  • Horrible at nuance.
  • Useless without supervision.
  • Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it's a bit bombastic as a point 2.

  What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities "are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state". I'll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from !europe@feddit.org half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.

  I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don't want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don't have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don't have your plane any more.

  I think it's pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it's possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don't exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don't have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:

  insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.
  Funny what banning protests does to a country.

  So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:

  The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.

  To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for "derailing".

  Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got banned from !europe@feddit.org at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think maybe it does, but I'm a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can't use I'll just accept that I won't be using them at this point. Their loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn't access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.

  Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I'm rocking /e/OS and I'm pretty sure there is no way I'm ever going back to Google Android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it like?

  For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.

  The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.

  As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?

  You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.

  The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.

  Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

  Traffic fines are not there to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don't trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I'm trying to say, but I'm somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.

  I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.

  Also, I guess the demography of the communities you're in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I'll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, "leasing to all mines" of freaky autocorrects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially if they don't take themselves oversly seriously.

  Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.

  I think we should always suspect bad actors in cases like this, and investigate thoroughly. It's too easy of a scam with too much money to be made.

  Maybe there is nobody to blame. But assuming so just seems incredibly naive to me considering the amount of bad actors and the ease of pulling a stunt like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Money is not lost in finance markets, it is redistributed. Reading any of this as random and/or unintentional is beyond naive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no doubt we will!

  While we still doesn't have all kinds of active niche communities over here, it is incredible how much the community has grown since I first came here. And that's not really all that long ago.

  Thanks for joining us! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, sorry, it's in the context of what Elena Rossini writes about the limitations of the mobile app.

  As PeerTube draws content from independent servers, it's hard for them to comply with the content policies of Google and Apple. The PeerTube app you can find in the App Store or Google Play Store therefore only contains content from a very short list of whitelisted PeerTube instances, where Apple or Google have accepted content from these instances to be presented in their app ecosystems.

  F-Droid doesn't have such limitations, and as a result the stuff you'll find in the F-Droid app is the same as you'll find in https://sepiasearch.org/ .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's worth stressing that you can get around Google's totalitarian restrictions by installing PeerTube from F-droid.

  If you're on Android, you should probably consider using F-droid whenever possible anyway. Personally I like Droid-ify, which is an F-droid client with a nice interface.

  If you're on iPhone, you're out of luck. The EU might eventually come to the rescue of European users. American iPhone users will probably not be surprised to learn that they are shit out of luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Information here is public.

  That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.