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- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 1 month ago:
We don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.
If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)
For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
I think it's the first time in my life I routinely check in on the stock value of a company, and it's pure Schadenfreude.
- Comment on Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) 1 month ago:
While most news media keeps on endlessly reporting on what politicians say, tech and law commentators by definition focus on what is being done. In a world where what is being said is not only irrelevant, but flat-out weaponized, this is the only kind of reporting that matters.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
Never gave this much thought. I've been considering subscribing for Kagi again, but basically they are paying for a Google API subscription, meaning that Google directly monetizes my Kagi searches?
To be completely honest, I'm less worried about privacy and more worried about what kind of world I'm contributing to with my internet usage. I Mullvad sends money to Google for every search, it's probably not for me.
Switched to Qwant now - rather Microsoft than Google, and at least they are working on their own engine.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
That's @Daojoan@mastodon.social, for those who can follow Mastodon handles. Worth following!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There are several mammoths (instances) peacefully grazing on the same pastures (the social web), but the pastures are also shared with other animals entirely. Perhaps they are single-user instances as no birds are landing on them; perhaps they are completely different pieces of the social web, such as Peertube or Lemmy.
Or maybe I'm over-thinking it.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 1 month ago:
There are good replies here already, but I just want to emphasize the role of bragging. It seems boasting about yourself is quite accepted and sometimes perhaps even expected in the US. In Europe it is not at all, and we tend to react strongly to it.
Whenever I've found Americans to be insufferable they've always been bragging or taking themselves too seriously.
Not all Americans obviously. And I guess a lot of Americans can't stand these people either. But it's still a common American trait that very few Europeans will have patience for.
- Comment on Perry Bible Fellowship - Offbeat surrealist webcomic 1 month ago:
Fantastic! Thank you for this. :)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:
- Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
- Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
- Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.
With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.
- Comment on Will threads affect lemmy or just mastodon? 1 month ago:
Lemmy does not display microblogs. So the only way we'd see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it's boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.
So basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it's unlikely to have a huge effect.
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 2 months ago:
Did you subscribe to it? Updates from communities are only received if at least one user is a subscribed to them, so you could probably fix this by subscribing. :)
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 2 months ago:
It could mean your mbin instance has been defederated from the Lemmy instance the community is hosted on, or that the community is hosted on an instance that has gone offline. For some reason or another, Mbin used to federate with the community, but it doesn't any more.
It could be usful to know which Mbin instance you're on, and which communities appear broken.
Also, welcome back! :)
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 2 months ago:
It seems you have accidentally found some meaning in your work, something your old self apparently couldn't imagine. Meaning is incredibly important - life is too short to sit around doing as little as possible in order to make money. Humans need meaning, and you're still human even while at work.
So you're not being stupid at all.
Where it becomes tricky is if you are offered positions with less meaning but more money/career opportunities. It's important not to be run over; meaning and wages needs to be balanced. But it seems the wages are the same here, and neither option is a health risk, so I would pick what's meaningful for you.
- Comment on A place to show us your DJ / Modular Setup! 2 months ago:
Cool! Seems like a cool niche, good luck with the community!
!DJSetups@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wouldn't the right wing of the Democratic party be pretty standard Tory?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the different interpretation of "standing out like a freak" part is more generational. He's not saying people with gender dysphoria are freaks—standing out like a freak is the feeling you have somewhere when you feel completely out of place and uncomfortable. Like if you're wearing yellow socks to a funeral. Nobody comments on it and you're not sure anyone even sees them, but you feel like you're standing out like a freak because you're constantly thinking about it and feeling out of place and as if you don't belong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That's awesome.
As for therapy before surgery, I think this is not a bad suggestion. An unbiased and professional therapist would not try to change who you are, but to see if you can learn to be happy with who you are.
Personally I'm a big fan of breaking down gender norms, and for people to say a big "fuck that" to all the expectations that comes with a specific gender. I know being trans is different, but I can't help but suspect that in some occasions (not all) feeling like not belonging to a given sex is contingent upon not so much the body itself, but the stupid-ass expectations we place upon a given gender as a society. Breaking down these norms is hard and important work in its own right, and something one could explore with a (serious) therapist before taking it to a surgeon. So in my (possibly ignorant) mind, suggesting therapy alone first is not a bad thing, though it can sound like it.
Most importantly, it seems he loves you and supports you unconditionally, and he has made a real solid (and successful) effort to understand as well. So whatever you do, it seems he'll be there for you even if it requires effort from his side. You have a good father.
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven't done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.
I'll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.