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- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 1 day ago:
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 1 day ago:
Very common to hear this. I’ve heard family that were complaining that male only, illegal immigrants are moving in to steal jobs, when they were exactly in the same situation, just on the other side, some 20 years ago. It honestly shakes my hope in humanity.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 4 days ago:
$800 million according to labor theory of value. 0$ million according to subjective theory of value
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 week ago:
There’s plenty:
forbes.com/…/musk-retweets-hitler-didnt-murder-mi…
But this is the most I am willing to engage at the moment with an obvious troll
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly the dismissive attitude that has shaped Mastodon development, and why it will never have broad appeal to replace any traditional social media.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
The article cites a case of online harassment from right wingers towards an immigration friendly politician that was ultimately shot. Are you seriously using this in defense of “but muh free speech?!”
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 3 weeks ago:
Of course it’s made in Rust! (the backend)
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 weeks ago:
“How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?”
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- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 weeks ago:
This is not a “pay for verification” model. Have you even read the article or anything related to it? It is literally not centralized, it’s web of trust.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 weeks ago:
“Everyone should be able to setup their own domain and mess with DNS records to get a verified account”
Do you realize how utterly disconnected from reality this sounds?? Technical people that have absolutely not clue on how make good UX for end users is how we got Mastodon in the first place, and why its adoption is abysmal.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 weeks ago:
This is just a web of trust model, aka a decentralized model of verification. This thread is mostly people that haven’t read the details that want to confirm that “Bluesky has been enshittified”.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? This is a web of trust model, literally a decentralized model. Not everyone on social media needs to have technical skills to verify via DNS records, verified links etc. If you want a community that gatekeeps for for computer engineers only, you already have Mastodon.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
Wait, TVs have cameras now? That sounds super creepy
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
That is why I said design and not implemented and perfectly working
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
They are fundamentally different, the whole ActivityPub federation vs ATProtocol decentralization has been talked to death in technical detail.
Yes, migration of a user account from one instance to another would be complicated… but … so would migrating a user from one PDS to another.
Not true. Bluesky has PDS migration in its design. In ActivityPub it is simply not possible
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
For relays yes, but for PDS that’s not at all true. The PDS architecture lets you own your data and migrate it away from Bluesky servers or even from the BS apps, when/if they will be available. Something that ActivityPub severely lacks. Try to migrate your account from one Lemmy instance to another.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
That Relay chokepoint is a serious architecture flaw, even for the central company running it (Bluesky). They might fix it in the future, but I doubt it’s high priority for them.
In July 2024, running a Relay on ATProto already required 1 terabyte of storage. But more alarmingly, just a four months later in November 2024, running a relay now requires approximately 5 terabytes of storage dustycloud.org/…/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
The cost of running a full-network, fully archiving relay has increased over time. After recent growth, our out-of-box relay implementation (bigsky) requires on the order of 16 TBytes of fast NVMe disk, and that will grow proportional to content in the network. We have plans and paths forward to reducing costs (including Jetstream and other tooling). whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
That’s sound in theory, but app developers don’t really test on low end phones, so the apps tend to get more and more bloated as time goes by. As soon as you need something with a map, you’re pretty much fucked. Looking at all the hiking maps that just get progressively worse without adding anything that I care for.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 1 month ago:
Next revolution will be like:
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
It takes massive courage to give up a cozy job at Microsoft and potentially damage your entire career to stand up for your values this way. Props to her!
- Comment on EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network 1 month ago:
It’s never enough. Companies that make this much money just write it off as the cost of doing business.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 month ago:
But muh innovation! How are genius CEOs supposed to innovate if they can’t use the public at large as guinea pigs??
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 month ago:
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 month ago:
The rock was clearly designed by an omnipotent God, and can’t be the product of chance
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 month ago:
A cynical explanation would be using the EEE theory to explain all of this.
A more nuanced one would be that corporations benefit from open source since it creates an easier pipeline to onboard engineers and they also benefit from the free labor that people put into the projects out of passion. Whether they want to kill OSS after embracing it is debatable, but they definitely want to have as much leverage on it as possible.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 month ago:
Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft. And Rust since heavy ties to Amazon. Actually, just to spare you the time, avoid programming altogether and do something like farming, since no Big Tech influence there. /s
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
He did. Free speech for bigots that is.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 month ago:
I wonder why all these high profile people are so fascinated with a dictator that oversaw the transformation of a republic into an empire. Just like fascists were/are. Must be just a coincidence! Just like that Musk salute from the heart.
