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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The middle ground is the middle ground between user freedom and corporate control. Which is not a spectrum you want to be in the middle of.

  This is like getting a pay rise that’s below inflation. That’s a pay cut. And this is a loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’ve installed apps with adb install file.apk, your point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they meant a smartphone with a desktop OS installed on it (eg Linux phones), not just “phone that looks kinda like a laptop but still uses Android”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to be so euphemistic. If you’re just downloading, piracy is not really investigated rigorously anywhere. Just using a VPN is sufficient. You can talk openly about it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wear them daily, then weekly. So about once every 5–7 wears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People like it because it has a creamy, refreshing texture, and a subtle flavour. Try toasting a slice of sourdough bread and smearing avocado on it. Top with sesame seeds if you can get them, and salt and pepper. Or you can try it on things, like people have it with chilli (not the peppers, the Mexican dish). Avocado with white rice is also nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s concerning. If it was “I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself” I’d be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don’t generate up to scratch code quality…

  I won’t use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I’ll have to switch to another UP provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody can defy the laws of thermodynamics, but some people can be genetically predisposed to being fatter, just as some people are genetically predisposed to being taller. Plenty of skinny people (myself included) can eat through loads of fatty fried foods and not put on a single kg. Meanwhile you see a fat person eating all salads and they get told maybe they should eat fewer salads.

  And even if it were entirely down to what you eat, calling it an issue of willpower is just insulting. Do you think people struggling with drug addiction just have a willpower issue? If OP is in the US (which I’m assuming she is from the described healthcare system), the food there is designed to be practically addictive and unhealthy. I doubt OP has a diet of cheeseburgers and doritos—it wouldn’t make sense for someone trying to lose weight to eat like that—but if she did, that’s clearly a social issue of both fast food companies under capitalism, availability of healthy food, and a US food culture centred around destroying your arteries. Sure, a drug addict could simply physically not pick up the needle, but they can hardly be blamed for doing so when there is an obvious material reason for them doing so, ie a chemical addiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The car-centric culture of many places (especially the US, but it does apply in basically all of the industrialised world to varying degrees) is due to infrastructural factors. If a country is designed to be navigated by car, then you need a car to participate in that society. That’s why people want cars.

  Things like the freedom of having a car are also from social factors. A lot of people learn to drive as teenagers, and want to escape the patriarchal environment of the family, hence a car provides freedom. In a world where children are socially raised and the family is abolished, teenagers don’t seek to escape from the family. And, of course, a car can be a way of providing freedom because other means of freedom of movement don’t exist—a lack of accommodation for disabled people to get around, a lack of public transport and safe cycle routes, etc.

  Most people wouldn’t want to give up their car for those reasons. If we just got rid of all cars without addressing any of these issues, I’m sure most people would be unhappy about it. So if that’s what you’re suggesting, plenty of people do stand to lose. But if we address the issues that make cars the only option for a lot of people, I don’t think the average person would care. Car enthusiasts can still have their cars, but it becomes a hobby or lifestyle choice, like people who have a boat. And car haters would most certainly be a lot happier too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My weight varies around 50kg and there was a stretch of a few years where I tried bulking up to put on muscle. I found it very difficult and only got up to about 65kg where I plateaued (and it was damn difficult to get to that point—required an annoying amount of calorie-counting). I think my body is just naturally averse to putting on weight. It naturally follows that there are some people with the inverse problem, where their bodies naturally want to keep fat. I have friends who say they have this problem, and I have no reason to believe they’re lying; they know I wouldn’t judge if they just said they like eating and don’t feel like changing. There’s 8 billion people on Earth and plenty of genetic diversity among us. Of all the fat people in the world, you really think every single one of them is incapable of simply eating less? Or do you think I’m too stupid to decide to eat more food? Come on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are different server implementations. I run tuwunel and haven’t had problems. It seems about as performant on my VPS (8GB RAM, 4 CPUs at 2.4 GHz, hosting other services not just tuwunel) as matrix.org was when I used that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They get trained. Think about humans for example. There’s lots of stuff we don’t think twice about doing that aren’t necessarily things we would naturally do; they’re taught to us socially and we get used to them as part of life. Horses were domesticated, firstly selectively bred to be friendlier to humans and faster, but secondly they still get trained to form a bond with humans and to do what humans want them to do. They get used to being ridden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On duckduckgo.com it’s unfortunately enabled by default though. You have to go out of your way to set your search browser to noai.duckduckgo.com if you want default AI disabled (which you’ll want on e.g. private browsing windows/any browser that autodeletes cookies when you close it). It’s extra hassle because most privacy web browsers use DDG by default, not the noai subdomain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf is wrong with being a former heroin addict? I know plenty of drug users and former drug users who aren’t fascist shitstains and are actually pleasant people. Also like, you’re going after him for being a former addict? God forbid someone be in a bad place in life and luckily manage to recover from it… Addiction, a health condition, just morally scars you for life then? Would you say that about someone who recovered from cancer? Fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat someone out while being eaten out. Same effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever tried to run an LLM locally? It makes CPU usage go way up, uses a lot of RAM, etc. It would tank game performance and/or require beefier PCs.

  Games already have had AI for a long time, but the kind of AI you’re talking about would be far more computationally expensive than what they currently use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying astroturfing doesn’t happen, but I don’t think it’d be worth investing into a bot farm just to leave low-quality social media comments for a political agenda. I’d be surprised if the practice is widespread. There are plenty of things intelligence services do that are more effective at achieving their goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are bots that openly advertise themselves as such. Less common on Lemmy than Reddit but I’ve seen a few.

  undercover bots pushing agendas

  Do we have any real evidence these exist? I only see very spurious accusations of being a bot directed towards communists and other left-wingers, particularly towards racialised people and colonised people. I’d be both sceptical of their widespread existence and of their efficacy at effecting any kind of political change even if they did exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. I have worked for nonprofits and know a lot of people who do. Word of mouth/connections with people already working there is a good way to find relatively decent NGO work. You would likely be paid near minimum wage though, it’s true, but a lot of NGOs do have well-meaning people who try to make a difference working at the lower levels; they normally have a bureaucratic layer that sucks but your actual coworkers are normally quite sound if you can find the right job. And some NGOs still do overall decent work even if the leadership sucks; they aren’t revolutionary organisations by any means, but when you’re looking at jobs, you’d be comparing them to some generic corporate job which sucks more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you can still look elsewhere in the nonprofit sector. It doesn’t have to be a law firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could look for another job in the nonprofit sector. Your past experience will help you. You’ve not said what your specialisation is or what exactly you do—if you’re a lawyer and want to keep lawyer-ing, I suppose you could look for another nonprofit law firm, or something like a human rights law firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti Spam - Anything better than SpamAssassin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use SpamAssassin. It’s fine, but definitely needs training. I might look into migrating to rspamd as it seems better, but I don’t have time atm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mount an ISO in Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commands are normally not considered “code” on their own. Someone who just runs commands on their computer to get a few operations done will normally not learn any programming constructs or concepts. If you’re doing shell scripting that usually crosses the line into code as you’d be using if statements, for loops, etc, which you normally don’t use if you’re just moving files around or whatever in the shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the outside, I just use an antibac wipe. For the ports and grills, I bought a set of anti-static tweezers for this purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just an archive. No different from using the wayback machine or any other archive of web content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People play games for different reasons. A lot of people play games to relax, and challenge themselves doing serious stuff. It’s literally fine for things like cheats to exist (and there’s no such thing as cheating for singleplayer games anyway). If someone wants to make their singleplayer game easier, or to skip a particularly hard section, or whatever, it doesn’t affect anyone else in any way, so let them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m baffled by how many people are saying they experience this. This has never been a problem for me. I thought conventional wisdom was that food tastes better when it’s your own cooking, and I’ve definitely found that to be true for me personally. Not that I’m an amazing cook but I think the cooking process helps me appreciate what has gone into the food and makes it appear better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone in the US also feeling extra suicidal after hearing the news today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck are you suicidal if you’re in the US? You’re not the ones being invaded. Talk about making things about yourself. You should be sabotaging your country’s war efforts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just keep it as is. But yeah, sounds like your board wasn’t oiled properly. Rub some mineral oil into it and leave to dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How open are you about yourself to others online in general?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Semi-private as well. I try to have completely separate identities on different websites that aren’t easily linked to each other, and each different identity has different “boundaries” on what I will share about myself. e.g. on some websites I share what country I live in, some I don’t. On some websites I specify my gender, on some I don’t. Tbh I don’t think I specify my age anywhere because I started using the internet as a kid and got used to never stating my age—still feels wrong today as an adult.

  That all being said, I do still have varying things I’m open about in different contexts to enable me to have conversations about topics I want to have conversations about. I don’t state anything my government doesn’t know though (unless it’s completely irrelevant/useless for them to know).