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- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know about these radio broadcasts, but I did use to buy (pirated) games on cassette tape to load on my (unlicensed) ZX spectrum clone using my mini-boombox. Good times. :)
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’m still considering my options. Mint is in the list of possibilities.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’m a semi-newbie, thinking about going with Debian, but just about to test it on a VM right now.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
No doubt. I’ve been exploring Linux distros all day today.
- Comment on A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network. 4 weeks ago:
The irony of an EDM DJ hating on LGBTQ+ and POC. What the hell?
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse:
The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.[5][6]
You would have to look at those citations to see how authoritative they are.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 1 month ago:
The best I can think of off hand is to look at the mobile apps that are designed to interact with traditional forums, because they will have directories of all the ones that are integrated with them. For example, Tapatalk and Fora Communities. You should be able to find thousands of forums categorized in those apps? I’ve never used these apps myself, but have heard of them.
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 1 month ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don’t think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don’t know how that works on sites that currently do this though.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 2 months ago:
This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don’t read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
I don’t watch sports much, but I think I’ve heard multiple times of certain games being played locally not being available at all on TV due to black outs. I could be wrong though.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Good point!
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Sure, I agree with that, but I didn’t say they were socialist sports leagues, only that that they had “socialistic policies”. Perhaps if I had written ‘“socialistic” concepts’ it would have been a bit more clear.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Absolutely! Those corporations also love hobbling or getting rid of any honest competition through mergers, acquisitions, regulatory capture, non-compete agreements, and endless other mechanisms.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
That’s a lot more understandable and less controversial though. I don’t think you could properly operate a military force without having a level playing field for everyone.
Come to think about it, it’s almost like no complex system involving humans is bound to work well without having a level playing field for everyone. 🤔
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Yes, thank you, that’s the quote I had in mind!
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Wait until you hear about how you cannot pay to watch all the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL games in your market on a streaming service. Unless something has very recently changed, there’s no method of legitimately paying where you won’t still experience blackouts.
Yikes, I hadn’t even thought of that! There are some local games where the only way to watch if you live in that city is to buy a ticket to go to the stadium, right?
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Good point!
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Good point!
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Absolutely! It should also be applied to society in the US and everywhere.
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- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Good to know, thanks. I haven’t worked with btrfs much yet. I have ZFS on a Debian server.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
There’s an old saying with ZFS: “Friends don’t let friends dedupe”
That’s a bad example to reference. The ZFS implementation of deduplication is poorly thought out, and I say that even though I like and run ZFS on my own Linux server(s). I understand that the BTRFS implementation of dedupe works well (no first-hand experience), and the Windows one works great (first-hand experience).
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
Awesome, thank you!
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Oh, I hear you!
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
I can definitely imagine all that. Thanks!
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
I don’t envy either party either. You’re welcome!
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
I don’t have any resources handy, but I do know someone who this happened to: they were an immigrant who got an SSN the first time they migrated to the US, went back to live in their country for a number of years, then returned to the US and I guess applied for an SSN again. Voilá, two SSNs and a mess.