Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090 1 hour ago:
Shit mine was 1/3 of that haha
- Comment on NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ | An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.” 2 hours ago:
That’s how he fixed COVID. Stop the testing and COVID goes away, right?
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 9 hours ago:
Money? Is it money? reads article
For Meta, it’s all about the money.
Shocking.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 10 hours ago:
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. You realize VW was founded by Nazis?
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 13 hours ago:
Crazy that subreddits that revolve around blatant public racism could be so awful!
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 day ago:
Lemmy is simply not the place for that sort of communication.
My recommendation would be SimpleX.
- Comment on Some observations about podcasting in 2025 1 day ago:
Why overnight?
Why not?
there’s nothing I can do
I’m not asking you to do anything except recognize the threat that Spotify poses to the entire industry.
- Comment on Self host websites 1 day ago:
Well I hope everyone here has some experience.
I spent $200 on a mini PC. The only thing business is essentially a landing page.
Yunohost handles the security and really the majority of technical stuff for me but it’s still going to require some learning. I’m happy to help as much as I can.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
B-b-but the corporations promised!
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
No.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 1 day ago:
Sure, any number of ways they can claw value away from consumers.
- Comment on Some observations about podcasting in 2025 1 day ago:
Sure but the more market share they gain, the more podcasts you’ll lose. We’re only lucky that YouTube and Apple still give them a run for their money.
- Comment on Some observations about podcasting in 2025 1 day ago:
Yeah
- Comment on Some observations about podcasting in 2025 1 day ago:
They would lose a lot of listeners doing that.
They would lose some and gain many others. They wouldn’t be the first platform to gain from exclusivity.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 1 day ago:
Openvibe is backed by Automatic so zero chance it doesn’t become shit. But you can just switch when it does, I suppose.
- Comment on Some observations about podcasting in 2025 1 day ago:
Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.
Will it though? What if your favorite creator decides they want to use Spotify to host because of their popularity and free hosting, but then they decide they don’t want to support RSS anymore?
- Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds 1 day ago:
How does this prevent anyone from participating?
OPs issue is not solved by private instances because it cuts off contact entirely.
…I mean that sounds like the entire point of what you’re proposing? I guess I’m still confused but I will agree that BlueSky-style custom feeds would be a super-nice addition to any social platform.
- Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds 1 day ago:
If you don’t want everyone to be allowed to participate, then you’re simply using the wrong platform. Lemmy also supports private instances.
- Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds 1 day ago:
OP wants instances to gather people that share similar interests or beliefs so that his/her browsing experience is shaped by this choice in a natural manner.
That’s what communities are for. Like…I don’t understand.
- Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds 1 day ago:
there’s no algorithm
There are several algorithms to choose from. OP is upset because they don’t like the default one. They don’t seem to understand that they can change it.
What’s suggested here is to have some sort of sort/scaling that would assign higher weight to votes from local instance.
But why?
promotes decentralisation
Decentralization is not the same thing as fragmentation. What you and OP are suggesting is the latter.
- Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds 1 day ago:
I don’t know why you would want that.
- Comment on "Whatsapp Contacts Bypasser": Open a chat in Whatsapp using only a phone number! 1 day ago:
Thing about Whatsapp is, your need a phone number to contact them. And that phone number works just as well for calling and SMS. So yes, it is.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 day ago:
Well I know someone tried it against Valve and they ended up removing the requirement.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 day ago:
That’s not what I asked.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 days ago:
Really? Who are you going to sue here? And how much money do you think you can sue them for?
- Comment on Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash 2 days ago:
We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.
Sorry but we are better off. I love his videos but his presence is toxic. Some people just love to argue and he is one of them.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 2 days ago:
I scheduled a doctor’s appointment recently and they were confused when I opted out of SMS notifications. They were shocked when I whipped out my calendar to type the appointment in. 😅
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 days ago:
Doesn’t matter if you should or not. Point is you accept it or you don’t use any service whatsoever.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 days ago:
I agree. But we weren’t discussing hypotheticals, we were discussing reality.
- Comment on "Whatsapp Contacts Bypasser": Open a chat in Whatsapp using only a phone number! 2 days ago:
Inform those people that you don’t use it, and inform them of the alternatives. Boom, problem solved.