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• New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talkswww.oxfam.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like everything Republicans claim to stand for is a hollow lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When a company gets criticized for everything it does, its decline increases significantly.

  Gives me hope for the future of MS then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, between how clearly French people routinely and thoroughly let it be known that they will not be fucked with by their leadership and shit like this, if I win the lottery and get rich enough for some country to let me escape from the white nationalist oligarchy of the US, France is looking pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being so far away with a huge military insulates us from the consequences of our actions abroad.

  Until it doesn’t, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit posts to Los Angeles. Literal fascist Nazi traitor behind illegal invasion visits our city. Post this shit to a state jail.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ffs this is not twitter, the point of communities is you don’t have to read about topics you don’t care,

  I know! It’s super annoying when people do not conform to the stated rules of the community they post in!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.

  So they want to let the plagiarism-machine conduct war now? Cool cool cool.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I can tell you how Jellyfin differs from a directory full of files, but I can’t help you with understanding that other people have different preferences and desires than you.

  You’ll have to make it to that one on your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are imagining how to use a computer filled with video files.

  Now imagine having your own personal netflix available on a variety of devices, using just that one computer full of video files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Emby

  Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.

  So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.

  At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.

  I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)

  And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)

  No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.

  Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Odd, since my Jellyfin sits behind a reverse proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I spent all of 2020 watching police escalate and beat protesters, all with maga yip yapping about cities “burned to the ground” and insisting that what I saw with my own eyes was not what I saw with my own eyes.

  Won’t ever look at cops the same again. I was already beginning to realize they weren’t like I was raised to believe (in the bubble of privilege I grew up in) but 2020 made a lasting, permanent change.

  I treat every single interaction with police, no matter how casual, like an event to be exited as soon as possible, and as if it could turn violent at any moment.

  Police testimony without bodycame will = hearsay when next I’m called for jury duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They gotta feed the “he was no saint” narrative. (Not that I, nor anyone else, ever said he was…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loose fit for this community? Maybe. Never hurts to have a reminder though, given that Trump is undoing all the federal police reforms proposed as a result.

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• George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...slrpnk.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be some debate on that, but he definitely wrote a song in 2017 that should have been released a couple of months ago. 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, thanks?

• Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube)slrpnk.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s dedication to one’s self-sabotage.

  Self-sabotage? This will be the best sex that person ever had, or, something.

  Grossman says that after finishing their shift, a cop says, “Gunfight, bad guys down, I’m alive” and goes on to have “the best sex … in months.” He says, “Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex” and that “there’s not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. If you find one, relax and enjoy it.”

• Fire ASMR 🔥 (12 Hours) Cozy Burning Plantation Sounds for Relaxation and Studyslrpnk.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Think Squid Game.

• Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prizewww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t feel it’s substantially changed, you’ve just added more detail. You don’t need to care about my opinion though, and I’m not suggesting you should; I’m just sharing how I see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think it doesn’t matter. We live in an economy designed to suck every possible penny from every person and pay them the least amount it possibly can, to ensure the enrichment of the 1%

  Someone wants to keep a few more bucks in their pocket rather than spend more in some principled stance that will change absolutely nothing anyhow, I’m not going to judge them for it. Life fucking sucks for just about everyone in the US right now, to varying degrees. On the list of things I might judge my fellow man for, that seems ludicrously privileged and self centered.

  You don’t get to decide who is poor enough for it to be “OK” for them to buy the cheap tier. I mean, sure, you do get to have that opinion of course, but man I’m sorry I think you are really kind of a jerk to have this attitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The publishing world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally the reason the cover exists. To entice you to judge it positively and pick up the book for a closer look.

  Whenever I hear anyone say that, I conclude it’s one of those things that somehow meant something slightly different when the phrase was coined. Either that or we’re all just a bunch of goobers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re angry that the poor are choosing the cheap option (🤔) because it helps the wealthy win? You’re righteously indignant because they ignored that “Doing without is an option” and decided to spend some entertainment dollars in a way of their own choosing?

  Ok, but I don’t really find that very convincing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is straight up victim blaming.

• I love that maga will get the day they voted for and deserve. I hate that they dragged all the rest of us in with them.slrpnk.net ↗
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