TacticalCheddar

@TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  /e/os is a security dumpster fire. It’s even worse than stock Android. Stay away from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s a financial reason for this. I think he’s willing to lose money on his AI in the short time by doing this just so he can score some points with Trump since the EU is soon going to strike his company with even more fines for breaking EU law. He probably wants Trump to stop this from happening and this kind of stuff tickles the pickle of that dingus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change?

  I never said that. I said that to the general public he may appear as more credible based on his behavior when adressing the issue compared to Greta which would undermine environmental efforts. This is what I’m concerned about.

  I can’t imagine a world where you’re calling that “petulant”. At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn’t done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?

  Ok, usually I welcome debates, but I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this so I think it’s better that we stop here. Before finishing off, I would like to clarify one more time that I’m not a climate change denier. I just don’t like the way Greta and others like her operate since it’s my belief that their aggressiveness undermines the movement and increases the risk of turning people into reactionaries. That’s my opinion. I’m entitled to it just as much as you’re entitled to your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a useful chart comparing all the popular cloud and email providers - eylenburg.github.io/cloud_comparison.htm

  I use Tuta and I’m very satisfied with their services. It offers end-to-end encryption, it’s open source and it’s user friendly. The most common complaint you’ll hear from people about them is that they don’t offer IMAP. Personally I don’t mind it that much. It really depends on what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was “screaming” and “blaming people” when she was 11 years old.

  Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.

  Fully agreed.

  She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions

  I don’t agree. I saw her speak and the reactions to some of her speeches. Her inflamatory and derogatory speeches did nothing more than help opponents of the energy transition. To give you an example, when asked about it during an interview Putin jumped at the opportunity to discredit the energy transition. While the public saw Great behaving like a petulant child during the speech, they then saw Putin speaking calmy, asking real questions like “How are poor nations going to transition when they need cheap fossils to sustain themselves?”. They then take this bit and plaster it on every social media site. People see it and are inclined to take Putin’s side since he appears more knowledgeable and in control of himself.

  This is why I don’t like activists like her and the author of this article. They do more harm than good by expressing themselves in such a violent manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “listen to the experts who have been screaming at you for 50 years.”

  That would be fine provided that it’s done correctly and civilized. Which is my point. Raising awarness is fine.Throwing insults loudly left and right to raise awareness is not. It only makes you seem delusional and sheds a bad light on your cause. This allows climate change deniers to take advantage of that to further their agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We fully transition to clean energy like nuclear and build more power plants to allow us to store our online stuff.

  The author of this article is not a serious person. He’s in the same bucket as Greta Thurnberg. They just like to scream and blame people instead of providing practical solutions. It’s frankly tiring to hear them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also includes the people that deleted the Twitter accounts following the acquisition. I’m one of those people and I’m especially annoyed because I only used that blasted app only to register to some giveaways when I was in middle school. I have since discontinued that email account, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also interested in hearing more updates. Last I checked, Meta said it’s planning to release support for messages this year while call and video support would be released by 2027. I should mention that this was in october of 2024, before Trump took office. There’s a fair chance that Zuckerberg will seek to delay the process now that Trump took over and is threating retaliation against the EU if it chooses to strike back against abuses from US tech companies.

  If anyone has more updates, by all means respond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not an arrangement, nor attachment to Zuckerberg. It is not beneficial to Zuckerberg or Meta for this to happen and I assure you that they are not fans of the ideea either.

  The EU did this to break Meta’s monopoly on communication. Right now I can’t ditch Whatsapp no matter how much I want to because everything in my life is connected to that blasted app. My university, my employers, my family, my friends, EVERYONE is using Whatsapp and Whatsapp only. If I were to delete it, I would be isolated. I would be able to convince my family to switch to another app and a probably a few of my friends, but I sure as hell won’t be able to convince my workplace or my faculty to. Allowing third party apps to communicate to Whatsapp is the only way I can ditch his app.

  I should also mention that this will only apply to the European Union. Meta will still maintain it’s monopoly everywhere else. The EU is the only one that actually cares about consumer rights enough to pick a fight with the US over it and I’m thankful for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I don’t think Lemmy is to blame for all the negativity. It’s impossible to escape politics nowadays thanks to American dominance in social media. And since the US is a dumpster fire since 2016, the rest of the world gets to be a dumpster fire as well.

  In my opinion, Lemmy is the least negative social media platform out there and that’s saying something. I advise against going back to Reddit. I take peeks at it every once in a while and oh boy did things go downhill since I deleted my Reddit account after the API changes.

  The best way to deal with all of this is to limit your exposure to social media all together.