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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🤯 That gave me pause. Would non-FOSS even be an option for anything ActivityPub?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, am often pissed at clickbaity, exaggerated, deliberately ambiguous headlines.

  The subtitle makes it clear though: this is about ActivityPub, which has grown into the #1 federation protocol I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biggest Source of Electricity In Each U.S. State and Canadian Province (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA just burning things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah a lot of what many think of typical internet stuff is just a new turbocharged edition of what has existed for much longer IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not generally disagreeing with your assessment of the current situation, just a little historical BTW.

  in the Internet age, we have other, non-advertising ways to spread information (i.e. specs and reviews),

  Interesting, I never thought of it that way.

  However, most of that is still part of advertising; producers proactively strive to get reviewed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Available on YT in decent quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I think with February, it really starts with heightened time awareness around that reduced execution bandwidth.”

  🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Services too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This field?

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But I’ve long wondered how the at least somewhat more sane people following him manage it. Something like confirmation bias would only work up to a point that Trump has long since gone beyond.

  Yeah this exactly.

  Something else that might play into it: so many conspiracy nuts refer to movies as if they were history, or prophecy, or scientific research. As if they were valid in a way they clearly aren’t, because they’re fiction. Maybe they really do live in a world where these things are interchangeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just replied to the other guy, it’s not confirmation bias I’m talking about although that certainly plays into it.

  Have you ever wondered how (not why) MAGAts believe ever more obvious and blatant lies, and why the admin doesn’t even bother to make better lies? MAGAts are pushing aside what a child can perceive because they’re so hungry to see that narrative continue and stay in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmation bias is about people choosing information that suits their world view. That’s not what I mean. I expanded my OP to hopefully make it clearer.

  I mean, the Trump admin lying to us is one thing, but they’re doing it so, so badly and yet people can’t let go of it.

  I guess confirmation bias could be a reason why they are driven to such extreme suspension of disbelief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I’d love to see it, even a small jailtime would be pretty serious. Provided he can’t buy himself out. A fine would be a slap on the wrist*. A scolding is just that - something certain people have learned very early to ignore.

  * depends on the amount of course

• Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a bunch of firms compete to sell you a good or service, you pick the best one for your situation and buy it, then the firm that produces the best good or service gets more resources (money) to grow, rewarding the best product maker.

  Advertising breaks this.

  TBF, the original meaning of advertising was just that: spread the word about your product. Sure, praise it, add nice pictures, but that’s about it. People need to know that your product is out there.

  The systematic psychological manipulation only started in the 20th century, particularly when a relative of Sigmund Freud came to the USA (there’s an interesting documentary about it called The Century of the Self).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  having ad funded things

  Do you remember those free “newspapers” that used to choke your mailbox once a week, or your favorite club? With like 75% ad content and a few poorly written articles? That’s how I learned about the power of advertisment. The internet just put that in hyperdrive. How much of it is driven by ads these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What we knew for years, huge swaths of the gen pop still have to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And how did X get there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  basically free

  What does that mean?

  as long as git clone works

  Granted, I still use code form github.

  But the person you’re replying to meant that everybody who still hosts code on GH should gtfo.

  And if you peek behind the curtains of software projects, many more made that move already a long time ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine too. More precisely: code uploaded to GH won’t be yours anymore. IIRC there were changes to the TOS that supported this. But even if not, predicting the obvious doesn’t make us prophets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought experiment: near 100% of Facebook users are such bots. Watch them interact with each other unfettered and see where it leads. Facebook, the once popular social media application, taken over by AI, conversations mutating into …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’d’a thought that series would not only be a scathing critique of at that time existing technology, but a precise depiction of what’s going to happen only a decade later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to eventually phase out GitHub repo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely lost sight of it, but Gentoo is alive and strong and many articles still list it under most popular distros.

  Codeberg is a good choice - definitely way better than Github.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus the irony of criticizing others for utilizing FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, Google criticizing others for using FOSS is the height of irony. But one that tracks very well with what they did to FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an AI agent.

  Wait, the blog author is an AI? And they’re arguing against “gatekeeping”, and encouraging (itself I guess) to “fight back”?

  And I just gave them 3 clicks?

  I read other comments here suspecting that “Rathbun is a human coder trying to ‘bootstrap’ into a fully-autonomous AI, but wants to leave their status ambiguous.”

  I think they’re right.

  Could also be some sort of cosplay or almost religious belief in AI.

  But even if this is a full-on hoax, I suddenly feel very old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, I did not consider Netflix & Spotify. yeah that makes sense. I never paid for those either. But of course you can only self-host media if you first get them from somewhere.

  I do wonder who takes money separately/only for calendar hosting.

  But yeah, all in all that amounts to a lot, and considering you can have a VPS with decent storage for under €10/mo. - it’s really the best solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting. Can you elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to think up something more elaborate, but this is enough.

  I’m also a bit of an electronics hoarder recycler, which probably got me into Linux in the first place. And Linux proved me right: old hardware is still good. My first server was a 32 bit laptop.

  I also work in the social sector btw. and Linux, self-hosting etc. have aspects that fit in well with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Search Party Looks for Lost Dogs. Its Super Bowl Ad Sparks Surveillance Fears⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “training wheels for mass human surveillance.”