HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Reddit refuge
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 6 hours ago:
Probably ~20%.
It would be higher if you removed “thriving” from the list.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
Maybe you should make some noise until an MP cleans up the issue.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
So how does UK law handle federation?
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.
As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
Yeah, if.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 day ago:
I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.
It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 days ago:
Smaller community size. It is a lot easier to moderate a small community instead of a large one.
It is also the reason why Reddit moderators fought the API ban. Reddit moderators had developed their own tech stack to help them moderate the very large subs. Lemmy isn’t at the size where those tools are needed.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 2 days ago:
Wikipedia was relatively early in labeling the Gaza genocide.
Also, as others have said, you can clone Wikipedia right now and set up your own structure to edit it. The problem is that most clones end up like Conversatopeda, which generally tends to add a lot of bias to the articles.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 2 days ago:
The NBA developed a 3d printed basketball. Does material science count?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 6 days ago:
In general, tech is an industry with high fixed costs and low costs per unit sold. That kind of pricing structure tends to limit competition.
Nvidia was founded at a time when outsourcing chip fabrication was common and viable, so all Nvidia had to do was focus on design. After a series of failures and near bankruptcy, Nvidia was finally able to invent the idea of a GPU and sell it to the marketplace.
After that Nvidia bought several companies to round out its patent portfolio and capabilities, remaining a dominant company in an industry it created. The only real competition was with other companies that had previous chip design experience.
- Comment on Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you? 6 days ago:
Not really. The problem is that headhunters earn a lot of money on their end and the market wouldn’t bear having employees give months of their salary for job placement.
An external headhunter would probably be a better choice for what you want.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
It isn’t hypocritical, but I’d question why I would invest in something that I would want to lose value from a moral standpoint.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 1 week ago:
Android could be profitable if Google Play Services went with it. However, that doesn’t exactly fix the monopoly problems associated with Android.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 1 week ago:
I hate to say it, but unless Chrome becomes an open source project, I’d rather that it be owned by Google. No other company that could make money on a browser should own Chrome.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 1 week ago:
But even then, Godot is an engine instead of a game. For various reasons, it appears that the ratio of open source games to closed source games is orders of magnitude lower than other forms of software.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 1 week ago:
You aren’t going to get corporate nonsense, but volunteer nonsense instead.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 2 weeks ago:
Eugenics becomes a way to justify less fair societies for reasons that don’t fully meet scientific rigor.
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 2 weeks ago:
Everything is canon.
Even the actor written fanfiction?
Especially the actor written fanfiction.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 2 weeks ago:
Back in my day, we assumed that if it was on TV, it was a lie or likely not the whole truth.
Maybe you as a person, but a lot of society generally trusted broadcast television news. I think that part of the problem with old people going down the MAGA news hole is that they grew up in a time where you didn’t need a lot of media literacy to the level you do now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but is this a communist parade because that’s a lot of red flags.
- Comment on Please some more Sir? 2 weeks ago:
Is that Drake?
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 weeks ago:
I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren’t as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.
- Comment on Europe’s power grids under pressure amid record-breaking heatwaves 3 weeks ago:
What is Europe’s rate of growth for residential solar capacity? The Southwest US has seen daytime summer energy prices drop significantly because people use their personal solar panels to power their air conditioning. I would imagine that increasing solar capacity would help address air conditioning demand
- Comment on 𝙸 𝚗 𝚜 𝚝 𝚊 𝚐 𝚛 𝚊 𝚖 3 weeks ago:
And they want to see your picture to sign into the site.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 3 weeks ago:
They’ll just move the office to Austin.
- Comment on Honor student truth 3 weeks ago:
You’ve shifted to talking about tertiary education, which I’ll agree that the USA hasn’t funded to the level of other countries.
- Comment on Honor student truth 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how we shoehorned “China Bad” into the discussion.
I’m not, but you’ve identified a a thing as American without looking at how the rest of the world operates and how some practices may be an international standard or at least more uniform than just one country. I didn’t say “China bad”, I brought up that China performs the a similar filtering of students; you applied the label that I was saying “China bad”.
It sounds like you’re angry at the American system, a system you know, and think other systems must be better without understanding how other secondary education systems work. Other countries may do some things than the USA, but a lot of the basic structure that you complained out is more universal than you think.