MildlySerious

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by MildlySerious 2mo ago
Do you believe this is more likely than corporations trying to restrict the supply for their corporate competitors? My thinking would be that we're just caught in the crossfire. The percentage of people seriously running their own mode
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
I'm not saying that, nor did I allude to it in any way. I made no assertions as to what the solution should be. The ideal scenario would be everyone choosing not to engage with these predatory platforms. Going from there, the right q
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
Two things can be true, and I am in the same boat. Should the next generation have their brains fried by ad-tech corporations and their algorithms? Absolutely not. Should the overdue off-ramp from this trend be the on-ramp to mass-surveilla
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
I do have a lemmy account, but have not really returned to it in a while. Maybe I haven't found the right communities yet, but it had nothing about it that felt engaging. People upvoted, but nobody talked. No interaction. Digg felt mor
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
Yeah. Sadly the default communities were flooded with blog spam, and that's just the part I noticed. A couple days ago a bunch of smaller communities also got a noticeable bump in members. That didn't change anything in my own com
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
You're right, and that is one of the lessons to be reminded of here. My main point wasn't that, though. It's simply a bad and low-effort way to handle the situation, and like one of the other replies points out, there are bet
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
I am kind of peeved. I started a community there and diligently posted links to topical news, and it kind of became a reference to me. Like many others, I've put in some amount of effort. Now it's gone, again. Without a head'
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by MildlySerious 6mo ago
That felt a little like watching a modern version of Primitive Technology. Cool project, very nice mode of presentation.
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by MildlySerious 8mo ago
I would love to just mount a directory via SFTP, so I can use my IDE alongside the far-away Claude. That would put this in the realm of daily use for development.
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by MildlySerious 8mo ago
That is just delightful. Reference[1] for anyone wondering. [1] https://xkcd.com/936/
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by MildlySerious 9mo ago
There really is no prize for being technically correct on this one. Someone built this and is letting you have it. For free. There is no legal obligation or law of the universe here, sure, but if you're in the top 1% of benefactors of
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by MildlySerious 10mo ago
I can't update DNS entries for my domains with Porkbun, because it's "Powered by Cloudflare".
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by MildlySerious 10mo ago
Their entire business model is effectively centralizing the web. The downtime over the last two weeks shows some of the problem with that. I have used their products and have more favor toward them than I do for the corporations you're
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by MildlySerious 10mo ago
People protesting ICE do not do so out of political concern, but humanitarian concern. This seems like a minor nitpick as those two are intimately tangled up, but it matters to make the distinction. Standing up for others is not petty or se
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by MildlySerious 10mo ago
Even if they are off by a factor of 100 it's a huge win and the point stands. It's fair to point this out and worth the mention. Still, I'd like to think that the engineers behind this can at least gauge the benefit of this e
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
I have always found the summary of Foundations of Geopolitics[1] to be an interesting re-read whenever some larger event involving Russia happened. It feels like the puzzle pieces have been coming together at least since Brexit, if not much
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
You could cut the emissions of the top 1% in half, or reduce the emissions of the bottom 4 billion to 0. Same result. Which do you believe is likely the lower hanging fruit, has a higher return per dollar spent and is likely to be more ethi
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
That's exactly what rich assholes have to do with it. Why do you believe all the consequence falls onto the working class and the poorest, when the richest have per capita the largest emissions, by whole orders of magnitude? Yeah, the
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
Quad9 and dns0 are the current "go to" EU options I believe. I would wager that most users of those services would be more wary of an option directly provided by the EU instead of a third party, not less.
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
They refuse to disclose the authors. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/eu_is_plann... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168134
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
For free, too, expecting absolutely nothing in return. No accountability. No responsibility. There is simply no exchange happening. They take, and that's it. Somehow.
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
This is, for all I care, on par with sites that mess with scrolling. I sort of understand this being used on artistic or playful sites, or ones to show off tech, sure. On a document that talks about usability? Feels like satire.
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
They are not expelling extremists based on extremism. They are expelling extremists based on public fallout. The remaining ones are effectively their spokespeople. Germany has a wide range of political parties that cover the entire politica
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
In simple terms, Trump's current administration is the AfD's wet dream. Talk big about free speech and free market, state's rights, cracking down on immigration, all the populist talking points. Then play the victim whenever
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by MildlySerious 1y ago
> Such hyperbole is dangerous at best when people take it seriously. The same is true about the sitting president and some of his staunch supporters repeatedly "joking" about, and alluding to a third term[1][2][3][4] - includin
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
What? Roping someone into a conversation they didn't intend to have? You don't say.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
For one of us rubbing people the wrong way in nested threads is not a recurring theme. I'm elated to be receiving advice from a pro. Thanks.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
> you have been in bad faith for this entire conversation repeatedly failing to grasp this point No. I am repeatedly failing to understand why you're trying so hard to make this point. To me. I simply stated my thoughts. I didn&#x27
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
It doesn't seem like you care to communicate anything, really. You've pivoted and conflicted your own words multiple times now, and you were markedly annoyed before I asked questions, which is what prompted them in the first place
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Is that really a topic to be this snarky and standoffish about? What's the point?

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