AmbroisindeMontaigu

@AmbroisindeMontaigu@kbin.social
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Just the boring one: That all the exciting conspiracies (and other stuff like "culture wars") are there to distract from the banal reality of most people and the world being exploited by a few selfish assholes.

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The problem might be that if they're everywhere there's no control group without them, so it's hard to say if an effect is actually caused by microplastics or not.

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When your "thermonuclear lawsuit" is so flimsy that you have to find a bully-friendly court first...

Reddit: Demonstrates that locking away content is bad for the site and the wider internet.

Elon Musk: "I want that for my website!"

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It would, so they chose a jurisdiction that's unrelated to any involved party but doesn't have those laws.

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By not voting they support all of it.

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repairs are not a matter of subsidies. Only new infrastructure is supported.

That's a big problem. If you incentivize a company to not maintain the infrastructure because you will pay for it once it's completely broken it will be completely broken.

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Inspired by someone whose idea of cost cutting is just not paying others. Any rational person should be avoiding doing business with them.

100%. If it seems too innocent or self-aware it's Flanders.

Considering the trust they've lost I don't think they've planned to do it this way. And if they didn't plan it, they assumed that their original plan wasn't going to result in much opposition, so that was the plan they wanted to go with.

If you want nudge your government to the left you certainly won't achieve it by letting the candidate from the right win.

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If no person does anything nothing changes.

Of course your own choices in isolation don't change much. But that's like saying voting doesn't do anything because a single vote doesn't matter. We all can make choices that add up through all of society.

So, since Elon doesn't want it anymore, we could now reclaim the word "tweet" as a generic term for posting on social media, regardless of platform.

Yeah, from some images the flat panels dent pretty easily, and the dents are more noticeable because everything else is flat. It's just a horrible design for something that's intended to be used.

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The period after MS stopped messing with it and before software stopped supporting it was the nicest time to use Windows 7, I expect it to be the same for Windows 10.

Have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram - a compressed block device in RAM that can be formatted as swap. There are various tools to set it up, maybe your distro already includes one of them. And htop has a meter for it, so you can see how effective the compression is (besides its own zramctl tool).

It was time to switch to Invidious anyway.

Which will stop working once this is implemented, since it doesn't use a trusted browser to access YT. As will any kind of automated access. Search engine bots, archive crawlers, third party apps... anything websites don't like or know won't be able to access them anymore.

If musicbrainz has an acoustic fingerprint for the songs it doesn't need metadata. Picard is more or less the GUI version of beets.

Yeah, I'd like to see emissions attributed to the places where products end up, not where they're produced.

Did you know: You can both vote for Biden and protest those actions of his you don't agree with. You should, even.

If you want to continue using any of them, you should probably uninstall any Chrome-based browser now: https://techreport.com/news/google-tries-to-defend-its-web-environment-integrity-as-critics-slam-it-as-dangerous/

"Through WEI, Google aims to help websites weed out bots by verifying that the visitors on their domains are actual users."

In other words, if this gets implemented it is likely that Youtube will block anything that doesn't look like a "real browser" (i.e. Chrome), so no videos in alternative apps anymore.

feels a little shady for Google to immediately do this immediately after payment stops. Not saying it’s a direct retaliation

It's not: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-bloomberg-news-2023-06-21/

I guess that was boring so it didn't get much attention.

A democracy with only two options is a dictatorship of the winner. Your political influence isn't limited to voting though, voting is the first action in a democracy, not the last.

What would you need an addon for? If you enable the clipboard monitor, jdownloader automatically adds all downloads it finds from any link you copy.

Edit: If you don't like the clipboard monitoring you can also use the Open With addon to explicitly add links.

If you just want to use it from your home computer / network you can run it locally, either installing it directly or in a container. You only need a server (or a way to connect to your home network) if you want to access it from elsewhere.

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https://www.qnap.com/en/product/qda-a2mar seems to be the one in your image. From the users guide it seems it does everything you listed. The prices I've seen are about 100 € / $ though plus the two SSDs you need, personally I'd invest in external backup instead, that covers more data loss scenarios than this adapter.

Weren't there at least rumors during the protests that reddit is actively looking for engagement posters? Ever since then discussions seem partly artificial (or maybe it just coincides with the rise of AI garbage).

If you want to push back against the rising right-wing bigotry modding a decently sized subreddit might be one of the most effective places for regular people to do so. Arguably that power is not irrelevant in today's social media landscape.

I'm not saying a few people fucking over the rest is a conspiracy theory.

I'm saying that all those conspiracy theories people love to discuss are pushed to capture the attention of those people and have them think they're involved in something important and spend all their energy on that, so the assholes can keep on fucking them over without much resistance.

Being not-public is part of the reason why a lot of Twitter alternatives don't have a lot of general mind share I think. They might work well as actual social networks (i.e. people talking to each other), but have no chance of becoming even close to what Twitter was.

Yeah, I added the link since the embedded image didn't seem to work.

Someone who is sponsored by an account seller, i.o.w. who doesn't mind breaking ToS but then seems to complain about others scripting, i.e. breaking ToS might not be the most unbiased and reliable source.