Generally, the games that have a larger up-front price are good. Bonus points, if they were ported from PC or consoles and don’t track you.

Putin was forced to start a proxy war, shoot down a passenger plane, annex Crimea, invade the whole of Ukraine and commit multiple war crimes, because the people didn’t elect his friends, you see. /s

Even more so, if you consider that the LLMs are marketed to replace the authors.

Depends on how you define “hard left”.

Both are at fault: Google for distributing pirated material and OpenAI for using said material for financial gain.

I think in Mastodon's case it was less that you had to pick an instance, rather they were all instances from companies/people that they didn't know. How many email providers does the average person know? The "my Mastodon admin can read all my posts" discussion also fits into this (they were fine with Twitter doing it). Threads will behave just like any other service in the Fediverse at the end, with all that "complexity", but people will say Threads is easier, just because of the recognition factor and that they already have an Instagram account.

That's actually a very informative data point. If you use headphones, you probably like to use music/video streaming services or play games. The longer they're connected, the likelier you are to pay for your media consumption. You probably also have a bigger connection to your media device (a source of entertainment and happiness), so you likely also use and pay for other related products or services. If your headphones use Bluetooth, you have a newer device and set of headphones, so you probably like to keep up with tech trends and buy more expensive hardware, especially if your listening time is long.

That's all from just looking at your headphone and Bluetooth status. Combine that with your device & vendor ID, contacts, location, medical and financial information, and all the other "sensitive information" they collect, and you can imagine how much information they can actually infer about you. That is their product: tailor-made targeted advertising and manipulation.

Disclaimer: I don't want to do advertising for surveillance capitalism, so I would also like to add that the data they infer about you (political ideology, sexual orientation, etc.) can be completely false. However, there is no way to verify that (only you can do that anyway). Meta doesn't care if the data is perfect. All they care about is that advertisers continue to believe that they provide the best dataset.

After everything tried to be TikTok

Matrix is the best Messenger/Discord replacement, because you can still bridge content to other services, if they don’t want to switch to Matrix. Plus, it’s distributed like XMPP or ActivityPub so you can self-host, use different providers and apps.

Edit: Lemmy also uses Matrix for encrypted DMs

Some people like cats more, because they leave you alone for most of the time and aren’t smothering you with love. Others prefer dogs, because they want to be smothered. If you go with your stereotypical tech person, they would be introverted, so more likely to be a cat person. That’s just my theory 🔬

With Mastodon being a German non-profit company, it's natural that Germany is also well-represented with a federal instance social.bund.de, instance for the state of Baden-Württemberg bawü.social (both since 2020), world's largest public broadcasters ARD ard.social and ZDF zdf.social, and AFAIK the first news publisher to officially launch its own instance, Heise social.heise.de. There are probably loads of other instances and accounts I'm missing.

PS: The production company behind ZDF Magazin Royale (late night comedy and investigative journalism show, think Last Week Tonight ) is also running a private instance edi.social and a public instance det.social, named after the Mainzelmännchen.

Why limit yourself to subscriptions if you can do both and earn even more money? 🤑

PS: Microsoft perfected this with Windows bloat ware, adverts and tracking. Why did they need to integrate that, if you already paid ca. 150€ (Home) or 250€ (Pro) for a licence? Those prices are integrated into the prices of hardware purchases too, in case anyone is wondering. Purchase a laptop without an OS and it’s generally about 100-150€ cheaper. Anyone interested in Microsoft 365 and Windows 365?

Juice isn’t any better. You’re drinking much more fruit than you would eat normally.

I learned about it from the reports that too many people were sending top secret information to .ml domains instead of their official .mil counterparts.

I hope they will give Flatpak some love, when they release the Linux version.

Now it’s just the Dungeon Master of your local D&D group and apparently they were okay with it.

They’ll probably be called X-AEA-12-3b’s, or something similar. He’s seems to be an XCOM fan, so it needs to be something futuristic and cool 🛸

That’s why I prefer a Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch over phones for gaming 😄

Sewage can produce poisonous gasses, so that’s probably why you felt it in your eyes first. Some gasses react with water and create an acid, so you would feel them first in your eyes or mucous membranes.

There are many different types of bridges, but the most seamless one is a type of Man In The Middle (MITM). You give the bridge full access to your other services, which allows them to copy everything to Matrix and vice versa. Naturally, this circumvents E2EE as the bridge needs to access and manipulate the content somehow (E2EE only exists up to the bridge, not the whole way to your client). The bridge can theoretically do anything, as it is a MITM. However, because most bridges are open source and you can host them yourself, the risk that unauthorised parties can gain access to the data is fairly low. If it’s hosted by a third party, you have to trust them that they won’t abuse their power.

They still had to buy new hardware, because the newer Windows version didn’t support the old hardware anymore.

The thing is you can always do more and be even busier. The whole “work now, play later” works in childhood, but it's not realistic in adulthood. There's always more to do. If you feel like you need a break, take that time off for yourself. If you don't, your body will take that time off for you, if you like it or not, and it will probably be more time that you would have spent having fun. When you do take time off, try to focus on your free time and don't focus on the stuff you still need to do. Allow yourself to not think about work. Relaxing is important.

Here’s the PeerTube link if you don’t like YouTube: https://neat.tube/w/2Rw4j9uUdGzj8sVyy8zcx5

You can almost always also pay with card, but it's often only Girocard, not Visa or Mastercard. The fees of Girocards/Giropay are much lower, because it's run by the banks themselves, i.e. the companies most likely already have accounts at those banks, so they can subsidise the transaction fees with the banking fees the companies already have to pay anyway. Larger stores often accept credit cards, however.

It's not fully integrated in the sense that you can use your Lemmy account to message over Matrix. Rather, you can add your existing Matrix handle to your profile and then a fancy "Send Secure Message" button is displayed under your profile, which just links to your Matrix account. I like the simplicity of it, as it leaves the security aspects to apps and services that have considerably more resources than Lemmy has at the moment (Element and Matrix are being used and improved by different governments, militaries, and other organisations).

EDIT: Element has started using Rust for their back-end implementation, so maybe Lemmy can use that library one day as well.

I don’t think you can from Lemmy, but /kbin has a microblogging feature where it’s fully integrated.

For some people, the engagement has been similar on Mastodon, even though they only have a fraction of the followers. This might suggest that either Mastodon users are generally more engaged (they actively chose to follow and can see every post) or that Twitter follower numbers were artificially inflated.

Cars were almost banned when they first became popular. The existing infrastructure and traffic safety regulations (shared roads) were not adequate for a speeding death machine. However, cars were very important for the military, so highways and modern road networks were quickly pushed as “the future”.

There's https://sepiasearch.org/ for global video search. It's a search engine, run by the developers, that indexes every approved instance. So if you're only interested in watching videos (and don't mind searching for them), then it's even easier than other Fediverse services, because you have one central place you can go to for all your videos.

And then you have ASML who sell the foundry equipment that makes the steel.

If you want to use a paid service from the developers, there’s Element One: https://element.io/element-one

Not at all. Most German car companies know this and some have even said as much (focus on luxury cars, car sharing and subscriptions). The Greens (part of the government) have been pushing for better public transportation and now Germany has a nationwide ticket for just 49€ per month. We still need much more investment in infrastructure, but that opinion is shared by many town planners and politicians. An added benefit with reduced road traffic is that driving becomes easier and fun again.

If you’re only allowed to wear long pants, I would suggest ones made out of linen. They still look formal enough, but allow your legs to breathe, similar to shorts. Otherwise, just wear a kilt and see what reactions you get.

What about simple graphics that still need a server farm to run correctly, or intricate graphics on a potato PC? Would you still say art style >> graphics?

PeerTube uses BitTorrent to be more resilient if a video goes viral (everyone who is watching the video shares the load). If someone is already investing the money to host a PeerTube instance, I think they wouldn't mind if people were to actually use it. Otherwise, what's the point? For example, the admin of TILvids often advertises videos from popular tech YouTubers, who mirror their content on that instance.

PS: PeerTube also introduced remote video transcoding in the last update, so now it should be even easier to distribute the load across the network.

The Lemmy project also receives grants from NLnet (funded by the European Commission), whenever they finish milestone features. According to the developers, this was their main source of funding until very recently and are now asking for more donations.

With bridges, it's truly the one app to rule them all.

I would wait with your master plan, until you know that Meta allows you to move your account to Mastodon. Oh yeah, and you should use a burner phone without any personal data (medical history, contacts, location, financial information, whatever "sensitive information" is, etc.) when you install the app.

They are probably also hoping that it will give them the necessary good will with EU competition regulators that are already trying to break Meta's market dominance on social media and communication.

Meta is claiming that it's end-to-end encrypted, however, WhatsApp is proprietary (no-one can check how it's implemented) and I'm not aware of any auditing ever being done. You just have to take their word for it. For a long time, the automatic message backups were all unencrypted and stored on Google or Apple Cloud, so that was the most obvious backdoor they implemented. I'm not sure how they are doing it now.

Claiming that something is encrypted gives participants a false sense of security, in which they would say more than they would normally do if they knew that their messages are public. The Crypto AG and Operation Rubicon is a great example of backdoored encryption, sold by intelligence companies.