Obviously the first step is an equal doxxing site targeting Truth Social, etc.

Pretty soon all that will be left are the apathetic centrists.

The insane MAGA cult is Trump; they’re inseparable. After he dies, Trump’s gonna be pickled and put on display like Lenin on the National Mall. They can’t let him go.

Wouldn’t it be nice if MAGA followed the same rules? Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone acted like civilized human beings? Let me know when that happens.

What I would wish for right now is for my state to not speak for me. I do not want my state’s flag lowered for someone who promoted hate and violence. I will not celebrate his death, that’s kinda sick, but I will definitely not celebrate his life either.

If you think this is actually about antisemitism, you’re crazy. It’s about attacking and weakening left leaning universities, which are seen as a real threat to MAGA (grads loyal to alma mater, lawyers, respected institutions, etc). Throwing a bone to fellow authoritarians like Netanyahu is a huge bonus.

Kirk’s body wasn’t even cold before people knew the death penalty was locked in. Your Dad might recognize you but what sick fuck says “yeah, go ahead and execute my kid; here ya go” ?

Doubtful. Mormons aren’t going to support murder and Kirk had that veneer of reasonableness that made him the wolf in sheep’s clothing that he was. Despite quotes being thrown around, Kirk’s fascism was more subtle because otherwise he wouldn’t have attracted the uninitiated the way he did.

Mormons will disown him and MAGA will keep their hold on Utah. It might even increase since everyone loves a martyr.

If you watch vapid slop content on Youtube, that’s on you. Don’t blame Youtube for giving you what you apparently want. I watch howto’s, “edutainment”, science and engineering stuff, conference talks, and overall generally positive, helpful content. This is a totally different thing from Netflix, which is mostly just fiction. I’d never pay a subscription for that. The cost of Premium seems like a fair value for what I get out of it, especially since creators get a higher payout for Premium views.

Yeah, Google still tracks you. So does absolutely everyone else, including your ISP that you’re paying for. Until you make it illegal, that isn’t going to change. I’m not going to put everything on hold waiting for better consumer protection laws, shit’s way too dysfunctional for that to be realistic. Life isn’t perfect.

Shallow content comes from trying to manipulate the recommendations algorithm and “go viral”. Without a recommendations algorithm, the incentive disappears.

I found it fascinating beyond just the geopolitics of video cards (although the existence of that right there is wild).

It’s a really neat look inside China with “real people” (not trade shows, uptight salesmen, or politicians). I don’t speak Chinese but it also seemed like Steve Burke had spent a lot of effort learning. He seems very talented and smart while staying humble. That’s rare.

Despite it being a 3 hour video about smuggling, the most discomforting thing for me was the left-handed driving in HK and I find that hilarious.

Applying normal engineering practices where human lives are at stake, you build in a safety factor. Your design speed is 25 but it’s built to be safe to drive at 50. Drivers figure this out and do 50. Now you have no more safety factor.

If you can’t rely on signage, then you need to design roads that aren’t safe. There are some obvious ethical considerations with this plan.

I think, in this particular case, it’s aggressive apathy/incompetence and not malice. Remember, Trump didn’t even know what Nvidia was.

AI’s don’t have a skin color or use the bathroom so you can’t whip your cult into a frenzy by Othering it. You can’t solidify your fascism by getting bogged down in the details of IP law.

You need to properly detect that they’re bots first and then they’ll just figure out how to spoof that. Then you’re back to square one.

Abstractly, POW doesn’t need to determine if you’re a bot or not. To make a request, as a human or bot, you need to pay in cpu-time. The hope is that the cost is not so high that a human notices very much but for a bot trying to hoover up data as fast as possible, the aggregate cost is high.

I think the more horrifying aspect is that they’ll just build ever bigger datacenters to crunch POW tests faster and the carbon cost will skyrocket even more.

Reddit has downvotes. That hasn’t saved it from misinformation, trolls, and radicalization.

Was the tape to cover the write protect notch on the floppy?

Careful. Lemmy is too small to draw the attention of sophisticated, persistent abuse. As a company, Reddit has struggled with revenue and we’ve all seen those struggles quite publicly. Lemmy instances with those same challenges would probably just fold and close up.

Federated networks give you freedom but the potential for abuse is proportional to that freedom while at the same time, federation is far more expensive taken as a whole.

Don’t you also need a developer license? So that’s like an additional $8/month subscription to sideload on iOS.

Or I could be wrong 🤷

If it’s not a tree, why call it a branch? Maybe branch doesn’t make any sense either. Maybe none of this makes any sense! Oh my God, what are we even doing here?!?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

I’ll never understand why we didn’t just go back to saying “trunk”.

It was a tongue in cheek strawman or if you want to be fancy, a pedagogical tool.

If “providing housing” is a job/service/whatever produced by workers then I, as a theoretical landlord, own some means of production and split the profits with all of the workers: myself.

It seemed like a funny twist of words.

Ah, Landlords aren’t the evil capitalist class then. They’re just a worker that owns the means of production and splits the profits evenly with themselves.