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Allero

@ Allero @lemmy.today

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  • Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.

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  • Always good to have a place to escape to - but we need to regain people's power over the mainstream Internet.

    This is where most people will remain, this is where you'll have to go to stay in touch, this is what influences public opinion on policies and actions. This ground cannot and should not be given up.

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  • Honestly, yes.

    The culture always tell you to work harder and demand less. This is simply to make it easier to exploit you. Just work harder, and everything will be amazing and we won't just tighten it even more, we promise

  • Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’

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  • Yep, NoScript seems to help!

  • Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’

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  • Same as The Guardian and a few more. Sometimes I wonder how can this be legal.

  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • Nah, it is shortsighted and greedy decision making.

    Buy a car and you'll be free to go anywhere, anytime!..assuming there won't be millions of other cars on the road causing you to get stuck in transit, look for parking lots, while breathing a delicious mix of exhausts.

    Maybe if each of us considered the mass scale effects and automakers/oil companies wouldn't be incentivized to hide these uncomfortable parts, we'd never have this hell in the first place.

    Same in other areas of life.

  • Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat

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  • Update automatically turns off the air conditioning in the van if the driver is not in the vehicle for more than 30 seconds.

    This is not a bug

  • TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most common

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  • I found out more about alexandrite, and now I want it

  • how would you intuitively define "progress"?

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  • Yeah I was thinking more of Khmer Rouge scenario. Technically, communist. But boy it was neither good nor progressive.

    All for sustainable technology, though!

  • how would you intuitively define "progress"?

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  • Any political and technological improvement that affects society at large.

    Inventing a wheel? Progress. Forming tribes, kingdoms, republics? Progress.

    But also improving the camera on your phone? Progress. Passing worker protection law in a city of 10000? Progress.

    Small or big, both are examples of things, that are by themselves better. The only important caveat is when one contradicts the other.

    Improved cameras being used to deport migrants? Not progress, as a technological improvement tramples political development. Emergence of an agrarian socialist state? Not progress, as political development is accompanied by the destruction of technology.

    Each side to progress is only as useful and important as it is supported or at least not interfered by the other. Then it's progress.

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  • Libertarian my ass

    Providing free reign to authoritarians

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  • Might not have enough water for that

  • Full moon

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  • I know that bracket is supposed to be the nose, but hear me out:

  • If you had/have enough disposable income, what would drive you to donate to opensource software?

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  • I wouldn't donate to projects that are already well-funded, or to foundations that spend a lot of money on the support of outside projects (I'd rather fund such projects directly, if I see them worthy).

    Overall, I would prioritize small to medium projects that need funding the most. For example, I would donate to Lemmy, but not Mastodon.

    Aside from that, I also care about actual openness of the project (i.e. free participation in its improvement), a strong open-source ethos, and independence from corporate backing.

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  • Genuinely though, English seems to lack the distinction between truth (the absolute state of something being universally true), truth (something that is correct from some point of view) and truth (an idea someone is dedicated to).

    Some other languages have different words for these "truths". You could say that first is truth, second is perspective, and third is an idea, but all three can be named "truth", which can easily spark a debate over simple misunderstanding of what you mean, exactly.

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  • Often yes, also, you may genuinely have to review A LOT of articles to make your point, and at that point, reading them in whole alone is gonna take you a few weeks time.

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    MacBook Neo Outsold Every Other Mac in Its Q1 2026 Debut Quarter

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  • Me too, I went through my bachelors with nothing but pen and paper. Yet, when I had a laptop during my masters, it helped a lot, not least because we were working with some software, and I'd rather have my machine for that. For postgraduate studies, a laptop is straight up a must, as it's used pretty much everywhere for everything.

    Also, modern laptops typically have their keyboards on a quieter side.

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    Can E. coli run Doom? Yes, at 2.6 fpd (frames per day)

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  • Yep, still that same article from 2024. Still cool, indeed!

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    MacBook Neo Outsold Every Other Mac in Its Q1 2026 Debut Quarter

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  • Mostly still because it's Apple, and in certain regions of the world, having that logo means a lot for some reason. I mean, I remember there was a heated debate over Apple using different color bubbles for messages coming from Android devices, with concerns that Android users, particularly youth, could be excluded from social life because they don't have Apple products.

    But also because Macs are lighter, have an exceptionally good battery life, and pair well with the rest of the ecosystem.

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  • Me. I'm a scientist and need access to my tools wherever I am. I often move between two labs and keeping all my work with me is essential.

    At home, I sync the data to my desktop, and work from there.

    As per Mac Neo specifically, I believe students massively benefit from it. For starters, it's likely their primary computer, as you wouldn't normally carry an entire desktop PC to the dormitory (assuming you move to study somewhere). Then, a laptop is very useful during studies - making lecture notes, corrections, checking additional info, using computational software for advanced math, completing digital assignments, etc.