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Excrubulent

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  • OpenAI whistleblower’s death deemed suicide

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  • What info got spies killed exactly? Aspersions were cast but no actual information ever came out about that, and presumably if they're already dead then it can be released.

    If that had actually happened, the government would have been howling from the rooftops about it, we'd all know their names.

    But the reports on what damage it did were entirely redacted, and the worst thing they could say was "likely to have lethal consequences", which presumably means it hadn't had lethal consequences. Pretty weak shit, and even then we're just supposed to trust them when they relay the contents of blacked out pages to us?

    Also they're bitching and moaning about how it will weaken their ability to do spy shit and like... good. Why do we want them to do that shit? Everything we know about what they do is basically universally evil, so maybe Snowden is a hero actually.

    Nah, it's bullshit, they're just trying to assassinate his character and it sounds like you fell for it.

  • Calm down Satan

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  • You're probably right.

  • Calm down Satan

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  • What the fuck is that stock image? They really said "contemplating suicide but make it corporate".

  • Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch

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  • I'm curious about how they handle retracting the quote in an open source federated model where the behaviour of other instances can't be ensured. Does the instance hosting the quote simply refuse to honour the quote link?

    And I suppose if an instance uses a hostile workaround like simply embedding a copy, that would be seen as a bad mark against the instance which could lead to defederation?

    I'm not saying it's impossible, just interested in the specifics.

  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • I was gonna say the same thing. The members of my family that wave that fucking flag also have the most reprehensible boot-licking attitude.

    I hate the goddamn thing. Atrocities of every kind have been committed under it, we're just a little more sheltered from it, because its part in the global imperial project is smaller, and it gets less coverage than the US's blaring parade of shame.

  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • I'll tell this story as often as it's relevant - I was made to recite the pledge of alliegance in school at 5 years old. I wasn't a citizen, I should have had no reason to swear fealty, and our family was denied green cards, so the allegiance was not reciprocated.

    Kind of dodged a bullet if I'm honest, but still, I remember it verbatim to this day, because I was indoctrinated when I was too small and naive to know any better. Not reciting it was not an option I was presented with. I don't think anybody in charge would've thought twice about it either.

  • NSFW

    The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis

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  • Right but the specific issue with the Pinto was that it would explode into flames on a rear impact, so this is the appropriate metric.

    Like deaths from other accidents would skew the numbers anyway because 70s cars were death traps compared to today, but even in that context, the Pinto's explosions were alarming.

    Beating it on that isolated metric is a very special kind of achievement.

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • It's not. Why do you want it to be? It's one of the most enduring social media monopolies, and it should be brought down. The more they lose revenue, the more they are forced to squeeze, the more they enshittify, the more people are pushed to make and use alternatives, and the stronger those alternatives get.

    Honestly once youtube's network can be usurped by something like peertube, I think that might be the ballgame for centralised social media. It is the hardest one to topple because of bandwidth costs, which means once it goes the case for needing a corporation to fund our networks kind of collapses with it.

  • Specifying file paths

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  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

  • Given BambuLabs recent issues what now?

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  • Lol, I just didn't want to attest to it myself since I'm not really qualified, but it does seem very reliable.

  • Threads is offically getting ads

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  • The enshittification is carried over from other products. They're meta, so anything they launch is partly along the path already, because they can artificially boost the launch numbers with cross-platform promotion, and because everyone already knows what assholes they are, they're starting off with a lot of goodwill lost.

    Basically, just slapping a new name and a new account creation process on some new features in their social network, is not enough to make it a new network.

  • Lots of people asking questions about the fediverse over at /r/fediverse

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  • Picking MMO servers, really? Which MMO is that? I'm genuinely asking - I've never played many MMOs, but every one that I've known has had a single persistent world.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • I don't know that they've ever been profitable. They might be a loss-leader in some way, feeding into google's ad ecosystem somehow, or maybe it was always just theoretically profitable in the future in some ill-defined way that allowed the money to keep flowing. Who knows.

    All I know is, if they follow the pattern the rest of them have, they aren't going to be sustainable long-term.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

    With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • Honestly youtube barely has it currently. The vast majority of creators make very little on the platform and rely largely on supporter donations, merch and sponsorships, which could work on any platform.

    By squeezing creators out of every penny they can, youtube has forced people to find other options abd made themselves less and less relevant. I guess that's enshittification for you.

    You can also gate access to certain videos on peertube, so a nebula-like model might also work eventually.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

    I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

  • A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

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  • Not just a grace period, but opening the sub selection menu, I can no longer just close it and return to the view I already had. That view can stick around indefinitely if you enter a post and then back out of it, the posts you had before will remain. There will be no refresh. But when you press back one more time and open that menu, the only way back to the home feed is to select it, which will refresh it. The app has the ability to not refresh, but not in that very specific circumstance. Like literally just a button to close the menu would do the trick I think.

    But thanks for the information. This one issue has made me consider switching several times.

  • A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

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  • Hey, question about Voyager, I'm using it, and if I'm on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It's veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?