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JensSpahnpasta

@ JensSpahnpasta @feddit.org

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  • Absolute insanity

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  • I really hate those pictures that just show some randoms with a sob story. I always feel that they are totally fake.

    (and if this is true: You can get cheap wedding rings. You do not have to pay thousands of money for them. You can get a cheap ring and that does work, too. Feel free to propose to the human you love even if you can't afford some expensive ring)

  • Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

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  • Dude, the author is from Estonia. English is therefore not his native language. Fuck you for attacking non-native speakers because of some minor grammar error.

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  • Mastodon was founded a decade ago, and since then has roughly 1 million monthly active users. That is 0.25% of the MAU of twitter/X currently (which has itself seen declines over the years). Pixelfed has 250k monthly active users, which is 0.008% of Instagrams 3 billion MAU. Friendica has 5000 MAU which is essentially 0% of the 3.1 billion MAU that Facebook has.

    You're confusing those metrics. When fediverse apps show you active users, they really are showing you users that are doing anything on the app. Here on Lemmy, to be included in that number, you need to upvote, downvote, comment or post.

    The commercial networks, however, are also including not-logged in users in their numbers. So if you've been on the X page this month or have been linked to an Instagram video or have watched something on YouTube, you are included in that metric. If you have some sensible data protection on your computer, delete your cookies and maybe change your fingerprint automatically, you can be included several times in that number.

    The fediverse doesn't track those numbers (and can't TBH), but it is bigger than you are thinking. There are several users reading stuff for every user posting.

    And in my opinion: It is ok that we are smaller than Facebook. We do not need to be a network that includes everyone on the planet. We do not need to have billions of users. Smaller communities are nicer. Smaller communities are more manageable. Not everything needs to grow like cancer. It's ok if your little pub on the corner is there and there are so many regulars there that everybody has a good time and the owner can live from it. If the whole city and people from neighboring towns start coming, it will lose its character.

  • Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

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  • Yeah - people are talking about replacing jobs with AI. As if it is not totally obvious that people like Sam Altman will totally bleed you dry after you fired all your workers. You will not save on your wage bill, you will simply give the money to Sam Altman

  • Paperless-ngx and seeking suggestions for getting into a decent workflow

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  • It also does work without those sticker by just putting every document chronologically in a folder. New ones come on the top and if you need a document, you can get the date from paperless. Since most documents have a date printed on them and most people are not getting thousands of letters every year, you will find the document

  • The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.

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  • It’s inevitable

    And it totally has the potential to collapse on itself. Let AI replace a lot of office workers. Let self-driving cars replace drivers. Let robots replace fast food workers and delivery persons. Move manufacturing jobs offshore. Everyone is unemployed and nobody can afford your robot-created fast food anymore. You have no customers and go bankrupt

  • Meta's Latest App Looks Like Reddit

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  • It would be horrible and kill this place. Meta does not do any sensible moderation on its platforms. There are nazis on there. All those MAGA propagandists. Scammers. Trolls. Meta is doing nothing against that.

    A "meta lemmy instance" integrating Facebook groups would be too big for other instances to block. Which would bring all those users you really don't want to be here into our forum with no moderation. It would also send all your posts and user data from here to Meta.

  • Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

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  • They are also here in the fediverse

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    Disney sued over facial recognition at parks

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  • I really want to know why they are collecting that data and what they are doing with it. They are doing an immense breach of privacy to do what exactly? They are scanning peoples faces at the entrance. Maybe also through the park? And then they are saving that data for 30 days and claim to delete it? So what is the purpose here?

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • Yeah - I've been burned so often by companies entshittifying their product that I simply stopped using new commercial services. I mean - if I start using Storygraph, their goal is to annoy me as much as possible until I buy their $50/year subscription. The fediverse is so awesome because it it the opposite of that.

  • Pee and Poop in Your Car While Driving at 100 km/h to be Possible

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  • That is not the worst invention? Look at the state of many highway toilets and how disgusting they are. Or at all those areas where there are no toilets at all. Or look at how many places are trying to charge you money for pooping. Having your private one in your car sounds really helpful here. Most people drive alone without passengers and maybe you should park your car before doing the thing, but it is a good idea

  • Looking for a Caldav tool to sum the time used per day

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  • on the other hand, there was no AI vibecoding back then, so thats a plus

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  • What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs

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  • If Bending Spoons buys something you use, you should run to the exits and search for an alternative.

  • Artemis II crew is just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues

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  • I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Sharepoints on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched Exchange glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

  • Self-hosting a Pocket alternative using Readeck, Linkwarden, and Docker Swarm.

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  • It's actually kind of crazy what amount of tech people have to use just to save a webpage for later reading.

  • 'Blasphemous': Outrage as Trump's faith advisor compares him to Jesus during Easter event

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  • Just imagine what would have happened if Obama's faith advisor did something like that.

  • ‘Euro-Office’: OnlyOffice accuses of license violations

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  • This is the nightmare scenario for companies doing open source software. Regardless of how OnlyOffice behaves and their russian ties - other companies forking the whole codebase, removing the name and selling it is something that will prevent others from going the FOSS route

  • RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon

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  • It's sad to see how browser manufacturers have been treating RSS for a while. Back in the day your Firefox would show you that a page has an RSS feed. You were able to click on it, see what was in there in human readable, not cryptic-XML style format, and you were able to subscribe to it. Then you had a nice little bookmark showing you everything this page had posted recently. RSS is a great technology and it really really sucks how Big Tech has tried to kill it.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • Thank you!