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LesserAbe

@ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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  • The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy

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  • Setting aside the financial management of the church, it's one of the largest organizations in the world which tells people what the purpose of life is. Its members believe the person they're selecting has authority from God to say what actions are right and wrong.

    While I don't personally believe that, hard not to see it's a position of significant power and people have an interest in knowing or influencing the outcome.

  • Short summary of feature phone market in 2025

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  • Can you share what your reasons are for considering a dumb phone?

    For me I'm probably not actually going to get one, but have idly thought about it. If I were to get one it would be to free me from the attention sink of web browsing and apps. So I don't find it appealing to consider a dumb phone that still has web browsing but using some sort of work around.

  • Name of exercise machine (?) with three concentric rings and a person strapped into the middle spinning in all directions?

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  • Man those things used to be everywhere at events

  • Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis

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  • Sure, we're in agreement as far as that goes. My point was just the commenter above me was indicating it should be common knowledge that Tesla self driving hits motorcycles more than other self driving cars. And whether their comment was about this or some other subject, I think it's counterproductive to be like "everyone knows that."

  • Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis

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  • It's helpful to remember that not everyone has seen the same stories you have. If we want something to change, like regulators not allowing dangerous products, then raising public awareness is important. Expressing surprise that not everyone knows about something can be counterproductive.

    Going beyond that, wouldn't the new information here be the statistics?

  • What is the best karaoke song?

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  • What makes a good karaoke song is based on your audience. It should be something you think many of the people in the room would know, and could maybe sing along to. It doesn't have to be a song they consciously like, just know. Most of the time not too slow. You see too many people getting up and doing something that's technically impressive but not enjoyable for the audience, like a deep cut from a musical.

  • What is the best karaoke song?

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  • Yeah everyone thinks they know a hip hop song until they get to the verses

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  • Did they add a stun gun sound effect to that video? Seems way too loud and crisp from that distance

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • I don't think it's unreasonable to argue centralization is a naturally occurring phenomenon. It's everywhere. The U.S. left Afghanistan and was replaced by a different centralized entity. One could argue how decentralized those "tribes" were, but regardless, after the U.S. departure they recreated a similar structure.

    Complexity comes hand in hand with size. The OP is a chart of the different email providers. Can an individual run their own email server? Yes. And doesn't it get more difficult after a certain number of users and require hiring specialists? Yes. But still, such large services exist, and a majority of users turn to them.

    If the fediverse lives there will always be small servers, but we can expect to see really big ones. If we don't want them to be corporate recreations of gmail and yahoo and hotmail I'd argue we should figure out a platform co-op/worker co-op model, including the necessary funding and specialists.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • My argument isn't about the fediverse specifically. It's that centralization is a naturally occurring phenomenon, and the lack of friction resulting from centralization can make it more competitive.

    What is the reason the cost per user of hosting a Lemmy server goes up after a few thousand users? If it were say, you need more expensive hardware, that doesn't necessarily disprove my argument. Just because a bigger investment is needed doesn't mean it's not cheaper per user or not more competitive. Just that you or I don't have the capital, or that we might see centralization bad because we have bad experiences with centralized entities.

    Also just because something is more competitive doesn't mean it's morally or aesthetically more desirable. The specialized army fed and trained by an empire overruns the brave and happy tribe of hunter gatherers.

    What I'm saying is since we know the phenomenon of centralization occurs, we should try to subvert it as much as possible by introducing democratic structures.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • We should have large semi-centralized services. But they should be democratically controlled.

    Do you ever think about why cities form? Rural life has a lot of appealing characteristics, plus it's the starting state of the world. Cities form because there is an advantage to size, proximity and specialization. If we had a new planet and completely evenly distributed the population across its land, we'd very quickly form cities regardless.

    It's the same with centralized services. It takes a lot of special knowledge and equipment to run an email service. The average Lemmy user may have those resources, but even here, how many of us run our own email servers?

    It costs less per person in resources to add more users after the first one. So there's an incentive to aggregate users together. And once you have a certain number of users, maybe you figure out some way to fund your operation, and you can pay more people to add features/capabilities. Soon your entity not only has more users, it's more appealing than a plan vanilla email service, and you get even more users. You're doing it cheaper and better than the DIYers.

    I think centralization and size are naturally occurring. We should think about ways to exist and benefit from them, so something like Gmail but run as a worker cooperative.

  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • In countries that are ostensibly democracies to justify your actions you have to claim you have majority support. Any crowd of people is a threat to that perception, so it makes sense (in a shitty way) that we see the "paid protestors" attack so often.

  • How do you manage tasks / to do lists at your job?

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  • Tickets are primarily inbound right? Do you deal much with tasks that are generated by you or your team, rather than coming from somewhere external?

  • How do you manage tasks / to do lists at your job?

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  • Your symbol system is interesting. When I used to keep written to do lists I just had dots/bullets for each item, and would make a larger square around the items which took priority. What does investigation mean to you in this context?

  • How do you manage tasks / to do lists at your job?

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  • That's an interesting philosophy. You haven't had people annoyed that you didn't follow up on something they've asked about? I guess my memory at least isn't good enough to track everything I need to do. Or maybe I could remember but feels like more work/risk than having an external system. I also primarily deal with customer facing stuff so maybe I'd feel different than if I was only dealing with coworkers.

  • How do you manage tasks / to do lists at your job?

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  • Thanks for sharing. Interesting, the idea of a big list and then a "doing today list" lines up with a "time management for dummies" book I found in a drawer at one of my first jobs. For a while I was using that system but written by hand.

  • Now he's in debt

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  • Dudes name is E-Zon

  • Bill presented that would make disliking Trump grounds for an involuntary mental health hold

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  • Lot of people here need to get informed and get a grip. Just because a bill is introduced doesn't mean it will be passed. The overwhelming majority of bills that are introduced don't pass. And this is in one state, not federal. And if the legislature passed it the governor may veto it, and it would certainly face legal challenge.

    I get that everything sucks right now and it feels like we're getting attacked on every front. I get the administration is doing illegal stuff. We're in for a rough time. Still: don't give them power by acting like every idea they bring up is likely, or possible. This bill is just trolling, it's so some nobody state level legislators will have a bullet point in their newsletter and a social media post.

  • Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

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  • I've been reading "The Power Broker" about Bob Moses, who built an insane amount of expressways in New York. This reminds me of multiple instances in the book where he planned the route in a way that didn't seem to make sense until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.