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  • Why the fuck is Ticketmaster allowed to be this awful?

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  • Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

    You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

  • GitHub provides feature for immutable releases

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  • Sounds nice for security. Also, let's leave GitHub, it's part of Microsoft monopoly strategy.

  • xkcd #3154: Physics Insight

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  • Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein's, but it's interesting how close he came.)

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

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  • One addition: On the right, "A computer from this decade?" — I think this can easily be widened to "A computer older than 15 years?" (swapping "yes" & "no", of course). The laptop on my lap is exactly 10 years old, wasn't high end back then, and runs OpenSUSE with KDE easily. Well, in all fairness, it's now got 12 GB RAM, but that's mostly for development purposes. Perhaps one could ask directly: "At least 8 GB RAM?"

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    Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

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  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • What’s the state of open source adoption in Europe?

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  • This website has one of the most shifty cookie banners I've seen. Don't know what that says about the Ubuntu project as a whole, but they don't have that much of a high opinion to lose anyways.

  • Nix explained from the ground up - Surma

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  • As someone who's been on NixOS for about a week, this video is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

  • So you want to move to Linux; I don’t blame you

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  • FreeTube is awesome. Need regular updates though, as every month or so YouTube seems to install a new way to break it (or Invidious, on which mostly it relies).

    But there's also Piped, which I haven't tried yet, but I think it's disjoint to Invidious.

  • Okay, how do I get into vim?

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  • That looks very interesting, thank you!

  • Okay, how do I get into vim?

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  • Thanks, I got it done. :)

  • Okay, how do I get into vim?

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  • Got it, so in babysteps it was:

    1. As root, open /etc/nixox/configuration.nix using kate or nano.
    2. Uncomment or add the line vim or helix within the block environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [... ...];.
    3. In a Terminal, run nixos-rebuild switch.

    Alright, first steps taken. Thanks! :)

  • A domain I like has expired, how do I go about registering it for myself?

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  • I think the general term for this is "domain sniping" or "catching". From this, I also found this paid service, catches.io; can't tell if it or dropcatch is better. They both only charge you when they are successful in catching the domain for you, which is good.

    In general, I second the notion that one probably can't get around paying for a professional, paid service, since one is up against professionalized scoopers (godaddy and the like), who have put a lot of optimization (down to the placing of their servers) into trying to get an edge over legitimate buyers and competing scoopers.

  • Resources for the technically challenged?

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  • Also, if you don't have a machine to just experiment on, swapping an internal SSD drive back and forth may be cumbersome. If you've got the extra 15 Euros, buy a (preferably used) NVMe-to-USB3 adapter/housing, so that you can connect your SSD externally via USB. Such an adapter is very useful anyways. (This setup is still way better than permanently using a regular USB drive.)

  • Expanding storage on simple home server

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  • If you don't yet have a USB adapter for using NVMe SSDs over USB-3 ports, I'd suggest to buy such a thing first, since they not just make for a simple yet (decently) fast storage expansion solution, but are very useful in all sorts of situations.

  • UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations

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  • I would immediately agree if the gangs were utterly fragmented away from each other.

    However, many of those gangs simultaneously constitute an asset for the government of their respective country.

    Case in point: In Russia, things take the form that the government lets the gangs do their stuff, but they have to attack government-chosen targets every once in a while. So there is already structure for coordination. What it would take is for the Russian government, or maybe even just one of its rivalling intelligence agencies, to conclude that making an example out of Britain has become important. Still more interesting game theory lies here: Russia's government and agencies needn't even hope to participate in any ransom payouts at any time – just perpetuating the gangs' damaging of European economies is already heavily in their interest. They have a cyberwar budget anyways.

    However, I know far too little about the economic magnitudes involved here to say anything with certainty.

  • UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations

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  • There's some interesting game theory at play here.

    The idea is to make the public sector and CNI (which includes utilities and datacenters these days) less attractive targets for financially motivated attackers.

    Indeed it's about time a major country try out if this works. Should it prove successful, others could follow suit. However, it's exactly this prospect which could make it all fail. Why? Once the UK enacts its law, the major ransomware gangs (and the occasional government backing them) could have a major incentive to target the UK's systems extra hard. This would not make the gangs any money, of course. Rather, the purpose would be to deter the rest of the world from employing the same approach, lest this source of income dry out, too.

  • What are your advices to cool homes without AC ?

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  • Came here to point to this.

    Also, if outside noise is preventing one from keeping the windows open over night, get custom-fitted silicone earplugs.

  • Lemmy as a discussion forum

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  • There is forum software that's integrated in the fediverse. Most often I've heard about NodeBB, which is open source and one can self-host it for free; there is even a YunoHost package.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge accused of helping man evade immigration agents is released after arrest

    apnews.com /live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-25-2025
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Choices

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Tenant Unions Are Coming. Landlords Aren't Ready.

    www.hamiltonnolan.com /p/tenant-unions-are-coming-landlords
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get. People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand

    www.theatlantic.com /ideas/archive/2025/04/class-money-finances/682301/
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    To boost Bookwyrm, there should be a tool to scrape book data from Amazon