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  • How would you reorganize the ways we interact with the internet to make the world a better place?

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  • IMO the big thing is just to broadly remove corporate influence and control. Almost everything that is wrong with the internet has roots in profit/power seeking megalomaniacs thinking up ways to make the technology we use serve their needs exclusively and manipulate everyone's interactions to cater to that. Tech utopia would be everyone using systems that are designed for organic human interaction, organizing and information exchange, and the people who want to corrupt that being unable to do so.

  • Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in fact argues that it should not be based on empiric

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  • It might not have fully collapsed (yet), but I think all the money printing had a lot to do with the subsequent relative price boom of various assets. For instance if you had bought gold and waited a few years it would have worked out pretty well. Inflation relative to stores of wealth has been a lot higher than inflation relative to consumer goods.

  • Hope Springs Eternal [Feral Mills]

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  • This is reality if you're using an mp3 player instead of a phone

  • On Lemmy, do you take note of the upvote/downvote ratio before clicking on a link, commenting, or voting yourself?

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  • No, I disabled that in the settings so I don't see it

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  • There is someone out there whose job is bald hedgehog masseuse

  • Home Cooked Meal [Teddy]

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  • That's true but you can mess up pretty bad if you don't know what you're doing and aren't carefully following a recipe. One time I wanted a stir fry to be more filling, so I added flour, which apparently gives it a uniquely unpleasant slimy texture and is basically inedible. Never did that again but that kind of stuff can happen more often before you have much experience cooking. Even if you are following a recipe sometimes they can be ambiguous or give wrong measurements (especially for the amount of salt to use).

  • Hammers Without Handles

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  • Are the specific suggestions made in the article "horrible UI design"? IMO it is good UI design to have a basic goal of people being able to use it without consulting with external resources, and not requiring them to know much more than is strictly necessary for the given task. The real fundamental problem is the marketshare of proprietary operating systems, not using them needs to be accessible, not a badge of computer literacy. The author is absolutely right that you should be able to format a disk and set up a network drive by just clicking through and selecting basic options about what you are trying to do.

  • Hammers Without Handles

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  • All he's really saying is that it is important for things to be easy for people to figure out how to do, and for that you need to be aware of what mental models they already have and design interfaces with the goal that the largest number of users can succeed in using the software. A better analogy might be that if you're trying to run a political campaign, you should probably be speaking the language the majority of voters speak, and caring whether they understand you.

    The examples the article gives seem like good ones. The starting point is a video of people new to linux trying to use software and failing to figure it out, acknowledging that as a problem to be solved. The proposed solutions are basically to have wizard guis that can walk users through the most common tasks for disk management and network drives. Usability matters and none of that should be very controversial.

  • Why are you a furry?

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  • Speaking only about the porn, I like drawings, and real images of real people usually make me uncomfortable for whatever reason. The quality and volume of the art has increased dramatically over the years, lots of furry nsfw artists are really, really good at what they do.

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  • So what's the reason? They are not consistent enough and changes in light/heat/radiation output would kill any life that arose?

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • I feel like this comic is bait

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • Here's how I see it: the more you contribute to the economy, the more harm you are doing. Therefore the most ethical thing is to organize your life in a way that minimizes your participation, and spend more of your time and energy doing things unrelated to earning or spending money.

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • That implies the existence of special people whose moral choices matter, and a larger population whose choices are irrelevant. Not sure that makes a lot of sense either.

  • Jucika likes beer

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  • The main reason it's confusing to me is, what kind of circumstance would mean you can buy kegs but not bottles of beer? Was that common? Intuitively it seems like some kind of shortage should hit them both at once.

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  • Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)!

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  • I like what this project is trying to do, self hosted security cameras need to be more accessible to get people to stop using corporate spyware.

  • What do you think makes a story immersive?

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  • I think it boils down to things that get your imagination going, where what is presented lines up really well with what you are thinking and are inclined to be interested in, and avoids stuff that prompts you to discard your own thoughts as irrelevant. There's also a sleight of hand factor; one thing I notice in a lot of good writing is that it draws your explicit attention to one thing, while simultaneously giving you the more important (for immersion purposes) information indirectly. This mimics how things work in reality, where you experience a lot of things that prompt you to passively piece together what is happening. That indirect information should be both dense and intuitive, there's so much there that you can't see the seams where the creator intended to present a piece of information, but you also can absorb it without explicitly considering each detail.

  • fixed the toilet flush

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  • So the float valve was prevented from closing by hard water deposits?

  • RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance

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  • Do you sleep with noise?

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  • Yeah, I have a mp3 player under my pillow with a white noise track on it