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daniskarma

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  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • That's not tech. That's company policies.

    Streaming services, as a tech has evolved and it's a better technology that it was before. New encoding formats allow for transfer of more data over less bandwidth for instance.

    Online communications, as in forums as such, as also evolved with new and better ways of posting, and better security (I remember when websites just stored your password in plain text).

    What people complain about are mostly company policies, not technology. Netflix charging more for less content, or Reddit banning third party apps are not tech. Those things are not developed. They are just a company decision.

    And company decisions are as bad as always. People also got screw by companies in the 90s. People who just notice more now is because now they are older.

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  • Not everyone wants to socially interact. That's something to respect.

    I tend to prioritize not-human services, as social interaction exhaust me.

    When I used to work with customers I really didn't like when people starting talking about unnecessary staff. The less I had to interact the better for me.

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  • Times change. I see nothing wrong with it. Same as you used to be able to park without paying, then you started to pay, and now it's moving from those machines to phone apps. And in the future there may be other form of pay, or maybe parking is directly forbidden o who knows what but there will be a change, for sure. Because things change.

    It's just nostalgia working. Things change. You were more capable of dealing with change at a younger age and that's why you see the older the people get the more they complain about everything.

    But is just a change, like many other that came before that.

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  • Yep, I also been growing older and I have nostalgia for old times. But I'm well aware that grass is only greener on my memory, as it has always been.

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  • We din't need a register of left handed people to start making left handed scissors.

    I think society can accommodate without the need for medicalize it. That's the difference I wanted to make, an illness need to be medicalized. A different way of being does not.

    For instance, my lighter skin complexion makes so I have to wear more sunscreen that people with darker complexions. But no one would think of it as something to be medicalized. It's just "oh, I usually get burned by the sun, I better buy some sunscreen" or "oh, I'm left handed I better put my mouse in left handed mode", or "oh, I'm gay, I'd better go find someone of my same gender to love". Something like that. Simple, easy and widely accepted.

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  • I will argue that the mild part of the autism spectrum, what we call functional autism, is not a mental illness, not a disorder.

    It's like being left handed, not the most common thing, it can cause troubles in a world made for right handed people, specially if being left handed is not accepted. But by itself is just another way of being just as "healthy" and "normal" as being right handed.

    I think this is an open debate. Some folks prefer it being considered an illness because they want diagnosis and treatment. Others, like me, just love to be this way, and there's nothing I think is wrong with me. The only problem is that the world is not accommodated for people like me, just like it wasn't accommodated for left-handed people not so long ago. But as soon as it's 100% accepted as something normal I don't see it causing any trouble, so if there's no harm there's no illness we can talk about.

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    Why aren't we plastering the internet with pictures of trump shoving his nose up the ass of every war criminal he ever met?

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  • Because what's the point. Your internet is not their internet. And if they would see that they won't care. Only thing you are doing is mentally saturating your own people and give them a reason for just leaving to more peaceful places that are not posting 24/7 about something that depresses them.

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  • You are more informed in how shitty the world have always been.

    Also the decades from the 90s to the 10s were probably a small golden age that has already ended.

  • If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

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  • That thing loaded before I even click the link.

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  • Secret sauce: Do the drying with the hair dryer on mid heat.

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  • Wrong: cleaning ass only with toiler paper.

    Right: Using a bidet after pooping.

    Your asses will thank me.

  • Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!

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  • Those admins are unpaid?

    Managing a store it's a LOT of work. And you are doing to provide profit for other people. Who is going to do it for free?

    It's not like social media where people may volunteer to admin and mod, and users may donate because it's a common goal of share information, opinions, knowledge, funny stuff etc.

    Here we are talking about bussiness that do what they do because they want money. I would not volunteer to admin a store so shop owners could earn money, that's for sure.

    And I still not see the advantage of doing within the ActivityPub instead of just being a normal service where all interested shops could join.

  • Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!

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  • In this example instances are stores, stores are users in instances? How stores are protected to be defederated by competitors (we are talking about money and making a living here).

    What it adds to just a simple centralized service that any store can join. If you don't want it to be another amazon, make that service a coop. or some kinds of non-profit that it's paid by the stores that want to become part of that.

    I think here we are in the classic conundrum of "a solution in search of a problem".

    Fediverse and ActivityPub is cool, but it's a social media thing. And decentralization is cool when needed, for instance social media. But it doesn't have to make sense for every use case.

    For what's being proposed there's zero actual need for decentralization or ActivityPub.

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  • I really don't see the appeal of activity-pub for this.

    It's a protocol used for social media and interactions. You describe just sort of a "metastore".

    Maybe a review store site could work better with activity pub.

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  • Correct me if I'm wrong. But you examples are bot cutting off the middle man.

    The person with the small computer store is still a middle man.

    And being smaller usually means that their cut needs to be bigger to maintain themselves.

  • Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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  • I have hundreds of books in my kindle. But 0 on Amazon.

  • Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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  • Good luck accessing my ebooks.

  • Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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  • Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people

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  • As the world become more and more noisy. And people become more a more shitty with regards of doing noise without care about how it affects others. ANC become a necessity for some people.