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  • Exactly! That's what I was thinking!

  • Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

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  • Didn't you have to buy an account at Digg? If so, were the bots buying the accounts? And if so, who was buying them?

  • TIL that last month, a rich man in New Jersey killed a pedestrian and left the scene. He was put on trial. The jury found him guilty. 15 minutes later, he walked out free.

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  • Oh, I'm sorry. I was stereotyping vigilante mobs.

  • TIL that last month, a rich man in New Jersey killed a pedestrian and left the scene. He was put on trial. The jury found him guilty. 15 minutes later, he walked out free.

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  • Vigilante justice. Chomping at the bit to dole out a death sentence based on a 34 word post title on a website.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • It's complicated.

  • MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow

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  • This is different from pirating. The government will be going after the developers like they did Kim Dotcom.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • I've found what mitigates this is keeping an eye on where the post comes from. If it comes from something like MemesOfProduction, it's probably not safe to say "oh, capitalism isn't as bad as all that". But if there's a politically tinged post in Technology, you'll find more normal people around who aren't Chekists.

  • Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law

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  • You might not realize it, but the Fediverse is social media so a ban would be rather detrimental to this place.

  • I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age

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  • Governments know about parental controls. They know it's the most effective, most efficient, and least destructive way to deal with this. They don't care. And they don't care about the children. If they cared, they'd develop their own parental control software, offer it for free, and encourage it's use.

    If they really wanted to get draconian about it, as they are doing now with age verification, they would pass laws to prosecute parents who don't use parental controls for negligence.

    But it's not about the children. At all. It's about preventing you and me, and all of us from talking to each other and entertaining ourselves. It's about turning the Internet into TV, a one way faucet of entertainment and information controlled by the wealthy .001% where us peons can't talk back.

    These age verification laws are just the first step. They kill small forums and games like Urban Dead, and leave only sites controlled by megacorporations that can afford the age verification infrastructure and the massive corporate fines if a single kid sneaks in. Once you get used to this, it's easier for you to accept not being able to communicate online at all, or start your own forum, or YouTube channel.

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  • I don't get it either. Is the model labelled neanderthal known for acting like a neanderthal?

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • That's the problem. Comcast is famous in the US for being utter dogshit. So is ATT. And that's pretty much our choices.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • yes but how often does your internet go down?

    About once a month. Not for very long, but it is an annoyance. Xfinity usually does maintenance between 1am and 2am, and the Internet will be out for about 30 minutes to an hour. About once a year it goes down for at least half a day.

    My OS hasn't gone down at all in 20 years. I don't want that to change. If an OS stops working for an hour once a month for maintenance, it's a piece of refried shit.

  • UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

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  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • I'm using the website. After what you said, I checked and it has Subscribed/Local/All at the top of the page. That's really nice. I just started using Lemmy so I haven't completely figured it out yet. I use old reddit, so it might be set up the same way as new reddit but I wouldn't have known.

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    What are hidden posts?

  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • I can't figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I'm getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what's on my page is politics. I'm not interested in that.

  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I'm currently playing, programs I'm currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.

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  • Remember that 90% of what is said online is said by complete oddballs because nobody will talk to them in real life and they have all the time in the world to post on the Internet.

    And the more extreme the view, the more sock puppets these oddballs will have to try to convince you that their fucked up view of the world is actually normal.

    IRL I almost never, ever meet people who are obsessed with politics, or people who are extremists like Nazis or communists. Online, they're all over the place and it is not remotely normal. Same goes for chronic pot heads who are vehemently anti-smoking cigarettes. You don't meet that kind of bizarro-world health nuttery offline. Or people who think that people who have outdoor cats are pure evil and should be put in prison.

    Extremism like this in general is not at all normal offline. But online it seems like it is. It is not.

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  • So what is it? What's it's name?

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    TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years

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  • Ok? But the comment I was replying to was complaining that bullying today follows kids into the safety of their owns homes and driving them to suicide. I'm just saying, whether you're a kid or an adult, if you don't want to be bullied in the safety of your own home, don't make it possible for that to happen. It's very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very easy to avoid.