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renzev

@ renzev @lemmy.world

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  • Meme.

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  • They want a revolution and it’s acceptable if people have to die to achieve it.

    Yeah that's how revolutions work. Because the alternative, at least in theory, is more people dying of poverty, environmental pollution, institutionalized oppression, and other consequences of the current global economic system.

  • Trump exempts himself from ethics pledge as watchdogs sound alarms

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  • Okay, I give up. What on earth is /a supposed to mean!? Some sources decode it as "alterous", but that doesn't help me either. Is this just a typo of /s?

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  • And guess what, that works.

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  • It's the three strategies of pricing:

    • Price the item as XX.99 to make it feel cheaper than it is
    • Price the item as a whole/round number to make it feel premium
    • Price the item as a seemingly random number like XX.57 to get ahead of the shopper who are weary of the first two tactics

  • COCK.LI IS ON RED ALERT.

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  • Sorry, but in my book, actions speak louder than words. And the actions here are very clear: they made a useful service that benefited people. They paid for it out of their pocket and suffered major inconveniences in their personal lives to keep the service operational and to uphold their ideals of transparency. It's a net positive contribution to the world, even if you account for the offensive/hurtful jokes they made along the way.

    You can spend hours talking about what people should or should not have done. Critiquing others from your high horse is easy, but it gets you nowhere. As another example, take Lemmy's developers. You could go on for hours denouncing their tankie/authoritarian views, but it won't change the fact that they created an anti-authoritarian and censorship-resistant platform that benefits many people.

    What I value personally is a consistent moral framework. What someone thinks on isolated issues or what kind of offensive humor they like is a lot less relevant to me. Do I disapprove of it? Yes. But do I condemn them for it? No. Because actions speak louder than words.

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  • are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

    Might Discord be, potentially, in some way related to the notorious hacker known as 4chan 🤣

  • COCK.LI IS ON RED ALERT.

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  • It's probably good that a free and private email service might shut down because... they registered a few edgy domains that they no longer use? Wow

  • COCK.LI IS ON RED ALERT.

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  • Thanks for sharing this. Never really used cockli that much, but still appreciate their service. Nothing makes the glowies seethe harder than a privacy-friendly email service, I hope it stays afloat. Donated!

  • Corporations are not your Friends: A Story in Two Parts

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  • From what I understand, they're already getting paid pennies by youtube, which is why many of them constantly shill for patreon/nebula/curiositystream/whatever on top of sponsored content. So youtube is shit for the creators, shit for the consumers, and a net loss for google. It's the same non-business model as food delivery apps: nobody profits, yet it still somehow keeps going because modern economics is make-believe.

  • Time is a circle

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  • I mean, every once in a while you might end up with a bike instead.

  • Corporations are not your Friends: A Story in Two Parts

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  • Just some time ago, I was thinking about some P2P Video service, where everyone would provide the data they have - so like a BitTorrent YouTube

    It's called PeerTube. It uses activitypub, the same federation protocol as lemmy. Large creators could certainly afford to host their own videos. Some federation/self-hosting/free software creators already do. Can we have large free-to-use instances where individuals can upload their videos, like we do with Lemmy? I would like to hope so.

    But just standing up and copying all of youtube's content? Like I said, it's a MONUMENTAL task. There are around 14e9 videos on there. That's almost two videos for every person on planet earth. And I'm not even sure how useful mirroring would be. It's important for archival purposes, sure, but it's not forward-thinking. For a lot of pieces of content, the value comes mainly from the community surrounding it, not the content itself. Mirroring cuts the community out of the content. I believe that If archiving/mirroring efforts are to succeed at anything beyond occupying disk space, they must be focused on a specific type of content, and headed by people who are genuinely passionate about the content they are archiving, not disintrested data hoarders.

  • Corporations are not your Friends: A Story in Two Parts

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  • It would be a tragedy if youtube collapsed. There are so many useful and important videos on there. I passed the second year of my engineering bachelor almost exclusively by studying from youtube (the lectures at my college are useless), the vast breadth of content available on that platform simply does not exist anywhere else, and archiving all of it would be a monumental task. With youtube being a net loss for google for multiple years in a row, it's not outside the realm of possibility that if they can't make it profitable, they might just... shut it down like they did with Plus.

  • How RAID system reliable? possible of raid system failure

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  • A lot of "hardware raid" is just a separate controller doing software raid. I thought I lost access to a bunch of data when my raid controller died, before I realized that I could just plug the disks directly into the computer and mount them with mdadm. But yes, hardware raid seems a bit pointless nowadays.

  • You changing them or leaving them for months until it's the right time again?

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  • I really wish there was like a lil i2c port on the back of every device so you could just plug in a lil clock synchronizer thingy and it would tell the device what time it is. Like it probably wouldn't even cost that much to implement for the manufacturers. Standardizing on the connector and protocol would be a bitch tho

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • Defederated social media lol

  • I mean, I'm glad we're growing here, but...

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  • I'm curious, where exactly do you draw the line with your reasoning? You can denounce dumping oil into the ocean without convicting all of Shell? You can denounce the invasion of Crimea without convicting all of the Russian military? You can denounce murder without convicting all murders? Why not skip this alltogether and denounce all bad things without convicting all good things, that makes the game of ethics a whole lot easier.

    "western civilization" is not a majority. It's a minority who has been dominating the discussion for way too long, and people are tired of listening to the hypocrisy.

  • I mean, I'm glad we're growing here, but...

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  • So denouncing genocide is now "political extremism"? If posts like that are scaring people away, that's good, we don't need them here.