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  • We live in the future!

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  • The first two depend on centralized services and nonfree software, which are things I don't like. The third doesn't. The fourth doesn't have to.

    So by those metrics I like cryptocurrency the most. In fact I have invested a bit of my savings in Bitcoin. I have never used Uber or AirBnB meanwhile.

  • A bash script to automatically burn LLM tokens, thus massively increasing your productivity and hireability

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  • Can't I just ask it for the seahorse emoji once in a while and achieve the same result or something...

  • Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat

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  • I agree with much of that, but not the things after "bring down the [list of companies]".

    I agree we need to bring them down, but not through governmental regulations and fines, but by us (the general public) building replacements for them. Like the thing we're using here.

    All that state regulation will do is make that harder because that regulation will also apply to those replacements and make sure nobody can ever operate anything that replaces them unless they have enough revenue to comply with those regulations.

  • Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat

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  • The EU is planning to do something along those lines, as I understand it.

    But that's completely beside the point because it's not a good idea in the first place to prohibit young people from participating in online communities. Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people's mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too. I wouldn't be the person I am now if I hadn't started doing that regularly at age 10.

    We shouldn't be talking about "actually it's about surveillance" or thinking about less privacy-invasive ways to achieve the same goal. We should be saying "if your goal is to reduce the amount of young people on social media, or the time they spend there, then your goal is wrong".

  • Persistance of posts and account data post-deletion

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  • If I delete this post, will it be completely removed across all instances that synchronized it?

    It will send out a message to relevant servers that it should be deleted. There is no guarantee that they will comply with that message. If your post has been copied to hundreds or thousands of other servers, there is no guarantee that they will all receive or understand that message. Some may even be actively malicious, for example because they are controlled by exactly the people you want to hide from!

    I remember once deleting a comment (on this account) a few seconds after posting it. After that, I kept getting upvotes for it! I found out that that was happening because one very popular instance had for some reason not deleted the comment, so its users had no idea that it was supposed to be gone.

    Is a deleted post traceable in any way?

    Everything on the public Internet is. Anyone can set up a bot that just scrapes and archives everything on the Internet that it can find; and governments certainly have the resources to do so!

    Is it kept in a log or a database on ferdiverse instances?

    Potentially.

    With governments across the globe increasingly surveiling us online and scrutinizing everything we say, I’m starting to think I should plainly delete any account that has personally identifiable information like my real name and photo. I initially thought it would be easier to connect with family and friends, but now I’m growing increasingly worried about how this can be used against me.

    Posting things on the public Internet, especially under one's real name, inherently comes with that risk. Always has.

  • Tired of File Size Limits? This Open Source Tool Sends Large Files Directly Browser to Browser

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  • NSFW

    TIL: There are about 4 to 30 million porn sites on the net at any given time. Adult websites generally make up 4 to 12% of all existing websites.

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  • I am only really familiar with those owned by Aylo as well as XNXX and XVideos. Are there good reasons to use any others? If so which ones?

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  • News outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.

    Some already do that. The ones I am familiar with are in German though: social.heise.de and mastodon.derstandard.at.

  • The circle of life

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  • Probably just ask it for the seahorse emoji or something idk

  • Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

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  • On the Vatican website I can find translations into various languages, but not the presumably original Latin. Does anyone know why that is so and whether that is online somewhere?

  • Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems

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  • Yes. If vendors in those states want to then preinstall Linux on a device they would have to find a compliant distro…

    Doesn't matter much. At least those of us who aren't engaged in the business of selling computers are unaffected.

  • Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems

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  • Considering SteamOS includes Valve's proprietary bits for the Steam client, this likely still applies to Valve and any hardware shipping with SteamOS

    Where is the line? Most Linux distros have some nonfree software too, does it apply to them?

    IMHO the correct legal and constitutional analysis ought to be: distributing software, in either source or binary form, is free speech protected under the US constitution as well as state constitutions. Therefore the government cannot pass laws requiring that operating systems, in general, implement certain features, doesn't matter which.

    What the government can do is engage in product regulation. It can require that operating systems preinstalled on devices sold in their jurisdiction have certain features. The correct thing to do wouldn't have been to distinguish FOSS from nonfree operating systems, but operating systems preinstalled on devices from those distributed on the Internet which the user needs to install. That would have covered Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, which is obviously what the legislators were thinking of.

  • You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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  • That…seems kind of clickbaity.

    The headline is literally false, not just clickbaity.

  • You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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  • I usually start with DDG, but it just doesn't have anywhere near as much of the WWW in its index as Google does, so I very often don't find what I'm looking for and switch back to Google.

    If someone has a suggestion for something better than either of them, do tell.

  • GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

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  • When I first became familiar with the existence of free and open source software, GitHub did not exist yet. The most popular similar website was SourceForge. (Do many people much younger than me even know that exists?)

    If things could change once, they can change again.

  • I'm Filing for Justice Samuel Alito's Disbarment

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  • No, that's not self-evident at all. I think for most if not all federal offices created by the US constitution, the US constitution specifically lists qualifications (e.g. being at least a certain age, having been a citizen for some period of time). Not so for federal judges.

  • Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

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  • The prohibition extends to services supporting prediction markets, like virtual private networks, that could allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban.

    so, the same as what Utah did? Or am I misunderstanding this?

    Should not laws prohibit things that harm other people? How do prediction markets harm anyone?

  • Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No]

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  • I see. Not familiar with any good interface for that.

  • Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No]

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  • No, I thought that was a separate question precisely because I don't see a connection between merge requests and mailing lists.

  • Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No]

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  • I don't currently use mailing lists but when I did, I found Thunderbird very usable. Just set up a filter to move each list's messages to a separate folder.

    For merge requests, doesn't the default GitLab web interface do those things already …?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    What if you printed all of Wikipedia?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    How long would you survive with no DNA?

  • Europa / Europe and the EU + EEA @lemmy.world
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    The EU Commission Is Gutting Net Neutrality

    epicenter.works /en/content/the-eu-commission-is-gutting-net-neutrality
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    New Social Web Working Group at W3C

    socialwebfoundation.org /2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Warning Party To Stop Citing Fake AI Cases Is Not, In Fact, Bias

    abovethelaw.com /2026/01/warning-party-to-stop-citing-fake-ai-cases-is-not-in-fact-bias/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    Polish president vetoes "Orwellian" law allowing blocking of online content

    notesfrompoland.com /2026/01/10/polish-president-vetoes-orwellian-law-allowing-blocking-of-online-content/
  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    What if you drained the oceans?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    Can you power your computer by typing?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    What if everyone on Earth was in the same place and jumped at the same time?

  • LeopardsAteMyFace @lemmy.ca
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    Lindsey Graham is outraged about federal surveillance powers that Lindsey Graham helped create and expand

    reason.com /2025/11/19/lindsey-graham-is-outraged-about-federal-surveillance-powers-that-lindsey-graham-helped-create-and-expand/
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    Lindsey Graham is outraged about federal surveillance powers that Lindsey Graham helped create and expand

    reason.com /2025/11/19/lindsey-graham-is-outraged-about-federal-surveillance-powers-that-lindsey-graham-helped-create-and-expand/
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    Could you swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust

    opensource.googleblog.com /2025/11/announcing-magika-10-now-faster-smarter.html
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’

    www.techdirt.com /2025/11/10/trump-falls-for-satire-from-site-called-the-dunning-kruger-times/
  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Samsung Officially Rolls Out Update To Annoy You With Ads On Smart Fridges

    www.techdirt.com /2025/11/04/samsung-officially-rolls-out-update-to-annoy-you-with-ads-on-smart-fridges/
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    Could you use a laser as an umbrella?

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?