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  • TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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  • I guess you aren't a black lady in the south.

  • Free time

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  • But watching youtube for your decompression doesn't get you to a well rested state. It can do the opposite. So you aren't making any progress toward actually getting free time.

    Better decompression. Turn off all networking. Read something for 5 minutes and go for a walk. Successful decompression in 10 minutes, not 10 hours.

    Whether intentional or not, or just progressive improvement on algorithms, youtube thrives by providing a need, and then providing it poorly so you keep your watch time going forever. This is a fun feature of machine learning. Non-willfull conspiracies. A system can do something malicious to get ahead that is equivalent to a highly calculated malicious action, while no one, including the model itself or the algorithms that trained it, or the people who trained it, understands what it's doing.

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  • Then come to a site with almost no moderation that still values mature discourse. https://submatrix.net/

    The mistake of most low-moderation sites is to couple themselves with a reckless culture. But we all get to choose our culture. We can all simply choose to be mature people.

    Can't have AI moderation if there isn't much moderation to begin with. And look, the proof is there. If we simply downvote immature people and upvote mature people, it actually works.

  • deathray

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  • I don't mind that communism has starved people because it hasn't starved me yet.

  • Hypothetical: Humanity is planning a year of shutting off the internet to quell the advance of the AI singularity. You can keep your computer but there will be no networking. What would you do to prep

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  • A lot of people would need to find new jobs or transform them. I was wondering if anyone would see past the personal computing implications. I didn't say anything to see how people would think naturally. With only a month to adjust, that would require a lot of fast movement. There has to be a buck to be made somewhere in that.

    File distribution would have to move back to CDs or, more likely, SD cards with current software sizes. Games could still be sold. But the big question is what will happen with 90% of businesses that make use of the internet?

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

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  • So the issue is having two leopards. We live in a zoo.

  • GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

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  • GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

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  • I will gladly lose a California market. Users can use a VPN anyway.

  • Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project

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  • This is why I'm going to argue for pure Arch or Artix. Ultimately, what a lot of these distros bring to the table is artwork. But they bite off a lot more than artwork when doing so. And in time they can start to suck at that administration.

    It's not very hard to set up your system with a vanilla DE and adjust it into something good. You don't need to get fancy. And to the extent someone else's art work can be good and accelerate getting to a nice system, there are other ways to distribute that.

    You should want your distro to be 95% administration and 5% art because in the long run that's whats going to keep your system stable and avoid future headaches. But some artists are overly ambitious and envision creating an entire version of an operating system, including the parts they aren't passionate about. And some people buy in on this premise and install these projects. ...instead of just releasing dot files.

    For it to go well requires that both the leadership and the contributors are passionate about all of the parts and passionate about them forever. Not very likely. If you want a distro that is administered well, get a distro where administration is all they do, and then get your artwork as a separate selection.

    Now you can get your art from artists who put 95% of their effort into art. And your package stability by people who put 95% of their effort into package stability.

    Everyone has romantic feelings toward a system that is integrated. But what they should realize is that integrated and modular are opposites. And modular is what they should want, with effective roll separation.

    If they fork Majaro that is good. If when they fork it they scope down to just distribute a dot file set, and maybe create their own easy installer for Arch that isn't a seperate whole distro, that is better.

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

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  • I see. I guess home instance might be a phrase we should spread to avoid these kinds of confusions.

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

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  • How would someone get banned from their own instance? Do you really own it if you can get banned from it?

  • Now even Nick Fuentes is saying to vote Democrat

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  • I hugely agree that we need electoral reform. But no party is going to make that happen. The best we can do is get electoral reform locally. When enough Americans are exposed to good voting systems then maybe there is a shot.

    The other kind of creepy moon shot is if we all become AI hiveminds. The one positive side effect might be people universally knowing as a canonical truth that first past the post can't work.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • I feel like no one got the hint I was talking about the World Trade Center. What I'm saying is Al Quida basically already did what he is arguing for. I'm calling him an unaware al quida sympathizer. Advocating for terrorism is bad. Worse if you are actually arguing for 9/11. Even worse if you know so little that you don't even realize that's what you are doing.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • Android apps do solve a lot of UI problems a that are unique to the phone interface. If only Linux could run APKs. Oh wait, it can. Linux can run anything.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • Terrorists tend to act across borders and so they are interested mostly in global corporations. If only there was one single building that housed all of them at the same time. Some buildings where they all engaged in trade around the world, centralized.

    Then that would make your scheme easy.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • What we need is a good linux phone that is affordable, has hardware that isn't slow, and isn't over sold to an annual pre-order.

    Sadly, if the first two are true, the third one becomes an issue.

    What we need is a large company to see that is a sign of huge pent-up demand. Apparently, HP and Dell are both talking about switching to Linux as their default OS for desktops. Once all the desktop manufacturers find themselves in the business of selling hardware with Linux on it, either mobile manufacturers will copy, like Samsung, or the desktop folks decide to make their product smaller.

    What everyone has wanted from the beginning was a desktop in their pocket. The amount of time that no one has produced that despite major demand, and the amount of development that has gone into building any other stack, just feels like willful suppression at this point.

    Is there some government somewhere telling large-scale manufacturers that they can't build something as free and open as a desktop that isn't at least the size of a laptop? Because it actually takes less technology to make something that's open than something that is closed. And there is just as much appeal for the consumer to not restrict them.

  • Just saying

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  • How do you want them to be for the people and not for corporations if you want them to subsidize an industry? At the end of the day that will be paid to corporations, and you are giving corporations more incentive to get into your congressperson's office to help them figure out how to divide it up. Why would you want more cash exchanged between them and more face time between them? Bad idea if you want corporations out of politics.

    More money for [industry x] literally means the government working for some corporations. Doesn't matter what industry x is.

  • Just saying

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  • I was about to say, the economics of this post don't really add up. And sadly, we have a living example behind your computer screen.

    That doesn't change the way lemmy works. "Someone said something supportive of the thing we like. So it must be true." Too bad economics doesn't work that way.

    If you want things to be cheap, you pit fossil fuel against green energy in real competition. Then they are both forced to get as cheap as possible at every layer of their supply chains if they want their respective supply chains to continue. That's what kills profit and greed because they have to give up short-term greed for a shot at long-term survival. When you give either or both a government crutch, the executives involved try to reap as much cash out of that crutch now while the crutch exists.

    Whether you give a crutch to either fossil fuel or green energy, at the end of the day you are giving it to an executive. He's going to take advantage of it and not give you what you want every time.

    Do you guys remember the incentives for rural internet rollout? Now they are paying premium cost for crapy internet, which the government already paid to exist. It doesn't matter how much you agree with the thing you want money to go to, you aren't going to get a good outcome.

  • Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now!

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  • I mean I could plug my shit. https://goatmatrix.net/

    It's not super active on the nsfw front but I'm open to it. You've just got to hit "hidden from front" on nsfw content.Any sub exists. Just submit to any topic.

    Hopefully that plug isn't unwelcome, but you really can use it.

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Well that's a thinker

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    W3C Standardizes Mozilla Developed Spying Technology

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why is it that you can't buy a 2 Liter container of beer or coffee?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    If we took all the gold owned by the US government and distributed it evenly would this be a positive thing to do?

  • World Politics @lemmy.world
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    New Zealand has made itself the best country for those in sex work

    www.the-independent.com /life-style/love-sex/sex-industry/new-zealand-is-the-best-country-to-work-as-a-prostitute-says-sex-worker-advocacy-group-10267685.html
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    If you could pass another Amendment that restricted what government was able to do what would prevent government from doing?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Man is the meme