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by Funes- 7y ago
I know you could technically say that Mastodon is a decentralized network, but I like to say that it just distributes the kind of power associated with centralisation. What I mean is this: each server in Mastodon is governed by a small grou
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by Funes- 7y ago
Well, social media, and smartphones in general, make people around you ignore their immediate environment--including you--, so there's that.
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by Funes- 7y ago
I think it's both what I said and what you added; they are not mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination. I would also say that chat apps are designed to be addictive, too. An important fact to consider. >and not have to
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by Funes- 7y ago
There, they have an online persona they can hide behind. They don't have to deal with people from their real-life environment. Plus, discord servers center around a common interest for everyone involved.
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by Funes- 7y ago
Traveling with a "dumb" phone would accomplish exactly the same, but with the chance to make an emergency call if needed: no camera, no GPS, no games, no WhatsApp--where I'm from, this means no texting, and perhaps even no co
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by Funes- 7y ago
I agree. That's why people--especially young people--generally prefer texting over phone calls: without the spontaneity (synchronicity) required in spoken communication, it is a lot easier to hide everything on your part, from presen
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by Funes- 7y ago
I remember really well being bored as a kid, and as a teen. It always resulted, without fail, in a sudden and deep drive to explore--our home, our school, our town; wherever we were at the time--, in creative spurts--painting, drawing, doin
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Getting a button to trigger such a strong response would mean a certain division in society, those who seek pleasure the new way or those who want to keep with the traditional way. Isn't this already happening to a certain extent--
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by Funes- 7y ago
>women [...] are under-represented in management positions They are hugely under-represented in blue-collar jobs, as well. And over-represented in the health sciences, many fields of academia, and social work. Would all that be unfair to
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by Funes- 7y ago
>I know I don’t want to turn a blind eye to what is happening, but at the same time I don’t know what else I can do except being stoic. I've been thinking about that for a long time, and still do. I reckon the best option is having
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by Funes- 7y ago
Isn't that how all communication works? Aren't you relying on your perception and cognitive abilities to interpret my comments to reply to them accordingly? What exactly are we discussing here? Of course my personal interpreta
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by Funes- 7y ago
Besides the actual words from which you can--most of the time--immediately see or at least infer where the comment falls into: politeness and tone. I don't think it's usually hard to know if someone is being aggressive and demandi
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by Funes- 7y ago
I mean, he is actually poking fun at Medium in one of the mock-ups that illustrate the article. Look at the title bar and the URL: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*Gfb0mEijJO5D263uD... .
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by Funes- 7y ago
>There's all these minor issues that get on your nerves Have you tried reaching out to the developers in order to make your issues visible?
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by Funes- 7y ago
Whenever some piece of free software is discussed, there has to be someone that demands former features to come back or new ones to be added. Nothing wrong with suggesting changes to the software, but demanding them? Go fork it if you
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by Funes- 7y ago
As someone who lives with and takes care of a cancer patient, I'm really frustrated with how little effort has been devoted to cancer research in such a long period of time, taking into account that it's been several decades of mi
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Is your ISP pissing you off? Deal with it. How could you possibly "deal" with having only one ISP available in your area, for instance? There's literally no margin for the user. >The internet was born wild and grew up
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by Funes- 7y ago
I'd bet he's implicitly expressing his concerns about SMS's vulnerabilities in terms of security, especially compared to other, more secure alternatives.
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by Funes- 7y ago
PostmarketOS in tandem with the Pinephone[0] should be a great choice in the future. [0]: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ .
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by Funes- 7y ago
TL;DR: Offline messaging is incompatible with non-intrusive synchronous communication. I think the main problem with modern IM software resides in letting the user send messages to offline recipients ( offline as in "not actively usin
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by Funes- 7y ago
If everyone muted or ignored IMs whenever they were trying to focus on something, the whole purpose of instant messaging would fail; it would not be "instant" anymore, so we would all effectively go back to phone calls and e-mail.
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Like others his age, Gill says that his close friendships from high school and college have atrophied, not only because of the distance but because of their mutual aversion to talking on the phone. I'll take the liberty to illustra
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Thankfully Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently named with their actual names! I have some ideas for them: "Twitter - Whining & Doxxing" "Facebook - Data mining & Old People" "YouTube - Clickbait
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by Funes- 7y ago
I would say it's far more shameful when it involves the food industry, for instance, or any other industry that provides essential resources to people. In that case, their business model becomes forcefully harmful to society.
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Doesn't this now apply to lean startups? This applies broadly to the more advanced stages of capitalism. Minimize the cost and effort; maximize the profit.
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by Funes- 7y ago
Whenever any market is heavily exploited, what once could have been "a more flavorful" creation turns into "a very pedestrian" product, systematically. Time and money go more into increasing the product's ability to
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by Funes- 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? I'm quite interested in reading about it.
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by Funes- 7y ago
Fully functional e-ink displays with a good refresh rate and color-capable are the solution: lower power consumption and better for our eyes. I'm looking forward to that.
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by Funes- 7y ago
>What's new is that it's coming out of a tiny phone rather than a 12 D-cell powered boom box. And that makes all the difference. You cannot possibly compare the number of times you would be bothered by a boom box in the 90s i
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by Funes- 7y ago
>Another option is using something like Pi-Hole, says Wright. “This works on the DNS level and has blacklists of adverts as well as malicious URLs.” You can also run a ridiculously simple script from time to time (or create a cron job th

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