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by fleddr 4y ago
It never is enough. There's entire armies of staff now for which this nonsense is their job. Just like a DEI department will always fabricate new types of division. It's their business model.
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Same for "burry the hatchet". That's actually a beautiful and creative expression to resolve a situation into peace. Cultural appropriation is such a fucking dumb concept. It is a positive. It enriches all of us.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The Dutch term for Indian Summer is "Old wives summer". Referring to old wives knitting clothes at that time of the year in preparation for winter, in correlation to another phenomenon in late summer: an explosion of spiders makin
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by fleddr 4y ago
These kind of institutes have lost all touch with reality. Call it woke, postmodernist, critical (race) theory, I don't know what the correct term is. Their mechanisms are escalating out of control because nobody dares to stop them out
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by fleddr 4y ago
I suspect we disagree on what a normie is. I do a lot of tech support for the elderly in my family and they don't grasp concepts a hundred times simpler than a server/instance, and they're in their 70s. It's not an age t
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by fleddr 4y ago
They do, but that's kind of my point. Libraries full of articles have been written about the negative aspects of these services. Many perfectly accurate, no disagreement here. But think about it. We have networks in which we can connec
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Netflix had a good run. Massive investments in content, no competition, maximizing the network effect by tolerating the sharing of accounts, real "growth hacking". But we all know what happens next in such trajectories: the squeez
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Well, this is obviously become I'm a terrible person lacking integrity.
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We live in a multi-device reality. People expect their notes to sync. If you don't need sync, you might as well use notepad and store .txt files on local disk. Fine by me, but then there's nothing to discuss.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Exactly. I think the unrealistic expectation regarding media accessibility comes from many places but one I want to explicitly mention: torrents. I'm from the Netherlands where for about 20 years, it wasn't even illegal (today it
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by fleddr 4y ago
If my understanding of ActivityPub is correct, it's B.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Serious question: if a community is so small as to be just your friends, why not start a Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord group? Free, fully managed, content preserved, well established.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Which will then need to federate to most other instances, causing an unmanagable load?
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by fleddr 4y ago
I will join you in your unpopular opinion. People have become so entitled that they can't appreciate the value they have in their hands today. Services like Twitter, Insta, FB, the like are in many ways incredible. We've forgotten
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A lot of things. Whether they are good or bad things is another question. For now, Twitter scales better. There's no such thing as an instance, a slow instance, or registration simply being closed. Twitter preserves content. Yes, I kno
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by fleddr 4y ago
Not to mention that this "new activity" on Mastodon is people on Mastodon talking about how bad Twitter has become.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm frankly annoyed that so many people call this a problem. Sure, I understand the surface level inconvenience of this fragmentation, but I think we're getting a little spoiled here. Dial back all these streaming services and you
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by fleddr 4y ago
Oh, I guess it's fine then. They all do it. Your framing is way worse. It shows nihilism and fits downright criminal/corrupt behavior under the much more neutral term "lobbying".
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Substack is just reddit for grown-ups. It's "made up expertise". Well expressed nonsense.
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A note taking app or password manager in the modern sense is not a product, it's a service. Your content is stored and this costs money. Not only is it a recurring cost, it's also a growing cost as content keeps getting added and
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by fleddr 4y ago
Musk really gets Twitter. It's always been an outrage machine, and he's just fueling the fire. Pretty brilliant...in his mind.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You should always pause when receiving criticism, it's a great psychological trick. Responding immediately and fiercely rewards the critic. By pausing, the critic becomes doubtful. Did I go too far? Is something really bad brewing?
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by fleddr 4y ago
A simple tip to reduce usage. I would guess that a lot of smartphone usage happens within your home, which most people spent a lot of time in, even more so if you work from home. Put the phone in the next room. As simple as that. Break the
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm going to go against the grain here. Yes, I believe self-reviews are stupid. Frankly they indeed serve as a cheat-sheet for your manager, which is a sign that they are so disengaged that they don't even know what you're do
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I don't really believe that. An example: "Robot owl in the style of van Gogh". This will closely mimic van Gogh's style but nobody cares because style cannot be copyrighted in itself. So it draws a robot owl, which for t
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by fleddr 4y ago
I sympathize with artists on this matter, but they're really bad at protesting. AI Mickey Mouse is a possible copyright as well as trademark violation which would likely be enforced in the exact same way if you were to hand draw it. Th
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To me that has always been the promise of the internet: to connect with people on topics I'm passionate about as such a thing is highly constrained in the real world. It's a brand new capability, a super power. The opposite is tru
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There's no need to port it because it's a fine device. Are you one of those consumerist sheep that is obsessed with buying a new device every few decades? It works fine!
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I agree. A group of actual (traditional) friends is not the same thing as a bunch of online people that have something in common. For a group of real life friends, online conversations are often/best handled in a chat-like experience.
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I start every day with the creation of a shortlist of MUST-DO tasks. Things I must absolutely finish not just to stay out of trouble, also to not consider myself a failure. I willingly instill a sense of urgency and remove optionality for t

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