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by npteljes 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification, it went over my head. Re-reading the comment chain multiple times it's now clear that OP was alluding to the ulterior motive, and the ulterior motive being effective, which I agree with. Again, thanks for
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EDIT: I improved my comprehension, and it looks like I agree actually, not disagree. I agree, it's a great, proven tool to do away with political enemies, and to selectively enforce the law, for whatever motivation. I just don't u
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The article is just long, and rambly, clearly from someone on the inside of the issue, not targeting complete outsiders. The gist of it is this: Subtitles were a huge part of anime culture. 1. Subtitles were great at one point. Demonstratio
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It's wild. Data is very valuable. This manifests in two fronts simultaneously: who has the data controls heavily on who sees it and under what circumstances, and on the other side, they scrape it as hard as they can.
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I wonder if they supported piracy as well in those videos, or something breaking their EULA or something. People always come out swinging, fuck corpos, etc, but oftentimes there is something shady going on as well, either consciously, or un
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Funny that they do that after the purchases have been made. Goes to show how much bundled services upset the user-manufacturer relationship, to the detriment of the user. Using a service is an ongoing relationship, and relationships change
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I hope that they stick with it, and that the trend continues. I think that it would benefit the EU, and its citizens, to break free from Big Tech in general, and replace their services with open source alternatives, keeping it up with local
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And they do run quite well, out of the box. On Linux, I've been having a good run for years now. Steam's Proton is fantastic, if the thing doesn't work, I just select another Proton version, and try again. Or look at ProtonDB
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I like Fastmail as well. Funnily enough, their fast loading website is a positive sign to me. Do you remember if there was any communication regarding that outage? Posteo's record is similar, from what I can tell. This is the first maj
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I'm frankly debating how hurt I am over this. Obviously nothing happened to me because of a sudden some-hour outage, but I organize almost my entire online communication around email, and being without it was freaky. I didn't need
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After around ~5 hours of downtime, it was up again, around 12:00 CEST. When it was down, I have checked their server with many "is the website down" services, and there was one that told me that from certain regions, it was availa
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Tell HN: Posteo.de email provider is down
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I don't think "doing something about it" equals to "being a solution". Tackling the problems of the homeless, people operate a lot of food banks. Those don't even begin to solve homelessness, yet it's a pr
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by npteljes 1y ago
I agree with the author. If I detect that the article is written by an AI, I bounce off. I similarly dislike other trickery as well, like ghostwriters, PR articles in journalism, lip-syncing at concerts, and so on. Fuck off, be genuine. The
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by npteljes 1y ago
What makes you think that the participants are not in on the grift? People are different, some rather supports wholesome stuff, some don't give an f. And it's not just morals that differ, risk-taking is also individually different
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I agree with you. The system is ridiculous, it gives the voter two options, and that's all. People point out that monopolies are bad, but a duopoly is very far from being a solution for it. Americans (and many other countries in the wo
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by npteljes 1y ago
By far from the biggest annoyance, to me that would be ads, and the slop that it incentivizes. Although, I too had enough of the cookie popups. Let's just ban (and enforce banning) cookie tracking, and be done with this nonsense.
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It blew my mind when I discovered it, and I use it regularly since. I dual-boot, and it's installed on both my Linux and Windows systems. I mostly use the shared clipboard functionality (especially great to "send" complex mes
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by npteljes 1y ago
Well, you got your good faith answer. It's up to you whether you learn, or continue to be ignorant.
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I think that people feel that it's real, especially when under the effect. But I highly doubt its real efficiency, and especially its sustainability on long term. But, it feels good.
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Myriad of reasons, control being one of the central. By ingesting substances, one can directly influence their inner world, and for many, that possibility alone is priceless. Additionally, most of the popular substances feel good on the sho
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I think this is retcon. The thing started as dumb fun, and people tacked on episodes and meaning after the fact. Just pareidolia, but with symbolism instead of faces, and also the meta-game of explaining the deep meaning of things that are
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by npteljes 1y ago
Already happening, to the degree where it has its own Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_brainrot
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Same for me. Of course, I'm much older than the target audience, so I have seen many of the tricks already. The series was entertaining for the first very episodes, but then it would have required actual storytelling talent to properly
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For the connoisseurs who enjoy such content, I also recommend The FlexAir series (on YouTube). Similarly absurd, similarly "terminally online", but the audience, and the culture it references is older.
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In general, I believe that it's the highway lobby who shaped the US into what it is today, not the NIMBY people. I think they have much more power than nimby, even if in certain situations, they seem to be on the same side. So what I s
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To me it looks like lobbies have more power than voters.
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Probably cameras that get installed the minute these start to happen.
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No, that legislation is perfectly fine! It's the pesky websites who can't get their grubby hands off of private data. They could very well do away with some of the tracking, and have no popup at all, fully legally! But they all ch
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People can take, and do take a lot. A lot of actual abuse is happening in relationships, from corporations, politicians, pollution from the environment, and so on. And change always seems HARD, and very uncomfortable. So, people tolerate. A

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