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by pibaker 3mo ago
> it does seem like a Too Good To Be True situation It's difficult to judge the price of media products. We have legal music streaming services that charges you an album's worth of money a month and lets you listen to millions
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by pibaker 3mo ago
This is true for patreon but not substack. I personally know people who blog on substack not because they care about monetization — I mean, they hardly get any readers who are not a friend already — but because it is "the place" t
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Thanks for your contribution. Gonna hop on a jet to Zambia tomorrow and tell kids with HIV there that it's their fault they were born with the virus and maybe they shouldn't have shared needles.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I'd trust a computer to catch a missing underscore way more than humans.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
People need to stop abusing "parasocial." It meant forming a one way "connection" with people who don't even perceive you, like TV hosts on the other side of the screen. This case is by definition not a parasocial r
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by pibaker 3mo ago
"We have found you to be a poor cultural fit in our mission driven high octane growth mindset 10x company. That we reached this conclusion right after you disclosed your medical condition is pure coincidence."
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I feel everyone running these companies has stopped caring what the public think. It's all about selling their vision to politicians now. Which is also why they try to tie everything with "national security" — the average joe
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Go stand in your local Walmart parking lot and ask ten people if they know what the climate alliance is or if their state is in it. I'll wire you ten fresh bucks if you find one person who has an idea what that is,
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Hello from one of the accounts who mentioned "climate credits." Do you know why I mentioned it? Because I believe climate change is a real issue and the people selling a fake solution to make people feel better about their jet set
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by pibaker 3mo ago
What about "our hosting bill shot up 500% from bot traffic and went down to the baseline the moment we put our site behind cloudflare or anubis"
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Bold to assume that buying emission offsets actually leads to anything tangible being done.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
A world without cloudflare does not necessarily mean a world where anyone can access any website. It could very well be a world where anyone can point a DDOS at any website and make it inaccessible to everyone.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Our ability to artificially capture nitrogen and feed it to plants is why we are able to feed 8 billions souls and still suffer less hunger than our ancestors. You are free to grow your plants however you want on your property. But just kee
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by pibaker 3mo ago
This assumes the people watching actually cared about stopping crime enough to step in and arrest the offenders. To echo the topmost comment's point, you can't convince the public that law enforcement actually cared when the elite
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Well, the old Euro design avoided making references to specific countries and chose to use generic images of bridges for a reason. You can only put so many faces on your currency. You can't choose any set of faces without people from s
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by pibaker 3mo ago
So you think free speech only benefits Trump and his friends? Have you stopped for a split second and thought about what can happen to YOU, you know, someone who seem to have issues with the current president, if there is no free speech?
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Do you really want to give platforms more incentives to push for age verification?
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Forgejo was forked from gitea when the later introduced some controversial business strategies. Gitea was forked from Gogs because gogs did not accept outside contributions. See a trend? Maybe you can be the next.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
This is like saying if you stop exercising just because you are driving everywhere then it is a you problem. On an individual level it may be useful advice, but on a societal level we see how it plays out — rising obesity rates and children
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by pibaker 3mo ago
It feels like a sizeable chunk of this website's user base gets triggered when anyone takes any stance at all.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Unless you really need some of its features, self hosting gitlab always felt like an exercise in maximizing hosting bills.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Weird example. Kids don't get to choose what parents they have. Nor can they just get rid of their parents if they don't like them. There is no reason you have to use codeberg when you can choose another platform or host your own.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I'm not personally a fan of this move or the vibe coding rule. That being said, I genuinely wonder how many people complaining about the rule are personally affected. Seems weird to me to complain about a service setting its own rules
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> but you are willing to write them off and actively try to harm them for reaching for a tool to try and meet consumer's ever-increasing expectations? Emotional blackmailing aside, does the consumer ever expect fake images of the
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Reddit is shit tier source for all kinds of information about commercial products. Even subreddits for niche hobbies are full of astroturfed advertising for random online businesses. There is no way the supplement industry isn't doing
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Until service providers ban them for being insecure — "if you can send your passkey to any other device, you can also send it to a phisher."
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by pibaker 3mo ago
This assumes all services let you generate new passkeys with no hassle, which is not true.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> This is much, much simpler than you think it is. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager Cool. So can I write down my passkey on a piece of paper and put it in a safe? > you'll reset your passkey the same wa
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by pibaker 3mo ago
How is "Anyone who disagrees with me is a Russian troll" working out for you liberals?
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Singapore is also a city state and has a land and housing policy that can't be easily replicated elsewhere. Tell Americans they will be shoved into government built high rises with racial quota and see what happens.

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