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by pierat 3y ago
Thank you. That's why I recommended putting "volunteering time" with actual non-profit orgs and groups, so that 100% of the labor goes to all. I didn't advocate "quit volunteering for a community", cause that&#
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by pierat 3y ago
As an example of how this has beeen completely perverted.... Here's a snippet of HTML from Facebook advert https://imgur.com/Wx8rIOm.png Just for "Hydrow <blue_checkmark> Sponsored" is the following HTM
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by pierat 3y ago
Congratulations for working for free for a for-profit company? Might I recommend you to turn towards places like Lemmy or other less-commercial and less exploitive websites? Reddit relies on free work, but doesn't value or help the mod
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by pierat 3y ago
I take it that with this snark, that you're a libertarian type... I like government. It provides a framework we all know about, can interact with, and know that everyone's being treated to the same standard. And where you have bet
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by pierat 3y ago
To lmm (flagkilled post decrying systemd) This youtube video has been featured here before, "The Tragedy of Systemd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo and https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by pierat 3y ago
In a way, I already have for myself. If I see: premium, luxury, professional, (etc) words that classify something to be better, I assume that they really are substandard and are using words like above to make it appear as it is the case.
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by pierat 3y ago
And that's why we need unions. Its not that unions are somehow pure wonderful organizations. They fail like any human-run org for the similar reasons. The unions are required because only a union is "big enough" to stand up t
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by pierat 3y ago
Debian is *NOT* hostile towards its user base. And these days, that's worth more than its weight in gold. But feel free to keep being the "old man yells at cloud". that cloud (microsoft) doesn't care.
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by pierat 3y ago
Most of us pirates and hacker types use Yandex or Baidu these days. We get MUCH BETTER quality searches there than the US search engines. And yes, I'm located in the US. The ONLY problems we have are local-to-us searches. Then again, y
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by pierat 3y ago
Nope, not at all. Lemmy is a Fediverse equivalent of Reddit. Mastodon is a Fediverse equivalent to Twitter and Facebook. There's no correlation to Lemmy and any sort of shitcoin, OTHER THAN lemmy server operators asking for donations.
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by pierat 3y ago
> Reddit is able to license its content in a way that prevents companies from using it while leaving the API free. And there's the scam laid bare. It's *NOT* Reddit's content. Sure, by posting you're granting them a
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by pierat 3y ago
> We, the technologically literate, are not the target audience. Highly disagree. It's the early adopters of ANY platform, hardware, or whatever that drive real organic demand and adoption. And those early adopters ARE exactly that:
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by pierat 3y ago
> Your summary is incorrect, and insulting. That is not how it happened. The old academic usenet was more than content to discuss sensitive topics. I see no insult towards you, or anyone else in particular. In fact, to the opposite, othe
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by pierat 3y ago
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/ There's a wide variety of ways to self-moderate content. Andd you can block whole servers from your account as well. And if stuff is terrible, you can report to
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by pierat 3y ago
"Moderation" is a terrible excuse used by the corporate types as a reason to stick in their safe walled gardens. We had moderation on Usenet. It was simple, but damn, did it work. We had plonka lists (client selected ignored users
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by pierat 3y ago
Indeed. Earlier on, it was definitely a thing we pie-rats were watching. I mean seriously... A bittorrent-git repo where nobody could ever kill a hashed content? Fucking hell! And there's big problems. The biggest was that the privacy
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by pierat 3y ago
Work and labor are 2 different things. And I would never 'work' either, if it weren't for hanging starvation and destitution over my head. Labor - I build a fence for my home, or fix plumbing, or make miniatures, or do cool s
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by pierat 3y ago
> How does anyone have any claim to 'their share' of resources without any input? Counterpoint: not a single person born was asked to be put here. None. Every one of us was put here because 2 people chose to have sex (with or w
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by pierat 3y ago
When I worked at Starbucks, we were threatened with "low/no hours for the next week or 2". It wasn't 'official policy', but it was certainly tolerated. 1-2 weeks is small enough that unemployment insurance won&
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by pierat 3y ago
Wow, this article really makes me feel like I dodged the bullet for our household when I realized that 95% (190 proof) Everclear was available for $35/1.75l I did the chemistry math and figured 3 parts Everclear:1 part water equalled 7
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by pierat 3y ago
I still maintain that Usenet was the original 'reddit/digg'. And the webapps competitors have tried to cater, and fail. I'd rather see a newer Usenet protocol... Say something that also integrates with the Fediverse. But
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by pierat 3y ago
Control of the narrative is worth more than just money. So instead of just removing it, they just set the price to be laughable high so few, if any actually pay. Reddit is also betting that the 'sticky' users who contribute won&#x
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by pierat 3y ago
Then I think you're missing my actual point. You gave anecdotes about volunteering at non-profit, like your church. I don't attend church myself, but doing non-profit things to help a community is definitely laudable. And I think
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by pierat 3y ago
That's only part of the problem. All the moderators are unpaid 'workers'. And their quality can be abhorrent to the extreme. Basically reddit is the perfect example of getting people to contribute content and work for free. A
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by pierat 3y ago
"GPT-4 hasn't gotten worse since March" can be 100% true at the same time OpenAI puts more rules and limiters keeping more interesting answers from being said. Ive noticed it quit giving as detailed answers and as thorough. I
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, I was working at the Starbucks in a red state, in a red city. However I would also agree that overall decorum has definitely deteriorated. It used to be someone who disapproved would either grit their teeth or just leave. Now, I
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by pierat 3y ago
When I was working at Starbucks ages ago, my best friend would come on by regularly. We're both tall men. Coworkers thought I was gay, and had a sexual relationship with him, because it was and still is a strong bond. In actuality, Im
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by pierat 3y ago
There's 2 parts of this: government, and corporations. We have 1 potential solution already for government: 4th Amendment > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable sea
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by pierat 3y ago
> Either make money and pay for access to the API or shutdown. I agree. And I think people should also keep in mind that OSes also have APIs as well, and should be wary of systems that try to prevent user freedom. Then again, I've b
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by pierat 3y ago
Whereas I had 3 accounts permanently suspended for calling someone an idiot on /r/idiotsincars for "harassing speech". I have other accounts, but they took out 1 old account and a squatted account. Like, really? For usin

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