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by rglullis 2y ago
Another way to "solve" the problem for fragile fruits: stop trying to make them at scale. Let people them grow by themselves on their home gardens, or have community gardens/greenhouses that are jointly managed by a school&#x
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by rglullis 2y ago
The latter. There is always a market for everything, no matter how deranged it is.
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by rglullis 2y ago
For grains, fruits, vegetables? I am not so sure. Is manual labor the limiting factor to have more diverse cultures? It would be nice if we could get rid of factory farming though, but I doubt we are close to a point where we can have free
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by rglullis 2y ago
> The point remains that technology has to have utility to be technology I haven't argued otherwise. My argument is that utility alone is not enough a justification to keep working on specific technologies, much less to promote th
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by rglullis 2y ago
> If you want perfectly deliberated technological development, you’re against new technology. This is absurd and the exact opposite of what I am saying. It's fine to work on new developments. It's not fine when people take thei
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by rglullis 2y ago
The problem is not of technology. The problem is that we are working to apply technology solutions with no regard to the scale and trade-offs involved. - Automation is good. Striving for "100% robotic warehouses" is a recipe to fu
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by rglullis 2y ago
Except of AIDS, none of the items on your list are things we really need but just a naive attempt of masking the problems of modern society life. Worse still: most of these problems were caused by the psychopaths who wanted nothing but mo
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by rglullis 2y ago
Can you add Mastodon (or any other activitypub-based) field? To check the identity, you just need to run a webfinger query.
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by rglullis 2y ago
When are they going to change the name to reflect their complete change of direction? Also, what is going to be their excuse to defend themselves against copyright lawsuits if they are going to "understandably" keep their models c
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by rglullis 2y ago
Where do you live that your electricity is public funded? Your water? Your phone/internet? Heating for your home? Even on places where these things are run by public companies, they are not public funded. It's not like Governments
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by rglullis 2y ago
Absolutely, no one would argue that the only way to be profitable without ads is by charging $8/month like Twitter or the €11.99/month that Zuckerberg wants in the EU. This might be true for closed companies who need to deal with
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Insurance is for disasters No, insurance is the basic tool for anyone dealing with risk management and financial planning under chaotic variables. One class of these variables are "disasters", but "people get old and l
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by rglullis 2y ago
Oh, my. You are one of them... It's amazing how we can get two people to accidentally take the same action while fundamentally disagreeing on everything else. Short version: - Capitalism is not the problem. Corporations that can take t
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by rglullis 2y ago
If it can not be made profitably, it can not be made into any large scale activity and it will never reach mainstream. So, if your idea of "can work" is "it works for me and my niche group who all treat it as a hobby" it
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by rglullis 2y ago
Hey thanks so much for trying! Sorry about the issues, I will take a better look tomorrow (1am now in Germany), but a quick look in my admin panel and I don't see any new user sign up. Did you get to the "set up auto pay" pag
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by rglullis 2y ago
Do you think it's a fair assessment to say then you are making the same argument I mentioned in the other thread: very few people think that the service of a social media account is actually worth anything, and that this should only be
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by rglullis 2y ago
How do you think your community would react if you switched to a "everyone pays a little bit every year" model?
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by rglullis 2y ago
Yeah, in my case it gets specially hard because Mastodon's project page does not point to commercial providers, only hosting services. To be honest though, I think that Mastodon is an evolutionary dead-end. It had a huge head start in
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by rglullis 2y ago
This is not what I am asking. I am asking if OP would join a commercial provider of Mastodon, where access is only given to paying subscribers. I am asking because I happen to run one of those ( https://communick.com ) since 2019.
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by rglullis 2y ago
So you are saying that you would pay for an account for Mastodon or Lemmy?
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by rglullis 2y ago
I've found myself in an argument with some people on Lemmy last week who were genuinely trying to make the case that contributing $1-2 dollars per year should be more than enough to make an open social web sustainable. It started on a
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by rglullis 2y ago
Right, because your outsourced cloud provider takes absolutely zero time of any application developers. Any issue with AWS and GCP is just one magic support ticket away and their costs already includes top priority support. Right? Right?!
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by rglullis 2y ago
But what is better: cheddar or Swiss?
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Most people just want an orchestration layer, and a storage control system This is exactly the reason why I am still on docker swarm.
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by rglullis 2y ago
What I am saying is that part of entering a contract with a service provider is insurance, e.g, SLA. The middleman (in the case, the business providing hosting services) also has a vested interest in pricing risk properly and in reducing
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by rglullis 2y ago
How does that apply to a coop offering digital services, which have no physical shipping and costs can be easily fractioned/metered?
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by rglullis 2y ago
If you want to be protected against unexpected costs, you buy insurance, you don't overpay "just in case". All I am saying is that the coop (at least cosocial.ca) is not more capital and resource efficient than any good old s
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by rglullis 2y ago
What would be the point of "paying dividends from surpluses", if the funds are getting in and out of the same (collective) pockets? And if "everyone" owns the coop, then why do you need to get the surplus in the first pl
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by rglullis 2y ago
Beware of social washing to justify higher costs. cosocial.ca charges CA$50 for its annual membership. Omg.lol charges $20/year for Mastodon and a bunch of services and for $29/year, I can offer Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwha
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by rglullis 2y ago
For anyone here working or in contact with the people at Future: the post mentions that the forums are still going to be open, but will there be any active work on it? I keep thinking that these specialized forums that lost space to Reddit

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