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by swed420 18d ago
In recent years I've thought about making blogs, videos, etc to share knowledge, but the incentive is just no longer there. Even before AI, youtube/web search/etc had plenty of problems, and now they're compounded.
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by swed420 18d ago
It's probably the mozilla ceo
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by swed420 19d ago
> Again, I understand all the arguments for why at this particular time they feel that they cannot afford the energy expense required need to run a community. First-hand, actually, because I am involved with running a very large one myse
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by swed420 19d ago
> This is like suggesting fruit and veg could outcompete heroin. No it's not. > You can't entice users to a better social network when their addiction to the old one has been engineered to near perfection. Sure, not with tha
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by swed420 19d ago
When we have a captured government and unaccountable corporations like we do, it seems like the best route is to compete with them via carefully designed not-for-profit products which contain strictly good features and none of the enshitt
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by swed420 19d ago
> Who would have thought we’d see the U.S. start imitating Russia in more and more ways like this? Adam Curtis saw it coming a long time ago.
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by swed420 19d ago
> you need to act on the regulatory level This. Otherwise it's just a fruitless game of whac-a-mole as new reptiles inevitably step up to sustain the profit opportunity.
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by swed420 19d ago
But the previous administration denying a fair primary process gave us the present one due to forcing an unpopular candidate. They collude with each other so much that they're effectively one party. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by swed420 20d ago
> The masses will never use HN That's a feature I'm thankful for. > they are control freaks over speech - they don’t let people share their opinions and they are too ban happy. I constantly shit on capital interests here, an
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by swed420 20d ago
The discussion above is in the context of presidents and presidential candidates. So far, zero progressives have been allowed to enter that race without being sabotaged by the party, to their own detriment. That's the party's self
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by swed420 21d ago
Bernie ran under the Dem party, even though every corpo-Dem made sure to point out that he wasn't a Dem. To most people, that's a feature. Your loss though for blindly supporting the party that sabotaged their best candidate. Ther
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by swed420 21d ago
> both sides Your type has only one line, don't you? Tell you what, the next time somebody like Bernie Sanders comes along, don't stab him in the back a thousand times. Then you might actually have a chance at beating that game
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by swed420 21d ago
Student loan forgiveness is DOA since it fails to target the root problem: inflated tuition prices. As for unions, ask the average union member what they thought of Biden's presidency. Clearly you weren't paying attention when the
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by swed420 21d ago
> People bring up "strict vegan diets" to sabotage climate action. They also tend to use polarizing identity politics that vilify all men, or all old people, or all white people, etc, even though most of those groups are suffer
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by swed420 21d ago
> arguing about this is gonna be fruitless because it’s all subjective, there’s no hard numbers for any of it I was just genuinely curious what somebody with your set of opinions has in mind for a time frame, because "1/100th t
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by swed420 21d ago
Out of curiosity, how far back is this?
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by swed420 21d ago
> The difference now is the openness and also the scale. Yes, we just need to go back to the good ol' days of corruption with decorum
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by swed420 21d ago
> Biden did what he could to help unions and eliminate student debt. LMAO, etc
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by swed420 21d ago
You're ignoring the important fact that Dem primaries are rigged, or like last time, simply non-existent. Their agents of capital are preselected from the start. Feel free to pretend you have a voice in the ballot box, but you don&#x27
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by swed420 21d ago
> What a childish, stupid opinion. Democrats lost to a gameshow host . Twice. They just had to be better than that, and they couldn't manage. Pathetic. They also created the conditions for his rise. Twice. The bar is so amazingly l
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by swed420 21d ago
No, they each manufacture consent for capital interests in a race to the bottom for everybody else, using time-tested good cop / bad cop, revolving door corruption, etc.
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by swed420 21d ago
Identifying as independent is the first step toward not voting at all (which itself is a type of vote, especially in a rigged system). So definitely not meaningless. It demonstrates increasing amounts of people are tired of pretending our d
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by swed420 21d ago
Related: New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents (January 12, 2026) https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...
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by swed420 22d ago
Yes, those yacht upgrades are quite restrained and are a good example for us all.
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by swed420 22d ago
> If a person doesn't need GPIO pins or other direct access to hardware One commonly used feature might be HDMI-CEC integration for media centers, but otherwise I agree with you.
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by swed420 22d ago
Correct. The challenge is convincing enough people of that.
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by swed420 22d ago
> at least you know from my typos that I actually wrote this I no longer trust that machines won't utter these exact words (nothing personal)
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by swed420 22d ago
I can see why this is a useful rule, but it'd be nice if HN made the flagger submit a short reason for why they flagged, which could be viewable by everyone in a dedicated page or something.
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by swed420 23d ago
> So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible. Here's an alternative for those unaware: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam&#x
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by swed420 23d ago
> My belief is: legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them This is a good start, but it needs to be more generalized to also cover a related and overarching problem: Modern Capitalis

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