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by swed420 1mo ago
> This is mostly wording Right, but the distinction is relevant in the context of the original claim: > People setting up homelab often talk about money saved but never account for the time they have to spend My point was that many of
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by swed420 1mo ago
> yes but there is still an opportunity cost I would call it more of a set of tradeoffs > a lot of the time is spent on doing menial system admin tasks This is the refreshening opportunity for us non-admins, and a learning opportunity
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by swed420 1mo ago
What you call a commitment, many call a hobby / learning / refreshening opportunity.
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by swed420 2mo ago
There were more important points made there than "nazi gold"
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Swiss democracy is doing just fine, it has frequent changing of power and lack of concentration of it built in much more robustly rather than US' pinky promises and wishful expectations. Recent rebuttals to the Swiss model: https
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by swed420 2mo ago
I sense sarcasm, but anybody serious about fixing corporate social media should read this: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/ I guess my idea would easily fit into what that article proposes for a
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by swed420 2mo ago
> if copyrigth is abolished. amazon would publish every single boon without giving a cent to writers. it would be reqlly hard for writers to make a living. How about a unified social platform that allows people to donate to the authors&#
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by swed420 2mo ago
And what systemic problems have they addressed since then? I don't live there, but it seems that NHS is increasingly gutted by capital interests, with no end in sight. At best, you get an illusion of progress. That's not progress.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> *American Democracy Not according to the link above, and the growing array of solvable yet perpetually unsolved problems in other countries.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. > I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy. The problem is that the ba
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by swed420 2mo ago
\n;dr
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by swed420 2mo ago
> PostgreSQL has been the database of choice for 76–79% of respondents for five consecutive years > htmx is closing in on React > Only 10% of respondents said they regularly use no AI tools for coding, while 58% of AI users use the
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by swed420 2mo ago
> What ruined the internet is monetized social media, regardless ad driven or direct monetization Agreed, and the first step ought to be a push for demonetized / citizen-owned platforms: https://www.noemamag.com/the-
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by swed420 2mo ago
But you're still making specific requests with it from your IP, which will filter into metadata and metrics. It seems like Nitter loses its original value proposition once it's no longer a one-to-many proxy.
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by swed420 2mo ago
How is using self-hosted Nitter as a 1:1 proxy meaningfully different from just logging in to your account?
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by swed420 2mo ago
> survival of the fittest. Basically the opposite of the mission of the department he leads (public health) Essentially Ron Swanson minus the satire
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by swed420 2mo ago
Related discussion U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854 US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by swed420 2mo ago
Then prepare to pay 150% for that enshitified Big Mac!
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by swed420 2mo ago
Cool site, but why does it exclude /r/zerocovidcommunity? Makes me wonder what else is missing from it.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands for the intentional mishandling of th
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by swed420 2mo ago
If you're referring to Cuba, then the US is definitely the terrorist in that relationship.
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by swed420 2mo ago
It actually was declared a year ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7 And a bit rich that it mentions its reasoning included the Kirk assassination. Kirk was starting to make noise about the Epstein stuff, so Trump
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by swed420 2mo ago
> I addressed your arguments You did not. But you have lots of boot to clean out of your mouth, so I won't bother you any longer.
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by swed420 2mo ago
You're ignoring the context of my previous comments and taking a strict definition of monopoly to ignore the arguments put forth. Bad Faith 101.
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by swed420 2mo ago
Scooby-Doo > * when it comes to accurately depicting the predictable nature of capitalist villainy.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> conspiracists You denialists have one favorite go-to rebuttal, don't you?
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by swed420 2mo ago
> I know you must not be confusing enshittification and monopoly, so why the attempted switch? If you can't see how these are related, then we're done here.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> They seem to be getting nervous about us voters voting. Repubs are only putting on a show of getting nervous about certain voters voting to excite their base. But as far as the Uniparty is concerned, they'd be much more nervous if
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by swed420 2mo ago
> State the connection, because it seems like your next argument is going to be "the government didn't stop them", as though that's their job. It's not their job to break up monopolies and ever-shifting financial
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by swed420 2mo ago
Right. I was referring to the parent's "should be emulated by the rest of the world" suggestion, which had thanksimcured energy.

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