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by toofy 3y ago
i agree, we have to start somewhere. and if we think it’s the most powerful propaganda weapon ever developed, the place to start is by regulating _all_ social media.
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by toofy 3y ago
i have to be honest here: > can freely operate the most powerful propaganda weapon humankind has known against the democracy. if we think is a true, accurate and non-hyperbolic description of tik-tok (and by extension social media) i don
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by toofy 3y ago
omg nebula is incredible. i just subbed like 2 months ago and i feel like ive been guzzling from a firehouse.
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by toofy 3y ago
( apologies for the overly sappy bits near the end--im just forever flat out awed by the geniuses from the early days of the interwebbers ) there are a lot of reasons why FOSS. a few of them: 1. Dont Repeat Yourself. i can't imagine
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by toofy 3y ago
as usual, it’s probably a mixture of many things, and poverty is one, property prices is another, and there are certainly many many others. we (engineering types) have this terrible habit of declaring that it is One Thing when in reality,
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by toofy 3y ago
> Police are a reactive force, they're useless to prevent or break up an assault unless it's a very ineffective (slow) attack This seems like you’re implying that stricter enforcement and tougher punishments are useless? I tend
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by toofy 3y ago
I don’t like having my own very not-homeless and not drug addict family members for extended stay… Not wanting houseguests doesn’t somehow mean we aren’t collectively smart enough to figure out which levers need some tweaking to mitigate dr
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by toofy 3y ago
i’m not sure a single thing you wrote in here is true. it feels like each sentence is further than the previous. we set them loose with the wolves, and it was fun? i don’t think this is true. > We understand reason and organization bec
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by toofy 3y ago
it’s literally why i just won’t buy clothes online anymore, not at all. and i know this is anecdotal, but so many people have been telling me the same thing over the last year or two. so often i’m disappointed, over and over again when i o
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by toofy 3y ago
anecdotal, I have the apple family plan and my partner has no problems with the apple music app on her android—we’ve been on it for a couple years. i’ve used her phone to control music on long car trips, if there are differences i haven’t n
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by toofy 3y ago
> …but this isn't the strongest argument to make for it. i’m not sure i follow what you’re attempting to imply here. with a topic as vast and as important as society and higher education, there will be many important and necessar
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by toofy 3y ago
> In a godless universe, you are no more significant than a rock. Can you think of anything in between? Why the extreme jump to “it’s either all or nothing”? To state that The Only way to not be a meaningless hunk of rock is to worship
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by toofy 3y ago
> … he wanted to oppose communists' ideas of "scientific materialism." > … that’s the part Popper got right, maybe science is about an unbiased search… > …at least we have a test that communists obviously fail… i cou
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by toofy 3y ago
> …it was crack cocaine for narcissistic journalists and media personalities… i think the mess of blue checks now shows that this issue absolutely isn’t limited to “journalists and media personalities” social media as a whole has shown u
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by toofy 3y ago
yeah, i mean, this is hn, we’ve been collectively dissecting the “you’re not the customer” issue for years upon years. it doesn’t make it less of a shame. and it certainly shouldn’t stop us from wondering.
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by toofy 3y ago
oh thx for sharing his background. this highlights something that i repeatedly find so frustrating. this guy knows what he’s talking about. he has authority in his field. he has proven both theoretically and materially that his wisdom is
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by toofy 3y ago
> The subscription rate will have to be set so that it’s not more expensive over say 3 years to buy a PC with Windows and than it is to buy a comparable Mac… i agree with your overall point. tho for me, i suspect the price would need to
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by toofy 3y ago
> The information that has been exposed from this incident includes full names, usernames, profile photos, sex, date of birth, genetic ancestry results, and geographical location. i would absolutely argue that having my 1) genetic ancest
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by toofy 3y ago
if they’re hosting sensitive data, it isn’t “babying” the user to take some responsibility for the data your company exists on. if they can’t take responsibility for it, then they’re too irresponsible to make money it. it would be entirely
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by toofy 3y ago
i suspect this is one of driving fears many people have with LLMs.
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by toofy 3y ago
> Did it make you stop asking co-workers for help? i mean, in many circumstances, we absolutely stop asking them... when i ask a trustworthy human a question, they will absolutely tell me if it is out their depths. they understand their
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by toofy 3y ago
> This is why Mastodon is doomed. i think its precisely the opposite. im skeptical of the "succeed" and "failure" descriptors people keep using regarding these places, but in terms of longevity, i think having multipl
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by toofy 3y ago
> Just use Twitter for the "one platform... > ... intentionally locking yourself into a bubble. im not trying to be snarky, but, i mean, using a closed off eco-system like twitter and suggesting people to use "one" plat
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by toofy 3y ago
firefox is my main browser on mobile.. am i missing something?
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by toofy 3y ago
i’m not sure i understand the question. why not? are we so far gone that having a choice between multiple servers seems like a foreign concept?
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by toofy 3y ago
for those who aren’t aware what the commenter is referencing, linus has apologized for his abrasive ways very publicly and made very real genuine attempts to recognize there are humans on the other end of his words. while he’s not perfect,
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by toofy 3y ago
> … is a fatal flaw of mastodon. I don’t want to belong to just one community. I could be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but regarding Fosstodon, they’re not at all limited to one community — they’re not decoupling from the fedive
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by toofy 3y ago
a social media site punishes you for changing your profile picture? and you imply other people are unreasonable?
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by toofy 3y ago
phone network and gps are an entirely different class of technology with entirely different capabilities and entirely different expectations. a gathering of people in a online social space is much more likely to be judged closer to a gather
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by toofy 3y ago
the absurdity of “we’re being censored for our conservative views” is that the primary target of banning hasnt been a “conservative viewpoints”. for example, if someone is banned for saying “death to non-whites”, theres a pretty good chance

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