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TheObviousSolution
TheObviousSolution @ TheObviousSolution @lemm.ee
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  • To some Americans, it is that the US isn't the pinnacle of democracy but far from it. To others, that the EU isn't better policy wise than the US, it just has far more competing interests which mean lobbyists have to hand out more than a lump sum of sucking up to people. To some Americans, that your health care system is really shit, to others, that their public health care is increasingly under attack in some EU countries by an industry pouching and locking down medicine through the profits their greed has allowed them to accumulate in countries like the US to such an extent that there are real tradeoffs now to the for-profit alternative.

  • Keep on spreading comments like this and you might actually be able to get gun control implemented in the US.

  • You see us as customers, by your own words. So much for community. Trying to misplace and simplify the situation using this metaphor this way is basically also another way of justifying not even ostracization, but autocracies as communities.

  • In other words, what's left when a leopard eats the face off of another leopard.

  • People literally change their names because they feel like it, so I'm sure people do care outside the Internet, specially in circumstances of abuse.

  • Seriously, I thought there was already an agreement on how to approach this. Sex is the biological identification. Gender is the social identification. Sexuality describes the relation towards other sexes and genders. Neither take is really is disagreeing with the other, but rather than refer to proper identification and the differences between gender, sex, and sexuality, all they are doing is raising drama and playing hot potato with the terms that already cover this.

    Yes, sex had a biological objective determinant (except for outlying cases). Yes, gender is subjective to ideology. However someone wants to identify themselves should be defined by their gender, yet things like how they get treated at the hospital is going to be determined by their biological sex. "Experts" (usually the self-appointed kind) unwilling to make any compromise at the risk of putting their big massively throbbing authority at risk, more at eleven.

  • but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic

    It's always funny how people from the mass surveillance and selling intelligence data lobbies suddenly rush to finance and support this sort of political virtue signalling when it looks like it can gather support, even in the EU where they are going as far as to propoe of getting rid of end-to-end encryption.

  • So what I'm reading is that VPN business is going to continue to thrive. But that also is an age limit hurdle, I suppose.

  • Because they were able to sneak in obfuscating mod names even though it's easy as sh-t to get a moderator alt so you can't even call out the one guy doing it and any blame on the whole moderation teams puts all of them on the defensive due to group psychology. Boy was the modlog and being transparent thrown out the window quickly, people go all ACAB on cops, but at least they all can still be uniquely identified by badge numbers. In Lemmy, not even that, so if ACAB, what does that make them? You at least used to be able to call out and track admins and mods who were clearly misbehaving, but that was too much accountability.

  • Player 2 has been trapped by Bowser inside the Koopa Dungeons, it's Player 1's turn.

  • If it cannot withstand paper, it cannot withstand underwear. This doesn't inspire me with security and reads more like the company trying to push away responsibility for cheap products and/or bad design. Toilets are nothing new, every country has at least a few.

    Pulls off mask, revealing "includes features like ... an air dryer".

    Funny thing about air dryers and using them near plastics... Yeah, guys, to the people trying to argue that toiler paper is now sandpaper, one, I'm going to venture a guess that an air dryer does more damage, and two, I'm going to trigger you by telling you how I've been using toilet paper to clean my glasses and no problem, they even still have that blue surface level "anti-reflection" protection.

  • Like it or not, instance owners and moderators do perform maintenance, it's just that they inevitable become an inner subcommunity within the community that can and does eventually abuse its authority. I don't care as long as I have choice. For instances I do, allowing me to participate in the same threads regardless of which one I choose. When it involves the mod team, however, because of how much it is centralized to a mod team and how much it leeches from any competing subs, it's not viable. We should be able to choose a moderator group for our communities the same way we are able to choose instances, as long as there's ample choices the problem is addressed.

  • I think you missed a lot of my points. What's fud, the monetization of your platform? Went to give it a look, that's what a lot of those "recommended" topics are showing users are looking forward to on some of the clients. You explained something I wasn't complaining about, but now that you have, that opens up so many attack vectors as well. People can try to copy popular communities to set up fake "grassroots" communities, and it sounds like they can copy and simulate user participation along with it.

    And no, how a community identifies itself is not a minor inconvenience, it has literally fueled the domain name market, it is what people linked to, what people see in archives, and where people will go. The elephant in the room you are forgetting to mention is how the whole community will suddenly coordinate so well and won't just split itself off into several.

  • Come on guys, you are talking about pardoning a serious threat, to the oligarchy.

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  • You know what you are, otherwise you would have stuck to a hexbear or lemmy.ml user

  • Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

    Somewhere, a black hat master of ASCII art is cracking his hands.

    It's still misleading though, it takes away control from instance controllers, which in today's world, also makes it so that it is easier to swamp it with bot accounts, misinformation, and even be an unwilling decentralization participant. Looking behind the curtains, it's basically built by and around NFT (even the user avatars have to be NFT for no good reason), and already has a market for it, so don't be surprised if there is a blockchain rugpull behind this. And it also doesn't fix the inherent problem, rather, because of its design, it makes communities all the more authoritarian because whoever controls the NFT controls the moderation.

    If you use it, you will no longer have the recourse of admins when its the moderators messing up and acting in bad faith. That problem isn't due to instances, it's due to the more generalized problem of people in position of authorities more interested in representing themselves than a community or their obligations, this does nothing to, say, provide for alternative moderation groups if you are unhappy with how the current one is moderating it. It does protect your account to some degree, but it also protect the accounts of the terrorists running around spreading hate speech, and you will feed a small part of it due to its decentralized nature.

    Personally, the whole platform, https://plebbit.com/introduction , just seems a monetization strategy to monetize reddit-like communities into the NFT market. Expect the inevitable drama and subsequent crashes. But also, don't expect it, it will depend wholly on the NFT holder, which means the community will go to sh-t if it gets lost or the administrative moderators of that community become out of reach, presumably because they sold it for millions to the nearest troll farm while they went off to the Bahamas. But hey, maybe it will pull the dumb and those just interested in monetization into their eco-system.

  • That's why Felon Musk is using MAGA to issue threats of the USA implementing policies and tariffs against countries if they ban X. The problem is that the countries relenting to those threats have essentially already been invaded, just not militarily.

  • Although joking, I do tend to assume that people who say SSD refer to the traditional SATA SSD drives and not M.2.

  • I actually only installed M.2 a few years back when I went serious on my PC. I'm aware of the issues, although it's still running good. I wonder how long it will last. I still have a few IDE drives, and some no longer can be read. Not because they've lost the data, but it just doesn't spin up correctly. It will be interesting to see how it works out, at the moment I'm keeping an eye out on the health using CrystalDiskInfo. There's certainly been cases of M.2 sticks with shitty firmware, but so far I seem to have avoided them. I'm also trying out a RAIDed M.2 mini NAS, it will be fun to see how that works out compared to the traditional NAS.

  • Core i9 - Well there's your problem.

    No NVMe M.2s? What a noob! HDDs in this day and age!?!? Would you like a floppy disk with that?

    4 slots of RAM? What is this, children's playtime hour? You are only supposed to have 2 slots of RAM installed for optimum overclocking.

    Does the dude even 8K 300fps ray trace antialias his YouTube videos!?!? I bet he caps out his Chrome tabs below a thousand.