deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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To be fair, classic Teams is being killed in 10 days.

To be even fairer, there was no need for New Teams apart from Microsoft's increasing desire to make everything a fucking web app.

Centralization is a product of social behavior. People will gravitate to the place everyone else is. They won't "decentralize" naturally.

Very true...as long as the federation of servers remains as it is now, but I'm increasingly worried it won't.

I mean, yes, Dbzer0 still exists, and yes, you can access it from other instances, but Lemmy.world is the biggest one and users here being cut off from it from here will strangle the amount of activity it gets. Visibility is important for the health of other instances and their communities. There's a good reason why alternative subreddits never outgrow the main ones.

There's also a sentiment among some admins and some of the contributors to both Lemmy and the Sublinks project that feels like it runs counter to the premise of Lemmy as whole: an unwillingness commit to a truly shared space or adhere to a standard for what federation is supposed to mean. Instances are not only encouraged to do whatever, they're being given more tools to. And that's good for fighting spam, child porn, and malicious instances, but it doesn't stop there.

I really hope an app or frontend comes along at some point that will seamlessly combine instance accounts and "fill in the blanks" created by instance admins so users can have a clear picture of Lemmy, regardless of the instance they're on.

I humbly ask for deletion of this information, so it stays off Lemmy!

What information?

Some shower gels have microplastics for added abrasion, but so do some soaps tbf. Still, less good at cleaning because solid soaps involve more scrubbing.

Congress passed a law banning these in 2015. That's not to say micro plastics aren't still present in some, or that they didn't find loopholes, but the plastic beads in body wash issue was actually being addressed.

Uses plastic bottles when bar soap does not.

We did, they're called emojis.

Gen z seems to have figured that out, too. They use emojis like punctuations, in much the same way we use lol. I was annoyed by it at first but I got used to.

i bet jobs could've yelled at spez about the API changes and gotten him to relent

Why would Jobs care? Reddit's app goes through the app store, Apple gets a cut of any premium users buy on it.

And why would Spez relent to Jobs? Everything Spez is doing is to get maximum payout from the IPO and then cash out. He doesn't give a shit about the actual site anymore.

Nvidia Shield line is being left to twist in the wind and it's a god damn shame.

Not to suggest you don't deserve to be paid more, but it feels like the issue would more be that the people paying for the site aren't instructing the people that develop it to make these accommodations.

Because I know plenty of devs that just straight up don't give a shit about accommodating low-end devices, regardless of what they're paid. It's like a point of pride almost.

Hell, that's the energy of the DontKillMyApp people: they just straight up think their app should use as many resources as it likes as long as it likes, and they shouldn't have to be considerate in development. Strain on device be damned.

I've seen some that straight up admit they don't even think the user should be able to kill an app process.

I believe I read somewhere they're focusing heavily on the mobile app at the moment (or rather turning K-9 into their mobile app). Once they get that out, we'll see where the desktop goes.

Like how they fucked up with the antenna on Voyager 2 last year. They eventually sent a correction signal out, but even if they hadn't been able to, they are set to autonomously reorient the antenna back to Earth every so often, as a failsafe against that very error.

It never occurred to me until now to wonder how Voyager knows it's picking up a signal from NASA. Theoretically, if some bad actors had the means to get it beyond the heliosphere, could a rogue signal be sent to make Voyager brick itself?

Proton forces you to pay for a bridge to use Thunderbird.

Tutanota doesn't even provide that.

These "privacy respecting" email services don't respect the user enough to let them use third party email clients easily if the user chooses to.

Proton's whole thing is it's meant to be secure, private, encrypted, etc. To achieve that, it requires the Proton app or website as an endpoint, so your email never leaves Proton's environment. As long as your reading your email in the Proton app/site, they can guarantee its privacy and security.

Once it sends your emails to Thunderbird or another client, it's leaving the Proton environment, and they can no longer control it. You're sacrificing the inherent privacy/security of Proton when you use Thunderbird (they claim).

All of that being said, it's an absolutely bullshit excuse. Tutanota does this same shit, only they don't even provide the bridge like Proton does.

It's true it's technically more secure for those emails to stay in the Proton environment, but they're still your god damn emails, and they should operate like every other email service by giving the user the option to export those emails in whatever way they damn well please, for free.

It's just more platform lock-in garbage. Your emails are trapped on their server, so they'll be no moving away to a different provider easily.

And you're still gaining services you didn't have before

No, you're not. In the example they just provided, nothing has fundamentally changed because the money you were given was eaten up by price increases, leaving you exactly where you were before.

Because UBI isn't like a stimulus check. Stimulus checks are temporary. With UBI, every single buisness, creditor, and landlord knows for a fact everyone's monthly income just went up across the board, so they know they can safely raise prices without pricing out customers.

That's the fundamental problem with UBI: it only works if it's coupled with strong price controls and regulations to prevent price gouging, and can be rapidly adjusted if necessary. Prices can go up overnight, pay raises can be acquired over a pay period, but the UBI payout will not be as flexible.

Look how impossible it was to get the minimum wage raised from $8.

Skinny legs? Is that a thing people want?

Because we have substantially more evidence for one than the other.

Not only does this meme ignore the fact there's only 4 choices in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, it doesn't even do an even number of them leaving it annoyingly lopsided