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Do you believe this is more likely than corporations trying to restrict the supply for their corporate competitors? My thinking would be that we're just caught in the crossfire. Th…

I'm not saying that, nor did I allude to it in any way. I made no assertions as to what the solution should be. The ideal scenario would be everyone choosing not to engage with the…

Two things can be true, and I am in the same boat. Should the next generation have their brains fried by ad-tech corporations and their algorithms? Absolutely not. Should the overd…

I do have a lemmy account, but have not really returned to it in a while. Maybe I haven't found the right communities yet, but it had nothing about it that felt engaging. People up…

Yeah. Sadly the default communities were flooded with blog spam, and that's just the part I noticed. A couple days ago a bunch of smaller communities also got a noticeable bump in …

You're right, and that is one of the lessons to be reminded of here. My main point wasn't that, though. It's simply a bad and low-effort way to handle the situation, and like one o…

I am kind of peeved. I started a community there and diligently posted links to topical news, and it kind of became a reference to me. Like many others, I've put in some amount of …

That felt a little like watching a modern version of Primitive Technology. Cool project, very nice mode of presentation.

I would love to just mount a directory via SFTP, so I can use my IDE alongside the far-away Claude. That would put this in the realm of daily use for development.

That is just delightful. Reference[1] for anyone wondering. [1] https://xkcd.com/936/

There really is no prize for being technically correct on this one. Someone built this and is letting you have it. For free. There is no legal obligation or law of the universe her…

I can't update DNS entries for my domains with Porkbun, because it's "Powered by Cloudflare".

Their entire business model is effectively centralizing the web. The downtime over the last two weeks shows some of the problem with that. I have used their products and have more …

People protesting ICE do not do so out of political concern, but humanitarian concern. This seems like a minor nitpick as those two are intimately tangled up, but it matters to mak…

Even if they are off by a factor of 100 it's a huge win and the point stands. It's fair to point this out and worth the mention. Still, I'd like to think that the engineers behind …

I have always found the summary of Foundations of Geopolitics[1] to be an interesting re-read whenever some larger event involving Russia happened. It feels like the puzzle pieces …

You could cut the emissions of the top 1% in half, or reduce the emissions of the bottom 4 billion to 0. Same result. Which do you believe is likely the lower hanging fruit, has a …

That's exactly what rich assholes have to do with it. Why do you believe all the consequence falls onto the working class and the poorest, when the richest have per capita the larg…

Quad9 and dns0 are the current "go to" EU options I believe. I would wager that most users of those services would be more wary of an option directly provided by the EU instead of …

They refuse to disclose the authors. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/eu_is_plann... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168134

For free, too, expecting absolutely nothing in return. No accountability. No responsibility. There is simply no exchange happening. They take, and that's it. Somehow.

This is, for all I care, on par with sites that mess with scrolling. I sort of understand this being used on artistic or playful sites, or ones to show off tech, sure. On a documen…

They are not expelling extremists based on extremism. They are expelling extremists based on public fallout. The remaining ones are effectively their spokespeople. Germany has a wi…

In simple terms, Trump's current administration is the AfD's wet dream. Talk big about free speech and free market, state's rights, cracking down on immigration, all the populist t…