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So many naive and disengenuous both-siders in this thread. You all support the guy who said the constitution should be disolved and signed an executive order attempting to overrule precedent set by Marbury v. Madison in 1803 because "both sides"?
The Democratic party hasn't held the kind of 3 branch power MAGA currently abuses since the Obama era and they never did half of the corrupt shit the tired old man you worship does on the daily. Your both-sidesism rings hollow.
This post is about the 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbors which was an invention of Fox News, capitalizing on the fearful post-911 political environment.
Not in a first past the post democracy.
But isn't genocide exactly what you got with Trump? At least Harris agreed with you to a point, even if you don't think she went far enough, and didn't explicitly endorse genocide like Trump. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
he's referring to the fact that almost all browsers use chrome's rendering engine and google is abusing its position of leadership by making unnecessary api changes that make adblocking extensions all but impossible to implement.
if you want to still be able to block ads on the web in the years to come, switch to a non-chrome web browser to limit google's power and ability to abuse its position.
i think as of now, they have delayed the sabotage, but it's coming.
Typical MAGA scum - they hate free speech and want to murder their neighbors while disguising themselves with the ceremonial trappings of philosophies which espouse the opposite.
it's an interesting development that will have a direct impact on lemmy since mastodon and lemmy users can interact with each other.
time will tell how closely they follow microsoft's old "embrace, extend, extinguish" game plan for combatting open standards. who knows? maybe they will be good faith actors in this new space, or won't be able to gain enough user share to truly do nasty stuff.
sorry to be so direct, but if anyone is parroting anything, it's you with the "they would never do that thing they always do, i'm super reasonable" position. EEE is literally covered in the first leaked Halloween document as a strategy to displace open standards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
this is a strategy microsoft has consistently used for years and continues to use to this day. hell, they are embracing and extending javascript right now with typescript.
it breaks the social contract of tolerance and seeks to end discourse by killing the participants when escalated to its final form. hate groups are no more participants in discourse than fire is an architectural style for building a house.
we don't have to take seriously the folks that suggest "let's set it on fire" when discussing whether we want to build a victorian or modern style home because they are not serious people and their poor ideas have been proven idiotic too many times to count.
how many years of lost productivity and set backs in open web standards because of their internet explorer nonsense and you're saying it wasn't a successful execution of this strategy? i think they won and set back the open web by years.
one point about the mit license is that it's not copyleft because mit license does not protect derivative works. that is why they fought so hard against gpl licensed works and even forbade the gpl3 license on codeplex. mit license is no threat because it can be incorporated into closed source products.
with github, i don't think they are going to pull a musk or a spez, they are going to wield their influence carefully to frame the conversation and tools around open software to work in their favor as they have always tried to do. i do agree that they seem less outwardly aggressive than back in the day, though.
as far as facebook in the fediverse, they will have the ability to inflict significant, if not fatal, damage, just like ms did to open web with ie and just like google did with xmpp with gchat. that's something worth discussing.
i'm also joining the first comment train, choo choo!
the problem is we all know this game only ends one way - paying to watch ads, aka the cable model. if you give them an inch, they will eventually take a mile. by paying into the service, you are hastening their inevitable transition to paying to watch ads.
doctorow's enshttification concept is probably relevant here. i think i like my megacorps best when they are barely or unprofitable.
I agree, based on my own experiences,.that no logic or reason can reach these people. I think we can move the conversation forward by admitting that there is a strong human instinct toward fascism. It's in our DNA to salute the tallest thing in the room because ancestors that didn't were purged. Those of us who can reason and maintain values are the exception to this flaw.
But is there another way to reach them on an emotional or instinctive level? Hope springs eternal in me, and I can't help but feel the solution involves denying them their group identity and making a mockery and shaming them as pariahs for their bad behavior.
These days, the fact is that no MAGA scum is a conservative. They are radical revolutionaries, more naive than the most extreme patchouli scented hippies of the 1960s, who have abandoned their Christianity to worship a man who said the constitution should be dissolved simply because he lost a court case. I think this is the key, but I must admit, I've never been able to turn one of them. Sagan was right about the deep seated human instinct to ignore shameful evidence when one is tricked.
i don't disagree with your point, but want to add that twitter did take some minor damage from their changes. notably, npr still won't post to twitter and i'm sure there are many dead accounts like that.
i imagine the platform is damaged from stunts like this in terms of quality content and posts, but probably not enough to make much of a difference for most users. and honestly, media has never been able to help themselves with twitter - i can't imagine news media will ever stop with the low effort "let's see what idiots on twitter are saying!" obsession that gained critical mass in the 2008 election.
i'm continually impreseed with the development pace, it's really cool to see this happen so quickly
If you can't understand the utility of being able to speak commands to an assistant for simple tasks as opposed to unlocking phone and thumbing on a screen, context switching several times throughout the process, that is totally fine. You're probably a smart cookie.
But you have to understand that your experience is so divorced from your fellow man that you should think of yourself as a bit of an alien and the exception. STT voice command interface is incredibly useful, and this is coming from someone who doesn't use it for privacy reasons either.
It's undeniably an incredibly efficient user input paradigm, much more so than thumbing on a screen in the opinion of many.
Smart cookies should be advocating for open / local solutions for STT voice interfaces, not denying their proven utility altogether with flippancy.
yeah, it seems like if lemmy implemented "only subscribers can post" and "mods must approve subscriptions" features for communities, beehaw's concerns about trolling could be solved.
it might take a while for that, though - i think lemmy devs are still working through community features, like private communities and such. amazing progress they've made, but advanced community features would be such a solid win for them, esp right now.
yeah, me, too - for me it was /r/trackballs which hosts a lot of great trackball reviews and comparisons. crazy how many great resources are locked up in those forums.
agreed, i don't understand why any game developer would write software for an os that breaks compatibility so often and touts it as a feature.
this goes for any software that has initial upfront devel and then persists in low maintence for years, apple is just a terrible target for that since they explicitly don't care about backwards compatibility.
i've been a decade+ lurker on reddit, but i figured i might as well leave a few comments on lemmy to support decentralization - so far so good, i think i'll stay if the quality continues
thanks for using Leebra!
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