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neblem 130 points a year ago

So many studies say this will lead to far less productivity for anything remotely knowledge work, especially over a long period.

Meanwhile smarter companies are going to a 4 day work week. https://www.investopedia.com/...

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neblem 78 points 3 years ago

My understanding is that they migrated most of their political stuff to lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml is a mostly a general instance with some pro-china tendencies. I have zero concerns for developer political ideologies on open source licensed projects with good licenses as long as they stay professional.

Nothing is stopping you from defederating from lemmy.ml on your own instance and/or creating a fork and doing nothing but rebranding it with proper attribution if it really bothers you that much (or use an alternate tool like kbin), but you should realize almost every software you use had at least someone with political ideologies you would disagree with make contributions somewhere in the stack.

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neblem 68 points 5 months ago

Not reviewed in this eval:

  • DeltaChat (though would likely score similar to Signal with more points for decentralization)
  • IRC
  • XMPP
  • Lemmy/PieFed/Nodebb (if he's going to include Discourse..)
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neblem 61 points 3 years ago

Lemmings has been a popular option thrown out too.

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neblem 59 points 6 months ago

I predict it'll go Meta and have fake accounts to keep engagement up plus a "AI matchmaker" assistant that will tell you its "advice" on the situation, mostly to get you to add more personal information.

The company is probably already using user data to build gay-interest advertising models for capitalism and gay-dar models for tyrants, but this policy will let them more openly sell that data.

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neblem 54 points a month ago

Tldr looks like a new community plugin discovery that requires plugins to be:

  • source available
  • hosted/mirrored on github
  • owned by developers with Obsidian accounts
  • pass automated scanning
  • defined by permission manifests

Overall probably a good thing, though I wish they'd be open to featuring projects not shared with Github.

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neblem 52 points 3 years ago

Why should anyone care about RCS? The trend has been to get everything into data instead of carrier owned services for two decades now, we don't need another SMS (it will likely always be a fallback). What we should move onto is a carrier and device type angnostic universal standard protocol over TCP / QUIC like XMPP or Matrix, with SMS as the backup.

When you get a phone you can get an phone system account and a telephone number already. Modern apps in the Google ecosystem should already recognize you are already signed in with Google and sync your contacts. Since almost everyone is already in the Google ecosystem, if Google supported it they could have extended their XMPP implementation in Hangouts to allow messaging directly via XMPP to those contacts and SMS for anyone not yet in the system (similar to how Signal did, Apple does, and Google does now with RCS). Unlike Apple, since its just XMPP, users can still add friends and be added by friends on other XMPP servers (ex. their ISPs, their own, or a third party). They could have supported or jumpstarted a new very simple open source alternative app for that portion for AOSP if the EU complained. Eventually Carriers could have supported passthroughs for those still on feature phones and other users of SMS to use the number@carrier accounts to hit XMPP users with generated SMS numbers for non-SMS users (pushed either by business necessity or part of a government / teleco org like GSMA staged removal of SMS and telephone numbers). It's all data at the end of the day.

Instead, they developed a whole new protocol to fluff the telecos and keep the now badly managed telephone number system even more necessary allowing spammers and allow the problems of legacy SMS to continue.

Apple, Google, and Samsung should all be shamed for not supporting fully open protocols and necessitating dependency on user harming stacks.

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neblem 50 points 5 months ago path: 0 21783628, hotness: undefined, score: 50, children: 9
neblem 47 points a year ago

Hopefully all the drama around this can motivate more creators off ByteDance, Meta, and Alphabet platforms and onto fedi platforms like PeerTube and Loops.

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neblem 47 points a year ago

Linux Foundation is also the host for the Servo project.

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neblem 47 points 2 years ago

We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.

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neblem 35 points a year ago

The underlying software forge Codeberg uses, Forgejo, is self-hostable. I'm sure some web hosting business will get around to providing a managed hosting offering eventually.

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neblem 24 points 3 years ago

A giant electric "luxury" truck is still a giant "luxury" truck. Buying one over the other is like buying a cruelty free synthetic beaver cap over a cap made from an actual beaver. Yes it probably is better, but you are still wearing an ass on your head.

It's 2023, most people live in urbanized areas where a truck is similarly ridiculous, especially the modern "luxury" models. Those that actually use their vehicles for hauling things at a farm want real work trucks and tractors (regardless of engine type) with lower and longer beds.

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neblem 24 points 3 years ago

ASFAIK Signal doesn't support RCS, only Signal protocol, after they dropped SMS.

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neblem 24 points a year ago

Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren't "great" for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn't be tied to your speech or content you view.

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neblem 23 points a year ago

Hopefully things like PineTime, Bangle.js, and the return of Pebble can shake up the market. There's always neat DIY hacks like the SensorWatch too that can still make the space fun even if the major players get enshittified.

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neblem 22 points 2 years ago

Hashtags work on other fedi platforms, many people subscribe to lemmy communities elsewhere.

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neblem 22 points 3 years ago

True, that's why you have to appreciate that all that glitters is gold.

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neblem 21 points 3 years ago

If you are an instance owner, you can use this tool https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter . However, is all of your sub's old content really that valuable to bring over? Why not just create the new community, copy the old sidebar info / rules, make a sticky with links to top posts in the old sub, let a few people know (in a way that doesn't violate the sub's rules) and let people migrate naturally?

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neblem 20 points 2 years ago path: 0 11765565, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 0

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