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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better.
  • We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

    That kinda does exist it's just that you and I lack either the knowledge or patience to connect to it.

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    Bing AI performing at its peak once again...
  • Google ended up giving up the fight on SEO to save money and let their own search tools degrade in quality.

    I really miss when search engines were properly good.

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    Story of Cruz
  • Just because the right likes to screech about how your centrists are extreme leftitists doesn't change the fact they aren't leftists. It's just a smokescreen for the rightwing to cover just how extreme they've become.

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    The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit
  • It's because the people making these decisions aren't incrntivised to think about the long term effect for the company. All they need to worry about is if it makes line go up in the short-term so they can get a fat bonus then use how much line went up to get a job somewhere else before the shit hits the fan. Rinse and repeat.

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    Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
  • I could but I'm not the person who cares enough to want to look into it. I'm telling the person who does that doing so is a good idea.

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    Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
  • I think we need to start reframing it as some sort of combined right to freedom to speak and freedom to not listen. Right now the majority of the time I hear someone talking about freedom of speech is when they want the authority to force people to listen to them.

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    Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
  • Yeah the sad reality is that the entire situation is a mess and there isn't really a good guy to root for beyond innocent civilians caught up in it. (Though you can certainly argue about who is the worst bad guy... That doesn't make their enemy not also a bad guy.)

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    Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
  • I expect you need to look in the Lemmy.World moderation log to see to what degree lemmy.ml users were or were not problematic (I've no idea either way.)

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    Phones should have FM radio again
  • Just double-checked. My current smartphone that I partially picked for it's 3.5mm socket does have built in FM radio that works great and only functions with earphones plugged in.

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    Phones should have FM radio again
  • One reason is that every implementation I've ever tried relies on using the wired earphones as an aerial and Apple magically convinced everyone that having a 3.5mm port is somehow a bad thing.

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    A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades
  • It's not about more reusable hardware it's about software being constrained to support existing hardware rather than ditch it to save a fee bucks on development.

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    Capitalism Breeds Innovation
  • Capitalism takes innovation and beats the life out of it to flog the corpse for a quick buck. The thing that made KFC special wasn't the blend of herbs and spices (that they don't even fucking use anymore and you used to be able to buy ready mixed at the shops) it was the new innovative cooking technique that they immediately tossed in the trash because it was cheaper to just throw it all in a deep frier like everyone already did.

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    No tritium found in fish one month after Fukushima water release
  • Two questions: If it's only tritrium why does anyone really care? Why couldn't they just sell it rather than dump it?

    I thi k I just realised those questions both have the same answer...

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    But my WiFi is just fine!
  • If all the food in my fridge is warm I don't immediately assume my electricity has been cut off rather than something is wrong with my fridge.

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    But my WiFi is just fine!
  • I really don't understand why it's such a common confusion. None of these people struggle with the difference between their gas supply and their oven.

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    Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition?
  • AFAIK whilst some creatives do fully conceptualise the work in their heads then set out to externally reproduce it, the more normal approach is to have a less complete notion and then create something via the process. IE, a musician might have a melody in their head but then they will play it on the instrument and experiment with different variations and accompaniments to see what sounds good and build on it that way, rather than sit and think of an entire piece based on that, then play it out loud.

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    Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition?
  • I did write a lengthy (nice) response to try to better articulate my own subjective experience for comparison so we could continue to try to better understand one another but then I kinda just lost faith in the idea...

    Do you possibly speak more than one language to any degree? If you think of the words "yes" and "oui" (yes in French), there must be some difference in what you experience inside your mind despite the meaning being the same. So what is different between the two subjective experiences for you?

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  • As in title. Just wanted to report this in case somehow the Lemmy.world devs somehow aren't already well aware of this. I've had a new, not detected by my email provider (so probably fresh) phishing email on the address associated with my Lemmy.world account almost daily since the hack. While there's always a possibility it was grabbed somewhere else, I assume that means the hackers grabbed the user email address's of the Lemmy.world users to flog cheaply to spammers. Not much Lemmy.world can do retrospectively but might be worth looking at ways to avoid that being as easy in the event of another lemmy software security issue (could the addresses be stored encrypted possibly?) and, if possible, confirm that this has actually happened then issue a PSA to users so they are alert to be wary of suspicious emails to the account they registered with.

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