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PotatoesFall ,

Least insane techno-optimist

PotatoesFall ,

stop shilling for industry, bootlicker

PotatoesFall ,

It's all Hamas fault for hiding behind journalists /s

PotatoesFall ,

They are just a crypto shill and a neoliberal. They don't care for liberation of humans, just for liberation of payments from government. They are a professional investor, I'd say this video is basically anarcho-capitalism in a nutshell. Some of the points they raise are valid, but many are not. For example, not being able to print more money in the government actually removes the ability to control deflation, and if governments can't print money, that's basically self-imposed austerity.

if you want to pay somebody on the other side of the world, crypto already lets you do that. There's no need to hype it up any more than it already is.

Also disingenuous to hype up bitcoin without bringing up the inherent environmental concerns.

PotatoesFall ,

I'm not talking about bitcoin I'm talking about the creator of the video. And their talking points are very much libertarian.

PotatoesFall ,

for anybody else who has no idea what this is, it's a Terraria mod

PotatoesFall ,

Its a microblogging platform like mastodon and no, we don't need it in the fediverse. There's exactly one explanation for why they would want to join.

PotatoesFall ,

the children yearn for the mines

PotatoesFall ,

Yeah the first two are just wrong

PotatoesFall ,

Another user commented that you can run Unbound (the technology used by pihole) on your machine.

Even easier, configure your device to use an ad block DNS resolver. Control D has free ones: https://controld.com/free-dns

PotatoesFall ,

My partner will drink from her water bottle even if she filled it up a week ago. I don't drink water that's older than a day. Why? I DON'T KNOW

PotatoesFall ,

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/b30014cc-ec71-4e2d-b285-c0bd3ce69af1.jpeg

PotatoesFall ,

Some of these graphs are just very hard to read even with the explanation another user gave

PotatoesFall ,

on this note, is there a goodboomerhumor community on lemmy yet?

PotatoesFall ,

that's not what your meme is about. Your meme is utilizing Palestinian deaths to make some tankie point about China great because West bad. Which is deeply disrespectful to the 35,000.

PotatoesFall ,

Okay fair point, there's definitely hypocrisy (although from my information there is definitely some ethnic cleansing going on in xinjiang). Got a different vibe from the meme initially though

PotatoesFall ,

okay well Western media isn't talking about it. I exclusively hear about this on lemmy from folks simping for China.

Fuck all empires, fuck the US, fuck China, fuck Russia. All have shitty to broken democracies and way too much centralized power.

What's the point of constantly defending China? If it was just a one time thing that's fine, but it happens nonstop around these parts.

No need to simp for China to be a communist

PotatoesFall ,

this is inadequate labelling of drugs. some kid is gonna die

PotatoesFall ,

should say "shareholders" but the point stands

PotatoesFall ,

Nobody complains about bats, bats are awesome and hard to notice anyway

PotatoesFall ,

Interesting. Probably the species around where I live don't make much noise, nobody else hears them here

PotatoesFall ,

It's that phenomenon where people who endured trauma to attain something expect others to also endure the trauma.

I've tried learning GIMP, and it sucks. I'm not saying GIMP sucks, but you have to be crazy to not see that it's hard to learn.

PotatoesFall ,

I'm not used to photoshop so I can't say anything about that.

I was a big fan of paint.NET but now that I stopped using Windows, it's the only software that I really miss.

It had fewer features than GIMP, but it was so intuitive yet surprisingly powerful.

Have not found a similarly amazing alrernative, I wish Wine could make it work...

PotatoesFall ,

You could contribute to Pinta, which I'm pretty sure has the same vision

PotatoesFall ,

Don't be evil

PotatoesFall ,

lol. do you have this without the text?

PotatoesFall ,

sick, thanks

PotatoesFall ,

do people really think he was deaf before he became a musician? obviously not

PotatoesFall ,

Yeah at least firefox without extensions is good :P

PotatoesFall ,

What are some examples of features rhat should be native but aren't?

I use a couple extensions but nothing that I think should be in the core browser.

PotatoesFall ,

yeah okay fair

PotatoesFall ,

Okay first things first Jack Dorsey is a tool

The US government / CIA did in fact develop the protocol back in the day, with the goal of helping people in China and other countries message securely, probably with ulterior motives.

But the protocol itself is open source, and you can use it without any affiliation with the US government.

The claim " It looks almost as if big tech in the US is not allowed to build its own encryption protocols that would be independent of government interference 🐕‍🦺" is therefore so stupid it almost invalidates everything else being said because the person writing is either an idiot or purposely misrepresenting the facts.

Not having reproducible builds is definitely weird though. Does anybody have more information on that?

PotatoesFall ,

Usually this format says something like "google joe biden inflation rule 34 to learn more". So now I have to assume that you actually went and googled that :P

PotatoesFall ,

tiktok is not just a simple service or product like the other things pictured. Social medie shapes and influences society. We are on Lemmy for gods sake I thought everybody here knows that corporate social media is dangerous?

PotatoesFall ,

ugh I didn't see it was fucking yogthos. I should have known

PotatoesFall ,

wait he advocates for dvorak? What year is this? I would surely take him for a colemak kinda guy

PotatoesFall ,

Fair enough! My vaguely uninformed impression is that dvorak does a lot of hand alternating which is good for typewriters but not necessarily keyboard typing. Either way I learned Colemak DH mod and I am NOT learning yet another layout that shit took me 3 months

PotatoesFall ,

I think that's the Wayland logo

PotatoesFall ,

Can somebody explain this for non-Americans? When I search Tammany Hall it just hits me with walls of text about the democrat party.

PotatoesFall ,

I think many of these jokes are made by linux fans to make fun of ourselves lol

PotatoesFall ,

Now don't dry it off and keep it in the cupboard for a few days

PotatoesFall ,

what does it mean to space somebody? eject them from a spaceship? I'm onboard with that (not literally). Despite the rocket fuel needed it would probably net negative emissions.

PotatoesFall ,

context?

PotatoesFall ,

The other day I learned there is an alcoholic mix drink brand that tastes like lemonade but has 10% alcohol, called 196

PotatoesFall ,

Agreed, shitty read. The 30% cut is crazy high though, and IMO the best point the article has. Steam DOES have a monopoly and that's inherently bad

PotatoesFall ,

I'm not saying Steam is the worst thing out there right now. I'm saying monopoly is inherently bad, and 30% is a crazy high cut even including the features you mentioned.

PotatoesFall ,

That's still a monopoly. The article says it too, if you don't put your game on steam, your sales suffer. It's similar to how spotify has a monopoly on the music streaming market.

PotatoesFall ,

having a market share like that is a form of monopoly. It's obviously different from absolute monopoly, but they wield too much power as is.

And to be fair, running games on linux without steam is definitely more tricky than without.

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