Steve

Steve , 3 months ago

Lemmy has it (or did) already. Some instances use it, many don't.

Steve , 4 months ago

I work at a large regional hospital, taking x-rays. It's a 24x365 kind of job. I work 3 days each week. 12 hours per day. There's no reason any job can't be 4 days. You only need to adjust the schedule to make it work.

Steve , 4 months ago

You know the phrase "If you aren't paying, you're the product".
It doesn't hit as hard as a CEO using the phrase "Monetizing Our User Base".

Steve , 4 months ago

Kagi does it already.

!Lemmy [stuff]

Gets you stuff from all over Lemmy

Steve , 4 months ago

That's why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
Totally worth it.

Steve , 4 months ago

They don't keep a search history. Your searches aren't tied to anything, because they aren't even saved. They don't have any reason to save them since they aren't selling any targeted ads.

Steve , 4 months ago

My confidence is inversely proportional to any evidence you have to the contrary.

Steve , 4 months ago

Even an audit is really just someone else saying "trust me bro". You have some level of trust.

Steve , 4 months ago

Until their users found out.

Steve , 4 months ago

I like the general idea!

Specific implementation would make all the difference. The percentage splitting would have to be very graphical to be intuitive and used by most. And artists would need a way to sign up once, and be paid from all instances.

It sounds like a massive project. But one that may be worth while.

Steve , 4 months ago

Data Broker Sold Location Data on Visitors of 600 Planned Parenthood Facilities to an Anti-Abortion Group for Targeted Advertising

Steve , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Violence has many facets. Harassment ist violence and it's done by pro-lifers.

No. I'm mostly with you. But not on this.

The "Spectrum of Violence" might include everything from lies to murder. But that's different than what you're doing here.

Insults, name calling, even threats, are not similar to getting physically beaten. Conflating them like this is either an insult, or at least disrespectful, to anyone who's been hospitalized, crippled, or worse.

Just no. Don't do that. Be more nuanced.

Steve , 4 months ago

If $50 is too much, give us a counter offer. What do you think? $35?

Steve , 4 months ago

It's not just a meta search. They do have their own index. And Brave is only one of a dozen-ish external index's they also use.

Steve , 4 months ago

If they're joining Notion, does that mean Notion is looking to add encrypted services?

Steve , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Yes exactly.

You can pay to fund the instance you use. To help ensure it's worth the time of whoever is managing it.

It's how Communick works. Or is hoped to work. It seems difficult to convince fedizins to pay for this great stuff.

Steve , 4 months ago

These could do. Haven't used them specifically. But I have similar I've been using for years.

Steve , 4 months ago

Which theory exactly are we rejecting dogmatic approaches to?

Steve , 4 months ago

"At launch, the Monitor Plus free scan and paid subscription service will be offered to people based in the United States."

We'll have to see how long it takes to spread elsewhere.

Steve , 4 months ago

I don't know why some people seem to frequently want something to be something else.
When one service tries to incorporate multiple (and very different) modes of interactions, it always suffers.

Lemmy isn't a chat room. If you want a live discussion you go to Discord or Matrix. Lemmy isn't that. It shouldn't be that. I remember when the Lemmy feed would constantly update. Even when It was working properly, it was extremely annoying. Lets let Lemmy be Lemmy. And if you want to engage with people in a different way, go to a service that was designed for it. Specialization is a good thing.

Steve , 4 months ago

New things can and should be built.
New things.

Taking something that's currently good at what it does, and changing it to do something substantially new doesn't work.

Google would have been better off, if they created a new service to emulate TickTock rather than shoehorn TickTock videos into YouTube.

They created Inbox to try to redesign email, rather than mess with how Gmail worked. That was absolutely the right way to do it.

That's what your talking about here. Rather than adapt Lemmy to your new idea. Create an entirely new system expressly designed for it. That would really be making something new.

Steve , 4 months ago

Yes! That is most literally true!

People doubt the face value benign intension of Meta with regard to the Fediverse.

Which leaves uncertainty of their real intention.

Naturally causing fear of a self interested malicious intention.

Which all seem to be quite reasonable concerns, given Meta's market position and history.

Steve , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

As I said, I agree with the literal facts. The implications in your phrasing I disagree with.

Instead of unfounded, I would call it unproven.
Instead of scaremongering I would say warning.
And generally I avoid using absolute terms like "all", since only it takes one counter example, to make such a statement factually wrong.

Steve , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I wouldn't put a timeline to it. Just a list of features, broad and specific. As time goes on, they can be marked as "in progress" or "included". New things can be added over time, or made more specific. All without timetables. For now call it a wishlist.

Steve , 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure all user data is public already.
PMs might be the only thing not everyone can see.

Steve , 5 months ago

The very nature of Lemmy and most social media, is that what you put out there is public. If you don't want everyone in the world to read something you wrote, then social media may not be your kind of thing.

Steve , 5 months ago

Are you genuinely asking? Because I thought all these jokes were made when it was first unveiled 5 years ago?

Steve , 5 months ago

Wouldn't normal fraud laws apply quite well. I'm not sure AI materially changes that kind of thing. Perhaps the scale of it? You could easily rack up 1000 charges an hour. I think a couple millennia of consecutive prison sentences is enough.

Steve , 5 months ago

Depicting someone isn't a problem. The only harm comes from actual fraud. Tying to pass a fake as real.

Nobody will think George Carlin made a new special for Youtube. The video in fact explains how that's not the case. It'll be very hard to show any actual harm caused by it, beyond some morbid bad taste.

Steve , 5 months ago

I've never worked or even been to a power plant. What's that mean? It sounds like a mess.

Steve , 5 months ago

Being able isn't a reason to actually do something.
A reason would be "Because I feel like it"

Steve , 5 months ago

Yes? I don't think I understand what you're point is.

Steve , 5 months ago

Reasons and justifications are different, and largely unrelated.

Nobody was talking about justifying anything, just the reason.

I never actually asked for a reason. I only pointed out that ability isn't a reason.

You might find more productive meaningful exchanges, when you engage with actual people rather than your own straw men.

But maybe meaningful dialogue isn't important to you. In which case I have nothing more to say.

Steve , 5 months ago

You're adorable.

Steve , 5 months ago

OMG Stop! You're too funny! It's like I'm in middle school!

Steve , 5 months ago

That statements literally means [she want's to] [because she can].
As in, the ability is driving the desire.

But that's not how it works. We're able to do lots of things we don't want to.
The desire might not come from anything identifiable. The existence of desire is it's self the reason. The ability isn't the reason.

Does that make sense? It's a nuanced difference for sure. But an important one logically.

Steve , 5 months ago

The idea that you might want Lemmy and Mastodon to work well together is honestly kind of silly to me.

They are structured and built from the ground up to be entirely different kinds of social platforms. Mastodon is structured around people publishing their thoughts. Fundamentally it's simply a kind of blog network. Lemmy is structured around topics and conversation. It's essentially a forum network. I can't see a way they could blend seamlessly, forget if they should. (They shouldn't)

Steve , 5 months ago

Can you Boost, favorite, mention, or direct message them? No not really. It's a very limited subset of the Mastodon experience. They have vastly different feature sets, mostly without corresponding analogs. That's not remotely what I would call seamless.

Or maybe it literally is seamless. There are lots of missing and incomplete pieces that would need to be stitched together, but aren't.

Steve , 5 months ago

That impressive then. I don't know.