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Least insane techno-optimist
Least insane techno-optimist
I’m not talking about bitcoin I’m talking about the creator of the video. And their talking points are very much libertarian.
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.
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.
it seems like maybe this is compatible, and is easier to host for a single user instance
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
Yeah this is sad. Aside from his normal MEP duties, Breyer did incredible journalistic work on the EU plans on centralizing incredible power and creating a digital hellscape in Europe. They are planning to go full CIA on us.
They call themselves that
I’m still unhappy about it, because I don’t trust corporate interests in open and community-driven spaces like the fediverse. It’s never mixed well in the past.
I wouldn’t be surprised if BlueSky is soon “the easy way to follow people on Mastodon”
I would be even less surprised if they attempt an Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactic within 5 years.
On Android you can just install another keyboard if your current one doesn’t have a setting for this.
If I had to guess a business case, I’d say that predictive text as a feature gives you a “legitimate reason” to send your typing data to Google or whoever to train the prediction engine, and they want that data.
Don’t be evil
Pretty sure they are seals, not gophers.
according to the meme it’s just compiling, no other build steps… suspicious
why are you using three different distros to build a single application?
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.
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.
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.
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
The chance is higher that threads will add some features mastodon doesn’t support and then people will leave mastodon for threads.
embrace extend extinguish
there’s still some great subreddits, but many of the mainstream ones have devolved into right wing cesspools