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  • I hope none of you wanted to buy RAM anytime soon

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  • This is absolutely insane to me. AI is destroying society.

    Now is the time to stand by your principles. And if you don't have principles, maybe raise some. Become anti-consumption and remove yourself from capitalism, as much as possible. Hate those people. You should hate them as much as possible.

  • The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse

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  • I don't like how he seems to quote (positively) Noam Chosmky so much. By the end of the article, it ceases to be fact-based and becomes more opinionated.

    He makes a few points that I disagree with, namely: "the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent and who think for themselves and who don't know how to be submissive and so on - because they're dysfunctional to the institutions" (This is from a Chomsky's book). I 100% disagree with this. I just don't see people creating an educational system that filters out good thinkers and smart people. If it does, it is surely failing. (I am in Europe). Ask any teacher what sort of training they received to filter out those people. They will tell you none. Ask any teacher what is the reason that one fails in the educational system. Not one teacher will tell you "oh, that person is too smart, too independent, for our current educational system. He needs to be dumber if he wishes to pass.". Come on...

    I wish he would have kept the document fact based. This is surely an attacking point that may be used to detract the rest of it.

  • The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse

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  • Where are the guides on how to facilitate mass migration? Where are the guides for agriculture in the absence of international supply lines and fertilizer? Where are the checklists of supplies for individuals, small communities, and large communities?

    I don't know? Where are they? Post them. Create them.

    If all you have to say of the 57 pages of the document is "the title is wrong": Thank you for your contribution.

  • The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse

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  • Most of it are graphs. I don't think it takes that long to read. But even if it does, it should be read. Read it over a week, or two, or however long. Instead of doomscrolling, doomread. At least you are not giving money to pedophiles by reading this.

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    The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse

    medium.com /@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7

  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • What?

    I don't think you know what centralization/decentralization means.

    On matrix, you scan spin up a server/instance and communicate with any other matrix server/instance. On Fluxer, if you self-host, and your friend also self-hosts, your instance/server cannot communicate with your friend's instance/server. You would have to create an account on your friend's instance/server and vice-versa. You would also, probably, have to be running two clients in order to chat in both servers/instances.

  • Coffee Grinder

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  • Do you think a hand coffee grinder (I would buy the kingrinder k6, as I want cheap) is a "buy for life" product? I never had one in my hand, but I would think that anything that "grinds" probably gets blunt in a few years, no?

  • The Movim XMPP client is soon getting Discord-like rooms & spaces (preview in post body)

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  • I tried movim for like 2 minutes. It was too much. It felt more like a full social network (chat+mastodon in one?) than just a chat software. I didn't like that. Too convoluted and complex. And the UI/UX was confusing.

    I really want XMPP to do well though.

  • Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism

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  • Greta is honestly one of my heroes. The amount of hate that she got growing up, from right wing pedophiles(-protectors) is astonishing. And she persevered! All she did was point to the climate science. She tried to improve the world for both everyone alive and those yet to come. And she got hate for it.

    Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Another word for "marketing" or "advertisement" is Manipulation. Shady, manipulative, tactics.

    Fuck them. I love Lemmy because it seems like the ratio of like-minded people is much larger here. Nothing better than seeing other principled people that would rather give up some comforts than deal with ads and bend the knee to the pieces of shit that try to push them.

    Even products in the supermarket (such as bread!!) come with ads in the fucking plastic wrapper. I have changed my bread brand due to this. I will absolutely give up any comfort to avoid your manipulation. I will fucking shower in cold water if it means I don't bend the knee to pieces of shit.

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

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  • What the fuck.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • This should serve as motivation to move away from any and all corporations. Do not lose your community. Find a proper free-libre-open-source alternative and move the community there. Communities are important. Corporations are not.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • Slightly Off-Topic:

    I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.

    I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.

  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • Using the QR code is probably still using Mastercard/Visa, no? As long as the money is being transfered directly from your bank account, it should be going throw Visa/Mastercard. Or am I mistaken?

  • Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’

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  • Agreed. I will never understand how these people got famous. I do understand that they are manipulative and all that, but still... For manipulative people to be successful, one needs to be manipulated. I think this says more about the manipulated (and society overall) than it does about these manipulative, stupid, pieces of shit.

    We will always have unscrupulous pieces of shit. The fact that society is choosing to make these people famous, and "powerful", is dystopian. Absolutely pathetic.

  • Oxford English Dictionary for KOReader? Does anyone have it?

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  • I am not sure if you are aware, but there is a "fandom wiki" dictionary maker: https://github.com/Runik-3/core. I have used it in the past and it works perfectly.

  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • Oh, both of those (street complete and every door) are great! I have just answered a few questions. This is a really easy way to improve OSM. We should probably do a "You Should Know" somewhere. I don't think these apps are well known.

    How long until the changes are accepted, do you have any idea? I already published them (by logging in my OSM account).

  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • Hey! That is great!

    What sort of apps/software do you use to update OpenStreetMap? I would also love to do something like that. Can you do a brief explanation on how you do it, please?

  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • Giving up those socials is a great start, and often times the start is the hardest part. I don't see Instagram though. Hopefully you have quit them and just forgot to mention, if not, consider this the universe sending you a message motivating you to delete it!

    Of all the "content provider websites", youtube is certainly the hardest part to "cut". However, the signal to noise ratio of youtube is so low (small signal, large noise) that I pretty much don't use it anymore. Even good channels are, more and more, going for clickbait and shitty tactics, and AI content. I didn't really actively cut youtube, but I did so passively. It just became worse and worse that I don't feel drawn to it as often. And, of course, when I do use youtube, ads are blocked with ublock and SponsorBlock.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    amos @slrpnk.net

    Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    amos @slrpnk.net

    With the recent "spotify hack", can one now easily get songs from that hack?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    amos @slrpnk.net

    Oxford English Dictionary for KOReader? Does anyone have it?