I’ve always wanted to have a way to give users their own options to use open source algorithms or create their own, but I don’t know how doable that is, since part of it is also how content gets tagged, etc.

It’s Canada, they had to use French on the sign too.

Probably attached it in the CMS and didn’t upload the file as private even if the page itself was, or something like that. Users mess up permissions all the time.

If it’s only 50mW it seems like it wouldn’t be worth whatever the extra cost is to roll this out for anything except super niche applications. Even off grid you’re probably just better off saving solar in a battery or putting up a small windmill.

I used to run it for a while (it might actually still be running, I’d need to check my VPS and delete it if it is), but I feel like RSS readers kind of got overtaken by Reddit (and Lemmy). I tried going back to it again a few times, but the lack of comments felt off after having experienced Reddit.

It doesn’t matter, the supreme court hasn’t cared about the actual facts in any of the cases they’ve ruled on in the last decade.

The case about that coach that was forcing his players to pray was distorted as well, just because they wanted a certain outcome (coach claimed it was done voluntary and in private, pictures show it was done in the middle of the pitch), same with the wedding website lady (the supposed gay couple involved had no idea about it and never actually contacted her, there’s no evidence she actually builds websites).

It’s useful in the sense that people vote on what they feel the facts are, not the actual facts. Crime statistics might be trending down, but if there’s a ton of crime stories in the news people feel like crime is up. There’s similar dynamics at play when it comes to inflation and other economic indicators.

Obamacare was the right wing plan. It’s been a huge giveaway to the insurance industry, and in the end the US did get the death panels Sarah Palin talked about, except instead of government bureaucrats it’s some AI run by an insurer that’s accountable to nobody.

The democrats need to finally give Medicare for all a shot, as the current system has middlemen skimming profits off at every step without adding any value.

Yeah, very disappointed by RMS’ creepiness (the Epstein stuff isn’t the only thing), but he was 100% right about software freedom.

I can see Microsoft moving to the same sort of thinking as well. Apple already made Mac OS users jump through hoops when you want to install something from the internet or even through a third party package manager like homebrew.

And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.

Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.

I mean, you could probably use them that way, but there’s no indication that they were planning on doing that. One of those devices is only ~$3000, so if you want to spam all of New York and the upside is a bunch of people sending you their life savings it’s not exactly an investment that’s out of reach for your average crime syndicate.

State actors would probably hack into the Telco systems themselves instead, which you can do without needing to be on the ground. Or they’d keep their DDoS device in their embassy and do it from there.

This looks like the gear normally used by gangs that do text spam scams, what makes this exactly out of the range for a run of the mill criminal syndicate? Unless they have some other information that they’re not sharing?

Oh FFS. Guess I’m just going back to piracy, somehow the most moral option.

Yeah, looks like it does, but it doesn’t appear to have all the podcasts I follow on Spotify.

Yeah, I’ll probably look at Deezer (if it also has podcast integration). The Spotify app has become more buggy and shit over the years anyway.

First band on my playlists that is actually removing their music. I’ll probably need to look at an alternate service now. Or build my own service.

Of course, this is definitely not just Kamala, this is a Democratic leadership issue, has been since Carter. Biden would’ve faced the same issues.

It’s definitely the core of the issue. Trump ran on cost of living issues and deporting immigrants (which is essentially a cost of living argument as well to a lot of people, even if empirically it’s a policy that has an opposite effect).

Kamala ran on essentially upholding existing institutions, ‘democracy’ and hanging out with the people that got the US into the Iraq war.

A lot of people picked the lying conman over the person that didn’t even promise to do the bare minimum. If the government doesn’t work for the people (and granted, a lot of it is due to Republicans cynically sabotaging things at every level), people will vote to change it one way or another.

Raising half a billion more than Trump didn’t do her a lot of good. Maybe next time a candidate should try running on what the people want instead of the donors.