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  • Thoughts on Cryptocurrency?

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  • I thought Monero solves this issue, with a level of effort large enough that it's almost impossible to crack.

  • Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old

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  • “Contrary to standard cosmological theories where the accelerated expansion of the universe is attributed to dark energy, our findings indicate that this expansion is due to the weakening forces of nature, not dark energy,” he continued.

    So both dark matter and dark energy don't exist?

  • Is there an app that could send me a notification every 30 minutes?

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  • Any app that you can setup Macros with. I use Macrodroid on Playstore.

  • What would be an example of a healthy online conversation?

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  • What would be an example of a healthy online conversation?

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  • Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature

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  • Tab Stash. Don't need nor will ever need anything else.

  • Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?

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  • Psychopathy is a popular catch-all term. "Low-empathy" is better, but I think you're just a critical person and most people don't like criticism or self-reflection.

  • I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?

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  • Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there's a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower.

    This is true.

    Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.

    I don't think that's the right interpretation. There are words in English that would require sentences to be made for each if conveyed in a different language. But the same is true vice-versa.

    Have a look at subtitles for movies from one language to any other. Translators struggle conveying what should be paragraph long sentences of context behind a single word for one language. Do not get me started on double speak.

  • Kakoune @discuss.tchncs.de
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    What are your setups?

  • How are you all making it right now with grocery store prices?

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  • Bulk buys

  • Blogging with Jupyter Notebooks in Hugo

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  • I haven't heard of this before. How does it compare to Obsidian or Notion?

  • Nitter is shutting down

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  • They just preferred to use WhatsApp. Switching to an alternative was trivially easy. People just didn't want to because of personal preference. It would be trivially easy for me to stop drinking coffee every morning and only drink water

    It's not about personal preference. It's about momentum. If I stop drinking coffee, only I am being affected. If I stop using Whatsapp, I now have to convince everyone I'm in contact with to also use the alternative when msging me before I can actually stop using WhatsApp.

    If you want it to be a public utility and its owned by an American company, which country is going to be the one to make that happen?

    I am confident the EU could do it. A complete transfer of ownership isn't necessary for other countries to use exported services as public utilities. Public-private partnerships exist.

    Also, calling "completely eradicating the first amendment in order to make it so that the American government can forcibly seize and censor people on its new state run social media websites" a "government problem" is an atomic bomb level of understatement.

    "American freedom of speech = Nazis get to speak" was your stance before. Now it's "Anything but American freedom of speech = government censorship". What am I even supposed to say here?

  • Nitter is shutting down

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  • First off, I think you are being very rude. I didn't call you names or make assumptions, so please treat this with more respect than a Twitter thread.

    WhatsApp, by comparison, is trivially easy to replace.

    Olvid, a French alternative to WhatsApp, was made in 2019. It took a law passing last month banning all ministers from using non in-house messaging services to stop people from using WhatsApp. I wouldn't consider that "trivially easy".

    Also, your reasoning is kind of skewed, because in order to even use something like WhatsApp, you need other, already existing services. Namely internet access.

    You didn't mention Internet access and so neither did I. I'm happy we both agree it should be a utility.

    I don't know if you're just speaking from a non-American context, or just don't know how "freedom of speech" is codified into law in the United States.

    I already said this is a "government problem". I said this in reference to the US government, because this isn't really an issue for most countries :/

  • Nitter is shutting down

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  • When businesses ask you to contact their help-desk via WhatsApp, it's a utility. When people call and message friends, family, and colleagues almost exclusively on WhatsApp or Messenger, it's a utility.

    It's also putting the government in a position in which it functionally would have to provide a platform for everyone equally, Neo-Nazis [...]

    Godwin's Law People preaching [insert terrible belief] on a government platform would be removed and charged for hate speech just as much as they would be if preaching these things in public spaces. If your government gives people with terrible_belief.jpg the chance to preach on public property, that's not a public property issue, that's a government issue.

    Ultimately, saying social media should be a public utility is like saying casinos and strip clubs should be public utilities.

    No, it isn't. If anything, turning certain popular social media apps into public utilities would limit them from being pure dopamine hits. Let other websites exist to fill the cesspool void. Not the one my grandma uses.

  • Make any Distro Immutable

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  • I much prefer it over grub. I don't think there's any other bootloader's that support btrfs snapshots.

  • Make any Distro Immutable

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  • I think flatpaks are good. The performance penalty for containerized software can be felt much more when you're not using a good CPU. So containers do not "solve" my use case.

  • Make any Distro Immutable

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  • Could you pass me a link to an example setup?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Make any Distro Immutable

    github.com /arkanelinux/arkdep

  • bcachefs?

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  • How long do you think?

  • bcachefs?

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  • bcachefs?

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  • Hmm... "baka-chefs". Rolls off the tongue. Thanks for sharing!

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    bcachefs?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Where should I discuss "tagging" in websites?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Help on BTRFS setup

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

    www.theregister.com /2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/
  • Learn Programming @programming.dev
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    Anyone uses IRC? Why?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Any Interesting (Not Disturbing) Podcasts?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek??