Software developer and artist.
Sure, it’s advantageous in the short-term. I think this is where we misunderstand each other. What I’m trying to say is that under normal circumstances, individuals aren’t maximizing their output. They are just living as part of the community, following the unwritten rules and benefiting from that. (In the prisoner’s dilemma, this would be choice A).
If this is how everyone would act in their daily life, you would see crime, theft and abuse on an unimaginable level. No, people don’t always do what benefits them “at every individual point”. We are social creatures, acting as a community where the individuals benefit from working together. Although this has been successfully undermined by capitalism and other hierarchies.
This whole concept is also called, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, one of my favorite thought experiments because it shows how being rational can result in everyone being worse off.
Yes. The “tragedy of the commons” is a myth.
Without any limits, individual cattle owners have an incentive to overgraze the land, destroying its value to everybody.
This is factually false, because the land will be destroyed and individuals don’t benefit, not even in the short term. Commons work great (see open source software), but capitalism and power structures abuse and destroy them for short-term profit.
Interesting viewpoint, but I think the applications aren’t at fault: The operating system should ensure that the user has control of the computer at all times. I think you need to do three things to achieve that:
The whole list:
Some highlights:
You’re thinking of this: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt Maybe someone should make an AI-detector version of that.
That said, it is completely understandable that some users may feel uncomfortable using an account to access the service. For such cases we strongly recommend hosting your own deployment of Jitsi Meet. We spend a lot of effort to keep that a very simple process and this has always been the mode of use that gives people the highest degree of privacy.
Seems like you can avoid it by self-hosting. Still a very suspicious move, kinda defeats the whole point of an alternative to big tech conference services.
Google, GitHub and Facebook for starters but may modify the list later on
Maybe they could support some auth provider from some fediverse app? That would be kinda neat.
I think techwontsave.us is want you didn’t know you want, but maybe you’ll enjoy it. It has some really interesting guests and topics.
I don’t fully understand the “right to be forgotten”.
I think there is a difference between agreeing with the law itself and agreeing with the usefulness. GDPR gives users incredible power over their data, and in the case of Reddit it allows you to leave the platform very effectively for example.
“The solution is in this link” “Thanks, that solved my issue” But now link is dead and the solution gone.
This is sadly the case with everything on the internet and life in general tbh.
even then you’re acknowledging the GDPR request you made to the instance was useless
Don’t quote me on this, but I don’t think GDPR says they have to delete every instance of your content across the internet, just the ones they have power over.> “The solution is in this link”
“Thanks, that solved my issue” But now link is dead and the solution gone.
Also, I’m mainly adding some of my thoughts, don’t take this as criticism of your post or your viewpoint. I fully agree that there is no solution that pleases everyone here.
If you are a developer, please take a look at the XDG Base Directory Specification and try to follow it, users will be very grateful.
Short summary:
Look for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
for configs and $XDG_STATE_HOME
for state. If they aren’t available, use the defaults (./config
and .local/share
).
I can recommend Python, Lua or JavaScript. All are interpreted languages so you don’t have to worry about setting up a build step, and the languages are solid and should be possible to learn without prior experience.
If you want to make games, don’t worry about learning a specific programming language at first. You can transfer your skills pretty well when it comes to programming.
And if you are stuck you could try visual languages like MakeCode or Scratch.
Wow. Seems like I will never stop learning new things about Lua.