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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

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  • how would repealing Section 230 affect the fediverse specifically?

    • It would destroy it. And ATproto. And decentralized platforms in general. And open-source software and hardware in general as I could imagine MS getting the green light to destroy Linux because they deem it to be a threat due to repealing Sec. 230.

  • US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

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  • Goodbye decentralized and open platforms, and goodbye open-source software and hardware.

    Repealing Section 230 will end the very existence of ActivityPub/the Fediverse, ATproto/Bsky, and even software like Linux because it goes against Big Tech's wishes for world domination.

    I hope everyone likes being roped into Big Tech's silos before getting eventually disappeared.

  • Name one material thing you yearned for when you were younger, but never got it, and now in retrospect you're glad you didn't get it because ______?

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  • Anyone who has an old car still has gotta feel some level of vindication right now as new cars for all price brackets are screwed right now on multiple levels.

  • Name one material thing you yearned for when you were younger, but never got it, and now in retrospect you're glad you didn't get it because ______?

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  • This was in high school, but the way universities are going in the US right now, I'm feeling kinda vindicated in opting not to go to university.

  • What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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  • I'm targeting them specifically because although Nintendo says they're portable and will last, what if Nintendo decides to revoke all those download keys when they sunset the Switch 2 instead of allowing them to be redeemed on the Switch 3, if there even will be a Switch 3 and the entire gaming industry doesn't collapse before such a console has a chance to even go into conception?

    You'll have larger amounts of now-useless plastic littering landfills than with the optical discs that are glorified license keys on the PS and Xbox consoles.

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  • And given they're trying to kill Section 230 and censor the web in general, it's only a matter of time before this applies to citizens as a condition of living here.

  • What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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  • I've never personally dealt with them and don't ever intend to get a Switch 2 so I probably won't deal with them, although I can imagine them being catastrophic when Nintendo eventually sunsets the console in question, but Switch 2 Game-Key Cards.

  • How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P?

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  • I2P is like Tor but peer-to-peer and as a result more decentralized, IIRC.

  • Florida school locks down as AI weapons detection system tags clarinet

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  • How soon before pencils or crayons set off lockdowns?

  • What's the most repairable "thing" you own?

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  • My PC in terms of being able to swap everything out, at least while parts are still available, I won't be surprised if the RAM shortage was an attempt to try to kill parts sales for PCs at some point.

  • What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?

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  • This is something that Robots of all movies tried to warn everyone about 20 years ago, specifically with (spoilers for a freakin' 20-year-old movie that no one cares about) Ratchet killing spare parts in order to push his expensive upgrade packages. That sound familiar to what's going on IRL right now?

  • What's on your TikTok page? U.S. looks to scour tourists' online profiles

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  • I don't have a Tiktok and never will have a Tiktok; if I ever want to make Tiktok-like content, I'd rather use Loops to do that.

    Also, what's stopping this 'five years of social media posts' requirement from extending to include citizens too?

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  • PeerSuite doesn't require an account and optionally lets you save chat logs in an encrypted file.

  • Does Lemmy have more freedom of speech than Reddit?

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  • It does, outside of truly bad stuff or straight-up spam and such, you can just about say whatever here where Reddit will ding you if you sneeze wrong, seemingly, especially nowadays after they tightened up censorship over there.

    Also, unlike Reddit, if you don't like a given Lemmy instance, you can either move to another or even host your own, where with Reddit, it's either their way or the highway as it's a centralized, closed platform.

  • HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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  • That's actually already a thing potentially, TV and even appliance makers have been fielding using meshnet tech to spy on users regardless of if they're connected to the web or not for a while now.

  • HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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  • Assuming they don't start using meshnet to spy on you anyways.

  • Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns

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  • If ICE wants to crack down on people’s 1A rights...

    • ...As if those rights even exist anymore outside of a dead letter.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • It'd be nice to actually have truly small trucks like the S10/S15 from '04 and earlier come back into vogue, let alone more normal cars like hatchbacks and sedans and such, and hell, more vans for light commercial work if desired too.

    Even minivans can legitimately work pretty well for moving a lot of stuff around if you either remove the seats or fold them into the floor depending on how that's set up, really, say what you will about minivans, but they can hold a lot of stuff with the seats removed/folded into the floor, if you own a minivan and, say, you're renovating your home or whatever, for example, you could fit all the materials for that with the second and third-row seats removed/folded into the floor into maybe a couple trips to your preferred hardware store and be good to go with how much stuff that class of vehicle can carry, and hold it in a way that's easily accessed by a low load floor and sliding doors on one or both sides of the van, just like their full-sized counterparts only smaller and with better fuel economy.

  • Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs

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  • I'm only a hobbyist and create for fun, but I hate GenAI with a passion; I hate everything it stands for and now I genuinely think it's a scam and that it needs to be treated and prosecuted as the scam it is.

    And Sam Altman of OpenAI infamy really needs his own Harry Markopolos turning up the heat on him and contributing to him eventually getting busted like Markopolos did to Madoff 18 years ago, since if GenAI is a scam, then Sam Altman is the modern-day Bernie Madoff.

  • What multiplayer games do you play?

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  • None. First off, I wanna actually own my PC where with modern multiplayer titles, a shady game publisher would effectively take ownership of my PC and tell me what I can and can't run on it via rootkit DRM, if I wanna rent my hardware, I'd rather just get a console, I wanna own my PC that I built, and not give up ownership to some shady game publisher; Riot or Activision or whoever didn't build my PC, I did, and two, most multiplayer servers aren't exactly the best place to kill time in terms of hostility.

    Single-player by contrast, at least for now, generally doesn't use rootkit DRM and so it can run on whatever I wanna run it on, and it's just me against an enemy AI with no one calling me -insert assortment of slurs here- because I messed up in some way or because I outmatched them.

    *No, kernel-level anticheats technically aren't DRM, but they're functionally rootkit DRM, so they count to me.