I'm currently testing https://piefed.social/u/Libb all my new participation will be posted there, at least for the time being.
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a “symptom” of a larger erosion of trust between the United States and Europe.
Erosion?That's no erosion, which would be a slow natural process.
What happened is that Trump, in his usual delicate manner, put a bullet in the head of the US alliance with the EU.
And then, even it's not been officially acted yet, they also put a bullet in the head of NATO too. One just need to listen to mr Vance first Munich speech as vice-president. Sure, unlike his boss, mr Vance is not an illiterate pig, quite the contrary he is one of the smartest and brightest politician I can think of, but the message was still crystal clear: we the EU are on our own.
And then, seeing how Trump is willing to use 'his' economical power and 'his' armed forces to play bully against any country he disagrees with or that doesn't play along the US rules or doesn't pay the USA enough for his 'protection' (like some shitty gangster racketing local shop owners, in an Hollywood movie), I have little doubt what the USA would be willing to do to the EU (and to its too many rules and regulations) if they were given the opportunity. POTUS himself explained to the world we Europeans only exist to "screw America".
If that doesn't say it all about the state of any alliance between us I don't know what will.
And that's not just Trump being Trump. I mean, US people elected this clown twice meaning that's the kind of leadership they want to follow. Why keep on pretending the dude is merely an accident and that thing will get back to 'normal' after him? Normality is Trump-like. When mr Vance will become the next President he will obviously be (a lot) less illiterate and (a lot) less dumb than Trump is, but he certainly will not make us an ally again. They don't give a crap, that's their policy.
It's rarely a good idea to elect an hateful angry monkey as a leader, we can all agree on that but can we also all agree that the issue is never the monkey itself but the people deciding to put it in charge. And those people,they don't seem to me that much willing to change for the better, I'm afraid. Hate and violence seem to be the only plate on their menu, it's just the color of the name on the menu that's different.
The USA has made quite a few dumb decisions since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Decisions that mostly managed to strengthen their true enemies and rivals while weakening their rare real allies. This is just one more decision like that, but a huge one.
I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet.
Welcome :)
It’s a bit of a digital version of rural exodus. And since 2017/2018, I’ve noticed that everything that, in my opinion, represented the internet has disappeared.
This a very interesting metaphor, real spot on.
But I would say a lot of that rural Internet has not disappeared, not yet. It's still there, very much alive. People are simply not visiting it anymore. They don't dare go outside the pretty walled-gardens they're used to.
But those people wanting to stay parked in their corporate-owned gardens, or silos, doesn't make that small and more humane web go away. And would they chose to, they could still come visit it freely, they could still easily interact with their creators. They could even create and tend to their very own part of it, making that small Web a richer place.
They just don't do it. Most of the time because they can't be bothered with doing the actual work, or because they're afraid to try and to fail. They want to be fed easy to eat content, not learn to cook it themselves.
They want the a Web that is like those shitty fast-food serving standardized and over-processed industrial food. Something ready to eat that is barely food at all but that will stuff their belly and, more importantly, that will never surprise them. Alas, this food is as much a poison for their head as it is for their body. They will realize that too late. It probably already is.
Too bad, because the alternative is still a thing, not that far away.
The small web is still a thing. Many blogs still exist that only share content their author sincerely care about or is interested in, that are ads and tracking free, that respect their readers... But the majority of people have quit visiting them, they simply don't go outside of, say, YT, X, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok or whatever where they can all stay together parked like the cattle they have not yet realized they have become.
Back to your original metaphor. Digital rurality is still there and many could easily own a small part of it and make it exwactly like they want it to be, and be happy with it. But they prefer staying in the large over-crowed cities, in small overpriced apartments like most their friends are doing.
Lemmy is a great alternative to reddit but it could relatively easily become another silos—just plural and not corporate-owned but silos nonetheless. It's up to us to keep it open to the alternatives. I mean, sometimes I feel sad to see little posts & comments inviting people to go read/watch something they liked that is not already hosted on some corporate-owned platform. Heck, sharing personal content feels so much like a lost cause to me that I seldom share a link to my own blog posts: why bother? I also publish a lot less often than I used to, here again: why bother?
Ça me rappelle un message ici même, il y a quelques jours où dans les commentaires nous parlions de cartes postales et bien ça pourrait être une raison de plus d'envoyer une carte postale plutôt qu'un SMS: recevoir un joli timbre ;)
La Poste Fr nous en propose toujours de chouettes, enfin je trouve: https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/beaux-timbres, hésitez pas à partager un lien vers la poste de votre pays ;)
Ca fait plus d'un an que l'idée me trotte en tête du coup j'en profite pour lancer un ballon sonde et voir si ça suscite le moindre intérêt: qui serait intéressé de démarrer un réseau d'échange de cartes postales/lettres 'à l'ancienne'? Aucune idée de comment gérer les questions logistiques et vie privée (ici en France, par exemple à Paris, ouvrir un boite postale c'est pas gagné) mais c'est juste pour savoir si ça vaut la peine de passer du temps sur l'idée, ou pas...
The real info would be 721 million divided between 281 researchers (less than 3 million each).
Personally, I'd rather see that nice 700 million budget be used to focus on a handful of selected priority projects (I don't care of they're senior or junior researchers) but that's just me and since I don't have 700 millions I probably do not know what I'm talking about.
Also, being the EU, my very naive idea would then raise the question: what are the selection criteria and who is to decide? And since it's the EU that would lead to the creation of a commission that would study the criteria to use and who to ask, and then to a new commission studying the result of that first commission, and then a new commission deciding of it's worth using those results validated by the first two commissions because of the public perception that day, and so on and, suddenly, we're already 25 years late.
But, I insist, I have no idea what I'm talking about ;)
Using your example, you could be lying.
True that. It's even more interesting considering 'Libb' is not my real name, just the one I fancy using online. But I would say that it's beside the point of your question (which was not about the possibility one would be intentionally telling lies, just how much data makes a 'fact' reliable), still, it's obviously related.
But then... considering that for some undisclosed reason you could not get access to more (source of) info, how would you decide if I say the truth about my name or not, when at the same time next to me some people (more than one) are claiming I'm a liar and that my name is Gertrude? Maybe that can't be decided? Or that should not be? Or mayb the dude claiming his name should be given some extra credit? Or maybe not (I may say I'm but I doubt Elon Musk will admit I'm his natural son and that I should therefore be entitled to a part of his huge piles of money, plus change for the trauma I endured ;)
If I was to consider myself dependent to anything, I would say I'm more of an analog dependency kind of guy than a digital one.
I mean, I have a computer and a phone (and a tablet) and I know how to use them, but I also don't feel much excitement building up thinking about using them, at all. On the other hand, I enjoy doing analog and IRL activities.
I keep hearing “it isn’t the quantity…” and I do not understand why it isn’t seen as just as important as trustworthiness of source because even the best source needs a high amount of data to back up a claim.
consider my flat-earthers example: the trustworthiness of the source(s) is at least as important. If I told you my pseudo is 'Libb' you can bet that it is indeed so, even if that just me saying it. And that would remain true if, out of nowhere, 100s of people started telling you my pseudo was in reality 'Mickey' or 'Gertrude'. I would still be Libb. Conclusion? All by myself, against that hypotheticla large crowd, I'm still a more reliable source of info concerning my identity.
On the topic of flat earthers, did you ever see the video of the guy who tried to demonstrate the earth was flat and proved it was round? The look on his face was priceless. haha
No, and I'm almost wishing to see it. Almost.
I must admit the rise of flat earth theory came as a shock to me. I always have had a sweet spot for absurd theories but I could not imagine people taking those seriously. But maybe that's just me being manipulated/lobotomized by the government? As a matter of fact, I'm also a pro-vax and that may explain a lot :p
J'ai aucun souci avec Bitwarden, sauf que j'aime pas le nouveau look, et c'est US et ça, vu leur nouvelle mentalité, qui ne changera parès le rempalcement de Trump, moins je m'y frotte mieux je me porte... Bref, je suis allé lire ton lien (merci :) et le fait que ce soit pas 100% automatisé (qu'il faille appeler le support, en tant que client payant)... c'est pour moi une raison de plus pour que je me mette sérieusement à considérer une alternative.
I would say, a good starting point would be a few examples of those so-called facts and their corresponding data.
Half-jokingly, I have little doubt I could find a lot of data demonstrating the earth is flat on flat-earth.org or whatever flat-earthers main website is called. But no matter the amount of data I would find there that still would not cut it as far as I'm concerned to accept their certainty as a fact—Incidentally, I also just answered your first question: it's not just the quantity of data, it's also its trustworthiness that should matter ;)
Je continue d’envoyer des cartes postales avec de jolis timbres,
Dans mes bras!
et mes correspondants sont toujours ravis (bien qu’ils me répondent le plus souvent par sms…tristesse).
Re-dans mes bras, parce que oui, c'est triste et que t'as droit à un câlin ;)
C'est bien de pas lâcher. Rien ne remplace une jolie/aimable petite carte, ou une lettre.
J'en profite pour poser une question probalement très con (j'y connais rien): j'aimerais avoir une petite radio portable pas par Internet, à piles si posisble et pas avec une batterie propriétaire, qui me permette de capter des stations qui émettent depuis la France, le UK, l'Espagne, l'Allemagne voir plus lointaines.
Est-ce que vous auriez un modèle de (petit) poste à suggérer, ou des docs à lire/regarder/écouter pour savoir quoi/comment choisir?
Merci :)
Punaise, peut-être qu'un jour moi, mon stylo, mon papier et mon timbre poste on redeviendra tendance aussi?
Un authentique contact humain, à distance et qui prend le temps de mieux connaître l'autre, est encore possible sans téléphone, sans ordinateur, sans tracking et sans marketing, sans surveillance gouvernementale systématique... sans beaucoup de technologie en fait. Et ça fonctionne toujours aussi bien depuis, quoi, le 14e ou le 15e siècle: le courrier postal ;)
Je trolle, mais à peine.
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Je comprends qu'ils tentent ce genre de marketing pour nous rassurer. Je m'inquiète bien plus de ne pas voir nos leaders politiques de premier plan, tout en usant de la plus extrême diplomatie — faudrait surtout pas contrarier l'Orange qui te trouve sympa et qui n'aime rien plus au monde que la paix... du moment que tu lui baises les pieds, sinon tu peux crever et d'ailleurs tu vas très probablement crever sous les bombes de ses bombardiers — avec la plus extrême diplomatie, disais-je donc, tenter de signaler à nos chers amis et partenaires Américains ce vague sentiment d’incertitude qui est le nôtre quant à la fiabilité de leurs engagements à nos côtés, et quant au crédit qu’on peut encore accorder à leur parole donnée ou encore aux traités et contrats qu’ils signent. Tiens, c'est marrant ça, pourquoi, d'un coup, je me vois dans un vieux Western hollywoodien des années 50 ou 60, déguisé en chef de tribu peau-rouge qui viendrait de signer un traité de paix avec le général de la cavalerie US? C'est quoi le rapport?
Bref, j'insiste, il faudrait le leur en parler avec diplomatie. Par exemple, pas une réponse du genre 'Non merci, cette fois on va plutôt voir ce qu'on peut faire de notre côté'.
Non, pas quelque chose d’aussi brutal que ça. Quelque chose qui invite à construire un avenir commun et les technologies de demain ensemble, comme d'authentiques partenaires le feraient. Quelque chose de plus fin. Je ne sais pas, moi: 'It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.'
Ça, c’est assez juste et c'est aussi très diplomatique. Ce n’est (malheureusement) pas de moi ;)
Comme les autres, depuis des années j'utilise Bitwarden (US) mais je commence à me dire que passer sur 1Pasword (Canada) n'est pas idiot. D'autant plus que je suis pas fan du tout de l'évolution récente de l'interface de Bitwarden (sur PC/Linux, du moins).
Like with questions posted in a forum: at least, having little more to read than just its title ;)
Proton, tuta (ces deux là, c''est surtout pour la poignée de personnes qui me contactent parfois par ces services), et infomaniak qui est ma vraie inbox (20go pour un compte gratuit, illimité en compte payant). Avant j'ai eu du Gmail, mais ça c'est au passé.
J'ai aussi l'email de mes différents sites web, mais je trouve plus simple de ne pas me compliquer la vie avec eux. Ne pas me prendre la tête, c'est aussi pour ça que je n'héberge moi-même aucun de mes sites. Je n'ai jamais à me soucier des mises à jour ou, pire encore, de la sécurité des sites en passant par mon petit hébergeur Français (en qui j'ai une grande confiance, je suis client chez lui depuis une éternité ;)
It is not anymore as far as I know, right?
Je peux tout regarder, du moment que c’est bien fait (aka, bien éclairé/filmé-scénarisé/joué/monté/sonorisé). Ce qui exclus déjà un paquet de films, mais je veux me fâcher avec personne.
Comme genres favoris ?
SF. Pour moi, 2001 est le film le plus intelligent jamais réalisé (il est aussi plutôt beau), aucun rival ne lui arrive à la cheville et pourtant j'espère toujours en trouver un. Stalker, dans un autre genre, n'est pas mal non plus mais le roman est mieux, comme pour Solaris d’ailleurs (le roman 2001 est moins bien que le film, pour info).
J'aime beaucoup les films historiques et, même pas honte, les histoires d'amours fleur bleues. Sans déconner, je pleure comme un bébé quand je regarde 'Love Story' ou 'Quelque part dans le temps'. Chaque fois. Ou encore 'Forrest Gump' ou bien L’homme bicentenaire, avec Robin Williams. Et oui, c’est souvent niais, j’assume.
Je suis aussi un fan de Westerns, même si ça fait marrer bien du monde... C’est dommage pour eux. Comme pour les romans d’ailleurs : y a des perles qui ne demandent qu’à être vue et lues dans ce genre méprisé.
Après, je suis fan de certains réalisateurs, voir de certains acteurs… et je vais regarder tout ce qu'ils font, même si j'aime pas ou sauf si c'est uniquement streamé vu que j'ai annulé tous mes abonnements et n'ai aucune envie de les renouveller.
Bref, j’aime bien à peu près tout du moment que c’est bien fait, surprenant et pas casse-couilles ou moralisateur—si je veux de la morale qui tienne la route j’ouvre Spinoza ou Aristote, merci.
Mais je préfère quand même les films de martiens, les films avec des bisous et les films de cow-boys :p
Je suis pas très féru des anniversaires moi-même, mais il va de soi que je souhaite un très joyeux anniversaire à Jlai.lu qui le mérite plus que bien :)