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TheMurphy

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  • What do you like about socialism?

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  • I've lived in a country with socialism for my entire life, and have studied the laws in my own and other countries without socialism.

    I will talk about socialism as it is in Scandinavia, more specifically Denmark. Here's a few things other than paid education and free healthcare:

    • Getting paid to study: You get paid to study as soon as you turn 18. In that way you don't need a job while you studying. Basic salary when living away from parents: 1.000 USD/month.

    • UBI: In Denmark we have UBI for people being poor, basically. If you don't have a job, is sick and can't work, or any other reason you might be screwed, you get paid by the government to... well yeah, exist basically. You have to meet some requirements and actively trying to get better or find a job though, which seems fair I think. If the government thinks it's not possible to get better, you can get the money permanently for the rest of your life without doing anything. (this is used for people with disabilities, both mental and physical, both born with it or obtained later in life)

    • Shared heating system: This is maybe the biggest "socialism" thing I can mention. In Denmark your house or apartment can be hooked up to a country wide heating system, which means we all share the same heat. This is a way to make heat distribution centralised, which has major advantages such as; price, availability, maintenance. (Fun fact: every data center build in Denmark needs to be hooked up to this system, as they will "donate" all their excess heat from their servers to the central heating system)

    • Flex jobbing: If you are no longer able to work 37 hours a week, you can be a flex worker. This basically means that you can work 15 hours a week and still get paid a full salary. The government will cover the rest of the pay and also cover some expenses for the company having the flex worker. This system is great for peoples mental health, as they still can feel a part of society even though they can't work full time. While they still can live a worthy life because their pay is fine. It's a win-win for the country, the companies and the people needing this.

    I could go on, but I don't want to be that guy praising my own country all the time. We Scandinavians tend to do that.

  • Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax

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  • Spotify is saying it's "a real blow to innovation".

    Honestly wtf they on about. 1-2% tax on their massive multi million platform, and the tax goes directly to support music in the country.

    Fuck Spotify.

  • What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home

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  • This is actually a law in Denmark, so it's something Facebook had to do.

    Any new data centers build on Danish ground need to be hooked up to the central heating system, providing heat to the community.

    Perfect use of resources.

  • Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.

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  • Honestly, Spotify is only half bad compared to the real scumbags of this industry, and that's the "rights holders".

    It's not the artists who created the music I'm talking about. It's the record companies taking the largest piece for themselves.

    They are the ones earning on other people's talent and success.

  • EU Budget - Which Countries are EU Contributors and Beneficiaries?

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  • Agriculture is a great point overlooked in this chart.

    EU puts a lot of money into this, and Poland being a great exporter for this, they also receives alot from EU to be able to do it.

    Why are we doing it then, if it's a net negative? It's not, because we can all get our bread (literally) this way. And Poland farmers can make a living making the country richer.

  • Any recommendations for monitoring my servers?

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  • I would say it's 100% load for maybe 3 minutes, so maybe it's normal.

    It makes my system overload so my PiHole stops processing.

    But it sounds like maybe it's normal and a background service using too much sometimes?

  • Any recommendations for monitoring my servers?

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  • Omg I have CPU spikes on my Raspberry Pi. Maybe it's infected too, and how would I ever find out?

    Is there some software I can run to check?

  • Who went "full fedi" yet?

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  • Just to understand bridges:

    Is it possible for me if, let's say, I bridged Messenger, WhatsApp and Discord into Matrix, that I could write to anyone from that app only via bridges?

    Or how does it work?

  • Who went "full fedi" yet?

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  • Anyone here tried Matrix and Discord?

    Is Matrix even close to be as good? I want to do the switch, but there's no way I convince any of my friends, if it's not at least a little better at something.

  • Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline

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  • Imagine an open source platform for this service.

  • [Mental Outlaw] Apple May Soon Allow Sideloading Apps on iOS

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  • Thanks, EU.

    Please just let this be a global decision, and not like these companies do with GDPR.

  • EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments

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  • Absolutely don't agree that companies are more trustworthy than governments.

    My guess is that you have an awful government in your home country, but not here. And yes that could change, but they are at least voteable.

    Companies are NEVER your friend.

  • Whose voice is it anyway? Actors take on AI copycats

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  • This is a battle the voice actors won't win, unfortunately. Maybe today, their voices are iconic. You can't make a new Frozen movie or any other Disney Pixar without the original voice actor (you can, but it's bad).

    But in the future, the next "voice actor" for the next big Disney Pixar hit, is a pure AI from the start. Then they can control the voice forever. And that's what they want.

    I can't see how the voice actors could possibly get around this, because they are suddenly expendable.