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Yardy Sardley

@ yardy_sardley @lemmy.ca

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A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • I unironically support this

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  • Such is the problem with dictators in any situation. A benevolent dictator might be one of the most productive ways to run a project, but at some point there has to be a successor. Even a mildly-less-benevolent dictator could cause a lot of damage. Linux needs a governance structure with checks and balances even if it means slower decision making; it's too important to let fall into the wrong hands.

  • ‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk

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  • Schwede contemplated selling his car, but after racking up more than 60,000 miles on it, there was little value left in it.

    That's a pretty steep devaluation curve. Do electric cars just wear out that fast? Or is this more of a hype-cycle rug pull situation?

  • Trying to re-use some drives with no success

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  • I'm gonna join in with everyone and recommend completely zeroing all the drives (make sure you unmount them before doing it). It will take a while but at least you will have drives in a known state and can eliminate that as a possible issue.

  • [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess

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  • Asking out of genuine naivety, why do you do that?

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  • Does someone have a link to the Tasha Yar one? I forgot to click save and I'm too lazy to comb through the meme haystack

  • Catalyst

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  • This reminded me of Long Long Man

  • How does social media generate revenue?

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  • Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It's usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

    Then there's the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

    Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.

  • Manjaro on Macbook

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  • Linus himself uses a macbook, I'm sure the mainline kernel has decent support for somewhat recent hardware

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    Nobody hates working together with leftists more than leftists

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  • Not gonna lie, the performatively anti-vegan rhetoric is cringe af.

    Not sure why it's so popular on lemmy of all places, but there's been some really terrible behaviour towards vegans whenever I've seen the topic pop up. Just flooding the platform with hate particles for absolutely no reason.

  • Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

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  • Yeah, I really wish people would be a little more tactful when they go on performative tirades like this. It's giving "old man yells at cloud" energy. Ridiculous behaviour when you think about it. People can block clouds, yelling is worse than useless.

  • Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

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  • To be totally fair, nostr's whole thing is that users can delete all of their federated data if they want to, so it makes sense if they are upset about having their data copied to a place they can't control.

    Not sure how realistic that is with the data being publicly accessible via the web, but I wouldn't be surprised if the they have some kind of license that gives the dmca request the ability to hold a nonzero amount of water. Then again, I wouldn't be suprised if completely fails, either.

  • Trump broke the federal email system and government employees got blasted with astonishingly vulgar messages

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  • they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans

    Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.

  • The Change in Values

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  • Purely because of the painter's outfit, I thought I was looking at a poorly photoshopped star trek meme at first.

  • What do you do when people don't care?

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  • I love Jon Stewart but I think he's a little off base with this take. Are we supposed to not call out the overtly fascist stuff the government is doing? Will that get more people to listen the next time we have to call out an overtly fascistic act or will we have to hold our tongue then, as well? How many grannies need to be eaten and impersonated by wolves before we're allowed to move past the "ooh what sharp teeth you have" crap?

    With fascism especially, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. The people going through life like everything is fine are implicitly supporting the fascism. I'm not going to stop yelling about how a pack of wolves has taken over the government, just because some people think the word is overused.

  • The Alberta government has lifted a ban on coal exploration in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a move that the regulator says will allow suspended projects to resume.

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  • We have to take that seriously, and we have to make sure that the taxpayers are protected.

    If we want to protect taxpayers, we should actually expropriate the assets and tell the mining companies to kick bricks. I'd rather take the $16B hit than have to scrape selenium crust off my teeth whenever I take a sip of water.

  • After releasing 90 captives on sunday, Israel kidnaps over 90 new captives from the West Bank in 24 hours.

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  • I'm ashamed at having had a moment of celebration when the ceasefire happened. Treachery should have been obvious.

  • Trump's "memecoin" crypto venture gained billions in value overnight

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  • I was expecting this to be yet another transparent rug-pull scam, but I hadn't even considered he might pull the rug out from under the entire global economy (at least not this way). Scary thought.

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    Does SIMS 3 work on Linux Mint?

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  • If it's through steam, I wouldn't expect there to be any issues.

    Just make absolute certain you have a backup copy of any save files before deleting your current OS, for the sake of your relationship... I can only imagine how many hours someone might have put into a game that came out in 2009. Definitely not speaking from personal experience haha