The thing is that in a polarised world you support one side or the other, and the sides are the US and China. US is certainly not better deserving support than China, but liberals will call tankie anyone who support China in any way, shape or form. For a liberal it’s completely inacceptable to say that China is doing anything better than the US.

That’s in theory. In practice it’s only used by liberals to insult leftist when they criticise the US or liberalism.

Exactly this! I’ve never seen the term used by anyone but liberals to taunt, attack or divert a debate.

So it is a matter of copyrights and making money out of it…

I meant 2 things: first, companies don’t have complete free reign in Europe, that’s just wrong, and you’re mistaken if you think rgpd has no effect. Second, Internet cannot be killed, and companies only take over it because liberal states ask them to do so.

Liberalism is highly contested everywhere. I would argue that it is actually collapsing. Even in the US, as Trump shows, it’s showing cracks and weaknesses. In Europe, most parliaments have 30 to 60% of the representation against liberalism (although fascists tend to be elected to be against liberals, but actually l’y with them when they take decisions).

Things are changing. Things will change. When it comes to Internet and computers, no innovation comes from companies anymore. Innovation comes from free softwares. Linux usage is rising. Iot will further push this. That’s my bet at least. You could say I’m optimistic.

I’m French. Liberals are very conservative here.

Why do you want the traffic to specifically go to your own server? That’s reasoning backward imo.

This is a very pessimistic view, and with a fallacy. The fallacy is to consider that greed will always win and yadayada. The fact is that it is a product of liberalism, it makes states resign from doing things to the profit of companies. Even in liberal countries liberalism is being contested though, and power countries are opposing it (for better or worse).

Internet is still there. And in some places, it won true victories against liberalism, like in Europe where net neutrality did won some battles and big Internet companies are being contained, if only to fight US espionage.

My opinion is that Internet companies are incapable of sustaining their tools, because they’re too greedy to provide a good service long term. Free solutions will appear, and ultimately they will prevail. Lemmy is a example that is at a baby stage yet. Most of the innovation and infrastructure relies on free softwares today. It’s just in the background. Computer and Internet technologies are still in their infancy, it will evolve.

The problem with dating apps is about the app themselves mostly. They promote shitty behaviours.

When you’re ghosted, it çan be from 3 reasons: you’re actually ghosted ; the person is no more on the app ; the person didn’t really looked at your profile, or it has too many matches.

It is very hard on self esteem and on your appreciation of the other sex.

Isn’t that a hardware problem though? At some point you want your software to work, and years of reverse engineering for it to do so is a long time for it isn’t it?

The terminal is like a direct access to do things on the computer. A GUI is a program someone made to do a task the way he envisioned it to be done. If this task is not exactly what you need, you’re out of luck.

I think alcohol can’t be kept pure in normal conditions, it would turn into a gas. So it is diluted by necessity. Knowing the full volume of the thing is certainly better than knowing only the quantity of alcohol without knowing the degree of dilution.

It is not the only product to be indicated this way. All diluted chemicals are. I think syrup is also?

I’m pretty sur meta doesn’t care to federate. I bet they will even defederate rather aggressively to enforce their moderation.

IMO federating is a good move to steal users from it. There is no user to steal for meta, people here are here because they fled the other platforms. Meta users though are unaware of this other world, and they can easily be brought in if they can discover it.

That’s because you don’t realize the stupid things you’re doing or thinking.

The scientific method is the only way we know to reliably discover actual facts, and even with it it can take decades to see through some bullshit we consider as facts.

If you add manipulation, déception and lies, you can’t blame people for being mistaken or stupid. You can blame them for being assholes though.

If you need a man in the middle to exploit this, it’s not that nasty.

That’s a lose lose scenario. I’d rather guillotine the copyright holder so the IP “fall in the public domain” if you ask me.

What I mean is that repeatability can be achieved in other, simpler ways. Like a package for example.

I feel like as technologies, ansible and docker have been spread beyond their relevant scope of usefulness. But maybe that’s me.

I feel like ansible is a complex way of doing simple things.

Why is infra as a code so sought after? I feel like this is installation scripts and config like bare bones, but you need another layer to make it work on top. What am I missing?

You see, that’s why it should be tought. Because even you who have some culture don’t understand the question.

Seriously though, why would you want children to not learn something at school? That’s some next level weaponized ignorance there.

This is not a math problem but a calculator engineering problem. Some solve the sub operations from right to left while other do it from left to right.