After a while using duckduckgo for everything, my work browser was hooked to Google, and when I went to use it the results were shit, and the ads were just overwhelming. Reconfigured it to duckduckgo.

Life is better.

What did you do about email?

If its going away now, it isn’t quite long enough…

The eye is the fucking whole argument for the stupid creationism. The most complex piece of machinery in the human body and shit.

That man thinks he’s god, to create similar functionality.

Has he fucking tried to keep his eyes open in fucking cold weather?

Why not just use humans eyes outside of earth’s atmosphere?!

He’s just so fucking stupid. Rich and stupid. The shit he spends his “hard earned” money would be so much better and efficient if spent controlled by mostly anyone else.

Paying customers attention is so fucking valuable. People pay for something, maybe if we add ads they will pay for more things!

And most people are surprisingly not bothered by ads. So… Just criminalise the people that are, and there you go, infinite money making machine.

Your link doesn’t work for me. Is this the same?

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/against-intellectual-monopoly.pdf

Unfortunately, “society” doesn’t control most of the value of anything. The monopolists do.

So the only really valuable kind of art is the art that can be used for speculation and money laundering.

It sparked from me wondering who’s this “they” OP was referencing to. Pretty much impossible to pinpoint.

And then, I associated that with “us vs them” rhetoric lines. I didn’t even accuse OP of anything.

I just wrote what that shower though made me think about. Maybe it was just another shower thought.

I agree wholeheartedly. :)

My commentary was an observation about “us vs them” way of reasoning, only.

I’m happy for your lemmy karma success!

I definitely do. Wikipedia is amazing.

But. Unfortunately, everything is political: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1642896020070816

My point wasn’t even judging Wikipedia. I just think “us vs them” is a horrible framework for reasoning.

You got 1000 upvotes. At that scale everything is a political statement. 🎉

Nazis, terrorists and/or communists. In abstract, no definition or distinction. Just don’t think about it too much.

“They” will fit one of these. But for sure, trust “us”, because we’re definitely not either of these.

Any argument based on “us vs them” is flawed by default.

https://youtu.be/ACX_VfsjkZA https://youtu.be/KGszSj0BLeg (and more)

If you want well articulated rage against the hp machines, do follow Louis Rossmann.

Right to repair matters!

There’s also strong opinions if open source instances should federate with closed source instances, for reasons of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Except lemmy specifically is AGPL and it’s basically impossible to monetise as a startup because they can’t close the source code.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/LICENSE

Kbin too:

https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

They’d have to create their own from scratch.

“Reports are not clear, but it’s probably China’s fault.” 🙄

W

As if the government wasn’t controlled by probate lobbyists.

Blame goes to private interests being allowed to influence public decision makers, in my opinion. Infrastructure companies should not be for-profit companies.

They already do restrict you from using lemmy by charging full Internet price for it, and allowing special free data plans for Facebook.

Net neutrality matters.