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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.

    My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don’t remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.

    On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.

    On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven’t had issues since.

    The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.

    I don’t know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.




  • The next step, in my opinion, is strong privacy and decentralized organization that fully leverages constitutional rights.

    I.e. a privacy preserving social media where labour unions, political parties and religious groups can federate with each other. Servers hosted on their premises and members register through an on-premise process.

    A church in a foreign country could generate a thousand aliases and distribute them to their federated sister organizations in a privacy preserving way. Only the church knows which organizations got which aliases and they protect this information.

    Your local labour union chapter picks up 20 of those aliases and distributes them to members. They are the only one who knows the person behind the alias.

    An observer in this private fediverse trying to obtain the identity would first need to approach the church. The church can stall them and warn downstream through a canary.

    The labour union chapter observes the canary and immediately wipes all information.

    And if that fails, then full I2P and Tor, with nodes hosted on-premise of churches, political parties and labour unions.


  • My (great)-grandparents were part of the Dutch resistance during WW2. Along with a full 1.5% of the population.

    Most people will not do anything, even if they are literally rounding up people for a genocide.

    On the more positive side, a lot of people will support the resistance in small ways.

    The number of people who actually, whole heartedly collaborated with the Nazi’s was quite small.

    Even some of the German soldiers stationed in their village would turn a blind eye. Some of them realized they were on the wrong side and they just did the bare minimum of what they needed to do to not get in trouble and not get killed.



  • Extra funds are only useful if they can provide a competitive advantage.

    Otherwise those investments will not have a positive ROI.

    The case until now was built on the premise that US tech was years ahead and that AI had a strong moat due to high computer requirements for AI.

    We now know that that isn’t true.

    If high compute enables a significant improvement in AI, then that old case could become true again. But the prospects of such a reality happening and staying just got a big hit.

    I think we are in for a dot-com type bubble burst, but it will take a few weeks to see if that’s gonna happen or not.








  • Yep, this is it.

    They are trading battery longevity for faster charging.

    Personally, I generally prefer battery longevity, since that is the main factor that causes me to buy a new phone.

    This is also the main reason I would like to buy a Fairphone for my next phone. I can get a new battery for $50 and replace it myself. And with 8-10 years of updates, I figure I can actually use it for 8 years with two battery replacements along the way.