That’s how I learned to tie my shoelaces as a kid. I was “taught” by a cousin iirc, who was barely older than me and couldn’t demonstrate it properly. I figured it out on my own by visualising it. It’s the bunny ears method that I use to this day.

I use Session Messenger, on the Oxen network. Love it on principle even tho the implementation is a bit lacking in places.

And there’s Tor… Which is what it is.

AliExpress is completely fine, nothing sketchy about it in principle. You can find trash on it since it’s a very open marketplace, making it the same as Amazon or eBay.

Except that unlike Amazon, AX doesn’t copy their sellers’ products just to sell them under their own brand and kick the sellers out, nor does it sign monopolistic pacts with Apple. Workers treatment is about the same I guess… So correction, less sketchy than Amazon or eBay.

Wish specialises in dogshit and review manipulation though. Not good for anything more than a phone case, and I’d rather buy those on AX anyway.

It’s gonna be funny if i15 becomes the bestselling iPhone due to USB-C. And shareholders will be like dude, these open standards actually sell, just go with them next time instead of all the proprietary shit

We already have AI running all the shit. If you’re looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.

I don’t feel like we’re better for it.

AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn’t seem like a great idea.

Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it’s not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.

Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.

I do think we’ll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.

Well I hate your stupid png screenshots

Sigh, just when I really switched over to making memes in webp

Maybe don’t use programs from 1996

(Or when you do, don’t complain that new shit doesn’t work.)

Hating the parents

The surveillance of this scale isn’t necessary. I’m not against serving me ads based on the current web page I’m on right now. Or based on the current email or search, since the provider has access to that anyway (unless it’s e2e). Or make a profile of me based on a voluntary questionnaire.

Some companies work like that and they survive just fine. It’s absolutely not necessary to collect every little bit of detail of my life to serve me ads. It’s only the predatory companies that do that, and especially the multi-trillion corporations.

Furthermore, those “free” services in exchange for user data may not even be good. Take Google, how they push everything that serves their needs, even if better alternatives are available (or were, before they were smothered).

I.e. crappy quality of Google search is well documented, Chrome no comment, Drive is pushed so hard that you can’t get a Pixel phone with decent storage and most phones don’t offer memory cards because Google makes it difficult… Etc.

So yea, I’m totally for limiting the collection of data to the barest minimum. There’s literally no downsides to anybody except to the dystopian corporations.

Ed: that’s not even mentioning all the dark patterns these corpos use to sign you up, or how you can’t opt out or you have no choice because of monopolies. That’s not “choosing” or “agreeing”, that’s extortion.

They shouldn’t be able to obtain data beyond what’s strictly necessary for the service, never mind sell it.

People don’t understand the value of the data, and there’s no good way to put a price on it, honestly. As in, no, just because Reddit or whoever can make 5£$€ a year off me, doesn’t mean I’d be ok to sell it for 2£$€.

If I had to pick one, I’d be very torn between Flash Forward, Odyssey 5 and Terminator TSCC. Probably the first one.

I have a mirror for that kind of content.

Just watching a World Endurance Championship race in Japan.

I always know I can never be 100% sure of anything. That removes some of the pressure of needing to be right, and ironically some of the uncertainty too. Other than that, well, just gather as much information as possible and go for it… Then don’t look back

Pornlemmy.com

There’s also yiffit (.net I think?) and some .uk instance, like lemmef.uk or something

No, way to tag nsfw that’s not porn.

Can we have the exact opposite?

I rarely give likes, which I guess is hypocritical as I like receiving them if I put effort into a post.

But honestly, comments are always better anyways, and that’s what I do more of as well. Likes are more of a poor substitute.

I’ll add the important bit, that it’s this icon:

If you see this icon, click it. If you have a program/app that can read the feed, it will open and you’ll see what it does.

Even Lemmy communities have their own RSS feeds, tho it’s limited to last 10 or 50? Idk, posts.