Actually pretty close to how it was.

People on the radio keep talking about this revolutionary information superhighway which sounds grand but no one you know has an internet connection but you read in the newspaper that in a town nearby there is one in a public library. You travel there and find a single computer. There are no instructions and none of the staff know how it works. When you ask to see “the internet” they show you an icon to click and leave you to it. You click it, strange noises happen for a bit then stop and nothing happens, the computer seems frozen. Maybe you broke it but then literally 10 minutes later it un-freezes and you see a list on the screen:

• alt.binaries.mom
• alt.binaries.misc
• alt.binaries.warez
• alt.binaries.etc
• alt.binaries.warez.flightsim
• and so on, hundreds of them
• comp.lang.c
• comp.lang.perl
• comp.lang.prolog
• blah blah gibberish

Ok none of that sounds like an “information superhighway” so close the window and go back home.

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Lemmy has moderators and admins which remove CSAM. Plebbit was intentionally built in such a way that no one can remove anything. Extensive discussion of this at the OP’s original post https://lemmy.world/post/23704373. Ctrl-F for “censorship”

Something tells me the “I don’t host CSAM I just host posts that embed/link to CSAM (from other hosts)” argument won’t hold up in court.

https://beehaw.org/ doesn’t federate with lemmy.world which cuts them off from most of Lemmy-space.

Human-readable names are a critical feature.

The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.

There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.

Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.

Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.

See if your library has “How Linux Works” - https://www.amazon.com.au/How-Linux-Works-Brian-Ward/dp/1718500408

YouTube is usually the first thing I open on first boot of a new machine. That way I know if the sound is working, network is working and video drivers are ok all at once.

Same mistakes happened in Iraq after the second Gulf War. Bush and co assumed building democracy would be easy and fell on their face.

They eventually say that, yeah. But only after first saying a bunch of other misleading stuff.

Back when SSDs were expensive and tiny they used to sell hybrid drives which were a normal sized HDD with a few gigs of SSD cache built in. Very similar to your proposal. When I upgraded from a HDD to a hybrid it was like getting a new computer, almost as good as a real SSD would have been.

I say go for it.

If it’s all Steam games then you could just move games around as needed, no need for a fancy automatic solution.

Very misleading article. They’re not shutting down wordpress.org, just the registration of new accounts, plugin, etc

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/12/holiday-break/

“ignore, ignore, ignore because in the end they go away.”

Uhhh no that’s the exact opposite of what the tax department does, lol.

I use PyCharm for work but it’s not FOSS or beginner-friendly. PyCharm does have a free community edition which is awesome if you’re mostly into FOSS for the $0 aspect.

• https://thonny.org/ - for the first few days of learning and easy setup
• https://www.spyder-ide.org/ - especially good for data science
• https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ - full-featured general purpose IDE

Codium is fine and technically FOSS although it’s association with Microsoft taints it for anyone who still hates MS from the bad old days. Also it’s an Electron app.

They’re deindexing ALL news, not just the union website.

And there it is https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-100000-bodies-syrian-mass-grave-us-advocacy-group-head-says-2024-12-17/

New PieFed instances download a list of communities from an instance of your choice OR https://lemmyverse.net/ and automatically subscribe the admin to communities that match certain criteria (recently active, reasonable number of subscribers, etc).

Like this: https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/piefed_community_import.png

Although, the penalty for non-compliance is 10% of global turnover which would amount to close to £0 for most.

You’re comparing downvotes with “vile conspiracy hate fascist bullshit”. The behavior I’m talking about isn’t hurtful in the social-rejection way that downvotes are, it goes way way beyond that. Can you see the difference?