Notices by jo (shadowjonathan@tech.lgbt)

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Just now I remember a passage from an economy textbook I read in high school, which talks about how economy crashes and booms are normal, and are a cycle

Today I keep thinking about that, and something about it just feels... wrong? Intuitively?

Why can't we make an economy that's stable and sustainable? Why do we have to push it to the limits, constantly?

Someone with an economy degree please verify me, I have no idea if I'm speaking bullshit or not

@asahiXP @puniko dun :3

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fedi

while i might have had some patience wrt the democrats' "we wont play like them" strategy, right now im starting to get actually pissed off at their passiveness to all of this

no longer is trying to "not let the republicans dominate the narrative" satisfactory, they need to actually counter this with some active movement, and i will no longer hold them to anything less than that, from my european armchair

ofc here im talking about the american political system as if it is still able to function as intended

it doesnt

it should be burned down to the ground, or at least have *massive* reforms, immediately, irrevocably, in sweeping fashion

and that is my real opinion, tbh

Okay, so apparantly Reddit decided that the GDPR is nonexistent today; https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/110553809293213303

Holy fucking shit, even though the restore is bad enough on its own, the evidence that reddit *has not deleted this data even though GDPR would compel them so* is even more damning

That lawsuit is fucking incoming, especially with the badwill they've accumulated this past month

@rysiek

I love this quote;

> You can think of Mastodon as a flotilla of boats of vastly different sizes, whereas Twitter is like being on a cruise ship the size of a continent. Some Mastodon boats might be cruise liners with as many as 50,000 passengers; others are just dinghies with a single occupant! The admin of each instance — the captain of your particular boat — might make arbitrary decisions you disagree with as heartily as with any commercial operator’s tacks and turns. But you’re not stuck on your boat, with abandoning ship as the only alternative. Instead, you can hop from one boat to another without losing your place in the flotilla community. Parts of a flotilla can also splinter off and form their own disconnected groups, but no boat, however large, is in charge of the community.

"They concluded that autistics were __too concerned__ with their principles and morals"

this line makes *me* concerned for the fact that others may not take theirs as seriously, and what that would mean for societal integrity

Linux says trans rights (real) (official)

Please don't tell me this is an unreasonable request

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2937

"Unless you want to maintain this for us, you will be blocked for taking up our time answering your question"

Please tell me im not insane for finding this an unreasonable stance for an open source project

big if true

literally the only correct update Nintendo could've released for the 3DS was one which opened up the firmware at least a little more, and/or removed restrictions to playing games (I'm almost sure that there are still cross-region restrictions, and so removing them would be the correct option)

When a device is past its end of its lifecycle like that you don't lock it down more, you give people the tools to still re-use it

You're just making more E-waste otherwise

Literal Jesus fucking Christ

I wish large influential bodies like the EU would actually go as far as to make this law; once a product is no longer supported, an update should be released that allows full access to its boot components, to allow consumers to be able to develop or flash custom firmware for it at any time

No computer chip is sacred enough to demand full industrial secrecy, especially when you're selling those chips to consumers, that's not secrecy, that's artificial scarcity, and in some ways, planned obsolescence

All of this wastes the abilities and capacities of the high-tech fabs we've built to churn out chips, the only EOL destination it sees is a dispassionate throw into a garbage dump, literally the most wasteful you could ever be with a high-energy product like this

Not to mention the incredible disservice and apathy that does to the sourcing of the materials, which often come at high cost, and not just money

Literally everything about this makes me angry

Can people stop evangelising bluesky please

Especially if it is in the context of "look how better their UX is, its mastodon's fault for not being as good as them, and stop grumping on stopping to get people to use it"

why do you THINK that their UX is "better", having a dedicated corporate backing of designers who brainlessly copied twitter's UI and UX, just to make the people who are depraved for those kinds of interactions feel something?

Jesus fucking Christ, shut the fuck up, you are not making a convincing argument on bluesky, "ah yes this experience is good, it's almost like that other corporate social media I've tried", just shut up

"Stop grumping on it", stop trying to tell me what to do, being grumpy and distrusting is part of the social immune response we have here on fedi, and while it might be overzealous sometimes, we are way more than done with any of a corporate social media's bullshit

The fact that we respond strongly is GOOD, STOP trying to NEUTER that

@Gargron