irelephant [he/him]

If I wanted to ask chatgpt I would have asked it myself

I just use vlc

Copy/pasting an old comment of mine:

The Luddites were a 19th century guerrilla movement that smashed textile machines, burned factories and threatened their owners. But they were not motivated by a fear of technology […]

the luddites […] were engaged in the most science-fictional exercise imaginable – asking not what a technology does, but who it does it to and who it does it for.

The Luddites, you see, were skilled weavers whose intense physical labor produced the textiles that clothed the nation. The difficulty of their trade – both in terms of esoteric knowledge and physical prowess – allowed them to command high wages and good working conditions.

All that was threatened by the advent of textile machines, which produced more fabric in less time, and required less skill. The owners of textile factories bought these machines with profits derived from the weavers’ labor, and then used those machines to grind down the weavers. Their hours got longer, their pay got shorter, and many of them were maimed or killed by the new machines.

Weaving engines are ingenious and delightful machines. The Luddites had no beef with the machines – their cause was the social relations that governed those machines. By painting Luddites as mere technophobes, we strip ourselves of the ability to learn from history. The lesson of the Industrial Revolution is that merely asking what a machine does and not who it does it for and to can lead to literal genocide.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/04/general-ludd/

Eggs taste like metal

Irl they’d just refuse to leave, and maybe shoot your dog.

Its hard to call it a prediction when he literally just said it himself

Sometimes if a post or comment is fetched a bit after it’s been posted, the votes for it aren’t fetched as well.

Some users delete the down vote on their comments

There is two other paths:

• Gnu herd
• Plan9

iirc you can set a username and password

Frontend?

If I went vegan+bacon I would just end up eating a grotesque amount of bacon.

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Aside from the UI being different (I slightly prefer Lemmy’s one) there is a lot of features it has which Lemmy doesn’t.

I don’t see why people call it hard coded when it’s possible to disable. That’s not what hard coded means, it’s just coded.

It lets you browse all the comments for cross posts on the same page.

A lot of people looking at the code were saying these things were hardcoded, even after seeing an if statement which checks if the thing is enabled, which is straight up wrong unless you consider it hard coded because its coded, into the codebase.

https://hydrahd.ru/ + ad blocker

I honestly haven’t noticed a different except Wayland feeling a bit faster.

there’s also https://lite.duckduckgo.com/