Carighan

Carighan , 11 months ago

So… since this account is spamming multiple articles everywhere, how do I report a user on Lemmy?

Carighan , 11 months ago

I will be honest, it’s been three phones since I had one that even still showed the option.

It’s all either the full 3-button nav, or the proper gesture navigation. 2-button was this hybrid Google did very briefly, but luckily it’s gone now.

Carighan , 11 months ago

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance

But honestly, social media naturally benefits from everyone being around the biggest totem pole. It means we can randomly run into people and topics and communities that we never knew we wanted to engage with.

If we decentralize, we need an already established community-web, or a very specific plan for which to find in the future. Plus, I’ll be honest, between Mastodon, Lemmy and (now) Firefish, I can say that finding communities on the fediverse is annoying in all the right ways to make someone just go back to Twitter/Reddit. I can’t blame people for not wanting to engage with that.

But, importantly: Most users being on a huge central instance solves that problem. Yeah it goes against “the spirit of the fediverse”. But for the user, it has effectively only upsides.

Carighan , 11 months ago

We did the underground mining, and we’re done with it. As in, stripped it all. That’s what the whole Ruhrkohle was about after all, whose demise was a huge problem for the Ruhrgebiet as that was essentially their “thing”.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Also, usually heated. Self-heating, in fact.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Well I don’t think you can turn off receiving voice messages in other messengers, either. It’s a weird premium-only feature, but eh, at least they’re not making things worse compared to the baseline.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I would assume so. It’s a difficult thing, because I’m really not okay with people covertly tracking others with airtags without their consent, but the it can of course also be used to track stolen items or so.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Rule of android: if a post reads “now” in the headline, this means anywhere from 1 week to Never depending on where in the world you live and what phone you have.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I dunno, I’m not a car person at all but the bottom one looks a bit Splatoon-ish, so it’s better by association?

And I think both women look really beautiful.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Says OpenStreetMap for me. But I’ll be honest this is the first time I’ve used Moovit, as I use either Google Maps itself or Öffi which is generally the best inside Germany.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Foil is useful for a whole lot of things!

Carighan , 1 year ago

Yeah! Just today I was thinking “Damn, if only my sleep had microtransactions!”.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Imagine not being able to return ‘home’ because you took your hat off. 🤔

I never quite realized just how pedestrian taking the hijab off is, yeah. Never really thought about it. It is quite literally just taking your hat or well, head-scarf, off. It’s like when my great-grandma came in from the rain and took that plastic headband off she always wore to keep her hair dry.

Ridiculous how backwards we as a species can be, and sadly often are. 😔

Carighan , 1 year ago

Fanatics and extremists exist regardless of religions. The latter just allows them to control people easier, and islam happens to be particularly good at that.

This is more accurate.

It’s not that “fanatics exist in all religions”, it’s “fanatics exist”, and religions just give them a cover that is depending on society difficult to challenge as in many places, a religion’s influence on society and rules is quite normalized, completely ignoring how ridiculous this influence is.

Carighan , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I would say it’s the other way around.

The way to “help” Iran is for more people to leave. Significantly more, basically anybody with two brain cells to rub together. Leave only the most assinine idiots behind and then they can run their own country into the ground hardcore but they no longer affect anyone with it as everyone else has left.

Basically, Iran has to cease to exist in its current form. By burning itself out. This is incidentally the same way we could move past idiotic religious believes in the first place.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I don’t think it’s too reductive, considering religion as a whole is always about exercising control.

Carighan , 1 year ago

The ones I have here have different colors on the left and right eye daily lens packages. They did it with colors, the brand uses a light green and white, and they just flipped the major and the accent color.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Yeah, it only affects the colors on top of the little containers, but you select which is L and which is R.

Carighan , 1 year ago

That happened a long long time ago in the UK, in like 40 AD or so.

Carighan , 1 year ago

None. But I also never browse All. Never have, on any form of social media.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Can confirm, am German and not proud to be an American either.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well, I don’t really see the headline in it, tbh. That is, yeah of course servers can be seized? That’s kinda a given?

It doesn’t really matter what software they run in regards to whether they can be seized or not.

Carighan , 1 year ago

More generally, religion is inherently about exercising control. It’s always a political ideology on a state level, because that’s what religion was always about. There’s a reason heads of state were usually with a church’s blessing, and said blessing could be taken away.

Christianity is no better in this regard as an example, and while on a microscopic level each individual religion can be more or less a problem in each particular situation, it’d do well for us as a species to grow up and get past our need for Santa Claus in general.

Carighan , 1 year ago

The right-wingers who did this weren’t stupid, in the end. They knew it’d provoke exactly this reaction, and that it earns them extra voters the next time around.

Carighan , 1 year ago

That is quite wrong, tbh. Unless you assume that market agendas are based on belief in a higher authority. And while you can say “the prophey of capitalism is adam smith”, they’re not prayed on. Importantly this robs capitalism on the higher authority angle that religious fanatics of all religions use to justify heinous acts.

Of course, such acts still happen without any religion in the picture. As always, the grass can be wet without it having rained, it’s just that most of the time it happens due to rain.

Carighan , 1 year ago

It should be an option IMO, I prefer not ending up with loads of tabs. But definitely good to have the option for those who do.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I miss the Recents-view from ICS.

It was so much easier to scroll and showed so much more than the modern just-barely-zoomed-out-fullscreen side-scrolling one.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Maybe they just turned out to be ugly? Note how she only counts children she herself would classify as ‘beautiful’.

Carighan , 1 year ago

If it’s as presented in the quote then yeah, this feels like that australian porn law they tried where “if you look like you could be underage, it counts as child sex material” and one specific example from the text was “too small or flat breasts”. Which was just patently absurd.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Ah, found the story. That is wild. Also amazing of her to actually fly over to testify, I thought it was in her own country or something. Amazing person! <3

Carighan , 1 year ago

Nice try, Margot Robbie!

Carighan , 1 year ago

I bet most people reading your comment will think it’s a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.

Carighan , 1 year ago

If only phones had a somewhat simple way to view desktop-format video so that not everything had to be done in portrait. If only.

Carighan , 1 year ago

There’s just exactly no upsides.

Among other things, a USB-C connector is less stable than a 3.5mm jack, and can twist the cable since the connector cannot spin.

Sure, it can do a lot of things, but there’s no reason to break an existing standard if the proposed successor is inherently worse.

Carighan , 1 year ago

At least on the Fairphone you can trivially swap out the USB-C port when it breaks. And using it for audio moves that from an if to a when, in particular on a phone designed to be used for at least 5 years.

But that’s okay, since you can swap it out. On any other phone: Fuck USB-C audio! The port is fragile enough as it is.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I mean looking at this video - which is 4 months old now, too - I am eyeballing it but kinda seems like yeah, it could be 40%+? So now it’s 50% maybe, sure.

Carighan , 1 year ago

And since you didn’t check it, you can just go say it’s wrong? 😛

Carighan , 1 year ago

Wrong community tbh, this is solid nottheonion material. I don’t understand this world any more to be honest. 😅

Carighan , 1 year ago

Yeah, replace him with Bill Skarsgård!

Carighan , 1 year ago

Ah, cool to hear they went the sensible way.

Carighan , 1 year ago

And funnily enough, these bigots nearly always hail from “the land of the free”. Where “free” apparently only applies to their own ability to freely attack others and try restrict their freedom.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I suppose the downvoters didn’t actually click the link. 😅

Carighan , 1 year ago

Technically not mildly infuriating! 🤬

Carighan , 1 year ago

Nah, some people just notice it more, some less. I always upset my friends when they show me their 165Hz monitors or their 4k screens and I’m like “Oh is it? I wouldn’t have noticed.” 🤷 Happens. In return I always notice immediately if an icon is badly or lazily made.

Carighan , 1 year ago

That’s the thing I don’t get when people - me included - complain about something like this. As if I wouldn’t sell ASAP. Finally some money for all that time spent on this!

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well sure, but that also means it’s rather limited in what it does. In theory if it had no permissions, it couldn’t even list the installed apps.

So I guess what you want to say is that it has some permissions, but none that leave the direct context of launching apps?

But even then… do you include a search box in that? Should that show recently opened files in apps, too? A rather common feature those contextual per-app run-actions, but they require some way of either the launcher getting this from the app, or in turn the app supplying this action to the launcher. Include a web search in that box? Sync settings? Show notifications? Gestures? All of these require a host of permissions.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Is it? Don’t get me wrong, it’s completely understandable to be concerned, disappointed, annoyed or distrustful of such a buyout. Entirely understandable.

But at the same time, immediately coming to the conclusion that all data is now being hoovered up isn’t helping anybody. Because if nothing else, it destroys nuance. If you assume the moment an ad company is involved that all data is being gathered, then you lack the ability to make any further distinction. This would also mean that nobody could ever create a more ethical ad company, as users would still immediately assume they’re gathering all data, and hence be no better than any of the other companies. This in turn removes any motivation to ever even try this.

Likewise, and more relevant in this case, if users immediately assume the worst has already happened, then no company can ever try to sell to another company in a more responsible manner, as again the perceived result is the same, so there’s no incentive to do so.

What actually happened:

• Nova got sold.
• The new owners might start gathering more data.
• Or not.
• Just as well, Nova could have started gathering more data without selling.
• Or not.

From the perspective of the end user, other than the chances of more data being gathered in the future going up a little bit (and apparently not even all that much given that it’s been one year now), nothing has changed. 🤷

That’s what I mean: You cannot always immediately assume the worst will happen right now this very moment. Scaremongering precludes any sensible form of discussion or improvement to a situation, as one side has already decided that it’s all a lost cause anyways.

Now, should the new owners start gathering more data, then we can all toss Nova into the bin. And then say “Okay it took far longer than expected, but fuck ad-company buyouts!”. But so far that hasn’t happened, and hey, if anything it seems Nova found some buyers who don’t just trash the product they bought for some quick bucks.