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deranger ,

Thanks for this analogy, it’s going to help me see the world in a funnier light.

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead (fortune.com)

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

deranger ,

Let’s make them illegal, like drugs, because that works great.

The demand for guns in the US is high; if you don’t think this would become a lucrative black market you’re foolish.

The solution is more involved than just “regulate X”. Something is deeply fucked that isn’t going to be simply solved with a law, and could make things worse despite great intentions, just like prohibition did.

If the demand isn’t addressed, the problem will still exist. Same as prostitution and drugs.

deranger ,

I’d still contend the issue is demand, and that is the root issue. Other solutions are treating the symptom, not the cause.

deranger ,

I don’t disagree necessarily, I just see it this way.

There’s a drug problem: why are people turning to drugs for escapism? It indicates an underlying issue with society and/or our relationship with drugs.

Along the same lines, why are we so hostile towards one another? Reducing the number of guns would reduce the number of people shot, but it wouldn’t address the hostility.

It’s just more complicated than “regulate X” no matter how good or common sense those regulations are.

My concern is that people only pursue the regulations, don’t address the social issue (much harder), and we end up with what prohibition created - a more robust black market.

deranger ,

It’s right in the fine print. “Au10tix”, lmao.

deranger ,

“His management has left scientists reconsidering the value of X” is a funny line

deranger ,

Check out the documentary Zero Days (2016) if you haven’t already. That’s not really a tinfoil hat take these days IMO.

deranger ,

I’d say there’s likely a public health concern with water and dead bodies mixing, at the very least.

deranger ,

Drinking that or getting that into a wound is how you get sick, and my point entirely.

Corpse tea is not good for your health

deranger ,

You’re right, we should just ignore it, it’s probably fine.

deranger ,

Thanks, didn’t know about this.

Voyager is one of my favorite apps these days, and a fantastic example of “web apps don’t have to suck”.

deranger ,

I’m from the US and just upvoted that. Please don’t stereotype. I know there’s a lot of idiots here, but we’re not all stupid.

deranger ,

Flowing robes 100%, literally designed for being in the heat and sun. 35C isn’t even that bad, it’s hotter in Texas.

deranger ,

I’ve been spending a majority of my time on here when I do my “Redditing”. I only visit the old site for niche topics. I spend as little time as possible there, I don’t upvote or downvote anything, and I don’t comment either. It’s read-only for me out of principle. I save all interactions for the fediverse.

I doubt all the communities will rebuild elsewhere, but I’m okay with that. Some fragmentation is necessary. Smaller communities make individual voices louder, and you have less ugly “sidedness”. When humans get into a critical mass IRL they can start to do strange things, I think we see this in social media as well.

deranger ,

This is a insane take. We absolutely need hydro power right now. It was the leading source of electricity before coal. More dams, please.

deranger ,

Do educate me.

It just seems like a huge waste of energy / resources to remove an existing dam than to remediate it somehow. I didn’t see any mention of if this generated power or how it’d be offset.

Not really an environmental win if this hydro power capacity was replaced by coal.

deranger ,

Detection and treatment of Lyme is notoriously difficult. Why would you not prefer a preventive solution?

deranger ,

They haven’t. It’s still Twitter in the App Store. The icon/app name on your phone is not what the article is discussing.

deranger ,

Genuine question, not being sarcastic.

What’s the benefit to the average end user to modernizing NTFS?

Sure, I love having btrfs on my NAS for all the features it brings, but I’m not a normal person. What significant changes that would affect your average user does NTFS require to modernize it?

I just see it as an “if it’s not broken” type thing. I can’t say I’ve ever given the slightest care about what filesystem my computer was running until I got into NAS/backups, which itself was a good 10 years after I got into building PCs. The way I see it, it doesn’t really matter when I’m reinstalling every few years and have backups elsewhere.

deranger ,

I agree all those are nice things to have, and things I’d want to see in an update. Now how can you sell those features to management? How do these improve the experience for the everyday end user?

I’d say the snapshots feature could be a major selling point. Windows needs a good backup/restore solution.

It just seems like potentially a ton of work to satisfy the needs of “people who think about filesystems”, which is an extremely small subset of users. I can see how it might be hard to get the manpower and resources needed to rework the Windows default filesystem.

I really have no clue how much work it takes though, so it’s just speculation on my end. I’m just curious; on one hand, I do see where NTFS is way behind, but on the other… who cares? I’ve somehow made it past 20 years of building WIndows PCs without really caring what filesystem I’ve used, from 95 all the way to 11.

deranger ,

After decades of platforms trending towards monopolization, bring on the fragmentation.

The community here is small and I love it. Maybe I don’t spend as many hours on here but I also don’t get pissed because I read an idiotic comment, and I feel like I can post an opinion without getting downvoted to hell.

deranger ,

This is the way to go if you really want to be a pro piracy advocate.

Most people can’t be bothered with the complexities of torrents or codecs. Luckily that’s my shit, and I put together a 4x16TB NAS setup and started hosting a Plex instance for family initially, then added some coworkers. It’s a fun little hobby, and my users are able to save on streaming services.

Also, I’ve found a majority of users really don’t care much about quality, so I’m able to serve up multiple streams on only 40Mbps upload without noticing any network slowdowns.

Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds (www.pcworld.com)

Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds::Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term “10G” is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

deranger ,

That hasn’t been my experience with it at all. I quite enjoy the >500Mbps and 19 ms ping, and reliability is fine now.

deranger ,

Sick collection! How are they organized? Do you play all new arrivals before they’re filed into the rack?

deranger ,

I agree. Just give me some decent posts and discussion. For niche things I can go to a big platform with all the users. For my daily browsing, I appreciate a small but active community.

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