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Robert Heinlein's idea of the perfect crowd control drug- would you take Happiness daily?

In Robert Heinlein’s novel “Farnham’s Freehold”, the protagonists accidentally end up in a very technologically advanced feudal society that depends on a drug called “Happiness” to control things and keep social classes rigidly separated. The hypothesis of this question: the drug is a pleasant tasting drink you take...

rikudou ,

Nah, I feel like it wouldn’t really be me. Depression is like half of my charm.

rikudou ,

No purpose and no meaning, I’m afraid. As far as we know, it’s just one of the fundamental properties of the universe.

rikudou ,

Well, managing servers is part of my job. So stuff like what you mention doesn’t really make it easier for me and it adds unnecessary overhead.

rikudou OP ,

Well, if you mean shields.io, they don’t have access to your IP if you use the .svg endpoint of uptime.lemmings.world, they only have IP of the server. If you mean my service, well, I don’t even log the IP address.

This is literally everything that’s in the logs in case of a successful response:

Logs showing only some system information and nothing about the requester at all

Also, IP address on its own is not GDPR protected, it’s only GDPR protected when it’s identifiable. So even if I had your IP in my logs, I wouldn’t have to let you know, because I have no other personally identifiable information.

Source: I was part of the process of implementing GDPR for an app whose whole purpose is pretty much managing personal data.

rikudou OP ,

Well, feel free to read GDPR yourself, I did multiple times, as did my colleagues as did our lawyers. If some piece of information cannot be tied to an individual, it’s not a personally identifiable information (PII). Let’s say your name is Matthew. If I have Matthew stored in my database, I don’t have to ask for your permission. If my database has the information that @poVoq has a first name “Matthew”, it’s a PII and I have to ask for your consent (or have a valid business reason to require your first name).

From the perspective of a Lemmy instance provider, they’re indeed responsible for their user’s PII. But in any case, I would only receive the IP address of someone, which I couldn’t tie to any other PII and thus it’s not a PII in itself.

If you disagree, all I can say is that you should read GPDR yourself, because I’m quite sure that I’m correct, because we’ve spent quite a lot of money and time on this exact issue a few years ago.

rikudou OP ,

Feels like a moot point, especially here on Lemmy (or Fediverse in general), where almost everything you send is automatically sent to hundreds of other servers. But, well, I promise I don’t care about your IP and don’t store it even in system logs. Would it calm you a bit if I included a privacy policy?

rikudou OP ,

All time. I haven’t checked how to get other data from Fediverse.observer yet, their graphs show data from different points in time, but their api only has documentation for the field uptime_alltime (which I’m using).

rikudou OP ,

https://uptime.lemmings.world/lemm.ee.svg - pretty good, indeed!

rikudou OP ,

Very nice, indeed! And thanks!

rikudou OP ,

Heh, you’re a winner, so far!

rikudou OP ,

You’ve got an extra space there!

rikudou OP ,

Nice uptime! Yeah, loose cables are the worst!

rikudou ,

Well, Fediverse it is. When thousand people pay for thousand servers, it’s better for everyone - no ads and no fees and the ones hosting the content don’t need the money to survive. Some people will voluntarily donate to you, most will not, but in the end everyone is happy.

rikudou ,

I personally never counted Reddit and am not counting Lemmy as a social media. Both Reddit and Lemmy are just a really huge forum which contains many subforums.

rikudou ,

What do you mean? He’s just doing the thing that kids do when trying to be funny - 1, 2, 2 and a quarter, 2 and a half…

rikudou ,

How is that dude’s opinion relevant to anything outside his weird cult? Stop kid raping in your cult first, then you can try having opinions on things outside of it.

rikudou ,

Who claim to be his followers as long as it suits them.

rikudou ,

To be fair, I was implying they are hypocrites.

rikudou ,

Doesn’t make it any less weird or any less of a cult.

rikudou OP ,

You can also use the hosted version, if you wish so. I’m also the author of the client library for Lemmy that this uses and just two days ago I’ve updated the library to work with 0.19 (though it’s not updated in Lemmy Schedule yet).

rikudou OP ,

In theory, though in this particular case you’re giving them to an open source app which you can check the source code of. Of course there is the possibility that I’ve modified the code that I’m hosting, you’re gonna have to trust me that I didn’t.

I’m an author of many open source libraries and apps and I have no need to steal your credentials. Though that of course doesn’t have to mean anything to you.

But if you’re giving your credentials to a mobile app or any other frontend, you’re doing pretty much the same thing. And technically speaking, even trusting your instance admins is the same thing - they might have modified the code to log your credentials.

In general, yes, you should be worried where you put your credentials. In ideal scenario Lemmy would support OAuth or something like that, but that’s not the case currently.

rikudou ,

That’s normal for them. I was once “educated” that my country was a shithole before the Soviet occupation and I should be thankful. I hope that one day someone will treat them the Soviet way if they love it so much - execute them because they have an opinion that differs from what’s acceptable.

rikudou ,

Is it? It was started by two tankies, so the first people on Lemmy were most likely tankies.

rikudou ,

Yeah, I’m never gonna be thankful for them setting us back by years.

rikudou ,

Time to get educated, you “revisionist bullshit”.

Here’s a story of our national hero, Milada Horáková who was executed by communists for made up bullshit reasons.

Look, history is a hobby of mine and I’m from a country that was occupied by Soviets. Don’t you think that when I say something about all those fun times, I’m probably right?

So if you’re a tankie troll, congrats, you got me engaged. If you’re not, please refrain from using such language when you obviously don’t know enough about the topic.

Next time try “Do you have any source for your claims?” instead of “What sort of revisionist bullshit are you trying to bring up here?”.

rikudou ,

Gaming outside steam is fine too. Use Wine, Lutris, Proton

And Heroic Games Launcher.

rikudou ,

So, this picture of a lemming putting its hand in a bean soup in a beautiful mountain scenery has an probability of being AI of 0.1%. Seems legit.

https://i.imgur.com/6vC5ywh.png

rikudou ,

like to many fingers or weird proportions

This is no longer true, the AI nowadays makes perfectly looking images.

Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram (www.businessinsider.com)

Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don’t agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

rikudou ,

I seem to remember that it’s already there - the consent or lack thereof cannot be the basis for denying service.

rikudou ,

Saving your comment to remember what sites to avoid.

rikudou ,

Any guide on how to find the usenet groups? I’d hate to stumble upon them accidentally, so it’s best to be prepared.

rikudou ,

Well, just in case: web.archive.org/web/20231003213548/…/3964875

rikudou ,

Sounds too complicated for my tastes.

rikudou ,

I don’t know the context, so I have to take the titles literally and in that case I don’t see the problem. Not everyone who fought against USSR was a Nazi, which is a fact. Did this just fly over my head? It feels like I’m either missing something, or the connection between the headlines just isn’t there.

rikudou OP ,

Your correction doesn’t make sense, there’s no repost button.

meme of a confused grandma saying you really didn’t have to hit repost this one

But yeah, I’ve seen this on Reddit few years ago.

rikudou OP ,

Sounds like a great idea for April Fools.

rikudou OP ,

Good old BTBCS.

rikudou ,

If you need any help, do let me know (on Matrix, preferably, but I can do PMs) and I can help set you up.

rikudou ,

They’re as leftist as the “communist” China. Or as “socialist” as the Nazis were. Just because someone calls themselves “communist” or “socialist”, doesn’t mean it’s true. And if you support China, Nazis, Soviet Union or its successor Russia, you’re not a communist or socialist.

rikudou OP ,

Unironically a great read.

rikudou OP ,

Agree! As everything, they have a use case. I particularly like them for try-catch-retry.

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