I’m shocked, I say.

This site has some kind of malicious advertising that hijacked my phone refusing to let me close or switch to other tabs until I clicked its dialog boxes. Boo hiss

Yeah. In retrospect, it’s easy to pick out what stuff is just Elon Musk making up bullshit because it would be awesome. And, with the cybertruck, he finally got to inject that into the engineering process as a dominant factor as he’d been trying to do for so long with the cars. And look at the result…

Back before people knew all that much about it, back when Elon Musk was the guy who made Tesla and SpaceX and this super smart guy (as opposed to being the guy who bought them and then fucked up the engineering), I knew some people who were excited about it. It was supposed to be a working truck but electric, bring all the better-than-other-cars stuff that the Roadster and Model S had, it was supposed to have solar panels and electrical outlets and super-strong construction so you could use it to survive the zombie apocalypse.

I think that was before the inflection point, back when the genuine success Tesla had had made Musk’s personal brand of bullshit believable. I remember when people started getting a good look at all the concept and actual prototypes, that made it look like a dumpster without the storage space, was when the shine came off the rose. But I definitely do remember people who were excited about it back in the beginning.

No water for you, you gotta be able to fit the grooves. As is known.

No, he had to bunch his fingers up because the number of grooves wasn’t right, and only then did it perfectly match. Weren’t you paying attention?

See my other comment; I think the same user contingent that likes VPNs tends to also want maximum convenience, which isn’t Tor. Of course they frame convenience as the only relevant factor, instead of acknowledging that being the tradeoff they’re making.

I haven’t really played around with VPNs to make the comparison. Tor breaks for a significant number of sites, but it’s still a pretty small minority; “only works for a small number of sites” is a comical untruth.

If Tor breaks more sites than VPNs do (which I think is likely), I think it is because Tor is secure. It is easier to do malicious things behind Tor because you have, for all intents and purposes, an unbreakable shield of privacy while you are doing those malicious things. And so, site operators tend to block it more readily than they do VPNs.

Whether you want to make the tradeoff in favor of convenience or genuine privacy is, of course, up to you. It’s not surprising to me that the Lemmy userbase is more or less unanimous in favor of convenience. Of course it is fine if you want, but you don’t need to misrepresent how things are to make it the only possible choice.

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Chemistry is a hell of a lot more complex than people will tell you it is when they are concocting things for human consumption.

The stuff in coffee includes a lot more than caffeine. And even if caffeine was the only molecule at issue, the synthesized/extracted caffeine in the energy drinks is guaranteed to have impurities and imperfections in it. It’s just not going to be as good qualitatively as the molecules before they’ve gone through that process. It’ll just be up to 95% or 99% or whatever and then they’ll call it good, leaving whatever byproducts or altered molecules to wander into your system alongside the main stuff. And even if they didn’t, the energy drink would include guaranteed a whole bunch of other crap alongside just the caffeine, some of which might depress your system or produce any one of a wild array of other effects. And even if it didn’t, humans are psychological creatures, so the pure taste and experience of drinking the coffee can produce a physiological effect even if the chemistry was 100% identical which it is not.

TL;DR Yes

Done

I dislike the phrasing “data rape.”

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I’m not sure this is actually necessary. I found that a single post of a moderately-interesting community to !newcommunities@lemmy.world wound up federating my stuff to all the main instances instantly.

I get the concept, and maybe depending on the details of the network it might be needed (it might be a good approach on Mastodon for example, which has a much harder chicken-and-egg problem in terms of getting your stuff federated). I’m not sure it’s doing any active harm or anything. But at the same time I do feel like importing this kind of “not enough people are seeing my stuff how can I make sure as many people as possible see my stuff” tools over from the SEO marketer’s toolkit might be a bad habit or pattern to get into.

1. Put up genuinely interesting stuff on the community, at least 1-2 times per day so it has a little flow of activity.
2. Once there are a screen’s full of posts or so, post the new community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca. People will see the thing and subscribe to it from everywhere (if they are interested) and it will get federated to most of the main servers.
3. As the activity continues, people may decide to post stuff of their own there, and other people will run across it either from the “local all” feed of your instance or from the “global all” feed somewhere else. They may subscribe to it, they may happen to see a cross-post from someplace they are subscribed to, but however it works out there will grow a steady flow of subscribers, if people are interested in it.

The sort of filtering aspect where not every new community will automatically get its posts thrown into every single person’s feed every day, is a feature not a bug. The steps above are enough to get it popular if people are into it, but also limiting enough that it won’t get publicized above its organic popularity level and start spamming everyone’s feed.

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Are you comfortable running a little python script to do it? I’ve done something like this for myself for exactly the same reason, I could polish it up and show you and you could use it locally for yourself.

what happens when domestic crops are left to rot in the fields because “the terrorists” were deported?

They start using the labor of people who were sent to prison for attending a protest or writing anti-Trump stuff on social media.

They are already constructing the facilities to keep them in.

Craig is the real hero of the internet age.

People came to him and offered him tons of money to give them craigslist so they could ruin it. He said, no, what the fuck? Why would I do that? I like it the way it is.

They said, but you can make MONEY.

He said yes but I have already have some money. Why would I want to fuck up something neat that I created? That sounds bad.

But, they said, MONEY.

He repeated himself. It went around several times. Eventually, they went away, angry and confused, still not understanding.