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  • Just as a mild counterexample, I’ve personally changed my views quite drastically over my time on reddit and now lemmy, and most of it was from individuals just sharing their own perspective.

    I held some latent bigotry and misogyny, part of which I picked in my day to day life, and partly from 4ch. I won’t say I’ve eliminated it completely, but I think I’ve become a better person from my interactions online.

    If we’re not out here trying to actively learn from and help other people, then what the heck are we doing?




  • Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you’ve needed to use awk? I’ve been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can’t recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it’d be easier to just use a simple python script.

    Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?




  • though we would need a lot of community work for parity with Discord

    Not sure if it was FUD or not, so please treat this as an unsubstantiated rumour, but I recall another lemming telling me that Matrix was quite insular and not very accepting of outside code contributions.

    So if that’s true, it could be a spanner in the gears.


  • The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

    You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

    • P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
    • direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
    • paid infrastructure - sacrifice money

  • Edit: Oh, OP basically already said the same thing.

    I think it really depends on the website and even where you are on the website. For example, if you’re on YT, the watch?v=<b64_id> is probably not something you want to throw away. If you’re on a news site like imaginarynews.com/.../the-article-title/?tracking-garbage=<...> then you probably do. It’s just a matter of having “sane” defaults that work as most people would expect.




  • [This change] would also make candidates in elections liable to criminal prosecution for making any false statement to win votes.

    While I think this is amazing and should be the standard everywhere, it’s also quite hard to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt in this sort of scenario. It just means politicians need to maintain some amount of plausible deniability.

    As much as I’d like to see corrupt politicians in jail, I have to wonder if somehow making it a civil offence rather than criminal wouldn’t be better, since it would only require proof on the balance of probabilities, rather than the higher standards of beyond reasonable doubt.

    At least the criminal liability seems to also be on top of code of conduct violations which could lead to retractions or a suspension.