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Andreas

@ Andreas @feddit.dk

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Her sidder jeg, med mit hjerte brudt // Prøvede at skide, men slog kun en prut

  • FT: Germany calls for more immigrants to fix its shrinking economy

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  • And what happens when those foreign workers in Solution #3 age, retire and need pension payouts...? Just keep hiring more and more foreign workers? Besides, "benefits everybody" is only from an national economic perspective. From the cultural, social and personal economic perspective, having a huge influx of foreigners in your country is terrible.

    I don't think foreign labor is completely off the mark but there has to be guards against them costing more money than they contribute to the system, which means strict culture, skill and income requirements for permanent migration.

  • Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why

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  • Is this like when they made the kilogram some function of the speed of light instead of the weight of a metal ball in a French museum?

  • Births in China slide 10% to hit their lowest on record

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  • No, it's 100% economics. Why do you think that having "careers, lives and travel" (as if having a family is not having a life?) is more appealing to modern first worlders? Because it doesn't impact their finances severely. Having more children in impoverished countries is a financial gain because children are free labor and lottery tickets to get the entire family out of poverty. In wealthy countries, children are only a financial loss.

  • (Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?

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  • The first distro I used was Ubuntu as part of a computer class at school, but it was preinstalled on a school computer. The first distro I installed on a personal computer was Arch because le reddit said it was le epic hackerman's IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE TO INSTALL distro. It installed, and after that I didn't use it because my favorite Windows apps couldn't work.

  • The influx of Redditors has had a detrimental effect on Lemmy.

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  • I discovered Lemmy around 2019 or 2020 and loved the concept but was put off by the density of commies, so I didn't create an account and participate but I would check the site around once a year to see if the community had taken off yet.

    2020: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.2021: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.2022: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet? Nope, still commies and dead threads.2023: Is it the year of the Federated Reddit yet?

    YES!

    And I am so glad to never have to see the depressing and miserable "culture" that was Lemmy from 2019 to mid-2023 again.

  • The influx of Redditors has had a detrimental effect on Lemmy.

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  • Federated networks are, by design, not able to be constrained by one set of rules and standards. The place you are looking for is Tildes, a centralized, invite-only, text-only website whose selling point is "high quality discussions" and very harsh moderation against anything that does not fit their standard of "high quality".

  • Is beehaw still defederated?

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  • That's relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy's devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy's devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.

  • Is beehaw still defederated?

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  • Exactly, if an instance loves to censor others so much they should deal with the consequences of less interaction and visibility. lemmy.ml is also dropping off my feed because their devs have beef with Kbin's dev and they blocked interactions from all Kbin instances.

  • Is beehaw still defederated?

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  • Why don't you start an account there and help them out, or start an account on an instance that is federated with both if you prefer the community there? I personally disagree with their moderation and don't like the kind of users they approve of, so I'm happy seeing less of them around.

  • With so many usernames still available, why did you choose yours?

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  • I was a kid when all of the big social media websites except TikTok took off so I never got to have it anywhere else. I wanted the sense of pride and accomplishment of being the first person on my instance to get my name as their username.

  • Voyager Icon Idea

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  • This design is so cute, it reminds me of the art style of HyperBeard Games. I hope something inspired by this gets chosen and not another boring "iOS flat design" icon.

  • Android users, What's stopping you from switching to iPhone?

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  • If you're comparing stock Android against stock iOS, Apple has more privacy protections against tracking because of App Tracking Transparency.

  • Android users, What's stopping you from switching to iPhone?

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  • I have two phones as daily drivers, one Android and one iPhone. Compared to Android, the iPhone is very restrictive and locked down. Adblockers don't work and you're forced to use whatever iOS interface it throws at you. Buttons and gestures move around with every update. There's no way to view and manage internal files, no sideloading, lots of options that are just not accessible to normal users.

    The positive side is that iPhones are very optimized and I can get similar performance to my Android phone despite the iPhone being older and having worse specs. The closed ecosystem also has its benefits, because it makes data very hard to get out, so I use the iPhone as a device to sandbox all the Meta crap that I'm forced to use.

  • Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library

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  • Are they going to keep the lawsuit focused on OpenAI and Meta or turn it into yet another lawsuit against piracy?

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • Im not sure its so much learned helplessness as, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, I don't want to understand how it all works behind the scenes.

    "Learned helplessness" isn't meant as an insult, it's just a way to describe... well, this. The idea that the internet is too complicated and you'll never understand it so don't bother trying. This is not the fault of the "normie masses" but rather society not treating digital competence as a necessary skill. Society has many more complicated systems like law, finance, insurance and property that people can still navigate!

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    Why USA pays so well to developers (or rarher Europe pays so bad)

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  • I brought up the social system because you can see that everyone in this thread arguing against you is saying that your "excellent welfare system" is the reason why your income is lower than the corresponding American programmer's. The massive taxation is obviously a big factor to your reduced income, but let's look away from that for a bit and just focus on the American companies.

    American companies in America pay more because the costs of doing business in America are much lower and there is a greater availability of loans and funding.

    American companies in Europe pay more because they have the advantages listed above that local European companies don't have and they have the resources to invest in a global expansion.

    That's it. That's the answer.

  • It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance

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  • It's difficult to come up with an onboarding solution that doesn't give overwhelming power to the hands of a few people (who operate the onboarding platform), leading to centralization again.

    If everyone was directed to one central onboarding platform, the operators could choose to advertise and censor instances as they saw fit – which is why I don't recommend potential Mastodon users to the join-mastodon.org server picker, because all of the instances there are hand-picked by mastodon.social admins.

    I didn't expect security and outage threats to be the factor that keeps big instances in check, but I'm kind of glad for it.

  • Pixel 7 Pro Review - 8 Months Later "I Love It But, I'm Disappointed" - In Depth Tech Reviews

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  • Wow, I didn't know that LineageOS has such long-term support! The original Pixel is still supported?! I'm using GrapheneOS and they offer support for the same lifetime as the official Google updates, so I assumed that the rest of the alternative OSes are the same.

  • It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance

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  • The feature is there, but it's glitchy. Whenever I try to post with a language tag to lemmy.world and other big instances, the post screen stays loading forever and the post is never submitted. It only goes through when I remove the language tag, so I avoid posting non-English content on lemmy.world because I can't tag it...

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    Why USA pays so well to developers (or rarher Europe pays so bad)

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  • I don't think that you, me and OP have different values on this issue, actually? We all agree that the state is supposed to provide us with a structure to live in that we couldn't have on our own, and as payment for this safety net, we contribute taxes. My and OP's argument is that with the current projection of the economy and population growth, the state cannot provide the current generation of tax payers with the structures and support that we will eventually need, and therefore many of us would rather pay lower taxes and lose the benefits, because we won't be getting them anyway. We know what's coming and we don't want to be the ones "holding the bag" when the system collapses.

    I'm trying to explain OP's point to the Americans in this thread who don't understand that European social security systems are currently under severe strain and are on the road to collapse, and how OP feels to have to sacrifice so much of his potential income to support a failing system. The 80s stereotypes of reliable, high-quality social security no longer hold true in Europe in 2023.

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    Is it possible to create a read-only federated community (only moderators can post and comment)?

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit: An article written in 2020. Lemmy mentioned.

    karl-voit.at /2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
  • Engineering Memes @lemmy.world
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    'compile' step failed with errors. Please check the Tcl console output or log file for more information.

  • Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    An underrated feature of Lemmy that I appreciate: Default ranking for comments balances new comments and comments with many upvotes

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    When one instance discovers another and federates with it, is the federation one- or two-directional?

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
    Andreas @feddit.dk

    Federated timeline retrieves only one page of recent posts when sorted by Hot