eh, the video has a fair point but i can’t watch that. they’re interviewing some really really senile 90 year old ex goldman sachs manager or sth and just hearing him talk makes me cringe. it’s clear he has no idea what he’s talking about, from the way he talks, he contradicts himself in the first 5 sentences, he has no vision in his mind, it feels like a drag just watching this

it’s so unfair. there’s many talented people in the country. then they put that geriatric nepo baby into the job. why don’t we have talented people in high-ranking positions. we should take an example from china where the politicians studied physics or sth idk at least it feels like that.

That is something that i never got. Isn’t all material that old? I mean it didn’t spontaneously jump into existence at a later time.

we need

• links from fediverse instances to other fediverse instances
• maybe tools like https://fediversemap.com/ to find fediverse instances that are physically close to you, to connect to people irl and organize irl events
• prefer to post content on already existing instances so you get better exposure

i think search engines are … tricky

i always prefer lists and indexes over search engines because search engines feels a bit like voodoo magic to me, it has unpredictable outcomes. for example, sometimes you need just the right keyword for search engines to give you meaningful results, and otherwise it will just not return anything. and that is a lot like chatgpt … you ask it something and it might give you a meaningful response. or it might completely miss the point. when there’s an actual list of communities that is small and complete, then i can go through it manually to check where it might be.

everything is an echo chamber

can you name a single thing that’s not an echo chamber of some sorts?

the side bars for each community can effectively be a webring. i’m talking about these things here:

(example is the sidebar of the /c/selfhosted@lemmy.word community)

nice, not too bot-infested, privacy-respecting, free, distributed and federated platform

nice, mediocrely bot-infested, publicly readable, donation-funded, distributed and federated platform

ftfy

I think making your articles on the fediverse is better than building your blog website from scratch.

Instead of https://thisismywebsite.com/blog/
instead do https://publiclemmyinstance.com/c/myblog

This way, it better integrates with fediverse mechanics such as follow, like, comment. Also people can discover your stuff through the “all” feed, even though unlikely, maybe one day we’ll get more interesting recommendation algorithms for the fediverse.

Downvote because your post is mostly tribalism. It’s “us users” vs “them evil state who want to surveil us”.

Have you actually spent time considering whether age verification is beneficial? Whether parents think that their children spend too much time online, or whether the teenagers think that themselves? Have you taken their input and concerns serious?

Many people i know irl are saying that children should spent less time online and maybe only in cleaner parts of the internet, which excludes a lot of sites. and they’re not saying that because they want to surveil everyone, but because they want to live a simple, unworried life that keeps them away from danger.

I think headbashing won’t bring us anywhere, we need to listen to people’s concerns and take them seriously, and respond with clever wits and thorough analysis.

oh and before any of you say “well, parents already have the ability to limit what children can do on their smartphones”. well, i did a lot of surveys about who knows these abilities, and who uses them, including here on lemmy, and the result is pretty bleak. 99.9% of people don’t know any parental controls, and many believe that there are no effective parental controls today. if you think otherwise, please provide examples.

We already had symbolic software, it was simply called software before AI arrived, now it should probably be called “classical software” or “deterministic software”.

I’m gonna write an article about it as soon as i have the energy to do that; it’s a tedious topic.

Saying that “people need to get paid higher wages to be able to afford having children” is obviously propaganda in an attempt to motivate rich people to pay poor people more money. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t do that; in fact they should; but the fertility rate has nothing to do with it.

There are worldwide studies that families with less money typically have more children, but it’s very important to note that this is only correlation, not causation. In other words, giving people more money does probably not (i believe) cause them to have fewer children. Rather, i think it’s the other way around: Having more children leads to poverty as children are really expensive.

Also i want to point out that the story is really really more complicated than that. I.e. you see a lot of people wanting to have children, but not doing it because they’re afraid that the cost of living will be significantly more expensive in the future. Yes, you read this correctly. It’s not about the cost of living today, it’s about the cost of living in the future. Consider this: Children (if treated properly) live around 80 years, and during that whole time they should be fed and housed. That costs money. If housing becomes significantly more expensive in 20 years, it will be very difficult to house them. You should think about this today, not in 20 years. The fear of future rising cost of living is a reason why lots of people are deciding against having children today.

Also there are many more things that i want to say about this, such as that there is a very directed campaign on social media today to disincentivise leftist people from flirting with other people today, which effectively leads leftist people to be less in romantic relationships, more lonely, less connected, less organized, also less pregnant. This obviously hinders them from organizing properly, which is a top-down attempt to smash rebellions before they happen. This is a scheme that is highly effective of corrupting society, especially leftist people as conservatives typically don’t listen to social media and its messaging, especially when it comes to not flirting with other people (sexual harassment) and such.

Incredibly confusingly written article. The article really tries not to get the point across clearly. Instead of including like a single diagram that actually shows numbers and a curve, they choose to beat around the bush by using words like “less”, “fewer”, etc. which is really hard to estimate the effect size. There was no serious attempt to represent data proportionally and to actually inform the reader. It feels like an emotionally manipulative hit piece to reach out to all the people who might be affected by this.

friend is stuck on his iPhone

my honest opinion is that it’s a lost cause. people superficial enough to be on an iphone in the first place probably aren’t gonna think through the deeper ramifications of privacy and information security practices at all.

we are all moths and the internet is the flame

What we need most at this point are hardware manufacturers that aren’t in bed with the CIA.

for a long time i have had the feeling that basically there’s only a very small number of hardware manufacturers in the world, we all know them, TSMC and others, and basically i suspect that the CIA puts some kind of spyware directly into the hardware. maybe i’m wrong here, but i have a gut feeling. we need independent hardware manufacturers, maybe stationed in europe or somewhere else in the third world altogether.

you said it yourself, encrypted apps don’t mean anything when the underlaying system is already flawed. that is the operating system and the hardware. first we need better hardware, then we need a clean, non-invasive operating system, then we need good apps. starting with good apps alone doesn’t actually do that much when your data gets siphoned off through other apps nonetheless.

Yeah that would be nice.

The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Google and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.

Even in the AI sector

they said relevant future technologies

yeah well it’s all about who carries the risks i’d say. i think that if you’re willing to take the risk yourself, you should be allowed to install a banking app on any device. just beware the risk, and you need to be warned about those.