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  • I think it's especially the money and LGBTQ+ and non sexual norms that are driving people to the right. I notice when I talk to a lot of younger guys theyre tired of hearing about it.

    Because it's pushed on so much of their TV shows and things they like that they side with political candidates that are conservative at a young age and they further grow into it. These are conservative candidates with lots of money usually.

    I hate to say it but it was universally cool to defend LGBT people when the media and TV shows didn't push it. Because you were defending an oppressed person. Now it more so feels like it's popular which means it's no longer an obscure thing, the anti culture is the new trend.

    I want to disclaim that I don't agree with any of this other than to say this is my observation of the behavior. I play rainbow six ranked on Xbox and use the looking for group party finder with a buddy of mine. We group up and encounter a lot of guys in the army and Marines, a lot of teenagers and this is cumulatively the culture I've heard. Same thing on like world of warcraft classic and using discord to raid but those guys run older typically.

  • Over 75% of voters want maximum age limit for elected officials, poll shows
  • I'm not convinced that's the truth. But we also need term limits universally. I think too that officials need a way to get elected without third party funding in the US. Like even if you run there should be a system for running too.

  • The older I get, the truer this becomes
  • People aren't that great online at hearing what you mean not what you're saying. The implications normally drawn by assuming the other person is either of basic intelligence or aware of the context are thrown out the window in favor of Internet points.

    It's exhausting. Sometimes that's why I like mastodon or twitter or threads or nostr. Whatever pick your poison. Point is I want to say my fucking piece and not have to add all this extra context so the other person doesn't call me an idiot on some niche part of what I said.

    Thinking about it from the commenters perspective: People online need to go back to just saying what they actually meant to say without prefacing everything. If that happened we'd at least have a more fulfilling experience. There's a reason folks leave knee jerk comments and don't elaborate further because the sentiment is popular too.

  • Money well spent
  • Look if going to college didn't cost four years of time with 20K per year, where in my career you'd be near to outdated (tech), I'd go.

    But for tech I feel like its almost a scam. I'd rather have the certs and/or practical knowledge or be able to go through an interview via algorithms, soft skills, explaining how to go through what I know. Its harder work to learn this way but I think it keeps your skills sharper.

  • F's in the chat
  • I got perma banned off of reddit for commenting on a sub that I had been banned from, and instead of them just not letting my comment post - they instead basically ban you for posting again.

    So if you get banned of a sub on reddit and forget because...who cares.... You get yourself perma'd for ban evasion.

    I got banned from like a news sub for saying "surprise not everyone shares your political opinion, of course there's dissent".

    That's when reddit for me went absolutely to shit. Just getting blacklisted by mods who are reading into everything.

  • whyyyy, that doesn't make any sense...
  • Unregulated lobbied capitalism. I'm okay with capitalism and competing ideas. What I'm not okay with is some of the late stage problems we've encountered as a society. Assuming the US average person lives to be a very low of 50, we are four generations deep. Ive known two generations in my own lineage. That's not very long.

    It's okay to make better systems. Even for billionaires its okay because a rising tide floats all the boats. This is something that needs to be taught better to the upper class. If these guys had less complaining workers, people willing to contribute more so in their enterprises, workers who are happy to make their products, it would be fine. Putting the squeeze on the little guy does nothing for these dudes besides some tight margins.

    Coupled with a very elderly legislative body we are left with senseless greed in both trade and politics. Portions of the population just consume politics like it's a sitcom. What we're left with is a system in need of refinement.

  • I want to get my PC off the grids power; any decent solutions for an apartment that has access to a roof?

    As title says. I think my PC is using like a max of 500w when it's juicing but idles for less. I was thinking of using an ecoflow high grade setup for this. Anyone have experience doing something similar?

    I might switch to a small micro tower setup by Dell or Lenovo that uses like 120w max. The new Mac minis seem to cap out at 39w though which is crazy.

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    Forgejo – Federated searchable github alternative

    forgejo.org Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

    Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

    Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

    If you're a programmer, coder, or whatever title you prefer this seems like an awesome idea. These guys are making an alternative federated version of github.

    Federation protocol here: https://forgefed.org/

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    Opening a new community: Federated Ideas (Discussion for apps that should or could be federated, or existing projects)

    Hey just an announcement. I can't code everything that comes around but if you have an idea, an existing project, or want to talk about something you're passionate about with federated apps like Lemmy or Mastodon: this is the sublemmy I opened. Fediverse is awesome but there are other apps out there too and even other protocols.

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    I'm optimistic about Lemmy and the Fediverse
  • It's a good daily scroller so far, no problems here from me. Our admin on lemdit is a cool guy.

    It's replaced reddit for me. There's already enough content to scroll for a long time with new subs added all the time. We just need a federated "popular" algorithm feed to see what's trending.

  • when you see some YouTuber come up on /g/, do you actually fall for the bait?

    Do you guys really buy into these self ads for influencers

    It's a tale as old as time: YouTuber's PR team or the influencer themselves post the influencers face to /G/ and say "is he our savior?". Then people take the bait and ask who, along with original poster. The person then looks up guys name and watches their YouTube videos.

    Somehow 🙄 the mods just don't see or take down the post! As if it's legitimate chatter about some influencer, who isn't tech.

    ...Do you guys actually fall for this shit?

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    www.cnbc.com Google announces event for Oct. 4, where new Pixel phone and smartwatch expected

    Google is set to debut the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, which will follow last year's Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.

    Google announces event for Oct. 4, where new Pixel phone and smartwatch expected
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    cordcuttersnews.com YouTube TV is Removing Local ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC For "Violating YouTube's Terms of Service" But Says a Fix is Coming Soon | Cord Cutters News

    Did your YouTube TV just start to show a message that “this video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service?” You are not alone, as Google has confirmed the glitch and that they are busy working on it. This glitch is not impacting all local ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC affiliates but is […...

    YouTube TV is Removing Local ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC For "Violating YouTube's Terms of Service" But Says a Fix is Coming Soon | Cord Cutters News
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    If you haven't heard of it - Nostr is a decentralized twitter alt - but uses relays as soft servers

    Hey folks. Just wanted to put out a good word about Nostr. I'm finding it to be pleasantly easy to use and very akin to twitter but uses soft servers in the form of relays. Its not quite moving away from servers but where decentralization is happening frequently, its nice to give that liberty back to users.

    Anyways its worth a try, here are some web clients. Just make sure to save your PK its basically your login:

    https://nostr.com/clients

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    Why Lemdit is great

    • We have a great server host an admin
    • It is cleaned up of morally & legally compromising posts to keep the server out of hot water.

    Thanks for hosting us!

    Making this post so we have a more positive greeting when you open the Lemmy app or land on the home page ;-)

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    Relevant again with Federated Software: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

    An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.

    I think much of the writing can be applied to today's federated content models.

    In particular:

    • The Mail Must Get Through
    • Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
    • The Importance of Having Users
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    [Discussion] Early August - What tech has really garnered your interest as of late?

    What tech if any have you found interesting lately?

    What tech concerns if any do you have as of late?

    Mine:

    • concerned about the google web DRM. I've been digging into android and trying to give stock android a chance again but the DRM stuff makes me want to jump over to iOS for tap to pay + carplay and Graphene/Calyx for my daily internet usage. Android added a builtin ad ID to their phones which makes me pretty uncomfortable.
    • Decentralized Tech, like Radicle, Gitopia, Mango for Git and Ethereum DApps (again). Feels like there is a lot of good that can be done but anything I'd build with ethereum I'd really want to disambiguate from the culture of scam/scam coins. The notion that most successful platforms today are ones people can make a career off of like being an influencer isn't lost on me and I think ethereum offering ways to maybe appeal to that is good.
    • IPFS (interplanetary file system). Love the idea but can't seem to find a good entry point or an easy way to discover content and really understand how a consumer would user this outside of an app providing that contex/gateway for it to connect to
    • Nim Programming language: I love that it looks and reads like lisp/python but compiles like C. I feel like I adopted docker because python and nodejs weren't portable binaries.
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    If you had to say one country is about as close to perfect as it can get current day- what country would it be?

    title. We live in interesting times. Those especially traveled, would love to hear your input.

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    [Discussion] Devs and Devops: if you have running containers in production, how are you upgrading those containers?

    Hey all!

    I'm seeking guidance. I have a lot of apps that use ORMs like Mongoose or Sequelize or Sqlalchemy, or even just init-db scripts with raw SQL. Point is a lot of apps have changes to the data layer. When we program and make apps they tend to describe how they need to see a database. Sometimes its no trivial feat to do an upgrade - and even if you have a CI/CD pipeline in place what does that look like to have something like even lemmy upgrade in a container.

    If you have these apps in production how are you handling these apps? Both developer perspective and devops welcomed.

    I see the devs offering insight into maybe how the backend recognizes database state, while the devops perhaps either describing process and implementation.

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    www.theguardian.com ‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply

    Country suffering its worst drought in 74 years, with government even mixing saltwater into drinking supply

    ‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply
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    gizmodo.com Google Is Really, Really Thirsty

    Google said it consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022—its push into AI is likely to make that amount skyrocket.

    Google Is Really, Really Thirsty

    Highlighting that in the article researchers found that the average chat with ChatGPT is the equivalent of dumping one bottle of water on the floor.

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    Heads up! Desert Treasure 2 along with some solo bosses drops this morning

    The game will be going offline for 30+ minutes this morning to introduce Desert Treasure II, a new quest in Oldschool Runescape. I've heard from OSRS streamers that it will be bringing four new soloable bosses for players to farm.

    If you are looking for something to do on the main or something new to grind this weekend, rejoice!

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