I don’t think it’s a lazy cop out at all it’s recognizing a complex issue that interweaves into the new realities of life for young adults.
What you stated is the lazy cop out, you’re dismissing an entire problem space at the wave of a hand without critically thinking about it.
Everything is connected. An example would be heavy social media use being correlated to lower critical thinking capabilities, lower attention span, and more extreme political and emotional swings lead to a population being more manipulable and less cohesive.
Causing them to vote and act against their own interests at the behest of whoever has enough money to influence them though channels they “trust”. Thus influencing a degrading social and financial situation.
I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am...
I might be crazy but I have a 20TB WD Red Pro in a padded, water proof, locking, case that I take a full backup on and then drive it over to a family members 30m away once a month or so.
It’s a full encrypted backup of all my important stuff in a relatively different geographic location.
All of my VM data backs up hourly to my NAS as well. Which then gets backed up onto the large drive monthly.
Monthly granularity isn’t that good to be fair but it’s better than nothing. I should probably back up the more important rapidly changing stuff online daily.
As of today I’m actually in a lucky position where I am now able to set up a secondary NAS at my brother in laws and use that as a backup server that I can back up to essentially in real time.
All it’ll cost me is the hardware and the electricity.
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
I was recently banned from the subreddit, r/Robinhood for making a comment about Robinhood’s shady practices. I quoted their own rule, “Don’t be you”, calling them hypocrites, and received a 7 day ban from Reddit the following day....
Microsoft released Garnet last week. Which is meant to be a drop in replacement with 10x the performance, written entirely in C# (incredibly accessable vs C++).
MIT licence, like most of the rest of their tools/libs/frameworks.
Nice part here is that they dog food it, since it’s used at scale. So problems tend to get patched quickly by paid devs, while the FOSS community gets to bake in the features they want.
Don’t forget the actual cost of manufacturing. The building, the workers, the people working behind the scenes on finance or logistics, or manufacturing details…etc
Manufacturing takes a lot of people on a lot of different levels not only to get it up and running but to keep it running and that’s expensive.
This thread is literally the difference between someone who knows what they talk about getting downvoted because people don’t like facts and someone who doesn’t know they talk about getting upvoted because they appeal better to emotions.
Population generalization is extremely toxic. Yeah, lots are corrupt, but “Everyone that has job x” is patentably false, and is simply an emotional reaction and lashing out.
It does nothing to solve any problems and just produces new ones. No progress is made that way, it’s the opposite of progress towards solving a problem. Are you here to just emotionally vent or are you here to actually hold a conversation?
We don’t need more people acting like petulant adults who are entirely emotionally driven. We need more people who are willing to look at problems and figure out how we can organize to solve them.
Right now we’re talking 0.0057% of the monthly active users. Lemmy likes to hype itself up a lot, but the market share is incredibly tiny, and likely will be for years to come. As a platform Lemmy would be incapable of handling that kind of scale, from both a software, design, hosting, logistics, cost, moderation, and community perspective.
I’ll be here, but let’s check in each year on it. I’m guessing it will be a few before we either see accelerating growth, or Lemmy is upset by better designed federated social media software, or it’ll just be fragmented between dozens of competing platforms.
Havana syndrome: Report links mystery illness to Russian intelligence unit (www.bbc.com)
A mysterious illness that has affected US diplomats in recent years has been linked to a Russian intelligence unit....
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
How should I do backups?
I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am...
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
"Don't be you" - Reddit is supporting a community that is dangerous and promotes intolerance; r/Robinhood (lemmy.world)
I was recently banned from the subreddit, r/Robinhood for making a comment about Robinhood’s shady practices. I quoted their own rule, “Don’t be you”, calling them hypocrites, and received a 7 day ban from Reddit the following day....
Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab (tech.slashdot.org)
inflation (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13611200...
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing (arstechnica.com)
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” (www.theverge.com)
After a handcuffed ride in the back of a police van, a man was left paralyzed and needed his legs amputated, lawsuit alleges (edition.cnn.com)
Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.
We heard you like toggles so we put a toggle in your toggle. (lemmy.world)
This toggle is annoying because what was once 1 press to turn on BT is now 2. It gets me every day.
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
Love this (midwest.social)
Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/12276054...
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO’s ties to data broker...