ginerel

ginerel, 2 months ago

Și în a 8-a zi Dumnezeu a zis "Să fie Firea!"

Și apoi Bucureștiul a intrat în faliment.

ginerel, 2 months ago

I cannot reply to a previous comment, due to it not federating here, but the children of 2020s will literally be online from day one!

There are countless parents that are posting pictures of their newborns on social media, on Instagram or Facebook, straight to a server in California, so imagine that every single person whose parents are like oh, I don't care about privacy, I got nothing to hide bro will have at least one photo there.

And it's not only that. They'll just never get to experience how life goes with no computer in sight, with no smartphones, not even cellphones at all. No computer, and more importantly, no internet, just cartoons on TV such as Life with Louie or Courage the Cowardly Dog or the Looney Tunes series. And even more importantly, no social media. None at all. Nothing to distract you from actually living.

ginerel, 2 months ago

US-controlled and domiciled site - yes, but I do not see it having a monopoly on information at all. Sure is big, has lots of info, pages, it is a rather good resource in linking stuff to the various concepts that you want to explain others e.g. in an argument.

But the very fact that anyone can edit information makes it not recommendable in academia, for example (really, when I was a student, all my professors were generally not recommending it for information because, as one of them said, even grandma could edit it). So I don't think I would trust ibis on scientific articles either, at least not in the fields I'm directly interested in - maybe for some random trivia/did you know stuff, idk.

limited / niche wikis

But this is where I think it would really shine, indeed, as one could make a wiki about a game or software more easily, probably link pages from different instances, etc. (as others said already).

Don't know what else to say, it just seems like an interesting project. Congrats to anyone involved on this first release and looking forward to see what this project will bring.

ginerel, 3 months ago

If only those apps could have the ability to use an open protocol they were actually built on, that would allow this exact interoperability needed instead of a proprietary half-assed solution, what was its name again...?

ginerel, 3 months ago

E o cocină

ginerel, 3 months ago

I go to your wedding

ginerel, 3 months ago

Probably they just want to use the same app they're using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there's no tracking, and it's just a different experience overall.

ginerel, 3 months ago

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

ginerel, 4 months ago

Same with Transilvanians. It's just a historical region between the Carpathian Mountains and that's it. Learn a bit of Romanian and you can get along with anyone from Transylvania, Crișana, Maramureș, Banat, Oltenia, Muntenia, Moldova (both sides of the Prut river) and whatnot.

The only problem I see there is for the Roma people, but their problem is not nearly as big as the one of the Uyghurs. It's not the 1800s anymore.

ginerel, 4 months ago

Well, those who did not vote are complacent to the majority vote. So I'd say that's a win.

Always go out there and vote, regardless of the option you choose. That's what keeps a democratic system up and running. If you don't, you just agree with what is decided by others and stay complacent.

ginerel, 4 months ago

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn't it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

ginerel, 4 months ago

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

ginerel, 4 months ago

Probabil or să le pese când or să vadă tot mai mulți efectele. Eu am RedReader și l-am folosit de ceva ani înainte de scandalul cu API-ul. Chiar am răsuflat ușurat când am văzut că nu e afectată aplicația respectivă, pentru că e cam cel mai bun mod de a intra pe Reddit pentru mine (da, am încercat mai multe aplicații, nu toate ce-i drept, dar parcă mereu reveneam pe RedReader). Însă, nu știu dacă e placebo sau dacă nu are legătură cu API-ul, dar parcă Reddit-ul chiar nu mai e ca înainte.

Îmi plăcea r/Romania că era un mix între shitpost, inside jokes și știri de calitate (din surse nepărtinitoare politic de obicei). Și acum sunt știrile destul de ok, însă sunt multe comentarii care se vede că sunt părtinitoare față de partidul x sau y (sau contra), sau care efectiv îmi dau brain damage.

Și da, se vede că sunt și mulți oameni aterizați de pe Facebook și care periodic își mai aduc și memele de acum câțiva ani cu ei (și care for some reason sunt susvotate ca și cum ar fi ceva extraordinar de amuzant - probabil așa farmează oamenii ăia karma) - din alea gen Vlad the Inhaler. Pentru oamenii de genul, faptul că stau mai mult pe Reddit decât pe Facebook e un beneficiu imo. :))

Însă eu, chiar și pe RedReader nu simt că am vreun câștig din a intra pe Reddit.

Probabil dacă și când vor descoperi că există o platformă pe care vezi în majoritate conținut românesc (eventual una numită feddit 👀) or să facă schimbarea de curiozitate (sau din patriotism deșănțat) cine știe?

ginerel, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

News articles also in English from:

• Washington Post
• WSJ (Archived link)
• CNN
• The Guardian

ginerel, 5 months ago

Can't they add some sort of vegetation or something and make sure it's watered as regularly as possible? Maybe something specific to the area (besides cactuses) that can keep more shade.