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• Social media. It’s unregulated, and allowing people to fall into echo chambers of hate. When all you see is unchallenged radical nonsense you become a radical. The social media companies don’t care what people see, just that they stay on the apps as long as possible. Young men are a particularly vulnerable group - when you feel disenfranchised and worried for the future you’re the perfect target for easy answers from hate groups. And if you get fed more and more of that crap because you watched a bit, it soon becomes all you see unchallenged.

  We urgently need social media regulation across Europe - not bans for children (pointless) but complete reform of social media to benefit all ages. Control of the algorithms need to be taken out of the hands of the big US & Chinese tech companies who use to to create addiction and maximise “engagement” to maximise profit, and instead it needs to be run for the benefit of the citizens / user. Public Service Social Media is what we need - much like Public Service Television ensured balanced and healthy TV across Europe in the 20th and early 21st century, we need the same for social media.

  Social media is the common factor between the rise in far right hate groups across the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy and more. The changes in the Netherlands are a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself.

  on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago

• Yes because they have no choice: the technology has plateaued and is beyond the point of diminishing returns.

  This isn’t about making things safe; it’s about getting “ahead” of the stories of them failing to meet the crazy expectations from the market bubble. They are managing expectations as the bubble is bursting and this is a stratagem to try and talk them out of this mess. But they can’t change reality by just saying stuff, as much as them seem to believe. Reality is catching up with them.

  on AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• You need to suck it up; work and school choose their email providers. Use it purely for work - not your personal life and not for anything private. Use it in it’s own browser container or even it’s own browser if you want. Especially if your college doesn’t provide POP3 or IMAP access. It is worth contacting the college IT to see if that is something you can use though - it my be something they can enable even if it’s off currently or provide instructions for the correct server addresses. It’d be surprised if they didn’t have either but they may want it all locked down in gmails services. More fool them.

  My work (like many) uses Office 365 including Outlook for mail. So I have the crappy MS Office apps on my phone. But it is used purely for work (and I mute all notifications).

  I use Firefox and have google account for my android stuff, which is in a container. And I also use the linux version of Edge (which is a flatpak) for the rare time I want to look at my work email of office online on my PC.

  on I am required to use Gmail as the email client for my school email in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026

• No it’s simple and not confusing at all: The models are well beyond the point of diminishing returns for investment and the AI bosses know they cannot possibly meet the crazy expectations of the stock markets. So instead of them failing to deliver, they are using this excuse to seem like they’re choosing not to deliver for everyone’s good.

  It won’t work - the bubble is going to burst regardless.

  on ‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I think it’s good news but the article seems quite biased and putting an overly positive spin on what’s going on. It reads more like a press release than an actual news article.

  The article mentions this investment will bring the capacity up to about 1/3 of the energy usage. That to me is stretching the meaning of “powerhouse”. Powerhouse strongly implies that the Mediterranean would become a net exporter of renewable energy. Instead this level of investment is just a step on the way to decarbonise the power supply of the region.

  There is also one quote about fears that Spain is sliding backwards due to fears after the energy blackout. This is a real fear but it is dismissed in the next sentence and we’re back to positive spin.

  It’s great that there is this level of investment going on, but this reads like a propaganda fluff piece rather than an actual news article. Worth noting Euronews is owned by Alpaca Capital, an investment fund that is purportedly controlled by allies of Viktor Orban; the former prime minister of Hungary. It also has investments in renewable solar energy in the Mediterranean. So I wonder if this is more about Alpaca’s investments in solar than it is actual news?

  on ‘Incredible progress’: Inside the €682bn drive to turn the Mediterranean into a renewable powerhouse in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• So the global total GDP this year is estimated to be $100trillion. Anthropic expects it’s revenue to eventually be equivalent to 30% of global GDP? US GDP is expected to be $32trillion this year. Antrhopic expects it’s revenue to be eventually be equivalent to 94% of US GDP?

  And we’re supposed to believe we’re not in a bubble?

  on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Steam’s terms of service mean devs/publishers can’t promote a game as being free elsewhere. It’s likely directed at preventing redirecting people to Epic or a sale at another store, but also by effect includes games like this. Either they put it for free on Steam or they sell it on Steam and can’t mention free downloads from their website, and it’s up to users to “shop around”.

  I get what you’re saying, but I think if spending $10 on a game is something that would give someone pause, then the onus really is on them to search around first to see what the best deal is? People act like steam is a monopoly, but there is a lot of choice out there.

  on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Yeah, I’m sure the KDE Foundation spent this year’s entire budget on this, and it wasn’t just a fun little side project for one of the many volunteers who keep open source going.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Yeah, I love just shaking the mouse when I’m bored or waiting for something to finish downloading.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
  If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it’ll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Yeah and the biggest issue is covered well here: https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink

  Essentially: the profits are in the infrastructure end (AI companies paying for parts to build the data centres) not the consumer facing end (the actual models - customer paying AI companies). The money is coming from investors buying in to AI in the hope of winning the supposed arms race to be The One True AI. The whole thing depends on the revenues in the consumer facing end going up to show this is a growing market and make people believe they will eventually reach profit. But the revenues in the consumer facing end are fake and being inflated by circular movements of money including companies like Nvidia paying companies like OpenAI to buy product, or OpenAI paying for product in stock. The revenue inflation is very similar to how Enron inflated it’s books its revenue appear higher than it really was.

  The brutal reality is: there will not be One True AI to Rule Them All. Instead AI is looking increasingly like a commodity - people will just use the cheapest, simplest tool to do the task, rather than play inflated prices for a swiss army knife AI. And people can host those cheap, simple AIs aleady at home, or on servers in the cloud, or companies can also do the same. The whole US bubble is predicated on spending as much money as possible to stake a claim in a future Google, when it’s looking more like it’ll be like the fast food sector with razor thin margins. Some of these companies may end up profitable but this is going to be a hell of a lot more competitive and less profitable than the valuations assume.

  Expect a very nasty correction.

  on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• The purpose of a Lemmy - like Reddit - is to share a link, people read the link, and then they discuss the link in the comments. It’s up to you if you want to just get the gist from the comments, but you don’t need to do it in such an entitled and obnoxious way by leaving a comment to OP like this. OP is just sharing an interesting article.

  on We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles & we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a faster NVMe SSD would have an impact in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• I use Micro in the terminal - it offers good desktop integration with keys similar to DEs like ctrl+v and ctrl+c, rather than being terminal centred (e.g. Ctrl+C is usually the standard interrupt/abort key in the terminal). So it’s nice if you’re mainly in a desktop but pop in to a terminal occasionally and have the DE muscle memory.

  I use Kate outside the terminal.

  But honestly, which text editor you use depends on what you use it for and how often. Vim is very powerful and allows very fast use & productivity if you learn it properly and probably very useful if you spend a lot of time in the terminal or TTY, but Nano is more straight forward and easy for a lot of basic terminal based work.

  on intimidating in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026