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• This is where ethical discussions kind of stop working, because it is actually quite a complex matter and probably needs a lot of philosophers to come to a sane conclusion.

  I mean, if we look at it in a rather economic way, a life basically has a certain value, which changes with time. Now, for each complication, the value gets lowered. When is the point reached, at which a life is not worth living anymore? One would think, this is a very personal and subjective answer. Now try to solve that problem for another human. This is just mind blowing for me to take such a huge responsibility.

  I am glad, that they found a solution which they believe was right for them and the baby.

  on First-ever case of euthanasia on very young child, 2, was handled well in c/europe@feddit.org · 1d ago

• This is something I was also always saying. The problem is that they are not allowed to hire freely. There is a limit of how many heads you can hire, due to whatever complex yearly budgeting. So to fulfill the requirements, they are looking for third party providers, which also include support and warranty. Usually this route is more expensive and less flexible. For those public tenders, they are bound by WTO rules. However, in this case, they were able to contract Microsoft freely, which is a huge fucking questionmark. This way you basically shut the door to competition, be it smaller IT companies just reselling Microsoft licenses, or companies able to provide a full set of open source tools including developers for customizations.

  Hopefully someone is going to investigate this whole mess.

  on Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026

• Looks more like a cuckoo

  on what kind of bird is that? in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026

• It was not in the article, but let me help you. Swiss bureaucracy is my speciality.

  There were two procurements in the past years, where only the minimal amount of data is publicly available. By request, they would release more data, but that’s something that takes multiple weeks. So I can only share what I have found so far.

  1. Years 2020-2024: CHF 161.69m (USD 198.02m)
  2. Years 2025-2027 CHF 139m (USD 170.21m)

  In those contracts it is not known how many licenses and which licenses were bought. So they will also include Operating Systems (client and server), and expensive licenses such as MSSQL Server. I’m sorry that I cannot share anything more useful right now.

  on Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• I was thinking about how I’d like to work on projects like these. Collaboration can be very fun and engaging. For this app, I am basically done already, so the next step is to verify if the features work with real people. If it turns out to be a success, I will come back to you and will open the doors happily, as two brains are always better than one.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Thanks a lot for sharing. I have a Community Manager background and also was a moderator at Jaumo. Having a place to engage can be fun, but I am not fully sure yet if people really want to do that, when they just want to date. I have to think about it and maybe I will add something as an optional feature.

  One of the things I am doing is launching with a wait list, so that an area can populate first, before opening the gates. This avoids the problem of feeling alone.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Oh that scam happened to me personally, too. It is not just annoying, it is damaging people.

  There is no option to go decentralized, as I have no incentive for others to spend computing power. Decentralized services are ideal for communication and I have also developed a fully peer-to-peer, end to end encrypted Discord alternative. I just didn’t want to release it yet, until someone verified the security layer. Other than that, I kinda need to have everything centralized to foster the community and to set the rules for that community.

  As I am not investor backed and also don’t want to be, I focus on releasing in very specific locations at first to create revenue with small investments. It takes a bit longer, but the growth is more stable and more organic.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Good point. Men usually get contacted by a lot of “gold diggers” and content creators. Women often are targets from scammers or crypto bros.

  Scammers can be avoided by using a mandated verification process. But here I don’t rely on a third party service, as privacy is a really important topic for me. I wouldn’t want users to be forced to upload sensitive data to Persona for example. This is why I have developed a small verification service, that applies some algorithms that have been working quite well according to the research papers. It will not be impossible to catch all scammers, but if 95% are cought, that’s already a big win. As for the other problem with people just trying to sell content, a working reporting system should help. The reporting systems of the current apps are majorly flawed, punishing legit people while protecting scammers. The reason is also gender based. The more women a dating app has, the more men are attracted, so women tend to get extra protection. That hurts the whole community.

  As for the funding, this is such a difficult topic. The system costs money, so I need to get a bit of money back. I didn’t want any of the “pay to win” features. I also don’t want ads, not even sponsored content. As a video gamer, I tried then to figure out why free games such as Warframe or Path of Exile were earning so much money. It comes down to two things people are willing to pay for: Cosmetics and time-savers. So that’s what I now implemented. Decorate your profile with paid cosmetics. I don’t know how to implement the time-savers yet, so for now it is just cosmetics and an optional “buy me a beer” donation I offer.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I am currently developing one and what I can see is the following:

  • people get treated like cash cows. It is almost not possible to successfully date without spending money
  • people are burned out. The low quality swiping, matching, just to get ghosted, is hurting the motivation.
  • people have other problems nowadays. COVID reshaped us completely. We don’t want to spend 2h a day on a dating app. 2h a week max and then they want to continue in real life.

  Those are pain points introduced by big corpos (e.g. Match.com) and the fact, that they have launched their apps before COVID.

  I have addressed those pain points.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Probably in chapter 1 of “How to Politician”

  on This Sentence Is Not A Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026

• Ah, tell me again how the data gets transferred with a bit of the magic Le Firewall

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• My magic trick: Le Firewall.

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• I can get that and I also prefer sticking to major versions. However, I am chaotic and easily have 50 different docker images, checking all the release cycle of all of those gets exhausting.

  I believe I need to start generating notifications if a tag has not received an update for more than 30d.

  on My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem – Phunky Cafe in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• The same pitch you hear from ads on instagram where they tell you the “secret” how to earn millions without doing anything. All you have to do is buy this eBook for $49

  on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• I hate providers not offering me a latest tag. Is there any valid reason not to do that?

  Even worse, super stupid version tags such as MinIO is using: RELEASE.2025-09-07T16-13-09Z-cpuv1 (I wish I made that up)

  on My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem – Phunky Cafe in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Reality: social media will be made unavailable in all Australia.

  on Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• It is weird, but also nice to see. We need the simple minded people. We need those that just want to have a working OS so that they can play a game or edit a document. That’s the beauty and curse of Linux. It will eventually make some people angry, because open source projects will come and go. Bazzite might be maintained now, but maybe not tomorrow. And the simple minded people don’t want to switch to something different. So I really hope the popularity is motivating current and future maintainers to make their userbase happy, even if I am not part of that one.

  Worth noting: “simple people” is in no way meant as a derogatory term, I honestly even envy them.

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 7 Sep 2026

• Yeah I tried all that. While homebrew is awesome for macos, for linux you are missing a lot of packages. I used distrobox, too. The amount of extra steps needed to just have a binary running is just not justifiable for my type of work. While I was able to do everything with Bazzite, I felt super inefficient and slow.

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 7 Sep 2026

• Same boat. Because a company abusing a hardware standard so much you basically have to emulate things, is the result of capitalism.

  on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Yeah my way of using linux is just not suitable for immutable systems. While it is good for most people, and while I love the philosophy of having immutable systems, I ended up using rpmtree constantly for the most simple things. And honestly, the only thing missing for it to be a very usable working OS is something like Homebrew.

  So yes. It made me mad. I’d rather have a bit more freedom in my terminal emulator.

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 7 Sep 2026

• OpenSuse is actually my personal preference, as I basically grew up with SLES. Will be my choice as soon as CachyOS starts to act funny

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026

• I do the updates when I feel like it, roughly once every couple days. I don’t check anything at all to be honest, because I use CachyOS on my private computer and I honestly do not care so much about getting malware. I know, probably not the answer you expected, I just learned to live with the risk. Besides that, I try to install flatpacks or via npm. pacman is just used for the things where no other option exists. AUR is a huge mess and will always be full of malware, so don’t ever use Arch on any important devices. This is why on my servers I have Debian 13. CachyOS has own repositories, but as far as I know they just mirror AUR and add/modify some build flags

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026

• Started on Garuda, it was okay.

  Went to Bazzite, made me mad constantly.

  Now I am on CachyOS for ages and couldn’t be happier. I only dislike the daily 4726 updates.

  on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026

• @talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world you have the genes of IE6

  on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Good thing I made a Discord alternative that is using p2p and thus making it impossible to verify the age of any user.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Anybody could make a website with blind claims in 10min. Why the fuck does this even get posted here?

  on Open source Peer-to-peer Huggingface with a Social Layer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• I think proton dodged a bullet as the comment of the CEO was only not okay, but not like super bad. But if you funnel 300k to a openly racist idiot, that’s super bad. Same with Mullvad. As soon as money flows, you are immediately batshit crazy.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Antoine’s argument is still very naive and short sighted.

  Only because some corporations are linked to fascism, does not make the technology inherently fascist.

  If these links are an issue, we should also all stop using Microsoft and Google, because they offer Isreael computing power, and thus every service is now supporting genocide. So if you are that user, all fine, enjoy an off-grid life. But don’t pretend to be better, if you still rely on those companies in the first place.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• So Debian, what are you going to do now?

  Edit: nm, they allow LLM written code now.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Uhm. Not new? Is being done by almost any country on any bigger event? Including blue light forces? How is this even news?

  on The German army is trying to attract recruits at Gamescom, the world’s biggest video game convention in c/games@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• Another easy trick is to lean your phone to a wall and to do some goatse. There is no better way to get rid of the spies.

  on Cover up in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026

• First they changed apt-get to apt. Now this.

  I can’t keep up with all the sudden changes.

  on Rule in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• yay

  on Rule in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Yay, another centralized service owned by investors. And they want to build on “trust” lmao. Fuck off.

  on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• I was/am. ChatGPT wasn’t. But that’s the joke. It is ironic to post an LLM generated answer to a post explaining that LLM generated answers are stupid.

  on Don't paste the AI. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• This is such a bizarre take on AI.

  If I ask you a question, I want a useful answer. I don’t care whether you got there by remembering it, Googling it, reading documentation, asking a colleague, or asking an LLM.

  Obviously, blindly pasting 2,000 words of irrelevant AI slop is annoying. But that’s a problem with bad answers, not with AI.

  The particularly stupid part is suggesting that you should take a perfectly good AI-generated answer and rewrite it in your own words. What exactly has been achieved then? The information is identical, except somebody wasted five minutes manually paraphrasing it so the recipient can feel sufficiently exposed to human keystrokes.

  Use AI. Give it the relevant context. Verify important claims. Remove irrelevant garbage. Send the useful answer.

  Judge communication by its accuracy, relevance and usefulness—not by how inefficiently somebody produced it.

  /s

  on Don't paste the AI. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• That just means only idiots install Ubuntu.

  Or that it is just the default for WSL.

  on Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• What an interesting project! Unfortunately I need MCP support, which is why I now host my own GitLab instance to get rid of GitHub.

  on Never seen it this bad in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Aug 2026

• Fck, my bad, you are absolutely right. Fixed my comment.

  on Bethesda is sending DMCA notices to a Ukrainian fighting the war in the frontlines to take down a classic (Fallout 1/2) engine emulator which doesn't use game files, ROMs, game code, textures, or music (you have to own the game to use it). in c/games@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• Even if the traffic of the torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, there have to be central nodes managing all that unfortunately. This is why DMCA notices are also successful with torrent providers. Without anyone providing that central node, no torrent works.

  One of the major weaknesses of bittorrent.

  Edit: the solution is called DHT and I was a morron totally forgetting about that.

  on Bethesda is sending DMCA notices to a Ukrainian fighting the war in the frontlines to take down a classic (Fallout 1/2) engine emulator which doesn't use game files, ROMs, game code, textures, or music (you have to own the game to use it). in c/games@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.

  

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

• Surveillance was never the issue. Crime rate is high because people have no education, no jobs with fair salary, no future. Especially if you have a health condition, chances are that your life will be better inside a prison because of the included healthcare.

  Fucked up situation. And it will take decades of recovery.

  on Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• I’d even go a step further and say that only because of Flock’s good auditing, those cases were revealed. Which means at the same time, that in the past, police officers were doing the same, just hidden.

  Kinda like a “don’t shoot the messenger” situation.

  on Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• Absolutely! We all basically do fingerprinting. We’re just not really conscious about the key we are using. But with a bit of statistics, you could identify people.

  on How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• • Only the key-holder can check. Your teacher, editor, or favourite “AI detector” website cannot run this test; a genuine check needs the provider’s secret key, or a checking service the provider runs. Google runs an early-access detector portal for SynthID; Anthropic says detection tooling is forthcoming.

  I am not so sure about that. The amounts of words is finite and with enough text, you will see that certain words are used more often, especially in certain combinations. I believe people will brute force this and then create a way to destroy the watermark again.

  on How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• What? Lol

  on How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• What a smart economist that is. 2 years after everybody knew how this scheme works, they came to the same conclusion. Amazing. Now the world will for sure change. Thank you.

  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