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As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap
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- on It Turns Out That Meta's Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5h ago
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on Gorillaz Based of Course [Rule] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago
They use flesh avatars for touring.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Not to the same degree or in the same way. In the US the name of the game is to have companies run themselves into the ground to line the pockets of CEOs and investors, and then the state bailing them out every time because of jobs and national pride.
I’m sure there are other systems in place as well, but frankly I don’t care. Teslas are pretty much the only American cars you’ll see in Europe, and they’ve been subsidized by European countries to promote the electronic transition.
In short, I don’t think about American cars at all.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I love how criticizing the Chinese car industry leads people to asssume I love the American one.
The US hasn’t produced a decent car since the 60s. I don’t even factor them into the calculation.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
American capitalism has rendered companies incapable of producing anything that’s not crap at a scale because they need to maximise profit at all costs, while quality doesn’t mean shit. Every company is Boeing.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Pederstrians Should Fear
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Yeah. Companies running on state subsidies competing with others who are not is not capitalism “working”, it’s just another rug pull leaving us all fucked.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Chinese cars are heavily subsidized by the state. The reason they’re so cheap is because China bets it can squeeze the competition out of the market before charging basically whatever they want.
I’ve seen Starbucks do the same thing to independent coffee shops.
Edit: This is a post about real car companies like Nissan, Volvo, Mercedes, Renault, whatever. I don’t care about America. Nobody has for decades.
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on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago
Ideally we’d still keep NATO going in some sort of capacity and continue to pretend to be friends with the US and Turkey, but with friends like that who needs enemies.
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on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago
I think Europeans tend to be more similar than we realize, but our views on military is a big exception. We have very different histories and geographical distance to Russia. Those of us bordering Russia tend to value a strong defence, Spaniards tend to think it’s completely unnecessary and many of them don’t seem to care too much about what is going on in eastern Europe. Those with a recent history of invasion probably see military differently from those with a recent history of civil war and totalitarianism.
As a Scandinavian I pretty much see Canada as an extension of the Nordics. Cooperating with them makes all the sense in the world. We already have a Nordic Defence Cooperation and I’d be happy to see Canada join.
As a Norwegian I feel uncomfortable about Greenland. My ancestors left there hundreds of years ago, and Denmark has no remotely legitimate claim of the land whatsoever. It certainly needs security guarantees today, and we should offer them, but we shouldn’t get any ideas of ownership. Many Danes seem to think they have rightful ownership of the land because their tax money pays for welfare there. That’s obviously an absurd claim. We should back them up any way we can while also leaving their destiny to the Greenlanders.
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on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago
I wouldn’t want Erdogan’s Turkey in there either. Free Kurdistan.
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on Euro-Office desktop app will launch as part of Nextcloud Hub 26 in the next few weeks in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 17 Sep 2026
Euro-Office is a fork of OnlyOffice, which has questionable Russian ties. This is explicitly part of the reason for doing a hard fork:
- ONLYOFFICE is a Russian company (despite many attempts to hide this), and nearly all developers reside in Russia. Open Source is a global effort, but current political situation makes collaboration hard and trust difficult to earn. Especially when development is not transparent and open. A lot of users and customers require software that is not potentially influenced or controlled by the Russian government.
In general it’s worth reading their github readme. They’re very open about where they get their support from and what their priorities are, and they also explicitly address their relationship with LibreOffice.
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Every major innovation in information technology eventually leads to some new religion. Scrolls gave us the Torah, books gave us the Bible, the printing press gave us Protestantism. We’re about to figure out what god awful religion computers are going to give us.
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on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely - ~tildes.official [Reddit Alternative] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
It’s funny to do a Ctrl+F for Lemmy in the thread linked by OP. They all collectively seem to agree that the threadiverse is a bunch of weirdos and that it’s only good for memes and brainrot.
I’m not saying they’re wrong, but it’s true that they do seem to have a culture for lengthyness.
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on Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Yeah. I don’t have the energy to read up on him too much but what I see reminds me more of socially awkward teenagers trying to be edgy than actual fascists. It seems to me it’s a person who needs guidance more than boycot and a cold shoulder. But then again I can’t be bothered to do my research and I’m sure a lot of people would be eager to tell me how wrong I am.
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on Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
They sponsor a window manager called Hyprland, which is developed by some aggressively unwoke guy. When dealing with it Framework has blundered, babbling about a big tent instead of publicly asking the guy to stop being an idiot if he wants to keep receiving money.
I suspect people asking to boycot Framework tend to forget that people occasionally need to buy new laptops, and when doing so they have the choice between 1) a repairable laptop developed by a company supporting open source, and 2) a non-repairable laptop lining the pockets of people who are guaranteed to do more evil in the world than whoever develops some fucking Wayland window manager. But this is probably a dangerous take in these parts.
Edit: It seems the Framework also tweeted about Omarchy and some stuff. Not a great look, not sure if it’s boycot worthy either.
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on XCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
https://bird.makeup/ should allow you to follow twitter accounts from the fediverse. Obviously interactions don’t make it back to twitter, but could be useful nevertheless. See for example @franceskalbs@bird.makeup. Unfortunately twitter is full of trolls, so many instances block bird.makeup to avid spam from seeping through.
It’s not an alternative to xcancel as it doesn’t allow you to read feeds you don’t follow, but it’s good if you want to keep up to date with what users post.
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on Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off in c/technology@piefed.social · 26 Aug 2026
I agree.
I can accept the idea of charging insane prices for hardware if that means you get a good product in return, which seems to have been the deal way back when.
The locking down of the whole ecosystem and turning users into idiots with no agency over their devices while charging fees for any app installed was shitty, but somehow stayed true to the general ideas of Apple. Reasonably good products if you don’t mind being a sucker.
This on the other hand is pure enshittification, allowing your product to become more crap in order to maximise profit. Once they start doing that they’re no different from Google.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Also as illustrated again and again, from ICE hunting down good people to cops stalking women because they are pigs, surveillance is not safety. It’s rather the opposite. I want privacy so that I can remain safe.
I don’t think anyone who ever lived in a totalitarian regime would describe it post fact as having made them safer.
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026
Here we very much disagree in our understanding of American history, but that’s another debate. :)
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026
I care more about privacy and security than I do about throwing a few bucks at Google’s hardware division.
And I’m more worried about surveillance capitalism, the rise of fascism, attacks on software freedom, the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, and modern day slavery than I am about extremely targeted local security threats. But I also respect that others have different threat models. Some journalists and community organizers in [aspiring] dictatorships need higher security standards than I do, and they are only able to meet these standards because enthusiasts choose to make it a priority.
I live in Europe, and I don’t find it very difficult to avoid overly evil shit. I wouldn’t travel to the US, and if I did I wouldn’t want to bring any personal electronics with me.
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026
And yet they have the entire industry in the palm of their hand.
For me it’s a no-brainer. I don’t buy products from Google, Amazon, Musk, Zuckerberg, or anyone else who obviously want to do me harm. Any path towards a better world sold to me by the people who are busy destroying the current one will be treated with immense scepticism.
I don’t see much point arguing further why I wouldn’t buy my privacy respecting hardware from Google or de facto Flock. We probably have different priorities.
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026
I use a degoogled Fairphone. No money going to Google when I bought it, no data going to Google while I use it. You can also buy Fairphones new without Google Android.
more harmful than even throwing a couple bucks back at Google directly for hardware that will probably end up costing them more money than it makes them when you remove all their spyware.
This seems delusional. Even if they don’t run on huge profits from selling their devices you end up supporting their market dominance.
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026
While there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism yadda yadda there’s still degrees of bad. I would not buy from a company who is actively building the infrastructure of the fascist surveillance state. By Google phone here I meant a Google brand phone, not a phone that comes with Google Android. Buying a Google Pixel second hand is obviously better than buying anything new.
Basically I think it’s worth trying to avoid buying things from people who want to do you harm, and when compromises have to be made it’s still worth settling for less evil. Motorola and Google are not that.
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on Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026
Motorola is also involved in the surveillance industry, both with their own direct competitors to Flock cameras and as the owners of a company named Avigilon. 404media has reported on how both contibuted to surveillance in Alabama.
I wouldn’t buy a Google phone in pursuit of privacy, and I wouldn’t buy a Motorola one either. Sending money that direction defeats the purpose.
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on New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
They literally want to have surveillance cameras sticking out of our fucking ears and have us pay for it. And no doubt a bunch of idiots cannot wait to comply.
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on Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
As other people in this thread points out, WSL is not ideal but it really saves the ass of anyone forced to use Windows at work.
I have a thinkpad handed to me from work with windows on it and all the usual restrictions. I tried for a while to use it by constantly running a virtual machine with Linux, but Windows is not a stable enough environment to host that. So in the end I just bought myself a framework laptop because nobody actually controls that I use the laptop provided by work.
Not everyone is that lucky. Canonical found a way to make their life easier. I think that’s objectively great, no matter what you think about Canonical as a company.
WSL is not generally something people use because they are afraid of changing to Linux, they use it because they are not allowed by IT to change their OS.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I have a FP5 and a similar problem to you. My FP3 before it died on me so it’s not much help.
I’m low key planning to find a second hand FP3 and use it to experiment with Linux until I find there are no big problems with using it as a daily driver. In practice I don’t really have enough time to put into it so I’ll probably keep on using /e/ for the forseeable future.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I got myself a physical code chip because MitID doesn’t work with /e/. The code chip works great.
The app is probably convenient, but I am also very happy not to depend on my phone to sign in to everything.
They’re currently marketing haggling bots to both sellers and buyers for auction sites, so that two bots owned by the same company can argue each other back and forth trying to squeeze the price down. Truly brilliant.