That would mean less money, at least in the short term, but also in the long term as it grants the user the autonomy of optionality, the power to choose some of Google’s edicts. Really it’s about the power to shape the choices of the users in the future. Take their power away. And in the future this will be conducive to leverage this power against the user for more money.

I asked the AI about it, in case anyone is curious https://chatgpt.com/share/68454a70-5cd8-8005-8075-3579244f0ce4

Buy the cheapest laptop you can find, with a broken screen it’s fine. Install debian 12 on it give it a memorable name, like “server” go to a DNS registrar of your choice, maybe “porkbun” and buy your internet DNS name for example “MyInternetWebsite.tv”, this will cost you 20$/30$ for the rest of your life, or until we finally abolish the DNS system to something less extortionnate Install webmin and then apache on it go to your router, give the laptop a static address in the DNS section Some router do no have the ability to apply a static dhcp lease to computers on your network, in that case it will be more complicated or you will have to buy a new one, one that preferably supports openwrt. then go to port forwarding and forward the ports 80 and 443 to the address of the static dhcp lease now use puttygen to create a private key, copy that public key to your linux laptop’s file called /root/.ssh/authorized_keys go to the webmin interface, which can be accessed with http://server.lan:10000/ from any computer on your PC and setup dynamic dns, this will make the DNS record for MyInternetWebsite.tv change when the IP of your internet connection changes, which can happen at any time, but usually rarely does. But you have to, or else when it changes again, your website and email will stop working. Now go to your desktop computer, and download winsshfs, put in your private key and mount the folder /var/www/html/ to a drive letter like “T:” Now, whatever you put in T: , will be the content of your very own internet web server enjoy

Pull the cancer out by the root.

Well in any case I’m here and not there and when that happens there won’t be money to go to some magical car free place. We have winter here and the groceries are 20 km away. There is no bus, no taxi and not even uber. Not that I would have the 60 bucks a ride would cost. Of course I would also lose my job which 60km away.

So deer slug to the brain will be the prescription.

It isn’t a negociation. If some bureaucrat ticks that box, it will just be the end.

I don’t think I could afford to be homeless in SK.

I’m curious for something more sophisticated that dns blocks. Something that modifies the content on the fly like, ublock, dark reader and sponsorblock.

Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.

Can I block youtube ads with a transparent proxy like squid ? What about a self-hosted youtube auto-downloading queue list ? I’m fine with .mp4 files !

If you are asking how to then search for this

audacity slow down without pitch down

This always going to happen when a small group of people are going to try and the communications of a much larger group. They cannot scale and the more they try to keep up, the more tgey will cut corners and take easy, lazy decision.

Instead, everyone has to participate in community self-moderation. It should all be transparent and optionnal. Local sorting algorithms showing users what they ask to see.

Having a secret vanguard operating in the shadows is not acceptable,. Not only ut hurts them until they grow big enough to be the efficient secret police but then it creates an underlying organization of control shaping discourse on the entire platform.

The way forward is NOT to be reddit with extra steps.

I always wanted to take drugs with my computer!

What putting money into crypto does is empower early bitcoin speculators

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TPM is the wedge to put a cryptoprocessor in your computer so program can finally operate under the tyrannical scrutiny of users and the pirates using ghidra !

Yers, algorithmic content discovery should happen client side and all the machinery of this algorithm should have its knobs and levers exposed to the user.

I even want a checkbox “show deleted content”

And that’s not lemmy (and every social network’s) only fatal flaw

Lemmy was founded on the idra that we should be able to escape tyrannical admins like the homunculus /u/spez but it only moved the choke point to the moderators of centralized communities.

It is an improvement to be sure, but it really lacks the teeth to check the power of moderators because one crucial missing feature and that is

Automatic, default community aggregation view

Like imagibe the community called /c/books

Notice that this was not a link. There is no /c/books community of lemmy.

There are book communities on certain servers.

And suppose you want to browse or post to “books”, if you are a normal person you will search for books community and you will go to the most active one.

This is your typical power concentration pattern. You are certainly free to browse the 10 user books community, but most people who post there are posting to a microscopic proportion of the lemmy “books” audience.

You would be posting to those few people who change defaults, a largely insignifiant minority of people, you might as well be talking to no one at all.

I think instead this /c/books

Should have been a clickable link, and link should show you every post in every books in every instance.

Without that “automatic community aglomeration as a default view”** and seamless account migration, I think lemmy is destined to become a reddit with extra steps. And it will not thrive as it should.

** this is distinct to the “multireddit” concept which is a simple convenience feature that less than 1% of users would know to seek out and setup, therefore it cannot change moderator incentives and peovide general users a way to escape their dominating censorship.

Censorship on lemmy is rampant. Even on those instances where modlog is visible.

Not that modlog is anything user friendly. Severely lacking in search and filtering capability it also seems most modlog actions are autopurged, so if you’re not keeping up with your modlog on a weekly basis then you’re not getting a picture of just how much skewed your picture of reality is being shaped and skewed by the moderators of your instance.

Moderation calls itself janitorial, but they are the enginneer of tge digital reality you choose to inhabit.

Despite the “checkbox transparency” of lemmy this is not the cure-all we all wish it were.

First and foremost, you are a prisoner here the more you participate, the more you have to lose. Because lemmy does not have any kind of seamless account migration. So watch your thoughts or else you could be sent to the memory hole.

And then we have the dirty trick of “rules” and as we all know, these are cover stories for silencing voices while quieting the voices that remain, by telling them "you are not at risk, YOU wouldn’t ‘spread misinformation’ " or whatever.

If you want to play a game, read your community rulea and try to find which one is the catch all rules. All rulesets have catchalls that can be argued into justifying any moderator actions.

And all of that applies to good faith moderation. Bad faith moderation doesn’t have to convince itself of its fair neutrality, it will just use these same system knowingly to obfuscate its own actions.

I think this kind of artificial demand creation is the main driver for all resource consumption

Ever since the crisis of over production, MAJOR, unceasing psycho-social campaign have been continuously been running not just to foster demand but to ensure it exceeds the planned supply and ensure the price margin always remains on the right side of the curve.

This is the central reason why nearly everyone works ceaselessly to buy things they don’t need and dont have the time nor energy to use.