Yeah, same as that W thing was trying to do. It’s just a Nextcloud instance with a fancy domain name.

That might not be a bad thing though. If people get off Dropbox and Google and start using Nextcloud I’m a fan, even if they do it for slightly dumb reasons. Being based in the Hague is not a crime even if you’re not an international institution, and if people think it’s an official EU thing because of association with a city with no major EU institutions in it that’s on them.

(Jeg endte opp på dansk Wikipedia uten å legge merke til det, så om du syns språket ser litt rart ut er det grunnen! 😅)

Wikipedia definerer kunst på følgende måte:

Kunst er forskellige former for menneskelig aktivitet, der bygger på tekniske færdigheder, fantasi, intuition, ide og følelsesmæssig kraft, og som resulterer i et produkt – et kunstværk.

Jeg er enig i denne definisjonen, og jeg syns dermed det er vanskelig å akseptere KI-genererte bilder som kunst i det hele tatt. Om du printer det ut og henger det det opp i et museum er det faktum at du gjør dette en slags form for performancekunst, men ganske crap sådan.

Fantastic answer, thank you! I was thinking about tardigrades, I heard they can survive in space but this would clearly require a little more than that.

The fungal spores lying dormant waiting for the right time to reawaken sounds like a crazy sci-fi plot.

Would make an excellent supper bowl.

Piefed is my preferred platform to consume Peertube content. Here’s an example of what a channel looks like.

It’s good for following channels and getting them directly in my feed alongside everything else. I also find the user interface enjoyable. If there are multiple related channels one can create a custom feed with all of them together, so that its easy to keep track and for other people to find the same group of channels.

Discoverability remains a problem. It’s not easy to find new channels - I generally just stumble upon them when I randomly see videos posted elsewhere. Discoverability of feeds is also not great - if you don’t know it exists you probably won’t find it. ~peertubecreators@piefed.social and ~fediversevideos@piefed.social are two feeds containing PeerTube channels, but they don’t have a clear direction as for the type of content.

If this was to happen next week, what would it mean for life on earth? I get that I would probably have to cancel my appointments, but what’s the most complex form of life that could realistically survive the blow, if any?

Valid point. A well-documented human bias is also that we tend to think everything was better back when we were young - all ageing post-war age groups think society worked best when they were in their 20s. It’s natural that some people bass their political belief on this sense of nostalgia.

No need to act weird about it, just put the link straight in the post and write like a normal person. :)

404media had an interesting inteview with a Kenyan “data labeller”. He talks about his jobs working with AI companies, and how he had to pretend being all kinds of things. He’d work at least 18 hours a day, constantly switching between roleplaying different characters of different genders to people who thought they were talking to AI.

So even people who think they are talking to robots might be sexting some underpaid guy in Kenya.

Yeah, it’s tricky. I donated to Mozilla in the past, will look into making some donations to Servo moving forwards as I really think that’s the way things are headed for me. I keep trying to use GNOME Web which is WebKit based and it keeps getting better, but it’s not quite there yet for me. So for now Mozilla is my best bet in spite of everything.

A lot to unpack here.

She said the people she chatted to often seemed “really nice” but were obviously lonely, making the whole process feel sad, especially as she was not the person she was pretending to be.

I feel like this summarizes the time we’re living in. Some poor bastard somewhere sitting on his computer chatting with some lady he believes he is paying for attention, but in fact he is just being pitied by some unnamed underpaid worker in the Philippines. Meanwhile they’re both filling the accounts of an online influencer and some onlyfans tech bro, both of whom are surely completely miserable in their own right.

Ah, yeah, sorry, I didn’t read your comment carefully enough. Misread it as being a point about constants through change in terms of understanding ideology, and that conservatives are becoming something new that they were not before. My bad! It has been a long day.

Totally agree with your point.

Yeah, I returned to FireFox after the latest release because of the kill switch. Still I’m uncomfortable with using software that’s full of stuff that I hate, even if it’s disabled. This is not really rational I guess, just me being weird.

EDIT: I misread the comment above, which I completely agree with. I ended up writing a reply about the dangers of allowing the meaning of concepts to change along with dominant narratives. Not really relevant to the discussion, but keeping it below because why not.

I understand this argument from an American point of view - if I were conservative I certainly wouldn’t brand myself as such if I were American.

I have two counterarguments. First, this is a form of surrender, where we accept that the word has lost its meaning and we no longer have the vocabulary to talk about conservativism in its original sense. Language is essential for thinking, and by destroying the language and the words we use to understand concepts the ruling classes can keep us from understanding them at all. Everything becomes meaningless. Fascists, conservatives, nazis, libertarians, libarals, centrists all become the same as concepts are blurred and lose their meaning to the point where we cannot think of anything any more. This type of rhetorical class warfare is common in the US - there has been active efforts to destroy any word associated with socialism for a hundred years now. I think we should insist on the meaning of words and their distinctions because we should insist on thinking. The two are, fundamentally, the same thing.

My second counterargument is that this guy on the train was German. Europe is not America, we don’t want to import your stupid politics. We are better off on our own. Call this a conservative argument if you will.

Labels are useless as their meanings keep changing across time and contexts, and as soon as you adapt one for yourself people will either resent you for your choice of label or for not being holy enough (you’re a progressive but you believe people should be allowed to own guns and you honestly think free trade isn’t killing the planet and you believe in death penalty? Blah blah blah).

It’s more useful to think in terms of ideological cleavages. On the scale of authoritarianism to personal freedoms you believe in LGBTQ+ and women’s rights to control their own bodies. Properly vetted immigration could mean many things but is generally indicative of being on the right. Believing in death penalty and emphasizong strong military further pushes you to the right on this scale. Sounds like somewhere centre right on that dimension.

Along the economic dimension you believe in taxing the rich and providing universal welfare, placing you left of centre. “Lower taxes if possible” I guess then goes for low income folks, and is very much in line with taxing the rich in a society like the US - the “if possible” is key, as it seems you’re willing to prioritize the wellbeing of your neighbours. Investment in education and science is also left on this dimension.

Another useful dimension is secular/religious, where you appear to be pretty secular. I guess that explains your opinions about abortion and LGBTQ+ in spite of being more on the authoritarian spectrum, as the religious parts of conservativism seems less important to you.

If the word “conservative” hadn’t been ruined I’d say you’re closer to a conservative than a progressive. But in the political climate of current-day America I guess you’re a dangerous far-left radical.

I really don’t think this is an accurate description of what an average ageing conservative German is.

Conservative means what it means - people who want to conserve rather than change, and are comfortable with how things are and, in their opinion, have always been. It’s a naïve world view based on a lacking understanding of how society changes. The people who hold it tend to be of privileged groups who can afford to be blind to injustice. That doesn’t mean they are fans of it - their privilege has just left them with a blind spot, and when injustice is pointed out to them they tend to blame those showing it to them for creating it in the first place. Again, they are not brilliant people, but they’re generally not evil, just a bit dumb.

When American self-proclaimed conservatives storm the Capitol building and make an active effort to fuck up their country as much as humanly possible they are not conservative in the same way some Günther riding the Deutsche Bahn is conservative. Similarly, I’m not a socialist in the same way Pol Pot was a socialist.

American fascists have intentionally stripped the word “conservative” of meaning, and if we accept their narrative we allow them to make us dumber.

I’m not saying CDU and CSU are brilliant parties, but the fundamental idea of German conservitivism is not the idea of “conservatives” as a select group of people for which society should work. If anything this is a description of populism.

Super impressed by this based on first impressions! Searxng never seemed robust when I used it (not hosting my own), this feels a lot more solid. I guess that could also be due to less traffic, as I’m only using public instances.

I am pretty happy with Qwant recently, but might either try this as my default search or as my first fallback option when Qwant fails. Amazing work!

I was thinking the same thing when I read this:

A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack. Positioning Digg as simply an alternative to incumbents wasn’t imaginative enough. That’s a race we were never going to win. What comes next needs to be genuinely different.

Small team, completely reimagined, not simply an alternative, genuinely different… They are describing a federated instance.

Oooh, neat community! Joined!

I guess that’s one benefit of a smaller site - if you put down the effort in it, it stands out more. But community discovery is absolutely a challenge.