We’ve formed a committee to look into it

Lemmy just BLEW AWAY the LinkedIn Writing Style.

A few simple witty posts have utterly upended how we communicate on the internet.

Normal Users:

• Post replies

• Up and Downvote

• Embarassingly minimizing the display when your boss approaches the desk.

And maybe that works for normal online interactions.

Sure, it’s fine if you’re an entry level Lemmy user

But you’ll never change the culture of the internet.

So we came up with

Something that’s

Even better than

What we used

To post like

Before

We first started using

This online

digital service

For posting our

Thoughts to

Other

Pe

ople

It’s called memes.

Barely fifteen minutes earlier…

The entire point of the Internet’s infrastructure design was for it to be highly distributed.

The textbook explainer for the existence of the internet was (at least) two fold:

• Provide a high speed communication between research universities for conveying large amounts of digital data

• Devise a system of redundant communication such that any major node going offline would not cripple the international data infrastructure (specifically with an eye towards major natural disasters or nuclear wars).

But the evolution of the system, from a boutique international data exchange for government enterprises to a business-heavy commercial data system to a retail facing SaaS model degraded both original goals.

Data is no longer supposed to be public and freely traded. It is jealously guarded as a commodity controlled by a handful of privatized tech giants. And due to the continuous, voracious digital harvesting performed by these tech giants, more and more of the information needs to be siloed, encrypted, and otherwise shielded. This clogs the vast redundant network with overlarge choke-points designed to filter out unwanted traffic and shield the identity/data of its users.

This isn’t a “US bad” problem. This is a “don’t be stupid, stupid” issue.

The stupidity is a directly result of how the US private sector repurposed tools layout out by the international public sector. Unregulated solicitations and chronic system intrusions by malicious actors aimed at a naive retail user base, combined with the gluttonous privatization of research data, has inverted the core function of the network.

And because of the Tragedy of the Commons, there is no single actor who can fix the problem through their own virtue. You can’t unfuck this chicken with a Meshnet or through voluntary individualistic commitments to ideological principles unbound from the central rules of network communication.

You need the heavy hand of national scale regulators and industry scale redevelopment to re-engineer how the root layers of the internet function if you want to get back to its original design.

Or… if we’re moving in the direction it seems that we’re moving… we’re going to end up with a wholly proprietary loose confederation of Walled Gardens that look more and more like the Anarcho-Capitalist model of civil government (ie, The Network State).

If you’ve got standards, sure.

But “Paddington 2 is just as good as Tron 3” leaves me questioning your rubric.

Right has the far better perspective.

Two compelling critiques of the latest Zootopia film.

I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

It’s not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

Sure. But the cameras exist. You can use them for other stuff.

Hateful Eight was filmed in 70mm, and while it wasn’t Tarantino’s best work it certainly looked nice.

It’s not even innovation, per say. It’s just Big Number Go Up.

Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That’s some fucking innovation.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.

Honestly a little surprised the IMAX guys didn’t start churning out 4k+ content given that they’ve been in the business forever.

But I guess “IMAX in your living room” isn’t as sexy when the screen is 60" rather than 60’

Aurora isn’t really anti-google as it’s merely a different front end for Play (that you can use anonymously).

You could say the same about Piped, which is just an alt front end for YouTube.

None of these alternatives seem to tackle the networking effect of the root Google services. None of them address durability, either. Proton VPN launched in 2017, Google’s been around since 1998. Microsoft’s been around since 1975. IBM’s been around since 1911.

If you don’t mind rebasing your entire digital profile every five or ten years, these alternatives are fine. But most people don’t want to ditch a 20 year old email address or fiddle with a brand new OS, when enshitification can be right around the corner for any of these services in another few years.

Ffs, I’d just finished putting the shine on my PLEX server before they shit the bed.

Trying to explain to my wife that millennials are the most technologically savvy generation in history, but she just keeps yelling back “give me the Netflix password, the TV won’t turn on”

A company with a $3.2T market share. The game is made up and the points don’t matter.

Tipping point. Their reputation is complete trash. People only subscribe to Comcast as a last resort.

“You would own nothing worth burgling, and you will like it”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the law was initially crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be termed copwatching.

…

Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control, as did the National Rifle Association of America. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the Capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons”

Kanye No: Getting paid to report on civil rights abuses

Kanye Yes: Getting paid to inflict civil rights abuses

“I want to be a conscientious objector.”

“AR-NOLD!”