Elmo is angy that Meta hired the employees he fired (or who quit because Twitter's a fucking dumpster fire) to build a Twitter-like service.

No no, you don't understand: the rules only apply to plebs like you and me. Corporations and their rich executives are free to do anything they want

I've been on a hiatus due to some medical stuff making it hard for me to concentrate, but I'm a lock nerd. I collect cool locks ("cool" being very subjective here 😅) and pick / manipulate them.

edit: here's a tiny part of my collection. I'd upload more but I'm having a hard time with the mobile site and image uploads

I live in an area with a lot of Russian immigrants, many of them fairly recent (likely moved because they didn't want to get drafted), and I wish I could say I was surprised by this behavior. Vatniks are violently belligerent

I mean, the build quality isn't a problem for terrestrial use where your life doesn't depend on it. A 1% failure rate (I don't know what it actually is, just pulling a number out of my ass) is not bad in those cases, but I'd be a bit nervous about it in a sub.

For me, the whole point of paying for streaming was so that I could support the film makers without dealing with ads.

That doesn't sound profitable. How about artists and content creators only getting 0.1% of the profits and you have to watch ads? That sounds like it'd make the executives much richer.

Ja tässä on vasta jäävuoren huippu. Saa nähdä mitä vitun idiotismia sieltä vielä pukkaa, suattaapi tulla pitkät neljä vuotta

Absolutely no idea. Since it's from one of the *chans I wouldn't trust it 😅 but yeah, still funny

Member of the European Parliament.

The European Parliament is an important forum for political debate and decision-making at the EU level. The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically.

Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en

Just don't ask me what other branches and divisions the EU government has 😅 I'm hilariously badly informed on how the system actually works, forgot all my civics lessons from 20+ years ago

Ah so it is just about residuals, I was just speculating on another comment that that might be the reason.

This fucking sociopathic cutthroat capitalism where literally nothing matters except squeezing more money out of everyone is getting real damn old

Don't streaming platforms remove canceled shows so they don't have to pay residuals to actors (or whoever is contractually getting them)? I've understood that streaming residuals are pretty shit to begin with

Billionaires died of hubris, oh no. The kid I might feel bad about but the rest not so much. Drowning migrants are desperate poor people looking for a better future, I don't see how those are in any way comparable except for happening at sea

My understanding is that we still do not have a great consensus on how our own brains operate - how we actually think.

How our brains operate and how we think are in ways two different things, but my understanding is that you're correct to a large extent. Then there's the whole question of what consciousness even is.

I was actually just reminded of a good article on consciousness, I'll post it in [email protected] in just a mo

edit: https://beehaw.org/post/448653

Thank you to all of you who put the work in to make Beehaw what it is ❤️

The co-op / democratic governance idea sounds fascinating. I'm Finnish and we're big on co-ops (or were, at any rate), and I'd definitely love to see that particular ethos spread to site governance.

Oh and random hosting tech question, do you have an autoscaling setup at the moment?

You're very much in the minority, then; it's absolutely terrible from a usability perspective.

Good that websockets are going. Lemmy sucks up battery like nobody's business and for ultimately a negative payout

Luin tän aiemmin päivällä, jäi mieleen. Ei sinänsä ihmetä, että Suomessa tapahtuu jotain tän kaltaista; millään tapaa vammaisiin ihmisiin suhtaudutaan usein todella epäinhimillisesti. Tässäkin uskomaton tapahtumaketju jonka kaltaista ei vaan pitäisi päästä tapahtumaan, ja kaikki asiaan sekaantuneet viranomaiset ja vastaavat joko vetoaa vaan noudattavansa lakia tai toteaa että ei tässä meidän mielestä ole mitään ongelmaa.

Erikoisen näköinen kapistus .

"Jopa 22%" on melkoinen energiansäästö, mutta herää kysymys että minkähänlainen vaihteluväli siinä on (että onko tyyliin mediaani 0.5% mutta maksimi oli 22%), ja onko tolla teknologialla jotain "reunaehtoja" tai sudenkuoppia. Tää artikkeli on kuitenkin pohjimmiltaan mainontaa, ja esim. siihen viitattuun tutkimukseen ei näytä löytyvän mitään linkkiä, niin en ihan kritiikittömästi suhtaudu

Users can create communities on most other Lemmy instances (the Beehaw FAQ outlines why this is disabled on this instance.) You can eg create another user on some other instance to be able to create the communities you'd like to see

Sure, someone knows how to audit code.

Whether that someone is inclined to do it for whatever random FOSS package / library / application / service / whatever is a different question.

this is also the fault of users who demand “free”.

This is in my opinion the crux of the matter. People want content for free: they won't pay for it directly and they won't watch ads (because they're often much too intrusive.) Of course the root problem is the economic system, but barring a near global revolution that's not going to change