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Feddit.cl cumple dos años!


Hoy se cumple el segundo año desde la creación de Feddit.cl 🎉

Pueden ver el mensaje del año acá

La típica estadística de los usuarios que participan en c/chile está un poco difícil este año, ya que un post trajo mucha interacción de otros lados y tenemos 135 usuarios semanales (lo cual claramente se va a desinflar como entre 35-50 que es lo normal de esa comunidad). Eso no quita que el core de usuarios se ha mantenido constante, a pesar del desempeño de la instancia o la falta de nichos.

Que más puedo decir que agradecer a todos los que participan y colaboran con un posteo, un comentario o un cafecito.

Tal vez lo más interesante de este año son las mejoras en la instancia, lo que provocó una mejora en Feddit.cl y con ello ya casi ni se ven los típicos errores 504 que plagaron el primer año de Feddit.cl.

Siento que han estado llegando usuarios más allá de la migración masiva que hubo cuando se creó esto, y eso no deja de ser algo bonito al ver que Feddit.cl va tomando forma propia. Quien sabe como estarán las cosas el año que viene, pero ya vendrá su posteo anual (:

Solo me queda decir: gracias!

#meta



Pirate Sites' Takedown Compliance Beats YouTube, Facebook, TikTok


When platforms like Facebook and YouTube receive takedown notices from a reputable sender, Japan's CODA for example, the vast majority of requests are usually honored. Yet, the responses from obvious pirate sites and more legally ambiguous platforms couldn't be more varied. Some refuse to act, period. Others have compliance rates higher than Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok.



Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?


I saw this Lemmy post, but a huge list of games with no discussion isn't very interesting! Let's talk about why the games that influenced us had such a big impact - how they affected us as people.

For me, it was the PC game Creatures. It's a life simulation game featuring cute little beings called 'Norns' which you raise and teach.

You can almost think of it like a much cuter predecessor to The Sims, but which claimed to actually "simulate" their brains.

As a thirteen-year-old it was the first game that made me want to go online and seek out more info. What I discovered was a community of similar-interest nerds hanging out on IRC chat, and it felt like for the first time in my life I had "found my people" - others who weren't just friends, but whom I really resonated with.

I learned web development (PHP at the time!) so I could make a site for the game, which became the foundation for my job in software engineering.

And through that group I also discovered the Furry community, which was a wild ride in itself.

So yeah, Creatures. Without that game, I think I'd have become quite a different person.

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in reply to tiramichu

I think Warcraft III, it built a certain mixture of gameplay and lore that one way of another shaped all the games I regrettably sunk way too many hours into:

  • World of Warcraft
  • League of Legends
  • Dota

I would say Shufflepack which made me into a kid that wanted to played videogames all the time, but I feel that has not "influenced" me much, and any other title would have had the same effect.

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in reply to WhisperingEye

Every time i see something about android 16 i can only think of one thing.
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in reply to silence7

States in league with utilities providers are making it more difficult for solar owners to be edit as well. California is probably the worst offender from that perspective, and PG&E just made record profits reselling solar they didn't generate. Arizona and Nevada have similar issues, so now it only makes sense to have a battery bank to maximize solar benefits, and that costs as much as the panels and circuits.
in reply to silence7

bUt tHe DeMoCraTz dOn’T SuPpOrT wOrKiNg FaMiLiEez!!

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

You’re not affected if (and only if)

  • You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone
  • You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)
  • You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile
in reply to cmgvd3lw

basically, don't ever install meta apps on any of your devices and use a browser that has good tab isolation, always use Firefox would be my advice








in reply to Tony Bark

What a surprise old "Pull up the ladder" Abbott is bowing before his king even asks. What sad state of affairs America has become, ready and eager to give up freedom to a self titled king for lols at half the country. Pathetic, traitorous buffoonery is just expected at this point. Tots and pears.








New BrowserVenom malware being distributed via fake DeepSeek phishing website




New BrowserVenom malware being distributed via fake DeepSeek phishing website



in reply to agamemnonymous

Dialectics is a very old element of philosophy surrounding, at its simplest, the notion of two conflicting subjects resolving their contradictions into a higher, third subject. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Marxism uses Dialectics, specifically Materialist Dialectics, as the basic framework of analysis. Marx didn't invent dialectics, though, and neither did Hegel, the philosopher Marx built off of. Dialectics was common even in Plato's time, as much of philosophy was presented as a debate, a dialogue, a dialectic between two opposing points of view. Dialectics isn't exclusively western, either, though Marx was educated on Western dialectics and thus is most relevant in our case here.

The practical aspects come from insistence on the unity of opposites, such as bourgeois and proletarian, feudal lord and serf, but could just as easily be the seed negating itself into the tree, into the apple, into the seed of the next tree, not quite the same as the external conditions are never the same. It also analyzes subjects as they can only exist in the context of their surroundings, and as subjects come into being and un-being. Contradiction, in Dialectics, becomes the source of motion and change, and is inwardly driven.

There's also the concept of the negation of the negation. This process is a spiral, not a circle, each new concept further introduces and resolves with its own contradictions.

I wrote more about the subject here, though I really recommend Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy for a clear and straightforward introduction to Dialectical Materialism.

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

More like historical materialism, which builds on dialectical materialism.



Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety


Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.

Women deserve better than to have their menstrual tracking data treated as consumer data - Prof Gina Neff

Smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles are a “gold mine” for consumer profiling, collecting information on everything from exercise, diet and medication to sexual preferences, hormone levels and contraception use.

This is according to a new report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, which argues that the financial worth of this data is “vastly underestimated” by users who supply profit-driven companies with highly intimate details in a market lacking in regulation.

The report’s authors caution that cycle tracking app (CTA) data in the wrong hands could result in risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination and cyberstalking – and limit access to abortion.

They call for better governance of the booming ‘femtech’ industry to protect users when their data is sold at scale, arguing that apps must provide clear consent options rather than all-or-nothing data collection, and urge public health bodies to launch alternatives to commercial CTAs.

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in reply to Pro

As a trans woman, I make sure to log my irregular bi-weekly periods on flo to make sure their data is tip top!
in reply to Pro

Made my own desktop app in python (tkinter) which encrypts the data with GPG. It has predictions and potential ovulation days. The predictions seem pretty accurate so far.


Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety


Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.

Women deserve better than to have their menstrual tracking data treated as consumer data - Prof Gina Neff

Smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles are a “gold mine” for consumer profiling, collecting information on everything from exercise, diet and medication to sexual preferences, hormone levels and contraception use.

This is according to a new report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, which argues that the financial worth of this data is “vastly underestimated” by users who supply profit-driven companies with highly intimate details in a market lacking in regulation.

The report’s authors caution that cycle tracking app (CTA) data in the wrong hands could result in risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination and cyberstalking – and limit access to abortion.

They call for better governance of the booming ‘femtech’ industry to protect users when their data is sold at scale, arguing that apps must provide clear consent options rather than all-or-nothing data collection, and urge public health bodies to launch alternatives to commercial CTAs.

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How To: Organize a Neighborhood Popular Assembly


A guide from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation about how to organize a popular assembly.

This is a basic guide on how and why to build structures for decision making and collective action at the neighborhood level, what we call popular assemblies. We emphasize the need for popular assemblies to be rooted in a defined geographic area and aimed at organizing the people who live, work, or stay there to develop the power to confront social problems together.

This guide draws directly on knowledge and experience of past experiments in building apopular assemblies.



Minnesota’s Labor Movement is Demanding an End to ICE Raids


On Monday, union members and leaders gathered at over 30 actions across the United States, calling for the release of SEIU California president David Huerta and an end to workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Friday last week, federal agents detained Huerta, allegedly injuring him in the process, as he was observing an immigration raid on a garment warehouse outside of Los Angeles. Huerta was released on Monday evening after the solidarity actions and many unions including SEIU and the AFL-CIO published statements, but he still faces federal charges of conspiracy for allegedly obstructing federal agents.

In Saint Paul, Minn., more than one hundred people from multiple unions and community groups joined thousands across the U.S. in these actions. They gathered on the steps at the state capitol to demand Huerta’s release and an end to ICE raids on workers and immigrant communities.




LA police begin 'mass arrests' as mayor imposes overnight curfew on city's downtown


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31191729

"One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city's more-than-500 square mile area were set to be off-limits between 8pm and 6am for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added."

. . .

"Police arrested 25 people on suspicion of violating the curfew as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an LAPD spokesperson.

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said."

. . .

"Overnight Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days."

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in reply to jordanlund

I think we learned a lot from BLM, and how that didn’t go as planned. Hopefully if there are more protests, the city reacts more appropriately.
in reply to dinren

So far we've had the 50/51 protests, but those are tiny compared to what's going on in LA.


Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years


gregs_gumption doesn't like this.

in reply to blackn1ght

Fair enough. Need to make space for all the disabled people Kier has sent to the streets.

[In all honesty this decriminalisation is a good thing but this government is still terrible]




Why I'm so Mad Right Now


Hank makes some good points here.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he'll deploy the National Guard across the state due to protests


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in reply to 18-24-61-B-17-17-4

Go for it. There's not nearly enough active duty national guardsmen capable of deploying to all 50 states.
in reply to 18-24-61-B-17-17-4

Yeah, I knew it was only a matter of time before this fascist dildo had to put in his two cents.



Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025


Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025


Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride :3)


in reply to BlueMonday1984

My T-shirt: there's 0 good uses for self-driving taxis
Protesters: call self-driving taxis to block streets on the way of the police, then set the damn things on fire
My T-shirt: there's 1 good uses for self-driving taxis
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in reply to BlueMonday1984

Did you know there’s a new fork of xorg, called x11libre? I didn’t! I guess not everyone is happy with wayland, so this seems like a reasonable

It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies..

[snip]Together we'll make X great again!


Oh dear. Project members are of course being entirely normal about the whole thing.

Metux, one of the founding contributors, is Enrico Weigelt, who has reasonable opinions like everyone except the nazis were the real nazis in WW2, and also had an anti vax (and possibly eugenicist) rant on the linux kernel mailing list, as you do.

In sure it’ll be fine though. He’s a great coder.

(links were unashamedly pillaged from this mastodon thread: nondeterministic.computer/@mjg…)

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Diego


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