All of us can remember at least some part of ourselves from when we were younger. Within most of us there exists a child with ideals for a good world, untainted by our politics' need for violence and its justifications carried through every layer of society, from education to the media.
Over the years that child is killed, bombarded with misinformation, shot with exaggeration, buried in fear about why certain groups of people who could be their friends or neighbours, are actually rapists, criminals, or subhumans. A new person is born and raised with ignorance disguised as critical thinking, where once was a conscience now lives a drastic need to justify everything happening around them. The nagging voice of youthful innocence growing quieter, with every tragedy not questioned and excuse believed, everything must be going okay, why else would everyone be following? After all, am I willing to lose my friends and possibly my job to stand up for what I believe in?
In Germany there exists an insult, “Gutmensch” (or “Good Person” in English) which is rather strange if you think about it. How is it an insult to call someone good? It's rather a self-exposing groupthink term for making fun of the people who haven't yet given up trying to make the world better. After all, who doesn't believe they themselves are doing what is good? Why do you think it's easy to ask for a better world, but some things just require the hard choices to be made with uneasy solutions? Why does the implementation of your beliefs require the militarization of your speech?
When the last immigrant is deported, and what we were told to be justice is finally achieved, but rising cost of living, joblessness, poverty, and crime still persist: Who will be left to blame but ourselves, for having killed a child that was right?
For me, "Gutmensch" isn`t an insult, more a description of a person who wants to act good, but oversees some negative effects, especially in a naive way. In Germany we have, this I heard yesterday from a guy who worked as a social worker with criminal asylum seekers. Of course, all are 16 years old and of course you habe problems to prove that. We have problems to get rid of them. On the other side the immigration office workers in Germany have a quote for pushing off people. The criminals go into hiding, so the immigration office cannot "catch" them, but there are many immigrants who are working, and they are catched and pushed off. Both is very bad. The mainly left-wing people argue one side, some conservatives the other. But these problems we only get to solve together.
In #Scotland we have 'Proud Scot.' These aren't Scottish nationalists, as one would imagine, but Unionists loyal to Westminster and the Monarchy. They insist of referring to themselves as Proud Scots as if tugging to forelock to a colonial power is something to aspire to. As such they tend to be right-wing arseholes with all the usual prejudices, the first to point the finger, the last to take the blame.
Thank you for this! It makes lots of sense to me. I too have found it difficult through my life to be able to speak my mind and well… speak up about things that I see that are wrong because “what might happen to my job” or “uncomfortable talk with family.” Fortunately this “talk” wasn’t about how my job worked, just “political views” of my coworkers 😾. I’m still a child at heart and it takes a lot of courage to keep questioning & not accepting what you get as an answer.
In English the expression is “Goody two-shoes,” which is also weird: what number of shoes would be preferable?
I’ll note that even this idealistic, pro-immigrant message assumes that we “ourselves” are not the immigrants who are being deported. We are, though; there is no fundamental division between those deported and those left alone for now.
"Spingere le persone a indignarsi, a vedere gli altri come nemici, a pensare che il futuro sia annientare i nemici piuttosto che diventare amici, a convincersi che le ingiustizie si risolvano con la repressione invece che con l’educazione, rende le persone conservatrici, non progressiste" RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ns3fq…
Stop ministers making laws to... why the fuck they even do this bullshit? They are a government, they know everything about everyone even without such primitive control methods.
The people pulling the strings have obviously decided that internet freedom is a threat to them and they're taking (global) action to ensure their supremacy.
Yeah, it's just all these children with their bank accounts paying for their VPN subscriptions doing it all... Do they think we're that stupid? Don't answer that. 😔
If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!
maybe then they would not have: - forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk - forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close - given free vpn providers tons more data to sell - reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc - reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend - pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right
Seriously though. We'll legislate anything to keep them from seeing stuff they might reasonably expect to see and do one day and glorify things nobody should ever see or experience in person.
Everyone’s scared of Reform getting in and yet Reform are the only ones promising to reverse all this. All this is done based off the back of a 2016 survey where parents said they were worried about kids watching porn on the internet, but the survey gave no indication of what a solution would look like and gave no mention to online age verification and banning VPNs.
If I had a nickle for ever time the UK did something pants-on-head stupid or short-sighted from a minor survey or public poll, [counts change jar]... How much are big macs these days?
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations."
If this fucker had any idea what VPN even stood for they'd realize how fuckin stupid this statement is...
Let's say they do. So people start using non UK VPNs. So you need age verification for any Internet access? For any computer or phone that could connect to the Internet?
They want to know where everyone is and what every person is doing at every possible moment of every day, be that in public or on the Internet. They are paranoid and know that their entire system is in danger of collapse with the common man gaining control over the rich and powerful.
Thus they resort to extreme control of the commoners to ensure that won't happen.
Child protection and anti-pornography stances are perfect excuses because they're very difficult to argue against.
Every time some new measure is released "for protection", the next day it's being used to sniff out dissidents. That usually means journalists, activists (political, labor, environment, ...) and sympathisants to give them a bit of pressure to straight up arrest them on some pretense.
100% and as always they boil it down to "well even if all that other stuff is true, it's for the safety of children."
Yet we have fucking confirmation that exposing networks of wealthy and powerful pedophiles is not on the agenda. Those people are untouchable. Those people are also the ones that we are handing complete control over to.
So who tf are we really protecting children from by doing this?
Don't parental controls exist for a reason? Can't you just block VPN use on individual devices like an additional parental control rather than making everyone that uses a VPN prove they're not a child?
Not all bans are bad or hurt law abiding citizens. Slavery and gambling come to mind, both still exist illegally (or, in the case of gambling, semi-legally, what with the deluge of sports betting and online casinos HQd in shitty countries), but I would say them being illegal is a net positive for society.
Eh, I disagree. Slavery being banned is obviously a good thing, but that's because it's immoral to own someone else, so it's essentially just kidnapping. Gambling, on the other hand, shouldn't be banned for the simple reason that consenting adults should be able to do it if they choose.
negative rights - restricts others from preventing individuals from doing things to you (e.g. freedom from slavery, freedom to gamble, etc)
positive rights - forces others to provide goods or services to you (e.g. free healthcare, right to counsel, etc)
I believe nobody should gamble because it's a poor financial decision and very addictive (and I choose to avoid gambling), but I also believe you should be allowed to gamble, and the government should ensure that companies that provide gambling services do so fairly (i.e. advertisements about win-rates and whatnot are accurate).
So yes, if gambling wasn't allowed, people w/ addictions would be better off, but those who aren't at risk of gambling addiction would be harmed due to restrictions on their freedom. So the question is, do we want government to protect us from ourselves, or merely provide a safety net for when we screw up? I'm absolutely in the latter camp, and I think we should use taxes to fund recovery programs for addictive behaviors in lieu of banning them. In general, I think a tax is way more rights-respecting than a ban.
Gambling between two people or very small groups is mostly ok and something humans have done since cave times.
Now, because real life has profit seeking corporations in control of gambling that know and abuse all psychological tricks available to maximize profits, I don't think allowing them to exist is good for anyone except the owners. Casinos are also perfect for money laundering, so that's another reason to not allow them to function, although with the internet they can just pick and choose a country to exist in.
I agree that gambling is bad and nobody should do it, but that's different from the government preventing you from doing it.
Something being "bad" doesn't mean it should be banned, it means it needs closer scrutiny to make sure both sides of the transaction are fully informed of the risks and can meaningfully consent.
money laundering
I don't like this reasoning because the underlying assumption is that violating people's privacy is okay if it helps catch criminals.
That said, there are typically rules that limit this. In most areas, casinos have to ID you and report any transaction over a certain amount (usually $10k or so per day, many casinos have a lower threshold) to tax authorities specifically to combat money laundering, just like banks do. That seems to limit money laundering for larger players, but obviously doesn't do much for smaller players. To do better, we either need much lower limits, or much higher surveillance, and both would violate innocent people's privacy.
Instead of that, we should take a hard look at policy and policing. For example, a lot of money laundering is by drug dealers, and they exist due to drug bans. Maybe we should consider legalizing and regulating more drugs, which would give people safer options, reduce incarceration rates, and reduce laundering from illegal drugs since more people would go for the safer options. On the policing side, we can improve training, reallocate people from ticketing to investigative work, and build community trust to improve quality of reports.
At the end of the day, I think personal liberty and privacy is more important than preventing harm or catching criminals. I also think we can do both, but we need to start from the perspective of maximising liberty and privacy.
Clearly it's a parental problem to determine if the VPN they are buying for their kids is being used to wank off, but apparently this party of 'liberty' has an unhealthy obsession with monitoring our children's genitalia these days.
Watch them get Halloween masks to make them look like grammar just so they can automatically get recognized into the good stuff... BDSM burrito spiroasting. When I was a kid I kept a matchbox that I found on the streets. It was this awesome woman with the best looking naturally inspired gigantic breasts from Dick's last resort. Who ever dropped those, thanks man, you made my member at least 1/4" taller. At least. I don't know what the effects are to be honest.
If they were really after kids watching porn (or even porn in general) it would be technically somewhat simple to force ISPs to provide filters on their end as a subscription service. I'm pretty sure I've even heard that kind of services in the past. Make it even opt-out if you really want to.
That way ISPs would just ban everything from pornhub and others unless you spesifically want it allowed or even provide a portal where you could block reddit, twitter, tumblr or whatever you wish on your account. That kind of technology already exists and it's used on many corporate setups.
There's obviously ways around that, but there's no technical way to block every possible way to move bits between computers. Even if they would shut down the whole internet there's still ways to build mesh-networks or even buy USB-drives from a shady alley.
But as we all know, it's not about porn and not about children.
You can't block VPNs without blocking the entire internet. You can block known VPN services, but you can't prevent people from hosting their own.
Some known VPN protocols could be blocked, using introspection tools. However, this would just render corporate VPNs useless. VPN traffic is just bytes, and so is WebSockets. Good luck figuring out whether my HTTPS traffic is legitimate internet traffic, or masked VPN traffic.
Even if they go that route, and frankly I think they would get lynched before we got to that point, they can't monitor every single connection. That just way too much traffic.
That's why China has a firewall, because that's the best option they can come up with because monitoring every Chinese persons data is an impossible task. Their only option would be to go North Korea route, and just close the internet but that would basically end their economy.
In China? I've read that sentence like six times I'm not quite sure what you're alluding to, but China's had fiber for about 10 years now. The reason they allowed it is because increasing everyone's bandwidth doesn't really make the job of monitoring them any harder. It's still the same number of connections. Plus it allows businesses to be competitive on the global market.
Also they kind of assume their firewall would work. Initially it did work, at least for the majority of people, but over time that more and more have learnt to use a VPN and now the whole thing's a bit of a pointless exercise. There is a massive disconnect in China between the younger generation who use VPNs and the older generation who just consume state media.
FYI, with Mullvad VPN set to UK, sites that require age verification:
pornhub.com
youporn.com
redtube.com
porn.com
bellesa.co
tube8.com
thisvid.com
quorno.com
Sites tha do NOT require age verification:
hqporner.com
xhamster.com
youjizz.com
alohatube.com
qqqporn.com
xnxx.com
xcafe.com
helloporn.co
go.porn
cartoonporn.pro
And xvideos.com is a bit special since it shows you the thumbnails of porn videos but won't let you play them.
But we need to stop VPNs! Think of the whole two children that have VPNs! What if instead of just going to the half of the sites that don't verify age, they figure out how to use a VPN?! Oh the humanity!
Yeah, UK wants to de-anonymize VPN users as the next step in their attack on free speech. It is laughable to think this is about anything else.
Let me give you one, kids try to explore topics out of curiosity. They are probably not going to look up someone torturing animals, because they don't want to see that. Kids usually look up and explore things they are ready for. Also "kids" is a pretty diverse group, a 5 year old and a 15 year old kid are very different.
For real young kids parents should monitor online behavior anyway. For teens, how is life this different than looking at a playboy or a porn tape. Teens have been doing that forever, the people creating these laws probably did that when they where kids.
It's probably a lot better to let kids (teens) explore nudity and sex in a safe environment, instead of letting them go unsupervised in places that ignore the law.
It's basically the same argument with drugs, offering legal options vs. going to a dealer and possibly getting much more dangerous drugs mixed in.
Calling teenagers kids in situations like this, or in general is not ideal. The better way is to refer them to minors as this is what they legally are, but even so 'teenagers' is how they should be referred to.
It's probably a lot better to let kids (teens) explore nudity and sex in a safe environment, instead of letting them go unsupervised in places that ignore the law.
Absolutely. It's only natural for teens/adolescents to be interested in that kind of stuff - they are transitioning into adulthood ffs.
What about the crappy late night TV channels with the women waving a cordless house phone like it's 1996?
I'm perfectly able to watch porn because I'm 45, but I refuse to interact with any of this prove your age bollocks because I know full well that "we won't store your details" and "we will share your details with 1284 trusted data partners" are the same picture.
And nothing will be done about that until it affects the power brokers in charge*.
* - hopefully, I mean we've had a series of ministers embroiled in scandals that would have caused immediate resignations in the past whereas now it's "Fuck off, I'm working here. I'M IMPORTANT!"
The last data breach I can think of that was widely known was Ashley Madison. I think if the Porn ID data got leaked it would have a similar spread (giggity), due to a similar scandalous nature.
if the strategy is to tell children to stop circumventing the rules with a workaround, couldn’t the original messaging just have been “talk to your children about not watching porn”
it’s so obvious the identification laws have nothing to do with protecting children from porn and everything to do with Big Brother surveillance
Who cares if kids watch porn anyways? Like they're going to find a way if they want to. I was coming into my own around the time the Internet just started hitting households, and therefore wasn't the vehicle for porn it is today. There was a full on underground economy with all the prepubescent boys. Kids are going to do what they want regardless of legality.
Do the government ministers understand that setting up your own VPN is literally a 5 minute operation.
Hire a droplet VM, pre-installed with a server OS. Log in with provided credentials. sudo apt install docker Copy/paste a docker compose file that sets up a wg-easy container. Create a peer. Take a picture of the provided QR code. Connect to the server via a wireguard app. Done.
It is a 5 minute operation to learn how to use a VPN.
Many are, quite literally, just install and hit connect. Something an online tutorial can teach you in about a minute or two.
Maybe a bit longer to learn the other things. But I can assure you from experience that this is something that anyone can learn about in a short amount of time.
Bit of a far cry from the years of education and training needed to enter space.
what's a VPN? what's a VPN app? how do I log in? what the fuck does a tunnel mean?
kids somehow figured these out. they'll be able to figure out their selfhosted VPN too. at least more of them might find an interest in tech instead of consuming on brainrot platforms.
sunbeam didn't describe it very clearly but it can be described in a way that its just following instructions without even having to understand it. like something like this: "register here. click this to get a free cloud server. log in to the server like this. paste this command and hit enter. install this app on your phone. tap import and scan. point your phone to the qr code on the screen."
the instructions can cover the server setup too. the instructions can also be to just download and run a script with double click, because it's really just following simple instructions that can be codified
Is there a plausible way they actually ban the use of VPNs? Like, they can make it illegal on paper, but even in China, which has long had strict restrictions on internet use, I've heard that VPN use is widespread.
It just all seems like performative whack-a-mole to me. The only people who can control what a kid sees online are their parents or guardians. A child is not buying themselves a laptop or an iPad.
I know that this is all just theater to just destroy any semblance of free speech and privacy on the internet but if I'm completely honest I also don't even understand people who freak out about kids looking at porn. Like, I get protecting children obviously from predators (fucking Roblox), but also I saw hardcore porn on the internet super early when I was like 8 and the only trauma I ever felt was the fear of being caught looking at it by my parents, who were otherwise pretty chill about me seeing really violent media.
And before me and the internet, kids were looking at their grampa's/dad's porn magazines or finding it in the woods or getting some 18 year old to buy it for them. It was harder but I'm telling you they found it.
I feel like a bigger concern for kids right now is microplastics, lead poisoning, and climate change and you don't see nearly the same hysteria about that shit in mainstream politics.
I'm making an onion website and I'm conflicted about the appearance. I want it to load as fast as possible but I'm also tempted to use some very old pics/gifs for shit and giggles.
Na, Frau #Prien ,noch niemand mit dem Wunsch herangetragen, #Patriotismus als Schulfach einzuführen? Unsere verzogenen Blagen brauchen kein Händi in der Grundschule, sondern Gewehre. Denn #Frieden ,und dass Russland sich wieder #Europa zugehörig fühlt, wie noch unter den Zaren und sogar den Sowjets, werden wir uns bei der Erziehung für die nächsten zwei Generationen abschminken können.
Il discorso di Xi: 'No a egemonismo e politica della forza'. L'invito: 'Aderire all'equità e alla giustizia' contro 'la mentalità della Guerra fredda' (ANSA)
Vapor into atmosphere and goes down somewhere else as rain.
the bigger issue for me is , the billions of litres of water sitting in warehouses packaged as bottles , cans , food as in soups , and more its literally water missing in the natures recycling circle.
In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource. The authorities have even given Digital Realty access to water from the former underground drainage channels of the Gardanne coal mines, located north of Marseille. The water flows into the port, so the firm can use it to cool its systems.
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?
From what I've seen so far, the case here seems to be that it's only being done to shorts, and what's happening is that they're being permanently stored at a lower quality and size and are then upscaled on the fly. I mean... it feels kinda fair to me. Theres a good reason YouTube has so little competition, and it's because how hard and expensive maintaining a service like this is. They're always trying to cut costs, and storage is gonna be a big cost. Personally, I'm glad it's just shorts for now. It absolutely shouldn't be happening to people who are paying for the service or making money for it, though.
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don't have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
It would not make any sense for them to be upscaled on the fly. It's a computationally intensive operation, and storage space is cheap. Is there any evidence of it being done on the fly?
They could do that without upscaling. Upscaling every video only fly would cost an absolute shit ton of money, probably more than they would be making from the ad. There is no scenario where they wouldn't just upscale it one time and store it.
While it could theoretically be done on device, it would require the device to have dedicated hardware that is capable of doing the processing, so it would only work on a limited number of devices. It would be pretty easy to test this if a known modified video were available.
AI upscaling can be run on a ton of devices nowadays.
Also people are forgetting it’s not just storage, it’s bandwidth they save with this move. So even if they store both the low and high res copies they can save 4x the bandwidth (or more) serving to devices with upscaling capabilities.
It’s not that computationally intensive to upscale frames. TVs have been doing it algorithmically for ages and looking good doing it. Hell, nVidia graphics cards can do it for every single frame of high end games with DLSS. Calling it “AI” because the type of algorithm it’s using is just cashing in on the buzzword.
You are right that nvidia cards can do it for games using DLSS. Nvidia also has a version called RTX video that works for video. But are they could to be dedicating hardware for playback every single time a user requests to play a short? That is significantly different than just serving a file to the viewer. If they had all of these Nvidia cards laying around, they surely have better things that they could use them for. To be clear here, the ONLY thing I am taking issue with is a comment that it seems that youtube may be upscaling videos on the fly (as opposed to upscaling them once when they are uploaded, and then serving that file 1 million times). I'm simply saying that it makes a hell of a lot more sense any day of the week to upscale a file one time than to upscale it 1 million times.
It's not so much that they down- and upscale the video of shorts, their algorithm changes the look of people. It warps skin and does a strange sort of sharpening that makes things look quite unreal and almost plastic.
It is a filter that evens the look with images generated by, say, grok or one of the other AI filters.
In a year people will think that "AI-look" is a normal video look, and stuff generated with it is what humans can look like. We will see crazed AI-fashion looks popping up.
Why? I like shorts, bite sized, shaped for mobile when I'm in bed or shitting, interesting content — my feed is very curated after many years of training it, so I only ever get interesting stuff, no brain rot 👍. Coincidentally my Watch Later list is getting out of control. 😓
To be fair, back before ML natural language programming, non-tech folks often assumed coding was just telling the computer what you want in plain English. Today that's what vibecoders do
Well, youtube is not even intended to host quality content anymore, but besides that, this appears to just be visual tweaks. This title is trying to be vague enough that one could assume it's tweaking the content itself which would be of real concern. It's not doing that (for now). Video graphics seems like an awefully minor thing to be screaming about AI over. Especially when AI has actual reprocussions in the knowledge accuracy sector.
Incineration, even in advanced plants like in Japan releases toxic fumes and is bad for people and environment. It also doesn’t address the issue of microplastics being released during the production and use of plastics. Let’s just stop it at the source.
Da oggi è possibile creare il proprio curriculum vitae interattivo, in modo semplice e veloce e l'esportazione in odt, docx e pdf è immediata. Salvando il file di configurazione json è possibile proseguire l'editazione anche successivamente. L'applicazione web sarà disponibile sulle release di Ufficio Zero Linux OS. Ringraziamo @amassaro per il suo lavoro.
Il più grande studio cinematografico d'Europa, in collaborazione con Rai Cinema, ha deciso di lanciare un nuovo progetto totalmente rivolto ai giovani.
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Grape Hyacinth are bulbs that flower in springtime. They produce clusters of delicate, bell-shaped blooms in various colours, in this case blue. folksy.com/items/8534312
A small colour drawing of a patch of blue Grape Hyacinth flowers, also known Muscari. They are beautiful spring bulbs that flower in springtime. They produce clusters of delicate, bell-shaped blooms in various colours, in this case blue.
@greenpete I've weirdly not noticed that, only ever grown them outside😄 Their big brothers, hyacinth are certainly very strongly perfumed. Lots of people here get them flowering in pots indoors for Christmas time.
@greenpete Ahh! That explains it. They look very similar, but the grape hyacinth is much smaller. Will sniff some next spring to find out if they also have a scent.
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E’ stato reso pubblico dal Ministero dell’Ambiente il parere con cui il Sindaco di Taranto ha espresso dissenso motivato nei confronti delle prescrizioni dell’AIA contenute nel PIC (parere istruttorio conclusivo) per lo stabilimento siderurgico.
La vita sembra essersi trasformata in una stringente alternanza lavoro-turismo, e lo stesso turismo somiglia sempre più ad un lavoro. Il resto eventuale sono effetti collaterali. P.S.: E buon primo #settembre!
At the gates of the design capital, Sesto San Giovanni's water tower is about to be transformed into a scenic fountain, part of the regeneration project of the former Falck area.
In Indonesia continuano le proteste contro il presidente Subianto e le sue politiche discriminatorie scoppiate giovedì scorso a seguito dell’uccisione di un uomo, da parte della polizia, durante...
Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.
Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.
Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.
It exists and some Lemmy communities operate that way. It’s not a good idea at all in practice. For example one community mirrors a tech support subreddit. It’s utterly pointless engaging in that community because the person asking the question will never read your answers. You can’t bootstrap a sense of community.
It probably doesn't make much sense to mirror /r/technology to /c/technology since that community is already popular and self-sustaining on lemmy.
There are countless other 'niche' communities that have no posts for months, however. There already isn't anyone engaging in these communities and it's unlikely that that will change because nobody wants to manually make posts that next to nobody is going to see. It's cyclical.
True, but from experience, those cycles are not broken by bot posts. You then have a community full of crossposts with 0 comments. Try it if you like, but usually the reason for dead communities is a lack of interested people.
There are countless other 'niche' communities that have no posts for months, however.
Hey, have you seen !fedigrow@lemmy.zip? It's got a lot of discussions on how to handle this.
I think that to grow a niche community, you need at least 2-3 regular posters, and you need to make posts that encourage discussion (i.e. ask questions or provoke a thoughtful reaction that readers would like to share.)
There are whole instances dedicated to mirroring Reddit. However a lot of people on the fediverse oppose such features, on my home instance eg. lemmit is filtered out of /all stream. lemmit.online/
You are right, this is a 1:1 mirror of Reddit without any Lemmy user interactions. Since it is a one way mirror, any comments would not reach Reddit, I assume this is why it was decided to keep the communities closed down in such a way.
They exist. In some communities they may work but IMO a lot of times they hurt community engagement, since no one really wants to reply to an autogenerated OP or join a community that's a wall of empty bot posts.
It's easy to make one. But why would you want that?
As time goes by and more and more people join the Fediverse, I'm sure some niche comms will start taking off. I don't like bots mirroring content from somewhere else, even as a help. In fact, I will immediately unsubscribe from any comm that starts doing that. And I'm sure many people also would.
That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.
A huge thing that real posts have but bot posts do not have: comments notify the OP and thus have a good chance of getting a response. The bot communities almost never get comments, and even if they do it's extra rare for them to get a reply.
If I didn't care about human-to-human comments then I wouldn't be here or on Reddit, I would just use RSS feeds, or the Google news feed.
This already exists, I have seen it used before, don't know any exact repositories though. The reason it's not really used is because it's pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won't look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.
Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.
Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn't a good defense in a federated world like this.
There are rss bots that post stuff on lemmy, like for hackernews. And then as another user mentioned there are some servers like 50501 that mirror reddit and cross post to lemmy.
I think the general problem with such things is.... they post a lot of shit. Sure the top content within a community -might- be interesting but you're also going to get pointless junk that just fills up the fediverse. Not to mention the other issues with lack of interaction. I think the unfortunate reality is that the long term best thing for the community is hand curating content and posting it yourself. I say unfortunate because that's more work than a bot, but you'll be better able to grow a community. Plus some people like me will just block any bot i see because they generally are a waste of my time
Yeah I remember when people were "backing up" subreddits here and mostly just created a shitload of dead posts that the original OP had no idea existed
❝ !!! Warning about Fake Holocaust Posts Using AI- Generated Images and Stories !!! [...] they are in fact dangerous distortions: * They invent stories of people who never existed and present them as real victims. * THEY EXPLOIT HOLOCAUST MEMORY FOR CLICKS, SHARES, AND REACH * They contribute to confusion and the erosion of historical accuracy. [...] Therefore, we ask you to be cautious. [...] * Try to verify names through trusted sources, like Yad Vashem ❞
⁉️ 'Roza Anholt-Delden' is included in collections.yadvashem.org/en/n…: "Gender: UNKNOWN" and no photograph is included. Either Dani Dayan {1} is too lazy or he was not allowed {2} to store her picture in your databases and use it for Hasbara purposes - which he did on social media anyway (nobody will notice? I just did).
⁉️ 'Christina Anholt' is included in collections.yadvashem.org/en/n… *and* a photograph is included. She MAY BE the same girl as the baby in Roza's arms, but I'm not sure. Help!
{1} Dani Dayan is Auschwitz deputy chairman as well as Yad Vashem and IHRA chairman. He is THE (or one of the) architect(s) of the Israeli "From the river to the sea" masterplan (see infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat…) - which consists of abusing Holicaust victims and radically modify the definition of AntiSemitism, as confirmed by Gideon S'aar in holocaustremembrance.com/news/…: "The new antisemites attack Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself." It has nothing to do with "self defence". The aim is greater Israel without room for Palestinians.
This is 100% self defence of Hamas, also defending ANYONE who POSSIBLY MAY HAVE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HAMAS - proven, supposedly or not at all.
Surrendering and/or handing over all 50 hostages means a horrific death for even more Gazans than is taking place right under our eyes RIGHT NOW.
Note this all takes place while Israel holds 100,000 as many Palestinians hostage (5 MILLION PEOPLE) - which the western world knowingly ignores, or even publicly denies.
If HAMAS is a terrorist organisation, then what is ISRAEL?
And what are Israel's unconditional supporters - the US, GB, EU, CA, AU, and NZ?
What are Westbank settlers (no Hamas there)?
What kind of a person is former YESHA (*) leader, greater Israel architect (and himself Westbank settler) Dani Dayan? What inhumane liars are the IHRA (chaired by Dani Dayan)? And what is the Auschwitz Council (hijacked by ultra-Zionists including deputy chair Dani Dayan) and Yad Vashem ("remember" Jews only - chaired by Dani Dayan)?
(*) "From the river to the sea" - myesha.org.il/?CategoryID=419 ("YESHA" includes Gaza, which has been unmentioned - but is expected to return soon), Unicode characters inserted by me: ❝ 🚨 Yesha Council Strategic Objectives 🚨 🔸 To secure the borders of the State of Israel 🔸 To safeguard Israel's strategic expanses–between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea 🔸 To ensure Israel's right to the Land by strengthening Israeli settlement in Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley
🚨 Yesha Council Goals 🚨 🔸 Application of Israeli sovereignty in the area 🔸 One million Israelis living in Judea, Samaria,and the Jordan Valley 🔸 The development of roads, transportation, water, electricity and economic infrastructures 🔸 To double the number of tourists from all over the world and all religions 🔸 To prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
🚨 Our Challenge 🚨 🔸 Construction and development of infrastructures in Israel are based on regional planning and national master plans (TAMA). 🔸 Despite the continually growing and developing Israeli settlement of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, these areas have not been included in TAMA plans for over 50 years. 🔸 Without master plans for the area, Palestinian and European initiatives are taking root, thus endangering the continuation of the Zionist enterprise. 🔸 Our aim is to create master plans for the area to enable and ensure sustainable settlement. ❞
Edited to add: see my linked list of remarks regarding toots on behalf of the Auschwitz Council in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….
[quote]UDINE – Dopo un anno ci risiamo. Stesso posto, stessa data, stessa partita. Italia-Israele, in programma il prossimo 14 ottobre, scatena la polemica. Il sindaco di centro-sinistra Udine, Alberto Felice… L'articolo Sindaco di Udine chiede il rinvio di Italia-Israele. “Inopportuno
Nuorisotutkijat alleviivaavat tärkeää viestiä päättäjien suuntaan mielenterveyskriisistä puhuttaessa:
”Nuorten mielenterveyspuheeseen kietoutuu surua ja huolta omasta ja koko maapallon tulevaisuudesta, joka ei tällä hetkellä näytä turvalliselta eikä kestävältä. Nämä viestit on otettava vakavasti. Siksi yhteiskunnan tulee muuttua, ei nuorten.”
#News #Scienza #Eregeologiche #Terra #scienza Per decenni i manuali di geologia hanno descritto le ere della Terra come fasi relativamente stabili, separate da grandi eventi catastrofici come estinzioni di massa o cambiamenti climatici radicali. Oggi, però, un nuovo studio
Una ricerca internazionale rivela che le ere geologiche non sono lineari come pensavamo: eventi climatici e biologici intrecciati potrebbero riscrivere la storia del nostro pianeta.
Conosciamo davvero la ricetta del pesto genovese? Si tratta di una salsa di condimento tradizionale per la pasta o per altri piatti, nata in Liguria, che ha una ricetta ben specifica caratterizzata da 7 ingredienti.
USA : Un lanceur de sandwich érigé en héros contre la Garde nationale à Washington secoursrouge.org/usa-un-lanceu… "Devenue virale sur les réseaux sociaux début août, une vidéo montre un homme en train de jeter un sandwich sur des agents fédéraux, devant un restaurant de la chaîne de sandwichs Subway, afin de s’opposer au déploiement de ces forces répressives dans les rues de Washington DC (voir notre article).
Devenue virale sur les réseaux sociaux début août, une vidéo montre un homme en train de jeter un sandwich sur des agents fédéraux, devant un restaurant de la chaîne de sandwichs Subway, afin de s’opposer au déploiement de ces forces répressives dans…
„Benjamin #Butterworth griff Novak #Djokovic, den #Wimbledonsieger von 2022, unverhohlen an. Der #Journalist kritisierte die #Haltung des serbischen Meisters in Bezug auf den #Impfstoff. Butterworth erklärte: "Der Impfstoff ist unerlässlich, wenn man das #Coronavirus besiegen will, und die Position von Novak Djokovic ist nicht hilfreich.
#Nole ist im Moment einer der gefährlichsten Menschen auf dem #Planeten. Novak hat mit seinen Handlungen viele Menschen in #Gefahr gebracht, und er merkt es nicht einmal. Wir wissen, dass #geimpfte Menschen das #Virus weitaus seltener übertragen, daher ist die doppelte Dosis ein großer Vorteil.
Obwohl er einer der berühmtesten Männer der Welt ist und eine große #Verantwortung trägt, hat sich Djokovic dafür entschieden, sein Image zu nutzen, um andere dazu zu bewegen, sich nicht impfen zu lassen." [...] "
Montag: Morgens auf dem Fahrrad war es recht kühl, vor allem an den Händen. Doch Handschuhe im August erscheinen selbst mir als ausgewiesenem Scheinfrostfühler unangemessen. Auf dem Rückweg war es …
C'est la rentrée et donc c'est la reprise des réunions Technopolice dans plusieurs villes !
A Lyon ce sera demain, mardi 2 septembre, à partir de 19h à la Luttine, 91 rue Montesquieu : rebellyon.info/La-rentree-de-T…
Mercredi 3 septembre, c'est le tour de la rencontre Technopolice Paris-Banlieue au Bar commun (135 rue des Poissonniers, Paris 18e) à partir de 19h : agendamilitant.org/Rencontre-T…
Depuis l'automne dernier un collectif travaille sur les questions de surveillance / vie privée / technocritiques au niveau local, en lien avec les autres collectifs du pays. Réunions de rentrée (...)
Et enfin, le groupe de Marseille reprend les causeries à Manifesten (59 rue Thiers) le jeudi 14 septembre à 19h : mars-infos.org/causerie-mensue…
D'autres initiatives locales existent ! Si vous avez des rendez-vous réguliers, n'hésitez pas à transmettre les informations à contact@technopolice.fr afin qu'on les relaie 😀
Tous les deuxièmes jeudi du mois le collectif Technopolice de Marseille se rassemble à Manifesten, 59 rue Thiers 13001 Marseille, de 19h à 21h pour une causerie ouverte à toutes et à tous.
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22 July 1942 | A transport of 931 Jews deported by the Germans from #Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection made by SS doctors 479 men & 297 women were registered in the camp as prisoners.
The remaining 155 people were murdered in a gas chamber. Among them were Roza Anholt-Delden and her daughter Christina.
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22 July 1942 | A transport of 931 Jews deported by the Germans from #Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection made by SS doctors 479 men & 297 women were registered in the camp as prisoners.
The remaining 155 people were murdered in a gas chamber. Among them were Roza Anholt-Delden and her daughter Christina.
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1 September 1923 | Dutch Jewish woman, Roza Anholt-Delden, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz with her daughter Christina. They were murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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1 September 1923 | Dutch Jewish woman, Roza Anholt-Delden, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz with her daughter Christina. They were murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Larry
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Ulrich Popp
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •In Germany we have, this I heard yesterday from a guy who worked as a social worker with criminal asylum seekers. Of course, all are 16 years old and of course you habe problems to prove that. We have problems to get rid of them.
On the other side the immigration office workers in Germany have a quote for pushing off people. The criminals go into hiding, so the immigration office cannot "catch" them, but there are many immigrants who are working, and they are catched and pushed off.
Both is very bad. The mainly left-wing people argue one side, some conservatives the other. But these problems we only get to solve together.
Different Drummer
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •_maleficentgirl
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Sasha Akhavi
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •In English the expression is “Goody two-shoes,” which is also weird: what number of shoes would be preferable?
I’ll note that even this idealistic, pro-immigrant message assumes that we “ourselves” are not the immigrants who are being deported. We are, though; there is no fundamental division between those deported and those left alone for now.