Technology dch82 • 1 day ago • 92%

There was a golden age when computers were something you *owned*, not like before when they were big machines your employer or university would give out access to, nor like after when they went to the cloud, you bought what was essentially a thin client and every software became a service. At least in the olden days the computers weren't forced into *every single damn part of society!* Now in order to talk with most of your friends and family, you have to sell your soul to every one of the thousand ToS's. It's impossible to meaningfully use your personal device *you bought with your own money* without the internet, as every app and their mom needs to call home for some reason. For some reason, it is morally acceptable for a company to prevent you from being able to have someone *you pay* to replace parts of *your* device with third-party components *you bought* with *your own money!* Now, of course, you can simply install some Libre operating system and use Lemmy, or Mastodon or whatever. But computers are so *embedded* into society that it is simply impossible to go without these services unless you want to get yourself isolated (and potentially in trouble with the authorities). Besides, from prior experience, most people are unwilling to use technologies unless it is physically placed in front of them, whether through social influences, advertising or word of mouth, which generally corporate services do better than Libre alternatives. It used to be that computers and programs were made for the end user. Now they are simply tools for ad and data-collection companies to extract every byte of personal data and force every second of advertising on others. I've been seriously considering to remove computers from most aspects of my life, but as paper slowly disappears from our lives, this becomes harder and harder. Now you would likely be fired if you refused to use Teams or Slack or whatever your company uses. No one uses fax or writes mail or watches live TV anymore. The only other alternative is to take back computers and make them personal again.

 Text: >Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is \*making it look like content marketing\* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

Poetry dch82 • 2 days ago • 100%

paper.wf

A haiku I made today > What is happening > > I don't know what's real now > > Give me proper news

Technology dch82 • 3 days ago • 88%

Anyone sane has left Xitter already and the crazies stay on their own platform, making the Web generally much more pleasant, as less and less sites link to Xitter.

Lemmy Shitpost dch82 • 1 week ago • 93%

I decided to write a parody song based on the current state of the interwebs. Enjoy! ```txt Am I the only one I know Who has an adblocker loaded and installed? Websites will scream for it to get closed, closed, closed I-I-I browse the internet And UX ranges from up down and sideways Thank God I have Lemmy 'cause Lemmy will always Be better than Reddit 'cause Spez be my life's bane I don't know why sites always seem so dismal Paywall, ads, spam and some tracking Whether it's The Verge or the Times on the Web Sometimes offline seems better than the mess that's on the Net Let it be said that what ads represents It's operators striking a balance, it's them Striking a tough balance Between bankruptcy and irrelevance That's best represented best by their bank balance I do not have ADHD, my attention just hates all the ads They will not let me read, I guess I'll read books instead And sometimes paper seem better than the distraction on the web Am I the only one I know Who has an adblocker loaded and installed? Websites will scream for it to get closed But I know I read it this far, kid Yeah, yeah, yeah It's not as fine as it seems, pardon Me yelling, I'm telling you big libraries Are not what's growing on the web, it's a different dream A terrible AI feasting on handmade blogs Freeze frame please, let me paint a digital picture portrait Something you won't forget, it's all about the Google And how it's a gateway that lets out spam sites That make textbooks look not boring Behind the screen are islands of brainwash Many minds shipwrecked, this is the only island could find Find, they didn't know it was such a wild island Full of Muskrats and Russian twitter-bots They're trying to radicalise me, conspiracy theories down the line And I know I can help or let the twitter-bots win I begin to download all the pages I can find 'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta cut the line Am I the only one I know Who has an adblocker loaded and installed? Websites will scream for it to get closed But I know I read it this far, kid Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah And I say we should take a break away From all the pain the Web has made The game is not played alone And I say we should take a FOSS project And use it and know that the Web can have a better undertone And I say we should take a break away From all the pain the web has made The game is not played alone And I say we should take a FOSS project And use it and know that the Web can have a better undertone Am I the only one I know Who has an adblocker loaded and installed? Websites will scream for it to get closed But I know I read it this far, kid We've read it this far We've read it this ```

Digital Art dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 88%

https://mastodon.social/@catsndogs/113085942557641707 Part of my series of wholesome comics; today is a special!

Fediverse dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 84%

This is a follow-up from [my previous thread](https://lemmy.zip/post/22030071). The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon. The reasons, summarised by [@noodlejetski@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/noodlejetski) are: > 1. marketing >2. not having to pick the instance when registering >3. people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining >4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow >5. marketing > >and I'm saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer. Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this. **How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?**

Fediverse dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 90%

A poster I made to promote the Fediverse. The PDFs and the light version is on [the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fedi-dark). This work is public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it; for example print it on a T-shirt! EDIT: Low-contrast Solarized versions are now available!

Fediverse dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 97%

What made everybody move from a corporate social media platform to *another* corporate social media platform instead of the fediverse? After all, the Fediverse and Activitypub is much more mature than Bluesky and the copycat AT protocol or Threads and ... whatever they use.

Technology dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 96%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22029394 > Link goes to https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/cyber-security-incident?cid=email_FINAL_TFLU369_Security_update-CTA_text_website > > Got this email today. It seems someone is getting fired in the IT department...

Cybersecurity dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 91%

Link goes to https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/cyber-security-incident?cid=email_FINAL_TFLU369_Security_update-CTA_text_website Got this email today. It seems someone is getting fired in the IT department...

Greentext dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 84%

```txt I know this isn't the traditional greentext but I'm doing this on Lemmy anyways > Browse Lemmy > See progressive political post > See comments > See Anti-nazi comment > 100 something upvotes, 1 downvote Alright, who's the fascist among us? ```

Puns dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 64%

Cause it was blue

Comic Strips dch82 • 2 weeks ago • 68%

Source: [@catsndogs@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/catsndogs)

Comic Strips dch82 • 3 weeks ago • 65%

[@catsndogs@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/catsndogs)

Ask Lemmy dch82 • 3 weeks ago • 90%

After 2020 it seems many of us experienced time differently than expected. What is this phenomenon called?

Comic Strips dch82 • 3 weeks ago • 79%

Source: @catsndogs@mastodon.social

Comic Strips dch82 • 3 weeks ago • 68%

mastodon.social

EDIT accidentally posted twice

Showerthoughts dch82 • 4 weeks ago • 92%

Just thinking, is the art style only symbolic of the universe or is everything actually like that in-universe?

Technology dch82 • 1 month ago • 97%

I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has. I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites. Does something like this exist?

Fediverse dch82 • 1 month ago • 97%

From my experience on Mastodon, it is almost impossible to be found. Some of my toots feel like shouting into a void. Is there anyway around this?

Puns dch82 • 1 month ago • 91%

Penal-tea.

Home dch82 • 1 month ago • 100%

Hello everyone, I started a community featuring puns at !puns@lemmy.zip. If you have any puns or other word play, please post it to our community! No pun intended. :)

Puns dch82 • 1 month ago • 100%

Hi everyone, as the moderator of !puns@lemmy.zip, we need a icon and banner. Any potential icons or banners please put in the comment section. EDIT: I have added the first candidate, but feel free to submit any more; I might change my mind. :)

Puns dch82 • 1 month ago • 72%

They had a lot of *chemistry* between them.

Community Promo dch82 • 1 month ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20358665 > It’s the place for all puns! > [!puns@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/c/puns)

New Communities dch82 • 1 month ago • 97%

It’s the place for all puns! !puns@lemmy.zip

News dch82 • 2 months ago • 81%

www.theverge.com

EDIT: Shared and unlocked by @Hot Potato@lemmy.world: [Other article](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/style/mrbeast-beast-games-competition-show.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE4.LDe_.f9cv0UQb7QMw&smid=url-share)

Technology dch82 • 2 months ago • 92%

Microsoft were pioneering the foldable phone trend, then after the Surface Duo 2, silently discontinued the lineup. Of course it might be its awkward dual screen system, but that wouldn’t be the full story. Anyone know (and is allowed to disclose) any further details on the demise of the Surface Duo?

Technology dch82 • 2 months ago • 98%

www.404media.co

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20208162 > > The AI assistant company is blaming everything but its own security practices for a June security breach.