vamp07 2 months ago • 100%
I guess I should not be surprised but the lack of seriousness by which the government treats this topic I find alarming.
vamp07 3 months ago • 100%
If I'm not mistaken, the way a spring drive works is that it's really just a quartz movement, but the power comes from the watch movement.
vamp07 4 months ago • 75%
Everything always seems to circle back to the idea that keeping people in ignorance is better because they're too uneducated or stupid to understand. I just don't buy it.
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
I suspect retrofitting a whole new identity system to Fediverse will never happen because server admins, or instance admins, will come up with all kinds of reasons why they don't like the idea of not knowing who their users are. Some of them would probably allow it, but I bet a whole bunch of them wouldn't, and we'd get into this fragmentation where some servers won't allow posts from those types of identity, etc. It seems to me much easier to take Nostr and just give it the functionality you get inside the Fediverse.
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
Agreed, but that is exactly how NOSTR identity works, and the reason I think NOSTR is such a great protocol.
vamp07 4 months ago • 50%
You realize you're describing Nostr right?
vamp07 4 months ago • 13%
This is silly. The web is not in decline and Google is not at fault. Most of the web is garbage, and Google helps us find the information buried in a sea of ads and repetitively copied/reworded content. We are moving to a world where putting up a plagiarized page with tons of ads will not be profitable. The sooner that day arrives, the better.
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
This has a lot more to do with consumption than with production. Most of these islands are small, and it's unrealistic for them to have large populations or a heavy tourist industry without desalination plants. Energy needs to become cheap, and honestly, wind farms and solar can help with this.
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
How is nostr promoting crypto?
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
I agree. I also notice a constant push to ban anything that is deemed offensive, which in most cases is just a statement of opinion that someone did not like.
vamp07 4 months ago • 33%
Nostr is ultimately the way forward and he knows it. Nobody controlling your identity other than yourself.
vamp07 4 months ago • 100%
There is nothing wrong with wanting something you don’t need.
vamp07 5 months ago • 100%
Do we know they are monitoring our usage of the launcher?
vamp07 5 months ago • 100%
I just came in here, looking for these exact questions and was about to post them when I saw this thread
Marking posts as read also sync to the server? I know this was an issue in the past because it couldn’t be done as a batch? I know I posted some thing about this topic along time ago, and that was the answer.
I am also looking forward to doing community specific searches.
vamp07 5 months ago • 100%
I just got a tag heuer solargraph watch as my every day watch but in your case I would get a nice citizen or seiko watch that can take a beating. I like quartz watches end even better solar versions because you can set them and forget them for decades.
vamp07 6 months ago • 100%
It’s not worth getting this upset about this stuff. That’s my 2 cents.
vamp07 6 months ago • 100%
I think Mlem lets you go directly to reader mode.
I’m torn between reflect and capacities but leaning towards reflect. I just like how fast and simple it is. Anybody have an opinion?
vamp07 7 months ago • 100%
Agreed but it bugs me that I need to pay Reddit to not see ads and on top of that they get paid for the content we produce. The fediverse is a better model.
vamp07 7 months ago • 100%
I don’t object to my content being used for training. I do object to Reddit profiting from that data. It’s the reason I basically don’t participate on Reddit anymore. Anything I post in the fediverse I am aware I am offering it up for free to be crawled and used as seen fit as long as it is not monetized without my consent. I don’t consider model training to be monetization.
vamp07 7 months ago • 50%
It's this kind of nonsense that always makes me run back to my iPhone.
vamp07 7 months ago • 61%
If RCS is such an awesome standard, why not mandate it for all EU phones? Apple already supports the current standard, which is SMS. The idea that they have to open up their proprietary software seems silly to me.
vamp07 7 months ago • 100%
Yup. The effect for me has been that I simply go out much less often.
vamp07 7 months ago • 100%
It is confusing. If you have two apps on your phone that do the same thing, how is the new user supposed to know what to do? I'm thinking of Samsung and how they insist on shipping their own branded stuff that, for the most part, brings nothing new to the table.
vamp07 7 months ago • 85%
When I see people criticize something they have clearly not used I get motivated to try it.
vamp07 7 months ago • 100%
I try to stick with doing all my subscriptions with apple, google or PayPal. Always keep it where it’s easy to kill.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
My take on it is that the Republicans will do their best to drag this out until the election. No compromising or middle ground. Just make it out to be the crazy Democrats fault. This stuff gets to be very predictable after all these years.
vamp07 8 months ago • 33%
Everyone needs to take more responsibility for the nonsense they read instead of blaming it all on the platform or Elon.
vamp07 8 months ago • 15%
Just wait till the first security vulnerability are discovered in the code that now will be able to run on iOS and which Apple can't control directly. Nobody will remember that the cause was forcing Apple to open up their system. They will just blame Apple.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
It’s great to see your financials. I see you are ahead but I am going to get my monthly donation going again.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
This man is, and has always been a train wreck 
vamp07 8 months ago • 66%
Until you realize that their implementation of AI, whatever that means, in their case is mediocre, and nothing more than a marketing term. 
vamp07 8 months ago • 75%
As with everything Samsung tends to do I’ll bet the AI stuff is half baked. 
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
They lost me as soon as I saw the headline. Not worth reading any further.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
No I got confused. I was referring to sync on Android which can summarize posts using AI. For some reason I had it in my head that it was Bean.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
I really try not to judge on these topics. If I can somehow justify they’re not relevant to the job.
If you’re a religious person with a suppose, moral compass, when Trump cheated on his pregnant wife, with essentially a prostitute, doesn’t that raise all kinds of red flags? I don’t know. Honestly I’m just asking. I don’t go to church and I’m essentially agnostic but my moral compass makes me run the other direction when I see something like that. 
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
We need to allow for the possibility that it is far more weird than that which honestly is a very human centric view.
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
The American way!!
vamp07 8 months ago • 100%
I have never been able to wrap my head around voting for somebody that supposedly supports policies you agree with while being clearly a bad person/leader to the core.
vamp07 8 months ago • 75%
There was a time when there really were significant differences between these cameras. Those days are over.
vamp07 8 months ago • 33%
It’s in to hate on Elon.
I have pro on both and like both. Is there some criteria others have used in the past to pick their favorite? They seem so similar to me. Does one have a killer feature the other does not?
It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.
I think it's a mistake to sort the favorite communities above the three main choices of everything subscribed and local.
I love the article summarization but if I choose to read an article there is no in browser reader mode?
Am I mistaken that marking read while scrolling and hiding read does not work for groups? I have been looking forward to a groups type feature for a long time a++
If I want to hide read posts, what causes something to be read? It does not seem to be just scrolling by it as in other similar apps.
I really like getting stuff I’ve read out of my feed, but do new comments cause those items to come back in as unread? without that I’m not sure how useful this is.
I played around a bit with sync on android. Is there any CLIENT for iOS with a similar level of feature richness?
I have been using Raycast with its integrated AI spell checking and I am completely impressed with the results. I would love to find an equivalent solution for iOS. When I look in the App Store, there are so many options and many of them are overly expensive. I wish I could find out if there is a consensus on a clear winner. One with the ability to create your own saved prompts would be ideal.
Are there any paid services for either Lemmy or Mastodon? Something where, given it is a subscription service, you would expect them to stick around long-term?
How many of you have seen this interview? He seems pretty credible to me. The part I have a tough time buying into is that humanity discovers aliens and alien tech, and we can keep it under wraps for an extended period of time. The best use we can come up with is illegal activities, and human trafficking? Maybe there is more to it than that, but if any of this turns out to be true, reality is truly stranger than fiction. 
I’m constantly running into multiple groups that address the same subject. It would be nice if I could combine those so I saw all the posts in one place. For example, all the forums that are discussing UAPs it would be cool to just look at a single thing that combined them all. 
I recently got serious about using mem.ai after seeing a video on its AI features. Anybody else out there testing this out?
Is there any reason why you can't sort the community listing by its columns? It looks like it should work when I mouse over it.
I think the day will come, but for the time being there are so few high-end solar-powered watches. I am really tempted by this one, but I wish I had more choice.
I think the day will come, but for the time being there are so few high-end solar-powered watches. I am really tempted by this one, but I wish I had more choice.