It’s 2025. If you are getting a ‘free’ software product, there’s a chance of about 99,9% that the answer to that question is either ‘analytics/tracking/telemetry/customer retention’ or a combination of many or all of them.
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medem@lemmy.wtfto Hardware@lemmy.world•LIBERUX Powerfull debian based linux phone with privacy features and headphone jackEnglish6·1 day ago‘mostly open source’? I’m intrigued…
I love Lemmy.
Here we are, in this holy year of our lord 2025
Wondering if cats have post-nut clarity
Try Guix instead :)
Big, welcoming community; Fully libre distribution; Time-tested Scheme (Guile) instead of that stupid nix stuff.
Have you never had a corporate job? A technology can be very much useless while incompetent ‘managers’ who believe it can do better than humans WILL buy the former to get rid of the latter, even though that’s a stupid thing to do, in order to meet their yearly targets and other similar idiotic measures of division/team ‘productivity’
medem@lemmy.wtfto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage?2·3 days agoThx, corrected
medem@lemmy.wtfto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking8·4 days agoIt’s also not the first or only 21st century technology that is or was waaaaaaaaay overhyped.
First it was the Blockchain
Then it was the Cloud
Now it’s Artificial Stupidity.
We do. ‘Spring fever’ is very real. What’s less clear is why.
medem@lemmy.wtfto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage?11·3 days agoI have a friend who was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol. While he, of course, is convinced that cocaine is one of the worst substances to have ever existed, he is even more wary of alcohol because of: (I’m obviously both paraphrasing AND excluding most countries with a Muslim majority here)
a) Social acceptance. No one is ever going to judge you for quietly sitting in the corner of a bar drinking your beer. Try snorting a line on the same setting and see what happens.
b) Availability. Even in sparsely populated areas, you are never too far away (say, a 10 minute walk) from a bottle of wine/spirit/beer.
c) Practicality (which is what answers your question). You don’t need a syringe, spoon, knife, bill, bong or lighter, not even another recipient, to start binging on booze. Once you buy/steal the stuff, you’re all set - and drinking something definitely IS more ‘natural’ (as in, it’s a reflex) than injecting or smoking something.
Shit, man. WHY did you have to bring this up…
Those.nails.ruin.everything.
medem@lemmy.wtfto Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•Explain to me like I am a literal 5 year old. What is the hate towards Trans people? Is it just because they a different? Did they do something to garner the hate? I was raised different and change...English6·8 days agoBecause they are such a tiny AND unprotected minority, they are fairly easy targets for othering / discrimination.
[ I am not condoning, just informing ]
medem@lemmy.wtfto Palestine@lemm.ee•[Haaretz] 47% of Israeli Jews believe all inhabitants of the Gaza strip should be killed, 82% support the expulsion of residents of the Gaza Strip, 56% support the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel7·8 days agoReminds me of Finkelstein’s wise words…I can’t exactly remember his wording, but you can easily find the video in Peertube.
He said something to the effect of : In almost all places in the world, it’s wise to ideologically separate a people from its government…except in !$ra€| because a) civil institutions are so deeply intertwined with the military, and b) the majority of the people do, indeed, support the government’s genocidal policies…
I hate the fact that they made ‘The Descent 2’. Totally (and unnecessarily) killed the ambiguous ending of the original.
I seriously doubt that it would count as ‘shitty’, but it wasn’t very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I’ll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’
medem@lemmy.wtfto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central AmericaEnglish1·11 days agoSo you see…up to a certain point it’s kind of our own fault too
medem@lemmy.wtfto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central AmericaEnglish1·11 days agoI’d love to, but I can’t. Colonialism’s ‘Divide and conquer’ rule is only applicable and effective if the targets are either willingly in the game (i.e., corrupt enough to collaborate) already relatively divided (i.e. Already fragmented enough), or stupid enough not to realise what’s being done to them.
medem@lemmy.wtfto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central AmericaEnglish2·11 days agoI don’t want to be that person either, but I really don’t think that Sykes is personally to blame for Britain’s shitty policies in and for the Middle East, the consequences of which still play a major role in the mess the region still is. Point being that, besides Gringoland, Britain should also be held accountable for the role they have played around the world in everything from ethnic cleansing all the way to supporting brutal, even murderous, dictatorships.
You’re absolutely right. Sorry for that (admittedly catastrophic) omission.