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  1. Comment on Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue in ~tech

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    This is map of hackerspaces around the world. You can look up if there's something near you: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces Our hackerspace's website: hakierspejs.pl

    This is map of hackerspaces around the world. You can look up if there's something near you: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
    Our hackerspace's website: hakierspejs.pl

    1 vote

  3. Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech

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    I feel like nobody knows that it was Facebook that politicised and helped Trump to become president las time.

    I feel like nobody knows that it was Facebook that politicised and helped Trump to become president las time.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech

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    Ahhhh, so that's the playbook Facebook used to divide US, UK, Myanmar and all other nations' societies! Remember Trump being elected? Remember Brexit? Or Rohingya genocide? Read about Cambridge...

    Ahhhh, so that's the playbook Facebook used to divide US, UK, Myanmar and all other nations' societies! Remember Trump being elected? Remember Brexit? Or Rohingya genocide?
    Read about Cambridge Analytica, there's good article about it in Wikipedia. Then come back to this case of banning Tiktok and think if all other corporate social media shouldn't be banned alongside Tiktok.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Why do negative topics dominate social media sites, even here? in ~tech

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    I always wonder why social policies in a country sucks. We know solutions to many problems, so why they haven't been introduced? Is someone lobbying (or bribing, to be fair) politicians? Who can...

    I always wonder why social policies in a country sucks. We know solutions to many problems, so why they haven't been introduced? Is someone lobbying (or bribing, to be fair) politicians? Who can that person/entity be? A corporation?
    Noo, it can't be capitalistic corporations. /s
    That's exactly this „big problem with/under capitalism“. Social policies suck because capitalism don't want to let govt improve them, that's my point of view.

  6. Comment on Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike in ~music

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    I wonder if smaller bands would get way more exposure than earlier in the past if p2p music streaming was not illegal and there would be a legal p2p streaming service. E.g. we have a band, they...

    Because of Spotify and music streaming in general, smaller bands now get way more exposure than they would have in the past

    I wonder if smaller bands would get way more exposure than earlier in the past if p2p music streaming was not illegal and there would be a legal p2p streaming service.
    E.g. we have a band, they createe CC-licensed music and put all of their music to torrent website and/or Peertube instance. So the music is freely available to listen to and download. Besides, the band sells their CDs and plays concerts since I'm sure as you do, that the band is making the bulk of their money from touring. Wouldn't that be fantastic?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike in ~music

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    How is listening to Spotify different than pirating music from non-popstar „grade” artist perspective? They get fractions of pennies for their music on Spotify anyways.

    How is listening to Spotify different than pirating music from non-popstar „grade” artist perspective? They get fractions of pennies for their music on Spotify anyways.

    19 votes

  10. Comment on Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead in ~news

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    And how much more disabled people. Only because of Putin's imperialism.

    And how much more disabled people. Only because of Putin's imperialism.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on How do you organize your phone's home screens and apps? in ~tech

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    After many launchers I installed KISS Launcher and it's the best decision ever. It's so minimalistic, straight and clean. And beautiful. On my screen I have just a weather app widget, three...

    After many launchers I installed KISS Launcher and it's the best decision ever. It's so minimalistic, straight and clean. And beautiful. On my screen I have just a weather app widget, three favourite apps (calendar, notes and tasks) and rest apps I can call by tapping the screen or bottom prompt.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue in ~tech

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    I'd definitely recommend searching for a local hackerspace or people who want to create one. I did both and we have a pretty nice group of 15 people atm, we rent some space from municipality, meet...

    I'd definitely recommend searching for a local hackerspace or people who want to create one. I did both and we have a pretty nice group of 15 people atm, we rent some space from municipality, meet regurarly and are becoming an actual group of friends.

  14. Comment on What email client do you use? in ~tech

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    Deltachat for direct chats, Thunderbird and K9Mail for traditional emails. And web client for my other address.

    Deltachat for direct chats,
    Thunderbird and K9Mail for traditional emails.
    And web client for my other address.

  15. Comment on Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue in ~tech

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    Speaking of online gaming, I'd like to mention a nice group of people playing FOSS games (mostly, but not always) weekly. We organize on chat and during the game we use Mumble for voice...

    Speaking of online gaming, I'd like to mention a nice group of people playing FOSS games (mostly, but not always) weekly. We organize on chat and during the game we use Mumble for voice conversations.
    The chat is on irc, but is bridged with Jabber/Xmpp and Matrix. Feel free to join in: https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/chat-network/page/gateways-for-xmpp-and-matrix
    edit:
    forgot to addlink to the onFOSS gaming group: https://onfoss.org/

    5 votes

  17. Comment on How web bloat impacts users with slow devices in ~comp

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    Good question. I wonder which framework aimed at non-technical people is the lightest in terms of resources.

    Good question. I wonder which framework aimed at non-technical people is the lightest in terms of resources.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t. in ~misc

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    I don't have an answer for all the problems in all poor countries, but. One of areas of focus could be Ukraine, since at the moment it's the place of origin of the majority of refugees to EU. So,...

    I don't have an answer for all the problems in all poor countries, but.
    One of areas of focus could be Ukraine, since at the moment it's the place of origin of the majority of refugees to EU. So, regarding this particular case - the problem here is Muscovy invading their neighbor for no reason. So I'd like EU countries to maximize their effort in producing shells and weapons that could help Ukraine repell invader. The most important afaik right now are fighter jets and modern long-range anti-aircraft weapons.
    That's my first thought regarding first country I think of.
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    Of course, after the war, UE should give money, investments, etc. to help rebuilding Ukraine and making it better place to live after war.

  20. Comment on WhatsApp announces messaging interoperability in response to Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA) in ~tech

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    I wonder if any not big corp app will be accepted by Meta to be interoperable with Whatsapp.

    I wonder if any not big corp app will be accepted by Meta to be interoperable with Whatsapp.