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  • vegantomato@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldA woman without a man
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    3 hours ago

    There are always going to be bad men trying to commit aggression, so one should be grateful that there are other men who counter that.

    If you want to turn this into a man-problem, then why stop there? You might as well turn this into a human-problem. Turning this into a gender issue rather than focusing on the bad people specifically, is an arbitrary (and toxic) way of framing the issue.


  • vegantomato@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldA woman without a man
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    9 hours ago

    Yes, women need men. Who is primarily fighting in Ukraine? Who was forced to stay and who was allowed to leave? Answer: The men had to stay to fight while women and children were allowed to evacuate the country.

    Defense is just one example of what men do for women.

    You don’t need no man until you do.

    Don’t be toxic, be grateful.






  • Commercial/state-enforced AI crawlers overburdening services and forcing admins to increase cost and time spent dealing with these DDoS attacks is much closer to theft than the piracy itself. Piracy doesn’t make people lose money, AI crawlers do.

    If I host a website for the general public, I’m not paying money for 200 foreign AI crawlers to consume most of the bandwidth and CPU and leave legit users, whom I created the website for, with scraps. Even Wikipedia is feeling it.

    Many AI crawlers are immoral for other reasons as well, especially when we are talking about companies (Meta, Google) or states (CCP) doing it who are known for corporating with intelligence/defense or are engaged in human rights abuses.

    Turning this discussion to be about piracy is imo a distraction.


  • Hopefully they will find better jobs with better employers.

    For everyone who uses Windows, try Linux. Don’t be scared to try something new, most things that are worthwhile come with some sacrifice. Sometimes, if we don’t leave our comfort zone, we miss out.

    I will provide a small guide, but there are tons of resources on the internet.

    See the ranking on the right hand side here: https://distrowatch.com/ You can pick something from there on the top of the list.

    Watch YouTube to learn more about each Linux distro that you find interesting.

    I personally would recommend Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros, as they have the widest support.

    You don’t have to wipe your Windows-installation completely, instead you can dual-boot. This allows you to pick Windows or Linux when you start your computer. If you feel comfortable switching entirely, you can wipe out Windows and keep Linux exclusively.

    Just be careful when you partition your drive, don’t accidentally overwrite your Windows installation (if that’s not what you want to do). Make a backup copy of your most important files on a separate external drive before the installation.







  • Reddit has been shit since 2014, some would argue since its inception. It never properly replaced serious forums that specialized on their own niche, like PC hardware, gossip, cars, or whatever. The subreddit replacements always felt like lower quality EVEN THOUGH Reddit mods are (in general) more trigger happy than those running proper forums. The astroturfing, the deception, the lack of respect for its users, the UX dark patterns, it has all been getting worse and worse. Some haven’t gotten the memo yet, that Reddit serves no one but itself, it’s a cancer.

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    astroturfing = “Public relations tactic using fake grassroots movements” (used by, among others, corporations, politicians (remember the Trump 2016 campaign on Reddit?), and governments)

    UX dark pattern = user experience dark pattern = “A dark pattern is a design feature that subtly encourages users to perform a specific action.” (like Reddit’s “Howdy paddner” error if you use a VPN so that they can de-anonymize you)