butterflyattack @ butterflyattack @lemmy.world

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Yeah, my journey was just the same as yours. I'm reading more books now, though, so that's cool.

TBF Facebook and Twitter etc were profitable platforms for a lot of businesses for a while. They obviously weren't going to last forever though so it would have been short-sighted not to plan for them dying off.

Seems like the famous five got upgrades.

I mean, some of them are. Many of them are nazi-lite. They get upset if you point it out, though. A lot of them probably believe they are fine upstanding patriots. A few can be talked to, and some can even change, but most just dig in deeper, so the problem doesn't seem likely to go away; it seems to be getting worse.

I think maybe it requires legislation or a change in systems. It's not really feasible to rely on millions of individual customers coming together to punish bad companies, it just doesn't seem to happen effectively or make a significant impact.

I am pretty sure this isn't the case if you report the phone stolen. Your provider will have the IMEI number and can brick it. There are probably ways around this - one that I've heard is that this bricking is regional. If you sell the stolen phone to someone who is going to ship it to Africa, say, and resell it, it would work fine there.

I should say that this info is a decade old, but I knew someone back then who would pay for phones, no questions asked. Also vehicles, even large commercial ones. The containers were going to the Gambia, although I'm sure other people were shipping stuff to other countries and continents. I don't know if bricking is still regional but I've not heard that it's changed.

Another possibility is that thieves are trying to literally snatch a phone out of the hand of someone who is using it, while it's still unlocked. Many of us do banking etc on our phones, and have other login credentials, so perhaps if they get the phone while it's unlocked they can do something with this.

This is one of those things that seems so obvious. I wonder if many people already believe it's an offense.

Of course, it'll never happen. How many of those fuckers are likely to vote to be criminally penalised for their dishonesty? Not a lot, I'm thinking. Lying is how they make their money and consolidate their power. Wankers. It should be a criminal offense - the fact that they are allowed to lie without penalty undermines democracy. How are they supposed to make an informed and democratic vote if they're doing so based on mendacious info?

Also, I could be wrong about this but I have the idea in my head that the house is legally a court. And under certain circumstances, lying to a court is already criminal. So maybe this is already illegal? I'm probably wrong there, the people behind this petition surely know more than me.

People are so stabby these days, it's a bit scary. I pick up litter in public parks and find stashed or dumped knives and other weapons all the time. Last month I found a sword. A fuckin sword, stashed behind a bin in a children's play area. It's a problem with multiple and complex causes but I'm not seeing a lot of solutions.

Yeah, I read it in a browser. It started restricting my access to compete articles so I had a think and decided I'd pay for it. I don't read it loads and I'm not rich so I pay IIRC £2 a month. Problem solved. Real journalism seems to be having a hard time these days, and I can see why - back in the days before everything was online I would buy a physical newspaper every day. So news media have lost the income from all those people like me who stopped buying newspapers, they've got to make it up through advertising or through a pay-for-content model.

I don't like paywalls because I don't like the idea that information should be restricted to those who can afford to buy it. But TBF that was the way it was back when you had to physically purchase a newspaper. The alternative is a load of intrusive advertising. Or articles written cheaply by chatGPT or whatever. Money to pay the wages for journalists to research and write articles has to come from somewhere.

Moderation is always going to be a tricky game. People assume that any comments that aren't deleted are therefore validated by mods, even when they can cover extremes that are very far apart. With a topic like this, the extreme ends are probably going to be people at one end who think anyone who doesn't confirm to a 'traditional' sexuality is some kind of abomination, and at the other end folk who think the people saying the 'abomination' shit shouldn't be allowed to participate. It's gonna be very hard to moderate that without pissing at least some people off. Like I say, a tricky game - but just because some people are unhappy doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.

Me, I'd say that unfortunately there are some extreme opinions out in the world and even when I don't share them I don't want to pretend they don't exist. I'd rather have the opportunity to discuss them, dispute them, maybe try to change them. But open hate speech, threats, personal abuse, or advocacy of violence should be a definite no. Just IMO.

Yeah. I was active on reddit for over ten years but I said I'd quit when they did the API thing, so I did. Gotta stick by what you say you'll do. I missed it at first but then I read a lot more books and was fine. Now sync lemmy has arrived and I'm gonna see how it goes here.

Shame about reddit but it's become an example of the enshittification that seems to be the recent trend. So fuck it.

Yeah, that's about what my mate says, I'm no musician but he loves the C64 for making electronic music. He lives in a big truck which is also his studio, old computers and amps and synths all running off solar-fed batteries. I understand the C64 had its own compiler too? Yeah there was such diversity of machines back in the day. My first machine was a Tandy TRS-80. And an old ZX81, IIRC that little thing had 1k ram so you had to write tight code. My real love was the BBC B, though, you could do so much with it, learned assembly on it.

Haven't done any coding now in years. Which is a shame, but mostly these days I don't really need to. I kinda feel like maybe we've lost something though since back then when you really needed to learn to program to get a device to do anything cool. Even though the devices today seem like an exponential improvement. Comparing the phone I'm writing this on to that old ZX81, or even a C64 - just wow. I'm excited to see what comes next!

When you say C64 do you mean the old commadore? Me, I was always an Amiga / Sinclair spectrum guy. But I live with someone who has a working c64 and uses it for music so they are still around.

Thanks, will do.

Hey mate,

Yeah I'm another one who followed you over from reddit.

I think I maybe need to play with Lemmy a bit more - it's a bit confusing. Is there a map? A general guide or explanation for the ignorant?

Also, cheers mate - you must have put in a shit load of effort in a very short time to put this together. Fast development since the reddit API bullshit. Respect. An I paid ultra cos I like your work

Sync

I think a fair few may be reddit refugees.