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  • Its my real first name, but directly translated from Norwegian to English.

  • If you did, I'd absolutely follow you. Stuff like that is fun to read. @emptyother@oslo.town Im not big on asking for help though.

  • Yeah no, the default app doesn't have this feature for some weird unknown reason.

  • Should probably be a per-server karma system. Or else anyone could create their own instance and auto-give themselves enough karma to be "trustworthy" and set their account date.

  • Learned that VERY recently from here, at NDC Oslo 2023, he mentioned it around 42:54. The whole talk is worth watching, its about the history of javascript all the way back to FORTRAN (the talk itself starts at 25:03).

  • Huh, I tried that. Still got recommended incel-videos for months after watching a moron "discuss" the Captain Marvel movie. Eventually went through and clicked "dont recommend this" on anything that showed on my frontpage, that helped.

  • Then we got bots talking to bots about articles written by bots, moderated by bots. Its gonna be great.

  • They can. They have no problems doing it for a well-advertised product who has somehow convinced them that "everyone uses it".

  • Smaller govts, like here in Norway, is just people doing what they can and has been educated to do. This faceless govt that a lot of people are describing, I cant imagine it here. It is built of people anyone can talk to. So yes, the government and the system cares about us as a whole. Not for me personally, though. Common good.

    Some politicians and govt workers are completely self-serving, of course, even here.

  • Nah. Bug, I think. Happens often with communities outside your server. They will still show in your feed.

  • This is just my opinion, NOT in any way facts:

    Thing is we've all been attacked and are actively defending against cyber attacks already, all over the internet-connected globe. We've fought bot nets. We are prepared. We've taken precautions. Our defenses has been battle-tested. (Though I am not sure we are prepared enough against these new pattern-finding AIs). And we know to keep essential services offline.

    Biological we haven't, we've mostly trusted our immune system, which is made for smaller population densities. And we have no way to modify our defenses other than vaccines. If any smart biohacker finds a vulnerability, our only plan is what we did when covid started. And a biological attack combined with a misinformation campaign could cripple any country easier than any cyber attack.

  • Most Norwegians just repeat a lot of synonyms for the devil and hell and burning:

    Faen steike til helvetes forbannade jævelskap.

    But there are more creative cursers, of course. Good cursing is an art.

  • I'll wait and see if Facebook is even gonna end up doing federation correctly. Maybe they wont.

  • Would be ironic then that what kills them is a lack of longterm thinking.

  • Sorting by NewComments gives you a good mix of both new posts and posts with activity. And changes constantly.

  • It's Open Source!

    Jump
  • We gotta trust somebody or the whole "society" thing would be a waste.

  • Numbers go up good. Numbers stay down bad.