I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
I thought this thread had no comments, but as it turns out, the frontpage just isn't updating for me and so I don't know what threads people have interacted with unless I click on them.
Always remember when contemplating arguing with some guy on the internet, that you may be arguing about what cheese goes with what wine and then you check their post history and realize they drink their own piss. And then you're like "Wow, I actually tried to argue culinary choices with a guy who drinks his own piss."
Just saves time when you accept that lots of people reject reality and substitute facts with alternative lies.
Well they can plan it if they want to, but I'm sure many instances will just end up blocking them and there isn't anything they can do about it. But on the other hand, having such a large backing is making things much easier for Threads.
Oh my God, thanks for the heads up! As a European, I would most definitely want to avoid visiting these sites, as I obviously respect copyright law to its full extent! Now I can add them to my (block) list!
Ok maybe its just me being out of touch with the Finnish scene, but I seriously and I mean SERIOUSLY doubt that 40% of the content pirated here is Finnish content. Could, again, be me just not giving a damn about Finnish shows/movies personally, but I don't even know where I'd go looking for those downloads. But just looking at the sheer amount of content that's available in English and other languages vs Finnish content, they are in essence saying that almost all Finnish shows are pirated then, because otherwise you're not getting anywhere close to 40% of that content being pirated. Unless they think that without piracy ALL of those people would be watching it legally, then maybe you'd get somewhere north of 20%. But even with just Finnish content, the fact is that you'd have to subscribe, I think to at least two (MTV Katsomo+ that is 13€ per month so you don't get ads (which yes, means that there is 7€ paid tier WITH ADS....) and Ruutu+ (that is also 13€ per month, 8€ per month WITH ADS....) and that's on top of, say Netflix. I just don't think that without piracy those 40% would actually pay for those services, just don't see it happening. I think they are way off with their numbers and are delusional in thinking that Finnish content would have such a big draw. I doubt it does.
I remember watching this interview about this guy who had to be resuscitated and he said that what he felt was "nothing", as in kind of like when you're sleeping and you know nothing, except turned up to a thousand. He said he had to go through some serious therapy to get over it because when he "came back", he just couldn't believe that he had lost that sense of not having anything to worry about. I would venture its something like that, just like going to sleep but you just don't even know it.
If we assume that all we are is just electrical impulses in our brains and those cease when we die, I don't expect there to be much after that, you're just gone and there's nothing, so there is no suffering either.
And they had not paid rent since January? I will never understand the notion that some people, regular people, not billionaires, deserve to lose income while some people deserve free housing because of "family". While he obviously went a bit overboard, I can't imagine there wasn't some desperation in his actions because he had not been paid rent for months on end.
Shit like this is why I switched to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all those years ago. LibreOffice is just as good for my personal purposes and I'm never going back to MS Office. Unless your work specifically requires something only Microsoft's product can do, I highly recommend LibreOffice, I use it every single day.
Some software just literally isn't available for Linux. And lets face it, even Ubuntu requires more tinkering than the average user is prepared to do, or in other words, any tinkering at all because they would have to install it themselves and they do not know how to do that. And the few times I've bothered to use Linux even as my backup, the tinkering never stops. Its not worth the hassle at this point in time.
Just make sure anything you order is either "fulfilled by Amazon" or "Ships from Amazon" and you should avoid that. I personally don't order anything that isn't shipped by Amazon (either through fulfillment or otherwise).
I'm too stupid to figure out the scale between that pole and the earth, so I did this instead:
Let us say that we have a standard globe and it has been attached to its stand from the south and north poles, so that you can spin it around on the stand
Let us assume that the "pole" attached to the globe is 2cm in diameter and that the scale of the globe is 1:42M
With this, it would mean that a 2cm "pole" on a globe would in real life correspond to a pole that is 840 kilometers in diameter.
Needless to say, that pole would be fucking massive either way.
I’ve been using JDownloads2 to download from YouTube Music. But my car stereo only supports mp3 so have to convert the files. Any suggestion for good audio converter that works in large batches? I’ve looked, and maybe my google fu sucks, but can’t see a way to force JDownloads to do MP3, it’s doing m4a.
#4 in Social and 3.4 stars in Finland and the first reviews you see without tapping on anything are negative ones and they're actual reviews that list legitimate complaints.
Isn't the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.
It really worries me that they're trying to be federated with it. Thankfully lots of instances will block it, but it was only a matter of time until a corporation decided to take aim at federation.
Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10422101...
This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)
This is another post that alerted me of this....
Can KBin not like, freak out at any turn when surfing on it?
I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
A powerful argument (i.imgur.com)
(sound recommended)
Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
The age old question. Coke? Pepsi? Store brand? Any other?...
A script to convert all 264 to 265?
Does someone have a script that converts all videos files from 264 to 265 and changes the name?...
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year’ (www.theverge.com)
Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US (torrentfreak.com)
Nordic piracy stats (ttvk.fi)
tldr;...
If there was an afterlife, how would it work?
Rational replies only, please.
Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters (www.foxbusiness.com)
Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges
Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours... (lemmy.world)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Amazon is raising free-shipping minimums for customers without a Prime membership (nypost.com)
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....
It's why it's called the North Pole (lemmy.ml)
Good software for batch audio file conversion.
I’ve been using JDownloads2 to download from YouTube Music. But my car stereo only supports mp3 so have to convert the files. Any suggestion for good audio converter that works in large batches? I’ve looked, and maybe my google fu sucks, but can’t see a way to force JDownloads to do MP3, it’s doing m4a.
What movie did you rewatch most often?
For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.
Official reddit app is #1 news app in the Danish iOS app store (lemmy.world)
Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?
Mastodon has hit 2M active monthly users! (i.ibb.co)
Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days (www.theguardian.com)
Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app
WEB 4.69 (lemmy.world)
Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare…
Lemmy, meet Toffee, (lemmy.tf)
She’ll be 12 weeks as of July 9th