Tankies traditionally are associated with communists, but today’s tankies (even those that call themselves communists) are really after authoritarianism than communism, and given the history of the name (that they supported using tracks on civilians). I don’t think they’re is much difference between current communists and current fascists, both groups seem to support authoritarianism and feels like term “tankies” fits both of them well.
We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.
If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.
By Katie Notopoulosarchive page October 17, 2023
We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change. For the first time in years, it feels as though something truly new and different might be happening with the way we communicate online. The stranglehold that the big social platforms have had on us for the last decade is weakening. The question is: What do we want to come next?
There’s a sort of common wisdom that the internet is irredeemably bad, toxic, a rash of “hellsites” to be avoided. That social platforms, hungry to profit off your data, opened a Pandora’s box that cannot be closed. Indeed, there are truly awful things that happen on the internet, things that make it especially toxic for people from groups disproportionately targeted with online harassment and abuse. Profit motives led platforms to ignore abuse too often, and they also enabled the spread of misinformation, the decline of local news, the rise of hyperpartisanship, and entirely new forms of bullying and bad behavior. All of that is true, and it barely scratches the surface.
But the internet has also provided a haven for marginalized groups and a place for support, advocacy, and community. It offers information at times of crisis. It can connect you with long-lost friends. It can make you laugh. It can send you a pizza. It’s duality, good and bad, and I refuse to toss out the dancing-baby GIF with the tubgirl-dot-png bathwater. The internet is worth fighting for because despite all the misery, there’s still so much good to be found there. And yet, fixing online discourse is the definition of a hard problem. But look. Don’t worry. I have an idea.
What is the internet and why is it following me around? To cure the patient, first we must identify the disease.
When we talk about fixing the internet, we’re not referring to the physical and digital network infrastructure: the protocols, the exchanges, the cables, and even the satellites themselves are mostly okay. (There are problems with some of that stuff, to be sure. But that’s an entirely other issue—even if both do involve Elon Musk.) “The internet” we’re talking about refers to the popular kinds of communication platforms that host discussions and that you probably engage with in some form on your phone.
Some of these are massive: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, X. You almost certainly have an account on at least one of these; maybe you’re an active poster, maybe you just flip through your friends’ vacation photos while on the john.
The internet is good things. It’s Keyboard Cat, Double Rainbow. It’s personal blogs and LiveJournals. It’s the distracted-girlfriend meme and a subreddit for “What is this bug?”
Although the exact nature of what we see on those platforms can vary widely from person to person, they mediate content delivery in universally similar ways that are aligned with their business objectives. A teenager in Indonesia may not see the same images on Instagram that I do, but the experience is roughly the same: we scroll through some photos from friends or family, maybe see some memes or celebrity posts; the feed turns into Reels; we watch a few videos, maybe reply to a friend’s Story or send some messages. Even though the actual content may be very different, we probably react to it in much the same way, and that’s by design.
The internet also exists outside these big platforms; it’s blogs, message boards, newsletters and other media sites. It’s podcasts and Discord chatrooms and iMessage groups. These will offer more individualized experiences that may be wildly different from person to person. They often exist in a sort of parasitic symbiosis with the big, dominant players, feeding off each other’s content, algorithms, and audience.
Everyone is wondering how Israel missed it, there are even theories that he knew about the attack and let it happen to increase nationalist sentiment and secure more power. He just didn’t know it will be this bad.
He deserves to be removed, but he will fight to stay because he has no shame.
Most people only agree that the murders on civilians started by Hamas were absolutely horrible and unnecessary. As for what is coming after I don’t think normal people are happy about either.
That’s too figure out which extension is causing an issue. If everything works right then you have nothing to worry about.
If things do not work, the easiest is to get to a working state (latest version, removing any custom filters, disabling extensions) then once confirming that it works, gradually enabling things back until you can identify the offender.
The current Google approach is adding attestation to Google Chrome. They claim that it is to stop bots, but it can (and will be, they are slow boiling us) also used to block adblockers.
Anyone who cares about free (as freedom) should stop using chrome and clones and switch to Firefox.
They are doing same stuff as the other companies, but are better at PR.
If you use their products you are even more locked down, but for some reason that’s more acceptable than on pc. I think many apple fans are wearing rosy tinted glasses and don’t notice any of that for some reason.
For example there was a big deal recently by Google adding attestation mechanism that likely will be used to prevent ad blockers blocking ads. Safari already has this implemented.
From my experience is “watch this 1 hour video on rumble, I can’t summarize it, because when I try to say it using my own words it sounds dumb to me too”
fails when deployed, after adding debug statements looks like in one structure there’s 2 instead of 1, and looking at the code that should be impossible. Issue happens every single time.
the same exact unmodified container when downloaded and run locally works correctly every time.
Another question (especially to FCC): why deploying satellites into space to provide internet service is more feasible than providing internet terrestrially?
All FCC should have to do is to mandate leasing last mile to competitors, and that would enable competition enter in the market (like they did when DSL was the king).
There’s no way that dick wasn’t reference to Dr Evil. I have feeling the Blue Origin engineers, purposefully did that, because Bezos kind of looks like him.
Netflix caused movie pracy to nearly case, because was affordable and convenient. People preferred to pay than hunt and download movies.
Once other studios started creating their streaming services, applying exclusivity for shows, jacking prices for their content (encouraging ads) all went to hell. They successfully managed to ruin the experience, and make it as shitty as cable.
The thing about intellectual property is that you create it once and then you can copy it infinitely and generate profit. The studios want to maximize the profit, it isn’t (as you are suggesting) how hard was to create content, but it is how much people are ok paying. It always was.
They can do this, because there’s monopoly due to crippled antitrust laws in the last 50 years.
Piracy is a natural response to this, but they are using copyright (which was originally meant for different reason).
Antitrust laws as well as laws like copyright, DMCA etc needs to be fixed.
I’m wondering if somebody influenced that speaker. Russian propaganda is now using this that Zelensky (who was present at the time) was clapping when that Nazi was honored.
Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned to Trump’s case, said in her written decision that she sees no reason to step aside. The case, scheduled for trial in March, accuses the Republican of illegally scheming to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden....
Reading about her, I can’t help but think that she is just some random person with strong political opinions who tries to look fair (in her own mind), but has absolutely no law experience.
I mean, I know she doesn’t have much judicial experience and even had very little as a lawyer, but it feels like she has none whatsoever. As if she purchased her diploma on the internet.
It’s mostly because California passed net neutrality law, so it is harder to do it and be compliant there. The politicians also made mistake and did not ban zero rating, which is the current way of doing it (have laughably small data caps and provide unlimited access to affiliated companies)
Title II had special clause which requires owners of existing infrastructure to lease it to competitors (this was excluding by Wheeler when they reclassified it).
The leasing is what is necessary to enable competition.
We won’t get competition if every ISP that wants to enter the market needs to run fiber to every house separately. It is very expensive, and if it wasn’t, it is very impractical. Even Google with its “unlimited” capital wasn’t able to enter the market. Think about that.
I think it is fair. They even had a good plan, which would work if antitrust laws weren’t rendered toothless. They started with rural areas that seemed to be forgotten by ISPs. They started providing 1 Gbps at an affordable price.
Suddenly existing ISPs that had 1Mbps services could do 1 Gbps too! And they could do it cheaper too, even under the cost to provide the service. They could do it, because they overcharge their customers everywhere else.
They did that in every city Google Fiber entered.
Not only that, they owned communication wells which Google needed access to to run fiber to customer’s homes and were actively blocking from using them.
There are multiple things. Part of it is that they never hear of news like this part of it is that "there’s no way he did all of that, the fake news/dwu state/globalists are making things up, because they are scared of him. And for the remaining: “yeah, dauber he did it, but democrats are already doing it/would do it if they had a chance”.
The fountain. (endlesstalk.org)
Perfect thanks (lemmings.world)
Solid financial advice (lemmy.ml)
I’m a financial advisor and you should take this seriously
Is this photoshopped or is there really a country where the stop sign is green? (endlesstalk.org)
Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Today I finally picked up my phone from in-warranty repair (motherboard replacement), I found out the camera doesn't work (it did before). (i.imgur.com)
Same thing in CIT test menu:...
resoruletion (files.catbox.moe)
Kick tankies out of 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.
Rule for the flag (sh.itjust.works)
I can’t accomplish anything (i.imgur.com)
What is this? Wrong answers only. (lemmy.world)
"ZXCVBNM"? Nah. ASDFGHJKL!!! (i.imgur.com)
Yes, both rows type out the letters shown.
How to fix the internet (www.technologyreview.com)
We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.
Netanyahu told to ‘quit now’ as ex-leaders pin blame on dysfunctional government (www.theguardian.com)
Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes (store.steampowered.com)
Recently there was a thing where VAC would erroneously flag AMD’s antilag+ feature as cheating, and issue a ban....
EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation (www.bbc.co.uk)
Israel calls for all 1.1 million civilians to leave Gaza City within 24 hours (www.reuters.com)
Hot tip (startrek.website)
YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I’m sure many of you are already aware that YouTube has been rolling out anti-adblock detection for Chrome users for a few weeks now....
Internet disagreements. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Artist’s instagram: www.instagram.com/rusty.creates/...
A meme for math people (lemmy.world)
I swear I didn’t change anything (thumbsnap.com)
Right-to-repair is now the law in California (www.theverge.com)
Amazon launches test satellites for its planned internet service to compete with SpaceX (apnews.com)
Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service on Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network....
Ukraine’s Zelensky on ‘horrible’ Hamas attack: ‘Israel’s right to self-defense is unquestionable’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
The ultimate in self debeennse (lemmy.world)
DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide (arstechnica.com)
Unremoval of Piracy Communities
Hello World!...
The three most common 2D transformations. (lemmy.ml)
Oopsy daisies (lemmy.world)
Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case (apnews.com)
Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned to Trump’s case, said in her written decision that she sees no reason to step aside. The case, scheduled for trial in March, accuses the Republican of illegally scheming to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden....
Would that be a.....snail trail? (lemmy.world)
US FCC chair to seek reinstating net neutrality rules rescinded under Trump (www.reuters.com)
And the pendulum swings.
Trump campaign backtracks claim that he bought a Glock handgun in South Carolina after it became clear that would be illegal (www.businessinsider.com)
Passkeys are generally available on GitHub (github.blog)