UdeRecife

joined 2 years ago
[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

True. Not everyone agrees. Since I'm just me, I can only speak for myself.

With this in mind, I would like to hear reasons why you or others don't agree. I ask in good faith.

Having an opinion is as natural as being human. I see the world through my eyes, think about in my brain, color it by my life experiences. So there's always the possibility that I might be missing something important. Perhaps you were persuaded by some strong and much valid point or points.

If that's the case, and if you're willing, can you please share why you disagree?

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

It's a... Lemmy car!

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Master PDF Editor. The current version is paid, but version 4 is free. It's a good swiss knife like PDF tool.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

pacman/yay

Also, Arch wiki.

All else is aesthetics.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

You cannot go wrong. I've had mine for years. I then brought it with me from Brazil in a small bottle. And it's still thriving.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to a stoner engineering community on the fediverse.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

My main motivator to comment here is this being federated, a decentralized network that belongs to no one but the community.

I'm old enough, and I have been on the internet for quite long to know that we can't trust centralized platforms. If you add to that the misplaced incentives of profit and what you get is simply a community time-bomb.

But here? Here we have a completely different scenario. We may still post shit like beans for the lulz, but this happens organically. The end game is just this, and not some fucked corporate agenda.

tl;dr Beans here are an end in itself.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you!

I've been using liftoff together with wefwef, alternating them for one reason only: the font size of the comments.

My eyesight is not the best. That makes reading smaller text hard. Still, I used liftoff for how practical it is. If tired, I would open Wefwef.

But with this update you made me smile with joy! Wow, now I can easily read the comments. You're the best. Thanks a ton.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let me try to see if I get the logic here. So a company fires a lot of people, and then another company hires them.

These workers then are leveraged by the new company to do something similar to what they have been doing in the previous company. This allows the new company to create a competing product that seems to capture part of the previous company's market.

But now the first company wants to sue the second company for... leveraging those recently dismissed workers?

One of those companies seem to be acting in a very strategically sound way, and it's not the one which fired those workers in the first place...

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 70 points 2 years ago

Well, true. I may have gotten here though Reddit. But now I'm taken aback by what's happening here.

I mean, the whole thing is open, FOSS developed, decentralized, being everywhere and at the same time nowhere? Call me crazy, but this in itself is awesome!

On top of that, I was greeted here by a community of communities where people are kind, helpful, full of beautiful and interesting insights.

So why would I be thinking of going somewhere else? I've posted more comments here in the past weeks than in the last ten years on Reddit. And I've done that because I'm genuinely excited with this setting.

So no, I'm not joining the herd moving to greener pastures. This field is green enough for me.

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lucky you. My department, and the whole university, is now on a path of completely googlefying their services. And it's a public university!

So... Lucky you.

#envy

[–] UdeRecife@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago

They are my mother, father, and everyone else. Life's hard, and too many things compete for our attention.

You're right. Indiscriminate data collection is like the meat industry. Some people may find abhorrent how animals are treated, even how destructive the whole thing can be. But ultimately, out of sight is out of mind, right?

Like you said, the same with privacy. Apps are shiny, addictive, and seem to be given away for free. Then life happens, the mind becomes busy with what holds its attention.

We're doomed because the game being played is simply too complex for anyone make sense of it. Any competing insight is immediately drowned under the massive torrent of data we're all subjected to.

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