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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • In a capitalistic world where your right to stay alive is determined by the money you make, replacing himan jobs by machine ones is a real problem.

    If what was happening was “ok so the machines are gonna do that so you’re gonna have a lot more free time but you still get your wages”, I for one would be happy.

    But what’s happening is more along the lines of “well I hope you didn’t just get a mortgage because here’s the door hahaha don’t be sad think lf the extra money the shareholders are going to make” and it’s a real problem.

    Just because it’s logical that shitty bosses take shitty decisions which impact negatively other person’s lives doesn’t mean we can’t be upset and vocal about it.






  • It’s not just right now : this president has been here since 2017 and most of the core ministers are the same since then.

    They have been cracking down on civil liberties from the start, but they make it more and more obvious since 2022 (because there is no re-election possible after 2 terms). Using anti-terrorist special legislatilns against environmental and himan rights activists, making demonstrations repression ever more violent…

    At the same time, to guarantee that pseudo-centrist (actually right wing) keep getting elected, they have worked to make the far right more powerful. This way, in every election, they can end up being the “rational” choice.



  • More of a personal/situates POV, my previous comment was a bit rashly worded.

    From where I stand, it’s yet again another useless trend generating e-waste.

    Like “oh look with 5g you’ll be able to load netflix and pornhub in 10k very ultra mega high hd on your tiny phone screens, you really need it and you need to ditch uour old phone before its end of life and to buy a 5g one”.

    They even tried to sell it as philantropic " thanks to 5g, poor people in poor countries [insert picture with black people here] will have access to good doctors from good places for surgeries [insert white old dude in a white coat picture here]".

    And it opens a whole new field of connected items which sounds really nice in terms of corporate/state spying.



  • I like the idea of wasting telemarketing company resources, but we have to remember the people calling us are actual human being forced into shitty jobs where they suffer abusive management thanks to capitalism. So “torturing telemarketers” sounds bad to me, as does being rude to them or leaving them to talk into silence.

    I usually pick up the phone, announce that I will hang up in 20 seconds, wish them a good day and then block the number.

    I used to get 1-2 call per day, now it’s more around 1 every 2 or 3 weeks.



  • Thanks for this.

    I’m still refining my mental model of “federation” - it’s so different from my usual centralized reference frame that even if I understand the vulgarization/explanation when I read them, the images and reflexes my mind has about social media are changing slowly.

    Privacy kind of matters to me, so I’m grateful for content that helps me understanding better how it works and doesn’t work in a federated setting.

    I also think that, as pointed in comments, educating ourselves (the users) and reminding ourselves that privacy is also our job and responsibility is something important.

    Anyway, not brining anything new to the discussion, this is mostly an appreciation comment.


  • /e/os on a Fairphone 3 for a few months now. It’s my first custom ROM, and it’s been a breeze so far :)

    Some quirks that I don’t actually mind : when the phone is turned off and charging, the animation on screen doesn’t update the current battery level (but idc, usually the phone charges at night), the phone calls volume is really loud (but I usually plug my headset in for calls) and the integrated vpn is sometimes slow enough to cause websites/apps to timeout (I can live with that).

    I still have my old android phone mainly for my bank application.

    Edit : typo