AngularAloe

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Pixelfed Migration (beehaw.org)
 

Hi, I tried to migrate my pixelfed account to a different server using aliases as the instructions described. It redirects, but no posts or follows have come over, and it's been over 24 hours. Sending a DM to admin doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know if it's backed up right now over people being frustrated with Instagram?

If it isn't going to work that's fine, because I'm willing to start over. I'm just curious if this is working for other people or I'm forgetting something obvious.

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I have a pixel 5a and haven't had that problem, currently using Fennec (firefox fork).

The Middle East Deal That Biden’s Considering Is a Bad Idea in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly some service people have already died for Saudi Arabia in the Khobar Towers bombing (1996). The presence of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia was also the impetus behind the 9/11 bombings.

A foreign policy cynic could say that this deal changes little, because the U.S. already helps SA willingly, for example, we now help them bomb Yemen because we want to, rather than because we're legally obligated to. But I find the idea that someone would want to codify this insane, and am surprised it isn't bigger news.

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The Middle East Deal That Biden’s Considering Is a Bad Idea (slate.com)
 

From article:

First, the very idea of a U.S. defense pact with Saudi Arabia—a treaty-bound assurance that the United States will come to the royal family’s defense if their country is attacked, in the same way that we have pledged to defend any member of NATO that comes under attack—is, and should be, a non-starter.

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The Middle East Deal That Biden’s Considering Is a Bad Idea (slate.com)
 

It's complicated, but one of the proposals on the table is a mutual defense pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. (the fact that this would even be considered bothers me quite a bit)

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Spend less time once on" is different than "hate". I hated FB's feed so much that I was reluctant to get on in the first place, a metric completely different from how long I would spend once I DID open it.

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

article was fine, mastodon.art's mod didn't like the person who originally posted it

joinfirefish.org is a bit messy and compliacted in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm using calckey.world and it was a bit crunchy at first but is working well now. The userbase at this point is small compared to the mastodon servers we're used to seeing.

Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Early on, he was selling some of his Tesla stock, thus depressing its value, in order to fund twitter. So I don't believe the theory that he bought it specifically to tank it. Though he may eventually claim "I meant to do that".

Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This seems like an admission that twitter is dead.

Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
Openai hiring alignment researchers to create an automated alignment researcher in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This is just more marketing on OpenAI's part, to push the idea that they are close to creating something "smarter" than humans.

Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I'm confused by this - there are various things Meta might want from the Fediverse (free content, more data, more people to serve ads to), but new users can't be one of them. No one from Mastodon is likeky to migrate to Meta's platform; the people who want to use Meta are already there.

Kyrsten Sinema Moves to Slash Pilot Training After Taking Airline Cash in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of the statement if you think safely regulations are written for union job security.

So like, what do we do? Political burnout. in c/betterment@beehaw.org
[–] AngularAloe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

  1. It's based/relies on utilitarianism for its moral framework, and I'm just decidedly not a utilitarian. I consider relationships, rights, and motives to matter when judging something.

  2. The whole "earn to give" thing is just a disastrous concept, most publicly in giving cover to things like FTX.

  3. It lacks any theory of power or overall social or economic change. Singer on this issue:

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Delta Is in Trouble for a Misleading Napkin (slate.com)
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