bitwise

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[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business. They'll only do it if there's real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm worried that what they'll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can't dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

"The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!"

"Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls."

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

"Working as intended" #wontfix
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Every single poster I've seen responding to articles on Lemmy and kbin from this site have been shitty, angry little pricks with regressive takes on everything. We need to block these trolls before they ruin engagement from well-reasoned humans.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Adding to this with a post I found on wallstreetbets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/15uo06v/inflation_data_has_always_been_a_lie/

Not exactly a reputable source, but the OP does go through several key indicators and shows their math (with screenshots of a calculator, lol)

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but the raises these unions have been settling on don't really cover inflation over the periods where they received no increase.
These articles just feel like the media wings of these megacorps are trying to stroke our egos. "Yes, so much bargaining power!"

I can't find the article I'm thinking of where someone used a bunch of privately sourced data to peg the average annual inflation at 7%, but this article shows how economists don't even agree on what metrics to measure for calculating inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

If he wanted to live, he should've bought a new heart before flying!

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Copyright won't help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would've resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Of course, the moment the constructive criticism is only coming from the outside will be when it gets labeled as foreign manipulation to further cement tribalistic mentality and provide fresh out-groups to hate and fear.

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