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  • Autobahns are significantly more deadly than other roads.

    that's cap, unlimited parts of autobahns are about the same in fatalities as speed limited highways. Although I doubt that it could be replicated outside of DACH countries, it's more of a driving culture issue, people just have less ego on the road in Germany.

  • GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

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  • of course it's 'elitism' and not just a bunch of people volunteering to code shit that's interesting/relevant for them.

    To provide 'non-elitist' desktop experience people need to sit down and fix bug backlog for hardware that's nowhere around them, prioritize features that are relevant to users (even if they are absolutely ass to work on) and etc, etc, etc. You know how it's called? A job.

  • Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.

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  • with mass services requiring mandatory phone number binding I think being in user mass is a viable option - you cannot get reliable "secondary" email anymore and people don't look through data leak dumps by eyes anyway, script doesn't care about email address string - it all becomes hash anyway. Whois protection is pretty reliable to divert snooping 3rd-parties.

    As for expensive... yeah, sad state of affairs is that there's nothing cheap about hosting your own infrastructure. Price of not really trusting anyone or having obscure technical requirements.

  • Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.

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  • Encryption in transit is pretty much solved these days with TLS, what OP wants is E2E - encryption from sender to recipient with no intermediate parties having an idea about contents of the message. Problem with E2E is inconvenience: emails are inaccessible without private keys and key management is pain. Users don't want additional headache of managing their keys between bajillion of devices where they might use emails

  • Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.

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  • get a domain name, host stalwart somewhere and set up email with this new domain there, get receipt emails there and autoforward it to your main email with S/MIME, gpg or whatever enabled.

    usual disclaimer 'do not host your email blablabla' (at least don't get fucking digitalocean 'droplet' for it), but there's no other way around that, ecommerce won't enable shit.

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    Musk Is a White Supremacist. Now What?

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  • elmo is just a symptom, there's no deficit in nazi clowns out there. What you need is a society that would be on the streets in 24h after a stunt like this.

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    Musk Is a White Supremacist. Now What?

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  • SDL3 is officially released!

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  • It's been production-ready for a while, Valve is known to use it for long time. Official release is more for API and ABI stability so you don't have to change anything to upgrade.

  • Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?

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  • it has nothing to do with being autistic, however he was fucking zooted on ketamine during ceremony. I doubt that he's ever sober as of lately.

    Drug usage can fuck up people good or bring out what's hiding real deep in them, see Kanye's story with nitrous. And that's precisely why he's dangerous, he is powerful and deranged at the same time.

  • How do I better support my trans supervisee?

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  • That's a thin ice you're walking here... Some people appreciate the support, some people don't like when work contacts get into their personal feelings territory.

    It's highly dependent on how close your interpersonal relationship is with co-worker, what I'd avoid for sure is suddenly closing the distance just because you know he is trans and you can tell recent events are affecting him.

  • A collection of 150+ self-hosted alternatives to popular software

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  • I stand corrected, thank you!

  • A collection of 150+ self-hosted alternatives to popular software

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  • Appreciate the effort, but without categories it's not going to sail too far.
    Right now it's just a long list of everything that it's out there, awesome-selfhosted is much more usable for looking up what you need.

    Also, did you join any kind of affiliate programs/partnerships for these "10% off" green boxes? If so, would be great to disclose it. Nothing bad with getting some cash, but community will just appreciate the honesty.

  • How do I find work outside to leave the United States

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  • You'd need to put a bit more thought into that, at least to start thinking in more detailed terms than "US" and "outside".
    Countries, visa types, schools for your kid, work opportunities for your wife, local language, acceptance of your identity (believe me, majority of places in the world are much worse in that regard than Trump could ever be), etc, etc....

    What I can promise you is that money situation will be worse. Uprooting yourself and moving somewhere is a costly endeavor (did that 2 times, it's not fun), and besides that US is the best country to earn money out there, it's much harder to cover necessities and have disposable income pretty much anywhere else.

  • Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)

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  • Opinionated piece with no substance or analysis, author already has some answer in mind and is trying to spin everything around to support it.

    Just to illustrate:

    That's why Zuckerberg bought Instagram: he had been turning the screws on Facebook users, and when Instagram came along, millions of those users decided that they hated Zuck more than they loved their friends and so they swallowed the switching costs and defected to Instagram. In an ill-advised middle-of-the-night memo to his CFO, Zuck defended spending $1b on Instagram on the grounds that it would recapture those Facebook escapees:

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21345723/facebook-instagram-documents-emails-mark-zuckerberg-kevin-systrom-hearing

    In this very link, in court-released emails Zuck states they're buying Instagram because they have good growth and Facebook mobile usability is shit. It's just 2 different types of social networks, back in 2012 you couldn't even DM on Instagram, it wasn't a replacement for Facebook by any means and vice versa. Zuck was just not happy that people spend their phone screen time outside of his reach.

  • Netflix Raises Prices Including First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier

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  • without paying £18 per month

    yes, now I'm paying 10 times more.
    Don't mind it though, experience is better in every way possible besides occasional maintenance need, but it's definitely not for everyone. Could be done cheaper, but it's tradeoffs all the way as with everything in life.

  • What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches?

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  • Programming knowledge is largely irrelevant, as in to gain sensible benefits from it you have to be generalist software engineer with decade+ of experience of seeing it all. Then yeah, you can read any code, any stack traces and figure out the intent of developers of the system and what is undocumented/incorrectly documented.

    Focusing on one particular language is the right and wrong answer at the same time. Wrong in a sense that you'll have to pick up other languages along your journey anyway and right because you need to achieve mastery in one of them to get to more advanced programming topics. Pick a language that you have fun using and don't care about anything else.

    As for what to learn for self-hosting... Linux (pick a distro, let's say ubuntu LTS w/o gui, ssh there and get comfortable with it. It includes installation, filesystems, RAID setups), networking, HTTP/S (that's the main thing you'll be interacting with as self-hoster and knowing various nuances of reverse proxying is a must), firewalling, basics of security and hardening, docker, monitoring, backups.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • on reddit majority of heavy lifting is done by community mods. hosting, however, is a pain, lemmy is centralized as fuck.

  • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • it's like this to eliminate competition, any alternative has to fund marketing costs + unsustainable pricing, while Spotify will be running their ponzi scheme, effectively leveraging their market position.

  • PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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  • I get where you are coming from, however it's important to remember that big players are not equal - they have really, really different people in the leadership. Elmo is just a too-big-to-fall clown with insane ego, spez is a manchild who took VC money like there's no tomorrow and in the end had no idea how to provide ROI, but youtube is ran by very competent people with solid track record and deep pockets.

    Maybe they are not too innovative business-wise recently... but they are good at catching up (except live streaming - screen layout is dogshit and nobody wants to get hyped in their tiny chatbox from a fucking google account with family photo as an avatar) and at leveraging what they already have, which is quite a lot, tbh.

  • PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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  • Yt makes a series of bad decisions

    It's not like it's making any bad decisions right now. Pretty calculated, I'd say - they feel safe market-wise, so they can increase amount of ads/fight ad-blockers/push people to buy subscription.