It’s easy: “Woke” and “political correctness” are words that are not really used by left-wing people. There are only a few lefties who would call themselves “woke” or who would advocate for “political correctness”. Those words, however, have been taken over by right-wing conservatives and are used broadly to bash the other side. So if somebody is using that like Paul Graham here is doing, you know that he has a right-wing-conservative world view. Just because using “woke” as a category is nothing somebody progressive left-wing would do.

You have to manage this carefully. It makes sense to give regulars more power. Take this little community here: You have some power users who have been here for years, who are posting high quality links and high quality posts with many upvotes. It makes sense to give them more upvoting power than some random new account from some new instance. This is something that reddit is struggling with and I suspect Lemmy is too or will be: It’s easy to setup a bot network of a few hundreds or thousands of accounts. They do not need to post, simply up- or downvoting certain topics will help to drown certain stories. The best stories here will gain ~600 upvotes, so just a few hundred accounts will give you the ability to manipulate what is showing up. And favoring older, highly-upvotes accounts is a way to prevent this.

(if you take a look at reddit, you’ll see where this is going: Old account get sold. There are karma-farming bots. Some communities are simply banning new accounts without Karma from posting in order to get the spam in check. Others are invite only)

Modern sites like to hide their RSS feeds. There are browser addons that show you the feeds - highly recommended

Does anyone know why Windows Update has been such a shitshow in the last years? Yes, they have Windows on billions of devices and that is complicated. But they’ve done stuff that never should happen anywhere.

There really is some futuristic novel hidden there: Robotic hands being dropped by drones over enemy facilities. Sneaking in, pressing buttons to sabotage production or to launch vehicles. People getting murdered in their sleep by robotic hands choking them.

There would be no difference. A guy like Trump is not satisfied by anything. He will continue his work of destruction until he dies, regardless of any FIFA peace price or Nobel price he is awarded

It’s a mixed bag - they are blocking some awesome piracy sites, but they are also blocking some scammy sites you really do not want to visit. Those FMHY lists floating around in the fediverse are a better starting point.

Yes, I did and I really do not like that they are using PlayIntegrity for Android phones. That forces everybody in the EU onto unrooted phones which are controlled by google and will kill GrapheneOS and other alternatives.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/133

Those detector sites are really evil. They simply do not work. They can’t work. But they are advertising and people are using them to “check” texts. Which then totally fucks students when their idiotic teacher uses such a site and accuses them of using AI tools.

Your biggest problem will be that every cover will trap moisture inside. So if your bicycle is wet, the moisture will stay in your cover, which is not great. Otherwise, you can use nearly everything, even a big trash bag

You shouldn’t care at all about the media industry as an industry. You shouldn’t care about the owners of Disney or Larry Ellison. So feel free to pirate everything and especially stuff from those artists who are already billionaires. It’s not like Taylor Swift needs more money or that John Lennon will be able to create new songs because you pay him

It’s the same in Germany. Support for our right wing party is dropping as education rises. So if you are more educated you’re less likely to vote for them.

Not sure what you mean with automations, but there is a nice balance to be had between avoiding stuff that needs maintenance and getting stuff that is doing the maintenance of other stuff for you. So don’t buy that aquarium if you do not want to do the maintenance and upkeep on that.

Other things: Dishwasher. Robot vacuum. They are awesome as fuck

That tweet is so old that the kid is a teenager now

I really would like to know how many kilometers those tires will last.

Yeah - I like my stuff. It might be a little bit messy, but I like it. But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.

I’m sure that this will be more expensive to fix than whatever “savings” Elons ghouls have managed to bring.

Just use Jdownloader to download whatever you want from the internet.

I’m really not looking forward to an internet where some mod is banning bots and those bots are then publishing personal hit pieces :(

Plants are actually kind of easy. If you want to try again:

• Choose the right plants. Yes, some plants are hard to keep and need specific environments. Avoid those, other plants are able to grow on a parking lot in the summer
• Some plants need direct sunlight, others like the shade. Some plants need a lot of water, others not. This is written on this little cardboard thingy when you buy them

Yeah, and that’s it. Buy plants that don’t need much maintenance and you’re fine. Maybe set a reminder to water them.