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kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?English1·2 days agoWhat’s the issue with just using an adblocker? You cost them money to serve your queries but don’t make them any money provided you just browse and do not comment/post/vote
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?English3·2 days agoCame here after my niche small Reddit client got officially shut down. When the API changes were announced, I knew that I’d rather switch than use their official Reddit client. I didn’t like that they charge AI companies for accessing my data and I don’t get any share of their profit neither. Here on Lemmy everyone can train their AI models on our data but at least there’s no random dude (spez) who profits off that.
The decentralization meaning that I can choose some random small instance and not be bound to the admins of any big one was another big point for Lemmy
Sir, this is a Wendy’s. Go advertise your Android app somewhere else
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protestEnglish1·6 days agoThere are different levels of poverty. Poverty in Somalia and poverty in Scandinavia or Western Europe are two different levels of poverty that do not compare
Yes, that’s enough to survive in India, except for the biggest cities
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•An Immich LXC came up on community scriptEnglish61·9 days agoWhat’s the licensing situation with Immich? Is it still “unlimited trial period”?
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish1·11 days agoYep, the vast majority of the teams mentioned are used exclusively for private companies and public institutions to report cyberattacks, taking down phishing sites and issuing guidance on things like the minimum password length. Or protecting military against cyber threats - would suck if you had, let’s say, drones, that during the wartime turn out to be compromised by the enemy army and sabotage your operations. That’s perfectly understandable and different than stealing trade secrets via cyberattacks. Therefore I’ve asked for actual reports of actual hacks conducted by any of the countries I’ve mentioned
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish11·11 days agoWhat technologies Germany, Poland, Singapore or Norway stole since the fall of USSR if that’s the case? I can name many technologies that China stole, that the US stole, but definitely don’t see it as a critical piece for all nations. Most countries don’t even have hackers nor network of spies capable of stealing other countries’ valuable trade secrets
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protestEnglish11·11 days agoYes, I’ve been there multiple times. I have seen people who went to jail for sending a political meme on a private WeChat group because Xi felt insulted. Even in the US which is in a huge democratic backsliding for years, it’s nowhere that bad. In China there’s also “massive false information” but the thing is, it’s all government-run propaganda only and the rest of the world’s media is blocked. In the US, you can read Al Jazeera if you don’t like the American media narratives. In China you can’t. In USA, you can use Lemmy to laugh about Trump’s fake tan. In China Lemmy is blocked and even if it wasn’t, laughing at Xi gets you in jail. There’s no political freedom in China, even if it’s in shambles in the US now, let alone countries with a working democracy like Switzerland.
Hong Kong is not mainland China, you picked one of the only two places (alongside Macau) that doesn’t have a censored internet in China. Regular Chinese need to pay $30 for a visa/entry permit to Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a different system than Mainland China. When taking about China, I am talking about mainland China and not a special administrative region of Hong Kong, obviously.
Regarding the economy (I’ve never mentioned it and it has nothing to do with democracy but ok), many people in China also can’t afford health care and are living paycheck to paycheck (or worse). China is not just Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Do you think 120 yuan pension is enough in the Chinese village near Chengdu? That’s what grandparents of one of my Chinese friend make. Asked her if that’s enough, she laughed and replied “of course not!”. Do you think they were able to before retiring, working their whole lives as farmers? Do you really think such people don’t live paycheck to paycheck and it’s USA-exclusive issue than China doesn’t have? Do you know how many months of a median wage you need to work for a house in any major city in China vs in the US (spoiler: it’s even longer than in the US).
Summing up: the political freedom is still lower in China than in any flawed democracy (as I stated before), and China also has its economic issues which you seem to neglect. Yes, USA has those too, but it’s still among the richest countries in the world. You would be better off in many European countries if you’re poor but not in China.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish35·11 days agoWould be great if the competition was not about stealing others’ technologies
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protestEnglish48·11 days agoJust a friendly reminder that China is still much worse than any flawed democracy when it comes to freedom
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns SeattleEnglish7·13 days agoSwiss neutrality at its finest
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Reevaluating my password managementEnglish2·20 days agoBecause it lets you sync your passwords anytime, without having to connect to the VPN first, which saves time. And the risk of data leak is not really there since the passwords are encrypted by a strong master password anyways. With Vaultwarden, you can host your database even publicly and share it on Lemmy and nothing would happen, provided you use a strong master password, which you definitely should.
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Reevaluating my password managementEnglish2·21 days agoWhat’s the issue of exposing this one to the internet? Even if the database gets leaked somehow, your passwords are still protected by a hopefully strong master password + strong encryption
kebab@endlesstalk.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've seen hype around the Minisforum n5 Pro NAS but I'm not sure how much is marketing. What does the community think?English7·22 days agoI hate to say this but it’s gonna be expensive obviously compared to what you can get from China. Just look at the CPU - for a NAS, it’s a huge overkill. Aoostar WTR Pro looks identical for NAS storage needs and costs around 300 euros on AliExpress. I don’t see this thing being priced any lower than that
kebab@endlesstalk.orgOPto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance memeEnglish0·28 days agoWell, I on the other hand have a friend from China who casually started explaining me how her boyfriend went to a Chinese jail for 2 weeks after sending a Winnie-the-Pooh meme onto a private WeChat group, acting like it’s not that big of a deal
And why Apple is using “Liquid Glass” for “Liquid Ass”?