Jtotheb

joined 1 year ago
[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I was just talking about YouTube last night! It’s easy to forget the mind bending amount of data uploaded and stored every single day. It is impossible to draw a comparison to anything that has ever come before. And it will all have to go away at some point, as far as I’m concerned. It’s untenable to keep more than a tiny fraction of it. There is so much interesting stuff… and the site has existed for the blink of an eye. Nobody can consume a meaningful amount of the information stored on it, nobody could possibly categorize and manage a system of valuation and sortation. Barring a radical reorganization of economic system and values, any sort of proposed YouTube Archival Project never makes a dent. And files are only getting bigger… crazy to think that my kids will likely never get through the amount of photos and videos of my childhood that exist, yet I currently possess all of the photographic proof of my mom’s parents’ existence in the back of a small drawer.

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t particularly agree with the concept of the privately owned park and feel that it has ruined the social lives of Americans, since they’re no longer allowed to “loiter” (exist) anywhere outside of work and home. And also, yes, I think you should have to maintain the property you’ve taken away from the surrounding community or else give it back. I don’t think the comparison to the Web necessarily holds up, but I do think that people’s contributions to a website remain theirs even if you pay a lawyer to write down that it’s not. The concept of complete forfeiture of any claim to your work because-I-said-so is very made up. Your hard work is not.

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

And both of which impact its users’ lives, thus why the users feel they should have a say in what’s done with the space, even if they aren’t the owners of the space

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the recommendation, I’ll see if that does it

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except then it blocks the cookie that remembers your cookie preferences, and your entire time online is spent closing pop ups. Welcome to the future of convenience!

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good point, but claiming that “Words are the least secure way to generate a password 84 characters long” would be pointless.

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, to clarify, since zero deaths are listed there—we don’t have a source for that claim?

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In the spirit of offering feedback I disagree, pop-ups are terrible design, super abrasive and make the experience worse no matter when they show up

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are very nearly correct in your guarantee., Per ProPublica’s reporting it has been found in basically everyone’s blood except some very isolated groups in rural China

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The whole wide world of authors who have written about the difficulties of this new technological age and you choose the one who had to pretend her work was unpopular

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought I wanted a dumber phone. Not a flip phone necessarily, but not a pocket supercomputer. I looked at the majority of options out there and concluded that (ignoring the ones that are basically just running Android) they’re all missing a feature or two I really like, like the Light Phone looks great but I listen to audiobooks on Libby all the time. So then I just decided to delete a bunch of stuff from my iPhone, and then I didn’t get around to that so I still just have the same phone. 🤦‍♀️

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You’re replying to people who can’t believe the injustice of these laws by explaining that the laws are legal. No consensus will be reached; these are two completely different perspectives. Personally, I think laws, being a made up construct, should generally promote positive behavior like stopping genocide, so I easily side with the protesters and commenters here expressing indignation alongside them.

The legality argument also ignores the police tradition of breaking the law while shutting down protests just because they can get away with it.

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