I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but are you stupid? A protest made in a place where nobody can see it is pointless. You do it to be seen by everyone else. That’s why, making everyone else life and routine harder with your protest is the most effective way of being noticed. Sure, nobody wants a traffic jam because there are people protesting school shootings and the lack of gun controls, but you know what? Being a kid and getting shot sucks way more. Oh, you don’t like to be late for work? Why those pesky public transport workers are not working? Oh, you say they have slave wages? Not being able to eat or pay rent sucks way more than being late one day. You get the point, protests are made always when something sucks for someone, and the methods are way more effective when you can communicate your issue in a non ignorable way. PC protests are very ignorable.

I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.

I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.

Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

No fucking way

In 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sought a decoding method and made available a Python script for analysis.

In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer.

The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances.

This article gave me the creeps, is awesome and terrifying

Millennial here, I use the shit emoji

Foundation boards can are susceptible to bribe money in exchange for features or default things. Look at Firefox.

I’ll go and risk “shade of skin”. He is also smiling an looks a little less as a Bond villain, but I go with the shading.

I really want to downvote you just for the idea. Wow

I still say this to cable companies and other tv providers, is awesome and hilarious how they can’t continue their phone sale.

That would only happen if we give power to our ai assistants to buy things on our behalf, and manage our budgets. They will decide among themselves who needs what and the money will flow to billionaires pockets without any human intervention. If humans go far enough, not even rich people would be rich, as trust funds, stock portfolios would operate under ai. If the ai achieves singularity with that level of control, we are all basically in spectator mode.

It’s more about the vocabulary and accent, not the level of education and correctness of the speaker. Usually neutral spanish is understood in all the spanish speaking countries of south america and spain, because, well, it’s neutral.

A good example of neutral spanish usage in real life is dubbing. Most of our dubbing is done in Mexico, but the dubbing itself has no mexican specific words, mannerisms, or accent. Al dubbing is done this way, no matter the country, so only one version of the dubbing works for basically everyone.

As a matter of fact, there have been some experiments to challenge this, and use a more localized accent and vocabulary instead, and most went very wrong. The first Incredibles movie was dubbed with a argentinean flavor, español rioplatense. It was hated in Argentina, massive disaster, we pretend it didn’t happen.

Also sometimes, when dubbing, we pick accents of different countries for different characters on purpose. Most of Grim Fandango was dubbed in Spain’s Spanish, and some characters had Mexican and Argentinean accents, and that was relevant for the plot (Argentinean characters are shady people almost everytime). Think of the choice some media does to make someone speak English from England to make it sound more classy or something like that, basically almost every Spanish accent has its own stereotype.

It’s weird, because neutral spanish is the language nobody speaks, because local accents and lingo, but everybody likes to hear because it’s the most understandable.

I say, go for the most neutral vocabulary you can. You will have an accent anyway because it’s not your native language.

It depends on the reason I’m trying to learn the language. Neutral Spanish is a thing, it’s usually well received in most latin american countries. If you learn something too region specific, usually doesn’t.

Thanks, I’ll start trying to set up pie fed as others suggested here, and see where that leads.

I wasn’t aware of piefed, looks like it federates with Lemmy just fine. Maybe I grab a generalist fediverse domain for my country and have sub domains for lemmy, piefed, mastodon, and see what resonates more in my country.

This is encouraging, I’ll probably go and do it. Thanks for the insight.

Ty

I want one for my country, and I want to validate that users are in fact people from my country. Once inside, they can do pretty much whatever they want. We aren’t going to be a lot of people at the start for sure. What would you recommend me?

seriously speaking, how much work is to host an instance actually? Besides buying the domain and getting it up and running on some cloud/homelab? The are any security concerns or maintenance that would take a lot of my time? Do I need to put some effort in instance level moderation, or that comes from communities? How many resources/hardware an instance uses per user?

AI is boring, but the underlying project they are using, ggwave, is not. Reminded me of R2D2 talking. I kinda want to use it for a game or some other stupid project. It’s cool.

This guy does software