Tehdastehdas

Artificial scarcity is a crime against humanity. Piracy is the first aid. The solution would be a system that pays for the value produced anywhere in society, including when a copy is used to have fun or make profit. Movie makers would get paid more if they received good ratings from consumers. News Corp would get fined for destroying value.

Portion of those studies disprove the obvious, which is why they keep trying.

A hacker may have replaced the authentic video in the phone. The edit must be unnoticeable to the eyewitness who shot it.

Designing the system right is not an option.

Not the light bulbs. They improved light quality and reduced energy consumption per unit of light by increasing filament temperature, which reduced bulb life. Net win for the consumer.

You can still make an incandescent bulb last long by undervolting it orange, but it’ll be bad at illuminating, and it’ll consume almost as much electricity as when glowing yellowish white (standard).

Quora had heckloads of users before the well-working topic system was destroyed with the excuse of tag spamming (real reason: cost-cutting), which us tedium-loving “Topic Gnomes” had always corrected quickly. So it’s not impossible. Now the tagging is done badly by “AI” and my feed content went to shit, even worse than on PieFed with a leaky keyword mute list.

Missing features were a trust system for topic editors (new user = 0 trust, etc.) and answer topic tagging - only the questions were tagged, which didn’t work when the question was general, like “What should you know in 2025?” and the specific answers were all over the place.

Keywords would never have worked for the infinite questions about perpetual motion machines, because the askers never knew the correct term. Similarly, I have failed to craft a keyword block list to filter out all U.S. politics.

I’m hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.

This would be simpler to do for the whole EU at once with a budget of billions.

There could be a post staging wiki for making sure the final unified post is good.

On Quora before enshittification, there used to be question editing and merging, and suggest-edits for answers, and an answer wiki for each question, so the best result was eventually surfaced rather well.
(Then they deleted all answer wikis without warning, removed question editing, removed manual question topic tagging and topic taxonomy editing, removed answer edit suggestions, and forced all question merges into the oldest version, not the most canonical version like they wisely used to. My feed turned from a valuable place for learning into low-worth viral takes on recent news. Feels like another attack by big money against a formerly popular liberal-skewed platform, similar to the destruction of Twitter, OkCupid, and Imgur.)

Manipulation by unnoticeable omission. Europeans getting a personalised censored feed, not getting recommended and advertised what they need. Social media giant AI detects an illness you have, and silences all content that could lead you to health. Dating sites not showing you the most compatible people. Job sites not showing you the jobs that could strengthen Europe.

So, tax = war. How is the war on drugs going so far? Made much money from the tax? Or, does “war” mean whatever the politician wants it to mean?

Reminds me of my post “How much of your money is invested in evil corporations? Some advice for ethical investing”
https://lemmy.world/post/25608765

They’ll make a dystopia despite lacking someone’s personal data.

Yes, it’s a problem when you’re the last seeder. Torrents are shared in blocks of data, not files. When a file is missing, the whole block containing it is not sent. If you delete a tiny file before a big video file, the video will be broken for downloaders because the first block contains the tiny file and the video file’s beginning with the index with video metadata, without which the video becomes unplayable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

Ah, of course, plant growth season makes the line squiggle.

That was yesterday. It’s about 428 now. The line goes straight up, as capitalism demands.

https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2

Wet a turban to cool the brain?

https://gearjunkie.com/apparel/ergodyne-evaporative-cooling-hat