“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.
I won’t be using this account anymore as I do not believe the administration of my instance is operating in good faith.
“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.
Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.
To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here
Subs=subscriptions.
Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever
Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.
I’m puzzled what’s surprising about this.
I’m not LGBT, or American, but seeing people online suddenly talk openly with a great deal more vitriol and hatred about my friends, and even my child, caused me a fair bit of stress.
The plus side is that it’s open source, so we could look into having some way to collapse crossposts in view so that you eg. see a single link with a “see other conversations about this” button.
yes, it is so small I can’t read it, you’re right
In japan they put the handwashing sink on the back of the toilet. It’s smaller, smarter, and doesn’t look weird and gross like this.
Then they brush their teeth in a different room so their toothbrush isn’t two feet from their shit.
There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.
I do think that it can be less encouraged though.
I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.
If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.
That’s never been my experience in the slightest.
Unfortunately i won’t be around to find out, it was an old account id forgotten about and hadn’t yet deleted. I have remedied that because I mostly don’t give a shit what dumb thing Reddit is up to.
They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.
I highly doubt it. There’s no shortage of people willing to do it for free.
Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.
They’re a joke.
Somewhat. In different cultures they can still mean different things but smiling and laughing from happiness and humour are universal afaik.
This still adds another moving part to duping people. It’s much, much easier to independently verify the software if it’s open source.
I love this story, thanks for sharing it.