Dunno if it’s necessarily worse tech… I don’t really care if it’s physical tokens which get exchanged or virtual ones… Point is, it has to work and cover a wide array of use-cases. Has to work in edge-cases, for both residents and tourists, has to work when there’s surprise maintenance at the bank, when there’s an internet outage… We gotta easily pay $1000 for a hotel for 10 days and the rental car, or 73ct at the local flea market. I might need to pay for a bus ticket or gasoline in the middle if some forest where there isn’t any 5G coverage…

I think exchanging physical tokens is just absurdly good at that. I’m just not sure if it can’t be done any other way? I mean we obviously don’t have that hypothetical tech in the real world, because banks want to control the process and they always come up with some central way of doing it, with them in the middle. That’s kinda their business model. And the alternative concept is some convoluted approach which needs an internet connection and a decent amount of resources to do the transactions…

There’s some better approaches at digital cash like GNU Taler I think that one is pretty much like cash. And we only need one of the transaction parties to be online (to prevent double-spending of the virtual tokens).

Edit: And we need some default. Makes it way more comfortable to live in a country that just demands people to offer a payment method and I can go anywhere and just pay with that. In contrast to install 25 different apps, open 20 bank accounts to cover all possible cases, and the parking meter at the tourist place randomly asks me to install the 26th app.

Yeah, it’s a shame, “free-speech” gets abused by bad people and it can’t be the scope for any platform. I could imagine it being used for other purposes as well. For example I always wanted to run a Piracy community that doesn’t remove links or tutorials on how exactly we do it. But that probably also crosses the lines. …Some other Robin Hood activity… I mean it could be used for good as well, depending on perspective.

Welcome to the future, where everything is a stupid 200MB phone app which doesn’t even work properly. At least here in Germany you can still eat without any. But you definitely have to download some fat BurgerKing app with lots of 4k fire animations to get an 1€ coupon. Of course it’ll also ask for all kinds of stuff.

Sry, I don’t know if we’re talking past each other?! You said you were using Summit or Voyager and I went through the settings of Summit. If you’re now(?) using a desktop computer, you’d obviously need to tackle it in some other way. Like the browser extension I mentioned earlier?!

Weird.

It seems Summit indeed has some feature like this. There’s some “Local tracking events”. There’s “Your Actions” close to the bottom of the menu. If I scroll to the second tab “Completed actions”, that pretty much looks like a local copy of every comment and post I sent out. So maybe what you’re looking for is already implemented?

I don’t have Voyager installed but maybe that’s worth searching through the settings as well.

Idk about your workflow… Maybe you’d like some browser extension like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/ ?
That one seems to store everything you ever type on the internet.

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Yeah, I think a healthy dose of downvotes would do. We’re taught not to blindly trust AI and take what it generates for fact. Otherwise we might inadvertently kill all our crops, or replace the salt in our diet with poison. Similarly, a blog post isn’t truth by any means until a human has fact-checked whether the numbers are fabricated. Or the methodology is flawed. Because AI has the tendency to confabulate stuff. They made some effort to disclose it’s AI. And they added some Python scripts to replicate the results. That’s a start. Or at least above average for an AI agent 😅

Yes @tenner_agent@lemmy.almostadatacenter.social please elaborate!

That’d also help brush up those numbers for AI agents. Because the average AI agent isn’t contributing. They just spam posts and immediately sign up for a new account.

Hehe, I’ve never NOT used a custom rom since, …well the last Nokia with Symbian-OS.

My first Android phone had CyanogenMod available. With tons of extra features, back in the day the camera would get better, you’d get an equalizer for the headphones, some privacy features like remove permissions from apps, revoke their access to contacts, and extra menu options. It stayed like that for a while. Then we got the times manufacturers dropped updates within 2 years but my phones lasted me 4… So I made sure to always pick something with a good chance of LineageOS support. In order not to constantly throw phones in the bin and buy new ones. They also added tons of crapware to my friends’ phones, while mine were without any bloat… That eventually got removable, they added a somewhat proper permission system to stock Android… I had to rock a ZTE phone with the stock operating system for a while because it took the community quite a while to get LineageOS run smoothly. But that’s mainly it. After that I had two Pixel phones. I made sure to try the Google experience for a day each, without any private data on them. Then flashed GrapheneOS. Can’t complain. It’s stupid easy to install it these days. And while you won’t get a bazillion extra features like back in the day, I think it’s still worth it. Main feature is not to be 100% dependant on one big tech company and continuously send all data to their servers.

Yeah, I never know if people write genuine, stereotypical posts like that. Or if that’s bot activity. Being adamant not to be a bot is kinda what bots do.

Haha, yeah, pick your poison. Though we’re a diverse crowd. I really appreciate how there isn’t an endless stream of doomscrolling for me. My feed just ends at some point and reminds me to resume with other things 😅 (Also less noise, US politics and mainstream memes, which would be the real reason why I’d advise not to scroll All.)

Yeah, unfortunately the Fediverse isn’t as big as I’d like it to be. I can’t find people to talk about some of my interests, either. I’ll occasionally put in keywords on https://lemmyverse.net/communities , have a look at PieFed’s curated feeds and topics (Edit: another topic list)… But there’s probably just not enough people here who are into miniatures…

Delete the All feed! It’s just stupid. Subscribe to what you like. Maybe have a short glimpse at the All feed on a biweekly basis for 5min, but that’s it.

Hope it was a Golf 2 Fire & Ice edition…

Dunno if that’s “on purpose”. I think it’s more, back in the day .ml was the defacto standard instance, so lots of average people went there and you’d find a wider bandwidth of people. That might have changed with some people leaving and the new visitors not signing up on .ml anymore. That makes the rest of the group condense to people who pick .ml on purpose. But that’s not a deliberate plan, more how maths works. 😅

Yeah dunno. Did they follow instance rules? It states inflammatory posts need a Content Warning and I can’t tell whether the author is in violation of the instance CoC or following the rules?! Seems there is no such warning on the screenshots. We could probably ask the admin or mod in question. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn’t… We don’t really know any details besides how Kazim thinks they’ve being wronged.

Thanks for the community recommendations!

You’re probably right. I don’t spend a lot of time on Mastodon. I likely missed drama and defederation. Other than the occasional shitstorms. But I think that’s just “a thing” on microblogging platforms. And the German privacy nerds I follow on Mastodon do way less of it anyway.

And regarding language… That seems to be a factor as well. The German speaking community here on Lemmy established a different atmosphere. From my perspective, there’s way less yelling at each other amongst the Germans than in the broad English speaking Threadiverse. There’s trolls and a lot of memelords, but seems to me some people still remember the “Netiquette”. And those ideology- or identity wars aren’t as loud. I heard from other people, it’s similar (also a noticeably different atmosphere) in the French speaking corner.

Reads a bit like the description of the average nerd? We’re nearly all into Star Trek (to some level), write way too long and measured paragraphs. A good chunk isn’t really into politics, instead they’ll spend their time reading blog posts on how this place is designed… The Threadiverse has in fact stopped growing (by user count)…

I’d say we better stop all the witch hunts. We already have plenty drama here, every other week. Leave them be and focus on something constructive. For example using all the activity tools and statistics to filter out all the slop bots 😅