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  • YSK: When you want to learn the facts on a controversial topic, check Wikipedia

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  • No, I didn't anticipate significant backslash. The criticism of Wikipedia is valid, but I'm comparing it to the raw stream of BS I get on social media, not to an idealistic vision of what wikipedia should be

  • What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

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  • When I want to read something relatively well verified and unbiased I reach for Wikipedia. They are doing a better job than any other source I found on the internet so far on keeping things clear of BS

  • Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

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  • I guess it wasn't about the price for you then

  • If you could ask one question and get a 100% true answer, what would it be and why?

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  • consciousness is just an illusion. the only hard problem is people trying to make reality fit into their beliefs instead of the other way around

  • Do you need a better solution to a problem to criticise obvious flaws in someone else's solution?

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  • you need to at least be able to explain what is wrong. a "this is bad" criticism is just frustrating

  • Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun

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  • I don't think it was ever born to have died. I think they grossly overestimated how much this tech would improve

  • IT Devs of of Lemmy, How do You Cope with Being Forced to Contribute to 'Social Media Pornshow of the Web'™ or Die?

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  • Everything’s generative-AI, GANs, LLMs… now, which do not produce any value,

    hey, I think my LLM satire news thing is cool, at least I have fun with it

  • IT Devs of of Lemmy, How do You Cope with Being Forced to Contribute to 'Social Media Pornshow of the Web'™ or Die?

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  • better things exist, but nothing is ever perfect.

    it would be better to learn to dettach your self-esteem from the job. think on work like the chore it is, like taking out the trash and washing dishes, something you do to pay the bills

    I took decades of experience plus adhd medication and depression medication to get where I am. I still feel annoyed to be using tech I don't like and doing stuff I don't like, but I'm handling it a lot better now

  • Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

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  • there is a lot of full remote software dev jobs in the US, but they advertise them here in South America and India, for 20% to 50% of what they pay for americans

  • Could a "login with lemmy" replace all the login with Google/Facebook we see everywhere?

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  • you could accept logins only from instances that have enough trust on fediseer, I think this would work better than the old openid

  • Could a "login with lemmy" replace all the login with Google/Facebook we see everywhere?

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  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    fbmac @lemmy.fbmac.net

    Could a "login with lemmy" replace all the login with Google/Facebook we see everywhere?

  • the internet is worse.

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  • we can stop assuming people are dumb and accept that as you said people don't care nearly enough to stop using it

  • You're the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What's your plan to rebuild that country, and what's your exit strategy?

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  • nuke it until there is no one left and the radiation turn it into a de facto natural reserve like Chernobyl

  • What's the most surprising facts about a game you've gleaned by reading a game's achievement/trophy acquisition percentage?

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  • there must be a small number of players that torrented it then bought it after they played and things like that

  • How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

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  • I loved that this one explain each of these dark patterns too

  • Do you feel a sense of loyalty to your instance?

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  • my instance is the worst

  • How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

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  • How do you backup your data?

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  • I use borg

  • Is webtor.io (or similars) the free and reliable way of torrenting I always wanted?

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  • isn't it too good to be true? where is the catch?

  • Rust @programming.dev
    fbmac @lemmy.fbmac.net

    Async is fine

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    fbmac @lemmy.fbmac.net

    YSK: The Potential and Profitability of Trash Management: An Insight from Sweden