Love how the dog is like “No, the other cat” even though the cat didn’t say anything. It’s just the wrong cat in the Panel lol

Out go to prank was a shut down bat file, disguised as GTA.exe. We used to put that in a shared folder and waited for other students to shut down their computers.

We had to flip the mouses around at the end of every computer class so the teacher could check all the mouse balls were still there.

This is probably the most Solarpunk thing I’ve ever seen. Really cool!

In Europe we have public news broadcasters in every country, so relying on corporate news isn’t a huge problem.

Anyway, a news outlet pushing propaganda and misinformation is not nearly as dangerous as a social media platform doing it via algorithm. The fact that the algorithm can give you exactly the kind of propaganda that will resonate with you is extremely dangerous.

Not saying privately owned news outlets with a huge reach aren’t a problem, they definetely are, it’s just a whole other dimension.

Well put, this is exactly the problem. I remember the early days of facebook, twitter and instagram when there were no algorithms and your feed was just posts by people you follow in chronological order. Discourse was much more tame back then. We urgently need stricter laws that regulate these algorithms.

I’m glad this is finally being looked at because I’ve been saying this for years and I feel like the vast majority doesn’t realize how bad this is.

If you look at social media use and the rise of the far right over the last 15 years, they pretty much go hand in hand. Sure, that isn’t proof for anything, but it’s alarming and needs to be studied further.

In Germany, we have safeguards that prevent a single media outlet to gain too much power over controlling the public opinion. We have this for TV stations, news papers etc. Just not social media. Because social media wasn’t even on the horizon when this law was put in place.

I think it’s insane that we just let foreign profit driven companies steer the public opinion and discourse in our society and we finally have to start to heavily regulate them.

This got me thinking. Is there any client app that lets you tag users? I know this used to be a function on reddit. I rarely read usernames so it would be really cool if I could tag someone and their username would have a little reminder on them so I could instantly see I talked to that person before.

I’m also pretty new around here and I understand the connection between the lemmy instances but how does mastodon fit into this? Can I comment here with my mastodon account and vice versa?

That’s actually a pretty good and understandable explanation of what’s going on.

I recently read an article that suggested the best retaliation would be to stop enforcing US intellectual property in the EU. One of the biggest exports they have is media, if we would stop enforcing their copyright it would cost them a lot of money.

The key card thing is seriously infuriating, both from a consumer standpoint and from a media conservation standpoint.

Basically you own a game cartridge, but as soon as Nintendo shuts down their servers for whatever reason it becomes a useless piece of plastic. They really don’t want us to own anything anymore.

As an european I’ve been mentally screaming this over the atlantic for months. GET ORGANIZED NOW! Reach out in your community, protest as much as possible, get armed, learn self defense, stockpile essential goods and most importantly, support each other.

Do not take it down! They are acting exactly according to plan and the next step is to have people like you be afraid to openly display your ideals. Taking down that flag would be a win for them.

I understand that it is frightening and the urge to fly under the radar is growing, but now isn’t the time to take those flags down. It’s the time to fly them high.

Isn’t it a little weird that people think it’s ironic? Jesus hung out with prostitutes.

For me it’s Metal music. It’s just absolutely not my genre but an overwhelming amount of metalheads I met were just the nicest, most wholesome and fun people all around.

I don’t get it either. Is OP saying that christians can’t show their bare ass online? Because I don’t support that.

That is actually hilarious and a spin of the theme I hadn’t thought of before haha

Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It’s truly a skill issue.

I’ve been playing minecraft on and off for over a decade but recently started again and rented a server, which some of my friends and family joined. It’s honestly the most fun I have had playing a video game in years. It’s such a cool feeling coming online and seeing that someone built something new and we basically have our own little town already. Sometimes we also meet up to explore some caves and look for diamonds or mines with loots.

We also built a community center with a shared chest, post boxes for everyone on the server to give them stuff when they are offline and an enchantment table for everyone to use.

And now I started playing around with plugins like ItemsAdder to add my own made stuff to the game, which gives it a whole new dimension of possibilties.