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Cake day: October 27th, 2023
  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    @SethranKada@lemmy.ca

    @IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I had the same issue with my 3. Took advantage of one of the offers Samsung had to trade in even with a cracked screen. They gave me $600 towards a Fold 5. I bought my 3 used for $800, so I was only out ~$400 to go from a 3 with a broken internal screen to a new 5. Still very happy with the 5, but I get why you wouldn’t trust Samsung again.

  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    @cm0002@lemmy.world

    @IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I had a Galaxy Fold 5. I had a Fold 3 before this. I bought the 3 used for $800 to try out the form factor. The screen on the 3 split, but Samsung still gave me $600 in credit towards a Fold 5. No hardware issues with the 5. I doubt I’ll ever go back to a smaller phone because of the work related tasks I can do with the additional screen real estate.

    For me the killer app is being able to review VRT failures. Before the Fold, I had to have a tablet or my laptop handy to avoid potential delays. Now I can review a VRT failure anywhere. This has allowed to spend more time with my kids. Worth every penny.

  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*HOW* can we coax search-engines in to being able to do the simple "lemmy" + "search word" thing..?
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    3 months ago

    @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee isn’t part of the point of ActivityPub to avoid vendor lockin/single point of billionaire enshittification? I read and interact with a fair amount of Lemmy content through an Mbin instance.

    You can already limit Google using site:[DOMAIN].

    If every ActivityPub driven service used a common TLD like .edus, you’d be able to limit results to that facet of Google’s index, they don’t. If they did, we’d be back to a single point of failure.

    Google supports limiting searches to content using a Creative Commons license based on the licensing metadata in the URL. ActivityPub content already has the metadata, but it took a decade to generate enough content before Google offered the option to filter searches by CC-BY-SA… and Google was a VERY different company back then.

  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you destroy the notion that Democrats are the good guys? Americans seem like a lost cause on that regard
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    3 months ago

    @adarza@lemmy.ca

    @Confidant6198@lemmy.ml I thought we were finally making progress with Rank Choice Voting starting to gain traction, but agree… there may not be enough left to salvage after this unless the MAGA movement collapses before the midterms… assuming we still are have elections and people other than white land owners can vote. Still not entirely sure how far back Trump supporters need to go for the “again” point when America was great.

    MAGA are NOT the majority of Americans, but sadly they only slightly exceed the Americans who don’t vote at all. While not the government many Americans wanted, when “I’m not into politics” stopped resulting in an immediate response of “so you aren’t American?”, we ended up with the government we deserve.

  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    @FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io

    @Mee@reddthat.com Is the tradition the Animal House experience while in school and then graduating to multiple job offers that pay well enough that your income alone was enough to buy a house and raise a family. Because if that’s the tradition they are looking to continue, I’ve got some bad news.

    Online education should make education more affordable. Instead, most organizations charged only slightly less than in-person credits.

  • kreynen@kbin.melroy.orgtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•aaron swartz day
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    2 years ago

    @anzo@programming.dev this comment originally posted on a Reddit ELI5 thread might be a better starting point for people who aren’t familiar with Aaron’s legacy and the controversy around his death.

    I’ll actually try to explain this like you’re five, because that doesn’t ever seem to happen on here anymore.

    Aaron Swartz was a man who was a part of a whoooole lot of really cool things. He helped to make a thing called “RSS” which helps people learn all the stuff they want to without going to all the different websites that that takes. It’s like if you want to make a sandwich, but normally you’d have to go to a bread store, a meat store, a cheese store, and a vegetable store. RSS makes it so you can get that all at once (and enjoy your sandwich much more easily).

    Aaron also was part of a group of guys who helped give out information from “PACER”, which is a big system full of information about what happened at courts. But, even though all of this information should have been free, they charged people for it. Imagine if each time you asked your teacher a question you had to pay a quarter. Even though that’s their job, and it should be free, they made you pay. Well that sure did make some law-people mad. They started to investigate Aaron, but eventually stopped when they realized Aaron was right.

    Aaron did some more stuff, too. You know this website you’re on? Aaron was a big part of it at the very beginning. A lot of people call him one of the founders, but that’s not entirely true. What is true is that Aaron helped to shape and mold and make this website what it is today. It’s like when mommy buys you Play-Doh. She actually started it, but you’re the one that made the amazing sculpture out of it (with help from your friends, of course).

    Aaron also did something that made some people pretty mad. You see Aaron thought that information should be very free. He though that people like you, and me, and everyone else should be able to read as much information as we could on stuff. He thought that the work that scientists did at colleges should be seen by everyone! So he went to MIT to access JSTOR, basically a virtual library of science, and went “out of bounds” according to MIT. He went somewhere he wasn’t supposed to go, and went there to try to get all this information and science from JSTOR, which he was actually allowed to do. The problem was like this though. Imagine Aaron went to the library. He can check out as many books as he wants, right? What Aaron wanted to do was check out every book, and make sure that everyone around the world had the same chance to read them that he did. But in order to check out those books, he had to go behind the desk, which was a no-no.

    So what happened is that Aaron got in trouble with JSTOR, the library, and with MIT, who is pretty much the librarian. Eventually, JSTOR decided they didn’t think Aaron did anything wrong, and didn’t want to try anymore. MIT was a little slower though, and didn’t say much. Then the US Attorney’s office came in. They’re like the cops that might come to the library. The owners of the library didn’t think that you did anything wrong, and wanted the cops to leave. The librarian didn’t answer as quickly though, so the cops stuck around and kept asking Aaron questions and checking through his pockets for stuff.

    This whole thing was very scary for Aaron. Aaron didn’t have a whole lot of money, and if he got in as much trouble as the cops wanted to put him in, he would have to give it all up, and go to prison for a long time. This scared Aaron a lot. This was especially tough for Aaron because he had been really sad for quite some time. It was a special kind of sad that doesn’t go away with a tight hug from mom, so it was especially hard to deal with.

    On Friday, Aaron hung himself. Some people think it was because he was so scared of the cops that he just couldn’t deal with it. Some people think it was because he was so sad that he just wanted it to go away. But most people think it was a combination of the two.

    There are a lot of people talking about it now though, because if the cops hadn’t been so mean to Aaron, he’d probably still be alive today. This makes people very sad and very angry, because Aaron was a very smart, very kind person. We wanted him to stay around much longer than he did, and now we want to make sure that nothing like what happened to Aaron will happen to anyone else again.