Ah, right. I forgot that they’re based in Sweden. That’s understandable if it’s simply a lack of familiarity with the language, but, still, I would expect a company like Mullvad to at least have one native-equivalent English speaker to look over their public facing English stuff. None of this is the end of the world, ofc — I’m just mildly surprised.

There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?

Orchis Italica

Thank you!

What plant is that?

I was trying to say that the hardware cost to host it may not be expensive, but the management cost could be quite costly.

I dont know if they can see my content but I dont think they do.

From what I understand, they should still be able to see your content — you are still posting to the network.

You can always ask the folks on .ml for they make the software.

Ha, well, @[email protected] is a moderator of this community.

They are each beneficiaries of the capitalist system

How do police and the military specifically benefit from a capitalist system?

with the military / police serving duel roles as employed and enforcers / protectors of the system.

Are you saying that only a capitalist system benefits from the police and military?

All that being said, I’m not entirely sure what your point has to do with the thesis of the poster.

So, IIUC, you’re saying that if a user on A browses a community on C, they will never see a user from B?

I agree with both statements.

[Centrists] don’t tend to start from a perspective that arises from their empathy and curiosity for the world and build their politics based on that, they look at the spread of opinions people have around them and just go right down the middle where they can disappear into the crowd without having to do the hard work of creating an actually ideologically rigorous belief system that adheres to reality and evolves with it.

This is essentially a false generalization, or, more generally, just conjecture, unless you have proof that it is the case that that is what centrists do (arguably, it’s virtually impossible for that to be the case).

What makes most centrists so cowardly is that they take both of those viewpoints as reasonable starting positions and average them to emphatically supporting “some genocide!” and it is incredibly pathetic.

I don’t really understand your point here. Are you claiming that a centrist supports some amount of genocide?

Essentially, it’s because it’s a monopolistic/anti-competitive relationship, so the producer is able to charge much more than if it were competitive. The producer seeks to maximize profits, and the schools enable them by effectively controlling the market.

Five Guys have better service that is free

It wasn’t free — they were charging money for it:

Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service

Empty on Thunder.

Yeah, take a look at the solution at the top of the post.

That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was “under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.”, which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example’s idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I’m not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn’t making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I’m not really sure where the issue lies.

And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.

I’m not sure if they count as underrated, but the band that immediately comes to mind is The Dear Hunter.

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough

Not including the time cost to manage it.

Yeah, Alison Tifel wrote the episode “The View From Halfway Down”, which is what this poem is from and shares the same name with.

“The View From Halfway Down” by Alison Tifel has always resonated with me:

The weak breeze whispers nothing
The water screams sublime
His feet shift, teeter-totter
Deep breath, stand back, it’s time

Toes untouch the overpass
Soon he’s water bound
Eyes locked shut but peek to see
The view from halfway down

A little wind, a summer sun
A river rich and regal
A flood of fond endorphins
Brings a calm that knows no equal

You’re flying now
You see things much more clear than from the ground
It’s all okay, it would be
Were you not now halfway down

Thrash to break from gravity
What now could slow the drop
All I’d give for toes to touch
The safety back at top

But this is it, the deed is done
Silence drowns the sound
Before I leaped I should’ve seen
The view from halfway down

I really should’ve thought about
The view from halfway down
I wish I could’ve known about
The view from halfway down

Local Only Communities

Local communities are an interesting concept, though I am concerned about unintended side effects. I have noticed many times that people from other instances chime in to meta-communities to provide some alternative viewpoints and context when instances are discussing interactions with the rest of the network. I worry that some will become too isolated/sheltered. But I suppose, in the end, that’s ultimately up to the individual instances to decide.

Lemmy can now federate with Wordpress, Discourse and NodeBB.

Increased federation capabilities is always awesome to see!

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

This is a clever solution. I think this is a good way to go about it.

RSS feeds now include post thumbnail and embedded images.Security

I really appreciate the continued attention given to keep RSS alive.

A security audit was recently performed on Lemmy.

Awesome! And congrats!

• Added Community local_subscribers count
• Support for custom post thumbnail
• Indicate to user when they are banned from community
• Added alt_text for image posts

Great features for improving the polish and user experience on Lemmy!