[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Regardless of what happened on the sidelines, Hawkins added that on the field, there was sportsmanship, as some of the Bow soccer players reached out to the transgender girl on the Plymouth team.

"Some of the fellow soccer players from Bow actually sent supportive letters of love and support and encouraging that student to continue to play," Hawkins said.

The kids are alright ❤️

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Corporations and surveillance?

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Why not do both?

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

What's the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?

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Relative newcomer to Bitwig, making music as a hobby. Mostly in-the-box synths & samples stuff, but sometimes I'll record instruments or vocals too.

The last DAW I was using was Cubase v5 (lol), so I've been checking out some tutorials on Bitwig's workflow and functionality. I really like the ease of adding subtle expression variations, and the modulation options are an absolute game-changer.

But I feel like I've only scratched the surface - what are some features that are not quite so obvious that you like to use?

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.

Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.

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[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

How on earth is it possible for an arbitrator to just override legislation like this?

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

I mean, I was lucky to find a life-partner before dating apps were the default, so I'm going to be speaking a little out of turn here.

But I'd imagine that if those apps were a little more friction-y - like, if people weren't using an almost literally frictionless swipe left and right, but instead were encouraged by the interface to learn something about a person first, or, say, had to click reasons why they were swiping left or right - that it would be easier to make meaningful connections. You'd be designing in self-reflection and curiosity.

And sure, you might turn away some users by doing that - but what if that's actually a good thing?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39429322

Interesting essay looking at the role of friction in human development, and how a particular vision of technology's function in society - one that seeks to eliminate friction - paradoxically reduces our autonomy, rather than enhancing it.

This post was reported as spam on technology @ lemmy.world, and was removed, then eventually reinstated, by the mods. The original reason for removal was "it's not really technology-related." I suspect it's being brigaded due to my cryptocurrency criticism, but I have no way to know for sure.

(Edit - update: I have now been banned from technology @ lemmy.world for ... I guess asking the mods how this isn't tech-related? LOL)

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Interesting essay exploring the role of friction as it relates to human progress, and how the reduction or removal of friction, through a particular conception of the role of technology in our society, actually limits our autonomy, rather than enhancing it.

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

normalizing scams, by laundering their image via standards organizations, pollutes our communications environment. Both an emoji and a petition are symbolic - and our symbols are in fact important.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji".

F that

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I feel bad saying it but a lot of them probably aren't vaccinated, so

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[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago

more controls for enterprise customers to manage and govern Recall data

ahh ok so this is employee monitoring software

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

The Fediverse - especially the microblogging side of it - has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability.

And the high resource requirements, which result from an incredible level of redundancy, aren't just bad environmentally: they make running a server more costly, and increase our reliance on Big Tech's infrastructure.

I wrote about all this, along with some suggestions for how we can improve things somewhat.

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