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The Hyperloop was always a scam in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] witx@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

During the peak of his fame I always thought this was a money laundering scheme from Musk. Only recently I've learned about the (not so much) theory that it was all an effort to screw with high speed train.

Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] witx@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Yes, because it's people like you and me developing AI ...

Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] witx@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

They can absorb large numbers of users and communities and after a while close themselves to the outside. Meaning that once people "need" those communities they'll have no chance other than go threads.

Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] witx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's both. Corporate greed and people helping keep this up

Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] witx@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That's why those who "jUsT pAy PReMiUm" are at fault. These companies are just pushing the line to see what sticks, and you're perpetuating it by paying

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Routers (lemmy.world)
 

Hi all,

I'm slowly moving into the self hosted mindset specially for privacy, security and sailing the high seas. This community has been invaluable but I'd like to know which routers you use that fit well with this and plays nice with the services we're hosting.

I'm mostly thinking about wifi support, openwrt, vpn (not a hard requirement), vlans, etc. I know probably a networking community would be a better place for this question, but I think this might be useful for other "self-hosters"