Justin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Libertarian has another meaning outside of the American Libertarian Party.

I personally prefer it, but it should be a setting.

It looks like we’re getting close. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2806

Yeah, I’m not saying that people should be using a Nexus 5 (a 4g phone) in 2023. Smartphones have matured a lot since 2013 though, and I think phones coming out now will still be perfectly usable in 2033, as long as replacement parts are available and they are updated to 2033 software. There are people using x230 Thinkpads in 2023, so it’s definitely possible with laptops.

I’ll have to check out that video, it sounds pretty interesting!

nameisp.com, snapchat.com, and teams.microsoft.com are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. nameisp.com is especially frustrating, because it doesn’t have a “doesn’t work with Firefox” banner, it just inexplicably breaks on Firefox.

Also, Firefox and Chrome handle broken XML differently, which has broken a number of internal websites for me.

I’d say that it’s tough to make a definitive statement on the maximum lifespan of phones.

For one, Fairphone is selling phones with 5 year warranties, so I don’t think there’s any argument that a phone with a replaceable battery and continuous updates shouldn’t last at least 5 years.

With regard to cellular technologies, I think it’s hard to compare the technologies of the 2000’s with the technologies of the 2010’s and 2020’s. Smartphones radically changed the purpose of cell networks, which meant there was a rapid shift in technologies in the 2000’s.

That said, 2G networks like GSM and GPRS are still around and are only set to be shut off in some countries around 2025. GSM is from 1991, and GPRS was standardized in 2000, but the protocol existed as early as 1993. That’s 20-35 years that you could use your old StarTac or RAZR, though, those are not smartphones.

3G didn’t last as long as 2G did, as it was more of an overclocked 2G developed as a bandaid to keep up with smartphones, as opposed to the packet-switched network that we have now with 4G and 5G.

Looking at the most recent technologies, LTE and Evolved Packet Core are still the backbone of our cellular networks, new wireless standards like 5G NR just piggy-back off of existing 4G networks. LTE has been commercially available since 2010, so again, that’s over 13 years of radio/network compatiblility, with likely another decade to go.

Considering how much smartphones have matured in the last 10 years, and how the pace of releases have slowed down, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the average smartphone to last 10 years like laptops do. It just requires better compatibility and maintenance on the software front, which Google has already been improving on for the past 5 years.

The Fairphone 4 is splash-rated.

I’m 90% certain that this whole thing is due to to Reddit’s new marketing execs saying “we can’t run ads on third party apps”, and then deciding that third party apps need to pay up for their supposed “projected loss in ad revenue”.

It’s the piracy fallacy: “Somebody is using my service without giving ME profit, and so we’re gonna go into a self-destructive tantrum”. “Ignore the fact that nobody ever wanted to pay us for that anyways.”

We don’t need that kind of greed in control of our online communities, good riddance.

There should be an option for these two communities to sync each other.

I could see a patreon/floatplane style system where you only get the livestreams if you pay, or video releases are delayed for a week if you don’t pay. Video sponsorships also make more money than Youtube ads I think.

The compute is getting cheap now too. By the end of this year, you’ll be able to slap a couple of these in a CoLo for a few grand, and then be able to transcode hundreds of videos at once.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-alveo-ma35d-custom-anti-gpu-silicon-for-av1-era-video-transcoding/

You’d be able to compete with 2nd tier streaming services like Nebula or Floatplane at that level.

But yeah, it’s hard to get to Youtube/Netflix efficiency at a small scale, you just can’t get the specialized hardware needed to do all the hardware transcoding and DMA media serving that they do. But we’re getting there.

Lemmy edits over your posts by default so that remote instances delete them too.

Also if you live in the EU and an instance is refusing to delete your personal information, you can probably report them to your data regulator. Could get them fined if they’re in the EU, or the EU could order EU-based instances to defederate from them.

It takes effort to set up a PGP client and the person you’re sending it to probably doesn’t have PGP set up. It’s used for some confidential journalism and whistle blowing stuff, but since everybody just uses webmail anyways, it’s not practical to use.

Ah ok. Yeah, I just found out about Pleroma today so I thought it might be good to know.

Pleroma supports the Mastodon UI btw.

The biggest surprise for many is that Pleroma includes the Mastodon UI, too. As the Mastodon UI is mostly just another API client, it will run fine on Pleroma. As you can see in the screenshot, you can use it quite well on any Pleroma instance. We bundle it with Pleroma, so you don’t need to install anything new.

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

I saw a comparison here between the Fediverse and other federated services like emails and POTS. I think there are a lot of similarities, but if that’s true, the Fediverse still has a long way to go before it matures like traditional federated services like email. Things like spamlists and increased interoperability will be needed eventually.

At least in the short-term, I think Lemmy has a good base here to take over from Reddit, and the increased focus will help the Fediverse mature further. Lemmy won’t be another Voat.

The irony of people downvoting this because they disagree with you 😅 Does Reddiquette still apply here?