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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They better be built on FOSS. Not only that would help with the market failures others highlighted in this thread, but it would produce an industry American firms can't compete with due to the lower software cost. Software implemented once, then shared at no additional cost is a significant competitive advantage than having to have dedicated softwate teams implementing the same things at every corporation but differently, in order to create lock-in.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In practice firms consolidate regardleas of individual wallet voting. Wallet voting has no bearing on one corporation acquiring another. It has also no bearing on a few corporations dividing the user base amongst each other through lock-in and unofficial cooperation. If wallet voting was a strong influence, pervasive market failure wouldn't be a thing. The fact is that firms accumulate financial capital over time, buy failed competitors along with their customers, then rinse and repeat until there's few firms left. And they have vastly more money and therefore vasrly more "votes" that they use in various "elections" than individuals. Individual wallet voting could only ever work if massively organized and that is extremely difficult to achieve. Not the least due to these same firms spending their capital to keep individuals from collectively voting, via various well-known behaviour modificaton techniques.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

And the anti-competitive practices won't stop unless we persistently step on corporations' necks. Capitalism incentivizes these behaviours.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

OMG she's so gorgeous..

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yorgos and Emma, you son of a bitch, I'm in!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 16 hours ago

You son of a bitch.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Agreed. It's got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago

The class war almost invariably underpins the other apparent social conflicts.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
services:
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    image: jellyfin/jellyfin

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Luckily I have auto snapshots on the Jellyfin data dir so restoring it to 10.10.7 was pretty trivial.

Friendly reminder to use snapshotting filesystems for your app data. E.g. ZFS, Btrfs. Then most fuckups can be unfucked with a single zfs rollback.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

It's the FOSS alternative of Plex. If you run Plex or were curious about running Plex, setup Jellyfin. Then setup the arr-stack.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That makes sense ans in addition it seems like the research conditions themselves are starting to shift in favour of the other regime.

 

We do not have uranium enrichment capacity for manufacturing SMR fuel. CANDU reactors on the other hand use Canadian fuel.

 

#FordNation does something not terrible!

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday his government is not considering hitting American goods with more retaliatory tariffs, even as the trade war rages on, because there are signs that the bilateral talks on relief are headed in the right direction.

 

The fastest speed the vehicles were recorded going was 30 km/h over the limit, and the lowest speed was 11 km/h over the limit. On average, the government vehicles were snapped 17 km/h above the limit, with the average cost of the tickets $144.

 

Add your name to the petition submitted by MP Jenny Kwan for withdrawing Bill C-2, the “Strong Borders Act” which among other things enables warrantless access to Canadians' digital data stored by private companies.

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From his email blast:

My name is Rob Ashton. I’m not a politician — I’m a worker. I’ve spent 30 years on the docks, working long hours, giving up weekends, and fighting to make sure a paycheque stretches far enough. I know what that struggle feels like because I’ve lived it.

And I also know this: anger alone won’t change things. But solidarity will. Organizing will. That’s the power that built the NDP — and it’s the power we need to reclaim.

Somewhere along the way, working people stopped hearing their voice in our party. That opened the door for Liberals and Conservatives to pretend they speak for us. But let’s be clear:

  • Liberals talk progressive values, then side with CEOs and force workers back on the job.
  • Conservatives wrap themselves in hard hats, then hand tax breaks to billionaires while dividing people against each other.

Neither of them are in it for working people. They never were.

The NDP was created by workers to be our unapologetic voice in politics. To put kitchen-table economics first. To take on corporate greed, fight for good jobs, affordable housing, and strong public services — and to never back down. That’s the leadership I’m offering.

I'm low key excited about this guy's candidacy.

 

The company anticipates it will reduce annual expenses by $150 million by 2028 as a result of the changes.

Imperial reported its net income was $949 million during its most recent quarter, down from $1.13 billion a year earlier.

Make profits, take subsidies, do layoffs.

 

In a message posted to X on Monday evening, Carney said that “Canada welcomes President Trump’s historic new Middle East peace plan, and we urge all parties to help it realise its full potential.”

“As the critical next step, Hamas must immediately release all hostages,” the post read. “Canada stands ready to support the sustained, unimpeded, and large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid into and throughout Gaza.”

 

An informative interview with Bob Rae, our UN ambassador, on where our gov't seems to be at the moment.

 
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