Did I mix them up? In case somebody didn’t know what the trolley problem was, I figured i’d link to that, but got to my bus stop before I could find the original shower thought. I still haven’t figured out how to find stuff in Lemmy.

There was a shower thought the other day on Lemmy that said that the whole situation is a real life trolley problem.

Given my skill with 3d model creation, i’d be more likely to create something that would hurt me than inflicting harm on someone else. Mostly when I take that razor sharp tool to remove anything from the build plate, but also just my awful measurements and tolerances.

I think you’re missing the point.of the essay. He seems to be saying that Apple has decided what content you should be viewing and that they have captured the “free market” because no amount of consumer crying will change it.

Consuming the content another way won’t affect Apple in any way since they’ll keep repeating their behavior. The author is saying that the government regulators need to get involved to restore your rights on what you can do with a device that you purchased. Near the end he even goes on to say that you (a consumer) have implicitly waived your right to sue Apple for this.

I guess the only option is to vote or maybe not use Apple products (but are the alternatives any better?)

I know of a guy who had good intentions. He just wanted to make Germany great again. I can’t remember his name right now, but IIRC, it didn’t end up being good for a whole lot of people.

I post videos a few times a year to share events with family. I just posted a few yesterday. I can’t in good faith continue to post to YT and encourage my family to use it as the platform declares war on their users.

But what else is there that allows me to post videos for free and my family can just watch them without having to install a new app, register for yet another service or configure some obscure plug in?

+1 for FOSS, but it’s not easy to do. It’s sort of like going vegan. It’s great at first, but then you try to go out to eat and it’s hard, family gatherings become difficult and political, people start to push meat or question your motives. You still feel good about it because you’re doing it “for the animals” or whatever, but you’re no longer in the mainstream. While your coworkers all go out to that new steak joint, you’re left behind with your bag of broccoli.

To elaborate, look at Lemmy. You can get FOSS apps for your phone to browse Lemmy, but now try to coordinate some event, like your local soccer club using only FOSS. Plenty of folks are content to blindly consume what Zuck or Goog wants them to see and use.

Could comebody ELI5 on the amnesty request? To me, it sounds like they would just give the money back. Why would this be so bad?

Based on my limited understanding after reading one article and listening to one talk show on public radio, the issue seems to be that the “tech giants” are displaying full (or nearly full) articles from news outlets without providing revenue to the content creator or links to the original article. If all news outlets disallowed full article replication through copywrite or other legal means, this whole thing would be over, but that’s hard to organize, so they ask the government to help.

To say that the tech giants are providing advertisements isn’t a fair representstill. They’re providing the whole product. The process of how we got here is outlined in Cory Doctrow’s “enshittification” essay. (I’d copy and paste the whole essay here just for irony’s sake, but I’m feeling lazy.

I’m not quite sure how to feel about this whole thing, especially when you consider that public libraries are doing the same thing.