amzd

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[–] amzd@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He calls them “λῃστής”

Even in the source you linked that is translated to robber. To rob means “stealing using force or violence”. Who were the priests using violence against you think? Their clients or animals?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He called out the practice of killing animals for money, specifically calling the priests murderers during the event you reference. Not much of that spirit left in modern churches.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He has an 111m superyacht, he is not giving you anything my friend, I’m sorry.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this one of those “the ogre has fallen I love with the princess” farquaad meme situations

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Why? He takes a 30% cut from every game sale just because his platform has a dominant grasp on gamers.

I don’t understand how people can hate taxes (which go on to pay for schools and roads) but not the way larger cut that digital storefronts charge.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Including those in the background image of the post

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

Recycle the pets it was tested on, great innovation

[–] amzd@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is that even legal, I thought there were data export laws in the eu

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Ah you are correct.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They are polling at 14 seats vs their current 24. There is some reason for optimism. https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/18/vvd-drops-polls-now-equal-d66-ja21

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It’s 3 lines of code in basically every programming language, no need for selfhosting, just open the terminal?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It’s a day for celebration to all involved.

Well, not all involved

 
 

[…]

Joined by XMPP-messengers Cheogram and Monocles, and supported by many contributing experts in the background, we are playfully addressing the no-billionaire-platforms challenge with webxdc, a container format and API for “chat-shared web apps”. Technically, webxdc apps are network-sandboxed HTML5 apps and instead of the HTTP protocol they use Peer-to-Peer send/receive APIs implemented by webxdc-capable messengers, rebasing relations between developers and users by saying

  • Bye Bye to surveillance capitalism: Users have both the code and the data of their web apps in their hands and benefit from end-to-end encrypted messaging not only during regular chat messaging but also during their private web app usage.

  • Bye Bye to user policing (logins, passwords, OAUTH, TOS and privacy policies etc.): Web app developers never obtain or touch any user data or user identities, and can have peace of mind of not being responsible for any data, and not having to program identity management and social discovery UIs. Messengers already provide it through arranging chat groups or rooms.

  • Bye Bye to depending on a corp or org that enshittifies: Messengers, as decentralized runners of webxdc apps in chat groups, can not hold web app developers, their users or data hostage. Consult Cory Doctorow’s “Ulysses Pact” for why this is a good idea.

This all sounds too good to be true, right? But what if another reality is possible by just stretching out our hands and grabbing it?

[…]

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