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  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • EDIT: Accidentally posted while still typing and reading, aaah, this is unfinished.

    EDIT2: Okay, this is as done as I will do it, I also looked at the clock, and I won`t be awake for long now anyway.

    EDIT3: Okay, this one is the last one, I really have to get to bed, because I am also noticing how diving into this is not good for my health. But turns out you can disregard the stuff I wrote below except for the last sentence, and me still thinking the data is more ambivalent narrative-wise. But while I still maintain the language was confusing, I finally noticed an unambivalent line from the survey: "Of the following issues, choose any that played a role in your [vote for presidential candidate/decision to not to vote for president]. Check all that apply." So, yes, this was indeed also non-voters.

    I admit, now that I explicitly checked, that is also how I would interpret (from the PDF):

    This survey is based on 604 interviews conducted by YouGov on the internet of registered voters who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and not Kamala Harris in 2024.

    But it is also just ambivalent enough to create questions when combined with the language of the article: Since both the study and the article seem to be by the same institute, I doubt it's a miscommunication error. The language of the article is repeatedly so specific.

    For Biden 2020 Voters Who Cast A Ballot For Someone Besides Harris

    29% of voters nationally who voted for Biden in 2020 and cast a ballot for someone besides Kamala Harris

    When Biden 2020 voters cast a ballot for someone besides Harris in 2024

    And then there are questions in the PDF like:

    Next, think back to how you voted in 2024. You will see issues that some say may have impacted their vote. For each of those, please say how you feel about that issue.

    That seem to indicate that this indeed only targeted people that did vote.

    So, colour me genuinely confused, it seems like such a specific and deliberate usage of language. And I have to admit, it feels weird to me, especially considering the IMEU has an interest in making Gaza the most important topic. Note that the same numbers of the survey could also be used to support different narratives, like: 68% said abortion access was important to them and influenced how they voted in 2024, vs 27% saying the same about violence in Gaza. Or Question 12 vs 13, showing that on a policy difference exclusively on Gaza, the people surveyed would still predominately support the Democrat, and only 8% mention not voting if the Democrat supports Israel unconditionally. So, this also does not fit the narrative neatly.

    But if this does indeed represent non-voters as well, and one third of those truly did not vote because of Gaza, yes, that is indeed a large enough group to swing close results in battleground states.

  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • Ah, thank you, my search-fu did not provide me good numbers like that.

    However, unless I am misreading them heavily, those numbers don't seem to lay out what you mention. They are exclusively about "Biden 2020 Voters Who Cast A Ballot For Someone Besides Harris". Again - I don't think that group is large enough, because even combined, all the left-of-Democrats third party votes seem to be negligible. That is "29% of voters nationally who voted for Biden in 2020 and cast a ballot for someone besides Kamala Harris in 2024". So, again, if I combine Jill Stein, Cornell West, and Claudia De la Cruz, that is 0.72% of the popular vote. Even with a naive calculation of taking all 29% of those that would then be commies like that, that seems like not enough to put Trump into office, unless highly concentrated in very embattled swing states.

    EDIT: OK, I forgot, that means also people voting Trump, not just third party. So the influence could theoretically be more. But I doubt commie agitprop pushed a lot of people to outright voting Trump.

  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • Hmm, maybe, it is always hard to prove an effect like that. Best one could do is exit polling with specific questions of what influenced the decision, and other polls in general. I was interested what polling was available there, most I found was just non-voters as a larger group, which seems to be predominately non-politically engaged and mostly centrist. One article I have found seems to indicate the non-voting Democrats don't really fit the narrative of being swayed by radical left influencers and agitprop either.

    I am also unsure how visible those kind of influencers were on mainstream social media, as I am not active there at all. I always had the feeling they were mostly visible in their own bubbles and by people who got angry at them, thus also getting them served by the algorithms. Their effect on motivating people to stay home, I'd be genuinely interested in seeing in polling numbers, but I sadly could not find any polls with questions like "who influenced your decision to not vote".

    In general, psychology-wise, I think motivating people to stay home that would have voted otherwise is I believe a much lower effect, than the failure in motivating people to get up and vote, who would have stayed home otherwise. Which was not the responsibility of those commie influencers the way I estimate it. However - I admit there may have been an effect: By inducing fatigue in activists that had to argue with them, taking away time and resources for trying to reach and motivate properly undecided non-voters.

  • Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS is Taking over (ProtonDB data)

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  • I don't think it does much for gaming, as the video and article also point out, but even if it turns out to just be placebo - my old and creaking PC here feels more responsive than it did with Manjaro, Vanilla Arch and Garuda respectively.

  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • I am European, so, an outsider perspective, but....

    I'd love to know actual numbers, because I get the feeling "commies who voted third party" are too small a group to swing elections. Just a quick look at the numbers on Wikipedia give 0.11% for the Socialism and Liberation candidate. Jill Stein got more, as did RFK even after he had withdrawn already, but I doubt they were the popular choice of the communists arguing here on Lemmy during the election campaign. (Where I, personally, argued for voting for first Biden, then Harris, because I did not see the left in the US as organised enough to react to the kind of oppression Trump would bring early, whereas I'd wager a Democrat would not have escalated like this. Just to root my own bias for context.)

    I am not saying it is impossible that they could have swung a very close state, but I admit, I do think it is very improbable.

    So, this feels very much like impotent rage to me, directed at the annoying but ultimately equally impotent agitprop people on here. They are loud on here, but do you really think they were that influential during the election?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS is Taking over (ProtonDB data)

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/qLvYH3BRD8jH93X3uXf6Gp
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS is Taking over (ProtonDB data)

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/qLvYH3BRD8jH93X3uXf6Gp
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    HYENAZ - Perimeter

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/9yh2uozYU9RSe1xxy15cdt
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
    Live production of electronic music

    AxWax @ Radio Free Fedi Fest 2025

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/h71Q5mtrNQAApYouqMyP3T
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines

    fedi-search.com
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Fireside Fedi Episode 32 - Ben Pryor - Fedi-Search, Musician, Developer, Student

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/1oLqCiUzDp4GrCnS3NsfHV;threadId=41288
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    I'm Better than @RowdyJoe at Taxi Driving | Dani's Race Gameplay

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/qpzF6FD6rfab1QwHPfXkJx

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • Not impossible, although, sadly - any system where anonymity is the prime focus will also invite fucked up shit in addition to legitimate use, without any complicated motives behind it. There's just a relevant fraction of humanity who are, sometimes essentially, sometimes temporarily, messed up fucks. Which is why I think providing ways to combat abuse has to be a high priority for the underlying development of any project like it, unless it explicitly doesn't aim for mainstream adoption.

  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
    TOPIC: Environmental impact of AI

    Green Digital Literacy @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/1pv8JY9DSUKve1UYma2UAv
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    ProtonPlus: A Essential Tool For Linux Gamers

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/j1Ls9yhwPRN7UaDAyNTtX5
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Are these 4 new games worth your time?

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/mjqV6qTJ3HnNop2UKPoJPx

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • I had a wild ride with matrix, originally wanting to run a node on my server. That did not turn out well, because I was a bit stupid and just assumed there would be more admin/mod tools out of the box. As it turned out, I had inadvertently allowed spam/abuse accounts on my node without even noticing, because naive as I was, I assumed my admin-level account would get informed of stuff like user registrations and abuse reports in the standard Element frontend. As a bonus, when I checked what was supposedly the official matrix support channel, it was repeatedly getting spammed with CSAM and gore at the time. That was when I realised, that it definitely was not the ecosystem for me, and running a node without experience had been a pretty stupid idea on my end.

  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Tube.kockatoo.org seems to be temporarily down

    tube.kockatoo.org
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Bontempi HIT 1 Fan Organ

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/jVinhmKtTPxUswS73cvPMi
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Blue Jay at the Warblerfall

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/wYQyuECps5tLpomR5ciRvb
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    What every cyclist needs to know about wildfire smoke

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/u6cUyzptCvzdB3Kh8UXEdd

  • Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

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  • A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant.

    So, this is super anecdotal, but through the father of a friend I learned about a guy who was just downright a walking stereotype in that regard. Said father is a rather conservative guy (ex-cop, actually), got lucky and rather rich, and he lived in a suburban village here in Germany. Said neighbour, as described by him: Also an ex-cop, old acquaintance, wife and kids left him because he was violent, living financially comfortably in a large house in that suburban German village on his own, but miserable. And he, unironically, sent said father of my friend far-right propaganda articles, images, messages just... all day long. Every 10 minutes or so. Presumably as mass messages to about anyone who still had a semblance of contact with him. Anecdotal, hearsay with 2 degrees of separation, but - it was the first time I realised those people existed as actual people just casually living their lives around us all.

  • Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

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  • It's definitely not the same, but I am somewhat reminded of Robert Sapolski's Baboon stress study

    Some key paragraphs:

    Robert Sapolsky and Lisa Share report evidence of a higher order cultural tradition in wild baboons in Kenya. Rooted in field observations of a group of olive baboons (called the Forest Troop) since 1978, Sapolsky and Share document the emergence of a unique culture affecting the “overall structure and social atmosphere” of the troop.

    Through a heartbreaking twist of fate, the most aggressive males in the Forest Troop were wiped out. The males, which had taken to foraging in an open garbage pit adjacent to a tourist lodge, had contracted bovine tuberculosis, and most died between 1983 and 1986. Their deaths drastically changed the gender composition of the troop, more than doubling the ratio of females to males, and by 1986 troop behavior had changed considerably as well; males were significantly less aggressive.

    After the deaths, Sapolsky stopped observing the Forest Troop until 1993. Surprisingly, even though no adult males from the 1983–1986 period remained in the Forest Troop in 1993 (males migrate after puberty), the new males exhibited the less aggressive behavior of their predecessors.

    The authors found that while in some respects male to male dominance behaviors and patterns of aggression were similar in both the Forest and control troops, there were differences that significantly reduced stress for low ranking males, which were far better tolerated by dominant males than were their counterparts in the control troops. The males in the Forest Troop also displayed more grooming behavior, an activity that's decidedly less stressful than fighting. Analyzing blood samples from the different troops, Sapolsky and Share found that the Forest Troop males lacked the distinctive physiological markers of stress, such as elevated levels of stress-induced hormones, seen in the control troops.

    But if aggressive behavior in baboons does have a cultural rather than a biological foundation, perhaps there's hope for us as well.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Why Does Linux Have So Much Drama?!

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/jt1HccJBHqhUWUWgdtYZaA
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Why Does Linux Have So Much Drama?!

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/jt1HccJBHqhUWUWgdtYZaA
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Why Does Linux Have So Much Drama?!

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/jt1HccJBHqhUWUWgdtYZaA
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Fediverse Canvas event 2025 live stream - VOD

    videos.abnormalbeings.space /w/1sBQfRov8TBAfGGsir6CWv
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    AbnormalHumanBeing @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    Full Timelapse | Canvas 2025

    sc07.tv /w/vqMefweU6w6LMZenbJHWoV

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • Ah, I am sad to hear that. And sorry that has been your experience.

    As only an amateur coder, I can't weigh in how serious the issue is, but I'm gonna take your word for it, without any other person involved adding input. I hope it'll end up in a state, where the project can still sustain its growth in both features and users.

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • Congratulations Ruud & Rest - everyone at the foundation really, it's just fun to say Ruud & Rest! I'm excited to see how this will develop. PieFed does have a lot of features already, that I do miss for Lemmy, and the communication from the main dev has been great so far. (An opportunity to post links to his PeerTube channel, as well as his Liberapay profile).

    A great addition to the "Threadiverse" in particular, and the larger Fediverse!

  • Fediverse Canvas Event 2025 live stream

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  • You actually make a great point. Really, for me it was mostly a quick idea because I had been musing about PeerTube's streaming capabilities in a different comment thread, and about how it leverages the P2P mechanism, so it was fresh on my mind that I wanted to stress-test my own server somehow (and I wanted to learn how to set-up OBS with chat and stuff for PeerTube). Then, while "working" on the canvas, I had the sudden: "Hey, I'd love to set my pixels while zoomed in, while also watching the whole field zoomed out"-thought ... but of course that would just as easily be possible by just having two browser windows open 🤷

    If nothing else, I got some promising data showing my server can handle several people tuning in to live streams at the same time - and I am also using this to test how my server handles someone wanting to encode a 24h+ VOD from a stream, so that will be there, too - probably for another time-lapse in addition to the official ones.

  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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  • Hi, the OP this was crossposted from here. The answer is simple: I am using PeerTube Companion, a Firefox add-on that automatically redirects me to my home instance when loading any PeerTube video - so I can easily comment and like and subscribe. So when using the "share" button or copy-pasting the link from the address bar, I will default to posting a link to my instance - in essence, it is the same video, loaded from the same source, federation being what it is.

  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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  • I guess the engagement bait "please contradict the headline"-title is working well, I always want to keep editorialising to a minimum when sharing videos like this, but this was one of those "what they meant could have been made a little bit clearer, and they knew it"-things.

    Really the stuff he is talking about concerning that - mainly initial cost vs long term savings and lack of existing infrastructure/expertise - are just realities that are important to address in the political process. He could have gone into more detail considering Munich's attempt at Linux (LiMux) - where to my knowledge the reason it failed was a combination of lobbying by Microsoft, Conservatives (CSU) winning the local elections, and costs (as well as employee complaints) from having processes be more complicated, the latter mostly thanks to Microsoft's outright obstructionism concerning document format standards, as well as expertise being relatively costly (whereas finding MS-certified anyones in the office space was relatively easy). Those are considerations to have, but I think more and more, the advantages of Linux and Open Source clearly outweigh that stuff in the face of rising costs and enshittification, and he does talk about all the good stuff pretty well in the video.

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    Microsoft exits Pakistan after 25 years (post by Jawwad Rehman, who established and led Microsoft’s Pakistan subsidiary)

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  • Could that be the common ground for the India-Pakistan conflict to come to an end?

  • Non intentional peak performance

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  • As just a personal thing, the original mute watching was so surreal and unique, I enjoyed it more - solving the mystery of what is happening from what's shown visually alone (and some subdued music) - but that is a deeply subjective thing.

    you should also get back together with that girlfriend and be on the phone with her while you watch it.

    Oh no, I couldn't do that to her, she definitely deserved better.

  • Non intentional peak performance

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  • That is a possible explanation, although I think it was weirder than that, because I remember checking some "obvious" settings like that afterwards. I also re-encoded the file with VLC media player out of curiosity, where it should have just re-encoded whatever audio track it had, without adjusting it to a specific output device, and the resulting file then also had the same issue when played in SMPLayer (whereas the original worked in SMPlayer).

    I might still have both files laying around on my NAS, but I myself at least don't really have the energy right now to go into a rabbit hole again years after the fact, and sharing them would be non-trivial.

  • Non intentional peak performance

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  • So, I once watched The Lighthouse together with my then girlfriend remotely, being in a long distance relationship at the time. We used the same file, started at the same time and were in chat together.

    The audio codec of this (of course 100% legal) file for some reason did not work with my VLC player properly. There were no voices. But it also wasn't just complete silence, some music and subtle, surreal sound effects came through. None of this was happening for my ex, btw, even though we had the same file.

    Talking about the movie in chat and afterwards was fascinating, I only then realised it was, in fact, not a masterful, purposeful, stylistic choice: A major production not just in black and white, but as a silent movie. I also was able to get the essential things that happened and the important plot points, so that is also another point very much in favour of the film.

  • Lemmy world moderation as usual using "anti-semitism" as a cudgel against Humanitarian beliefs.

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  • You are right, and thank you.

    Still, I have to add one small thing, quickly, because I did indeed not communicate what I meant well for that point: My point there was about Himmler having (superstitiously) thought of some "pure" Roma people potentially being essentially a worthy "Aryan precursor race" - that belief also being connected to his expeditions to Tibet/India. That was the point I maintain would have been completely unthinkable for Nazis to even entertain for Jewish people, whom they deemed as fundamentally, irredeemably evil and without worth. And while, yes, things like the Madagascar plan (essentially a less direct form of genocide) were discussed, I maintain, that the implementation of finding, registering and exterminating of Jewish people after it was decided upon as a "solution" was more "urgent" to the Nazi state.