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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • There should be a way to pay only the workers when you buy something. In that case, you could pay them but only after pirating and making sure you enjoy it. Since there is nothing like that, I think you should pay only content from small creators. Big creators already have plenty, and paying for anything else just gives money to greedy executives who then lower the quality of the content to make more money. Of course, if you have the means and don’t pay anything, you are just making sure there will be less of that content made in the future. It isn’t scalable; if everybody pirated content without paying a single cent, there would be no content made except by hobbyists who don’t want to make a living out of it.








  • Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor and government whistleblower, has been credited with the quote “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say”. Snowden has argued that privacy is a fundamental right and that without it, individuals cannot have anything for themselves. The “nothing to hide” argument has been used to defend the collection and use of government data beyond surveillance and disclosure, but critics argue that it is inherently paradoxical and that what is hidden is not necessarily relevant. Snowden has also stated that the burden of justification falls on those seeking to infringe upon human rights, and that nobody needs to justify why they “need” a right.











  • Imagus is a browser extension for Firefox that allows users to enlarge images and display images/videos from links with a simple mouse-over. It is similar to the Hover Zoom extension, which is a popular tool for browsing memes and gifs on desktop. However, Hover Zoom has been flagged as spyware, so users may want to consider using Imagus instead. Imagus works with a wider range of links than Hover Zoom, including those from imgur. The extension also has customizable settings, including an expandable set of rules for getting larger images, media, or other content.





  • Github style:

    > If you need to find a post, don't use search engines or indexers, use lemmy's own search page, which allows you to filter by community if you wish. Its been a concious decision from the beginning to not favor SEO over simple urls.
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    > *Originally posted by @dessalines in [#839 (comment)](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/839#issuecomment-1304368786)*
    

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    If you need to find a post, don’t use search engines or indexers, use lemmy’s own search page, which allows you to filter by community if you wish. Its been a concious decision from the beginning to not favor SEO over simple urls.

    Originally posted by @dessalines in #839 (comment)