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In my opinion, there are two key could issues with it: societal attitudes and desperation.
Society clearly discriminates sex workers, especially women, as sex work is associated with promiscuity and little limits. Ex-sexual workers are more likely to be harassed and face unwanted sexualized interactions. They have issues finding a long-term partner and may have to hide their past from everyone.
Another issue is that many people choose sexual careers not because they want it, but because it’s one of the few ways to make money quickly. This experience can be heavily traumatic, not only because of the aforementioned societal attitudes, but because of violation of intimacy and losing agency over own body.
So, legalization of prostitution is, at best, harm reduction at this stage.
Important nuance: there absolutely are people who enjoy working in the sex industry. Ideally, healthy incentives and shift in social attitudes would allow them to work in this sphere and others not to. But as things stand, we’re very much not there yet.
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Technology@lemmy.world•PeerWeb - Decentralized Website HostingEnglish
13·9 days agoA question: can you modify the site (edit its content etc.) once it’s published?
Because the uses for a never-changing site are quite limited.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.
11·13 days agoMoving goalposts over and over, huh?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second homeEnglish
14·14 days agoAdd that to the dangers of oligopolies. They can really just do whatever they want at this point.
yt-dlp is amazing, but not everyone likes to use CLI tools (and, looking down the thread, not everyone prefers native packets as they may cause dependency issues and need extra tools for permissions control).
Even in a geeky Linux space, many people just want to push a button in a nice interface and get what they want. This app provides just that.
Abandon elitism, embrace variety. And use the tools you prefer - after all, plenty of Linux video/music downloaders have yt-dlp under the hood, and I use it on a regular.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•China and Russia dominate nuclear power push with 90% of new reactors
2·17 days agoAustralia has plenty of insolation and most power consumers are packed densely enough not to worry about the upkeep of large grids.
Aside from uranium, we also have a much more plentiful thorium to use as a fission fuel. We definitely are not running out of that. But, thorium power plants can be more expensive, and byproducts of thorium cycle are less valuable, so it’s worth comparing that to running a renewables-based grid again.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is anyone making a frontend player for the music Anna recently archived from Spotify?
4·18 days agoAnna’s Archive is the world’s largest collection of pirated books, scientific papers and more. Recently they turned to pirating music as well, starting by dumping 86 million tracks from Spotify.
All of the scraped content is available in the form of BitTorrent shares, so you can always download parts of it and spread them further.
The OP wants a convenient way to access this collection and play music from it.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•China and Russia dominate nuclear power push with 90% of new reactors
5·19 days agoNuclear power is non-intermittent and can be used pretty much anywhere. With a push for small-scale reactors, there’s a good chance for smaller places to get their own nuclear power plant, reducing stress on the national grid, and for power plants to be constructed in a much shorter timeframe.
Also, both Russia and China have floating nuclear power plants that can be transported to regions with water access on demand.
Solar and wind are cool, and quite cheap by themselves, but energy storage is a massive and expensive headache and limited placement options mean the grid should be robust enough to accommodate them with minimal power losses.
Ready to be killed, I guess
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Technology@beehaw.org•NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books
1·19 days agoWhen you post from standard Lemmy interface and add a picture, it adds it as a link that may overwrite the URL you have entered. Annoying, but it is what it is.
Add a picture first, and then replace the URL with what you link to.
Happy birthday!
Back then I was in elementary school. It was fairly cozy, and life was quite a bit more predictable - classes with friends, extended curriculum, family evenings, lots of play and fun. Coming to visit grandparents on the holidays. When family needed anything at all, my grandmother has always been there, and she is why our family is still so close together, despite her passing many moons ago.
I also got my first ever phone around this time - an old used black-and-white Sony Ericsson, with buttons and 2G mobile connection. Was nice to get my first personal piece of tech. Played around with it like crazy, lol.
Overall, a lot of things have passed since then, some for the worse, some for the better. But I had a good childhood.
Now, how do you feel about turning 18?
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men
1·21 days agoMen use AI partners more often than women, as per the article’s content
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men
14·21 days agoContent: 31% of young men and 23% of young women chat with AI partners
Headline: Bots Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men
Classic
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Games@lemmy.world•RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an UpdateEnglish
3·21 days agoMost people don’t care as long as it’s not 100 GiB
The ease of installation, management, and removal is a higher priority for most. Hence, Flatpak is superior for an average Joe.
Doesn’t hurt to use native options if you like them.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
1·23 days agoNo worries, answer anytime :)
Since LXC works on top of the Linux kernel, anything that works with it can be easily used as an image. For example, you can just throw any distribution .iso into it, and it will handle it as a container image. Proxmox does all the interim magic.
Say, you want to make a container with programs running on Debian. You take the regular Debian .iso, the one you use to install Debian on bare metal or VM, feed it to Proxmox and tell it to make an LXC container out of it. You specify various parameters (for example, RAM quotas) and boom, you got a Debian LXC container.
Then you operate this container as a regular Debian installation: you can SSH/VNC into it and go from there. After you’ve done setting everything up, you can just use it, or export it and use somewhere else as well.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How would you bescribe yourself by a sentence?
3·23 days agoMe. Introversion doesn’t mean individualism. We can support the community in many ways, we can participate in it and bond with it. And this makes us stronger.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victimEnglish
2·23 days agoQuickly checking eBay, they now cost around $120-150 for SATA and around $100-130 for SAS in the US



Especially when your first distro is literal goddamn Arch with a few bells and whistles