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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io or, per Occam's Razor, a publicity stunt
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Just saw this headline under "positive news": "9-year-old sells lemonade to help pay for dad's kidney surgery"
This is not fucking positive or heartwarming, it's dystopian!
It's utterly horrible that we've decided that allowing people to become billionaires is more important than universal access to lifesaving medical care.
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@tj I want to know who started the war on scrollbars...it's been ongoing for a while now, but it seems like UI/UX designers are all in lock-step on this for some weird reason.
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@airshipper@cloudisland.nz @tante@tldr.nettime.org "you may not like it, but child labor is here to stay"
"we have to at least give child labor an honest try, or else we risk being left behind"
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @macacator@mastodon.social @HakeemG@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social personally I think he's a bad-faith actor. I muted him and moved on a while ago.
I sincerely wish you luck, though; we need as many people as possible to understand that we don't actually have a "center" anymore in US politics, because it's been hollowed out by the donor class.
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@Lstn2urmama4 @danyork it doesn't look like a conversation to me, it looks like you barged into someone else's post and demanded that they spoon-feed you more context, but okay.
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@Angie9 @randahl it also says a couple verses later not to wear garments with interwoven wool and linen. Are we also supposed to harass people for that then? Or for living in houses without parapets on the roof to keep people from falling off?
Or can we just pick and choose what it's holy to hate people for doing?
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@sortius@infosec.exchange @noodlemaz@mstdn.games @chartier@toot.cafe not sure why you're assuming the post is directed at non-Americans.
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online strongly agree. Got a mediocre grade in electromagnetic physics, which made me angry because my dad was an electrical engineer, and I knew I'd been exposed enough to pick up that stuff. Took an EE intro course and aced it, which made me realize that my ability to learn was affected by teaching methods.
I also separately learned that academia is its own entire bubble, and most of us are just passing through with a different end goal in mind, which can cause weird frictions.
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@osm_tech does coming from residential IPs mean that someone has baked a scraper into some popular tool that people don't realize is doing that?
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@sandlapper37@mstdn.social still haven't heard an explanation of why Ukraine should give up land to Russia in exchange for peace, after they *already did that* with Crimea and got re-invaded anyway.
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@pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Linux is the only meaningful competitor to Apple and Microsoft OSes, and it's a niche thing that is mostly used for servers rather than by end users. It's also now subsidized by corporations because they use it as infrastructure.
Browsers on the other hand are an end user thing, so the value proposition of trying to break Google's (and to a lesser extent) Apple's hegemony is much different - especially since Google is also propping up Mozilla to suck even more oxygen.
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@amerpie Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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@briansullivan it's been a roller coaster for sure, but it does sound like they're working on it based on recent announcements.
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@gleick@mas.to @gregatron5@vmst.io posting as someone who was going to read the article but didn't because of where it's hosted:
Snapping at someone for pointing out people's discomfort with a platform that openly defends hosting of literal Nazis is really disappointing.
Guess I'll just scroll past all of your posts now, because this response has left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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@astraluma@tacobelllabs.net @glyph@mastodon.social yeah, even if you sweep aside all of the ethical issues, automated programming without software engineering is likely going to just produce mountains of unmaintainable slop that quickly collapses under its own weight.
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@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place @pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net right, it's infrastructure from Android's perspective, while browsers are much more inherently user facing.
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@rodneylives@mefi.social I'm still wondering how much pro-AI cultism is a result of how sycophantic it is, versus what people think they can do with it.
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@howtophil@oldbytes.space @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com there's a Lasagna of Theseus joke in there somewhere
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@johnlorimer@mastodon.social @CiaraNi@mastodon.green for me the big issue is that it creates confusion - lots of people don't understand that the instance and the platform are even two different things.
Having somewhere between 25 and 50 percent of the entire platform's active users on only one instance really runs counter to the idea of federation, and gives a lot of people a highly skewed impression of what the platform as a whole is like.
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@ottaross searched on this combo and it looks like maybe you could turn it into a Moroccan spice blend.
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@AndiiB@mastodon.social @jake4480@c.im @MEActNOW@mastodon.social in the kind of true free market dystopia that libertarians have wet dreams about, nobody would have any legal standing for lawsuits, because the whims of corporations would be considered sacred.
Without regulations, anything that makes number go up becomes duty, with no exceptions.
It's really weird to me that capitalists/libertarians can't see this as the inevitable outcome of their religion of greed.
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@ericgus@mastodon.social it's true on paper - but in my lived experience, Cheez-Its have more concentrated savory flavor, making them more addictive.
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@fabio I actually clipped this exchange when I saw it the other day: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfalI8oBM60-KitT3WKHT18YxWZHGfnC4
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@octylFractal@pony.social @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud this isn't a magic fix...it's required to at least rebuild your code against the new libraries, and will probably only work if your code is using only time_t or whatever and not doing dodgy things like explicitly managing it internally as a signed 32-bit int anywhere.
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@kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz @denzilferreira@techhub.social "installing" applications to your user home directory tree is actually becoming *more* common on Windows these days, including Microsoft apps.
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@Orb2069@mastodon.online @pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net even if that somehow made something usable, good luck maintaining that giant pile of slop when the CVEs start rolling in 5 seconds later.
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@hrast@sunny.garden no, it's being driven by a combination of naked greed and narcissism - people wanting to make money without having to understand or grapple with ethical issues, by using a sycophantic word generator that feeds them artificial validation
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@evanphx@ruby.social hey @SDF@mastodon.sdf.org this seems like useful info for the folks tuning the servers.
Edit: Lots of other potentially helpful comments under the post on the original server as well.
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@pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net there's a reason that only 3 browser engines exist today - it's a massive amount of work to keep with vulnerabilies and standards.
Unfortunately Apple and Google ones share a common code ancestor, while Google and Mozilla ones are both funded by Google.
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@troldann @caseyliss same here. Used community tools to clean up and create nfo files for my media so that kodi installs can build local databases as needed.
I don't see the need for on the fly transcoding in 2026 (which seems to be the main feature of Plex/Jellyfin?), as even cheap mobile devices seem capable at playing HD video now.
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@Angie9@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social blocking for spamming instead of answering the questions.