“Oh my.” —Farnsworth.

“Yuh filty crab!”

I can’t remember when Leela says Oh Lord. Is that when Bender is wooden?

Edit: https://youtu.be/Y5WZuYPix_U?si=2qJyvA3demS4rJfG

We need to treat the rightwing Israeli government like the pariah that they are. If North Korea was selling tools like this there would be consequences. Meanwhile Israel repeatedly sells Pegasus and other hack tools and spies on democracy activists.

Apple patches older releases for zero day bugs. If there is no patch, then usually it means the exploit doesn’t work on that older release.

Decent book, USSR is building a new supersonic jet with a new interface that can be controlled by thought. American pilot chosen for a mission to steal the jet, and has to think commands in Russian for the jet to act on them. “How do you say ‘fire’ in Russian?”

It’s a long read but a good one. The man is so scandal-plagued and somehow gains more power despite it.

If it’s discreet then why are you complaining of hate?

It’s about how it harms others around them, dummy. Read my above comment.

The kid getting bullied.

Sure, that totally stops rumors. /s

If you decide to have kids, it puts a cloud over everyone whether the kid is legitimate.

Violence is down, but that’s mainly because communities segregated themselves since the war. Politics has evolved into some truces and the country had upheaval from Covid and economic downturn.

It’s a process known as Enshittification.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

The rest of the read is quite good.

Yes

Subreddits have 10 million subscribers, I haven’t seen a Lemmy group with more than a few thousand people. I don’t know about you but I’d like Lemmy to be as rich in content and discussion as Reddit was. Unless you like social media when it’s empty of users.

I understand what you’re saying but I do fear that we risk relegating Mastodon and Lemmy into niche apps the same way desktop Linux never got popular. As the linked author noted above, most people don’t care about “free as in speech” or whether a site is open source or not, they just want working social media where they can talk to others.

The Fediverse SHOULD allow monetization and they don’t yet. As per Mark Bayliss:

The problem here is that despite these large and escalating costs, a significant part of the fediverse is intrinsically hostile to anything other than charity or goodwill as a basis for running a server, due to hostility to capitalism as an abstract or just on a general point of principle regarding how web services should be funded. Any instance that runs advertisements to its users is likely to be blocked by any others purely on those grounds. Some instances have tried to introduce subscription fees for joining and have been blocked as a result. Ownership by a corporate entity or accepting funding from one is also likely to wind up with a block.

I’m not saying to commercialize the entirety of the Fediverse but if you want it to actually compete with Twitter and Reddit and Tumblr then you need to open it up further.

This makes me realize that Reddit development got stale, this should have been an updated feature years ago.