At least I have found something I have in common with AI search engines.

It will be me. You have freedom of speech. I am also free to ignore, mock or ostracize you if you spout hateful nonsense near me.

I think a clear distinction to make might be:

“Tech” as used in this sense is the industrial complex around mobile and web technologies dominated by a few players who might just be evil.

“Technology” is, of course, everything you mentioned and more. A rock that fits nicely in your hand becomes technology when used to crack a coconut.

It’s a weird linguistic murkiness, isn’t it?

“I think that’s a good idea.”

“You do? Then we’ll make it work.”

Sick burn

What! My outie loves Severance.

I can’t locate this community using search on the term ‘severance’.

Do you mind sharing the instance and community name?

Praise Kier!

Hard agree! I do think fediverse platforms are perfect for public entities to disseminate information.

I’m US based so my example is say a county. They already have the IT infrastructure and staff. Make an instance for the county and a community for each department.

The road department can post road closures and upcoming traffic diversions. The parks department can promote events, etc.

These type of instances can just disable comments. They are read-only so moderation is not needed.

It’s trivial from a resource perspective and even easier than updating a website.

It is a feature, not a problem.

I have, like, this whole rich life offline. My curated list of instances and communities (plus my user block list) is just my entertainment and a small portion of my day.

You may not believe this but I have numerous thoughts, activities and interactions that never leave a trace online. I have no obligation to drink from the firehose that is being pumped from the septic tank of the human psyche.

He said BIRD mounts and he meant it. It is up to us to rise to the level where we too can use bird mounts.

Framework laptops are not great actually. They basically are offloading their qa/qc onto customers. They routinely ship defective units new out of the box and try to make you do all their engineering work for them.

The quality of the components is meh at best. If I were doing it again, I would go the ThinkPad route.

Framework is a bunch of VC funded shills who see the right to repair movement as a resource they can exploit.

Beets.

Or bears.

Or buttsex.

It’s context dependent, like “cool”.

A Christian nationalist is no better than a Nazi. If your beliefs don’t leave room for other people to live, you can never be on the ‘right’ side.

No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.

You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.

Probably not great ever, but Plenty of Fish yielded some decent prospects when it was nothing more than a web based classified ad. But those days are long gone.

Find one named Iain and radicalize him! So it would be the Butler Iain Jihad.

Can they get worse?

Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.

When you go to report an issue, and select “Name is wrong”, the send button never activates, whereas “something else” will.

So this is a bit of capitulation that seems to be hard coded and they just don’t want to hear about it.

My own research has made a similar finding. When I am taking the piss and being a random jerk to a chatbot, the bot much more frequently violates their own terms of service. Introducing non-sequitur topics after a few rounds really seems to ‘confuse’ them.