Just surf along the information superhighway and keep an eye out for tasty links. You’ll soon get the hang of it. Here’s one place to start: https://mastodon.social/public/remote

Bluesky as a whole should also join the fediverse.

The fediverse is the one halfway viable alternative to the rotten big platforms that has a chance and I continue to be perplexed that Ed Zitron isn’t on it. We’re building the future of social media over here. Maybe that was you back in 2018, giving up after two days when it turned out you didn’t have an instant audience of millions after two days on mastodon. Maybe the problem didn’t seem so urgent back then. Maybe you got a bad first impression for some other reason. Try again. You make the case for it without being part of it. Join the fediverse, Ed.

I’m willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I’m pretty sure “configuration tools for sysadmins” is not one of them.

My first thought was “why would you ever buy it in amounts less than an 8th, that’s not much” but I guess I had heard of such a thing as a dime bag which I have only just now learned was 1g. I always thought it meant “$10 worth” or something, and was for tourists who didn’t know they were paying too much for too little.

I don’t know about the 1970s but in the late '80s it seems to me that none of the weed dealers had gone metric yet. I assumed this meme was about cocaine.

I wonder how many of those one in four people are even aware that everything they say gets uploaded to a data centre somewhere. I had a phone with speech recognition as a prominent feature until I wiped it and installed a different OS, and I don’t remember seeing any warning at all about that.

I like the way she’s cheerful and optimistic, and ready to throw fireballs at anything that stands in the way.

I’m not usually going to have a Skyrim follower, but if I’m going to have a Skyrim follower it’s definitely Sa’chil.

An interesting factoid buried under three layers of stupidity. The gist of it is that watching video uses electricity.

That’s not ignorance, it’s malice. Elon has made it clear that he’d like nothing better than to require everyone to show their official ID for “age verification” purposes before being allowed to use social media. I’m not sure exactly why. Easier to file lawsuits against anyone who uses it to make fun of him, or perhaps it’s just one small step in some kind of grand totalitarian vision of the future. But he can’t hope to get away with imposing it on Twitter unless competitors are required to do the same.

Someone said jokingly that the tiktok algorithm is so good that it can tell when you’re a researcher looking for evidence that tiktok pushes people towards political extremes, and show you exactly what you’re looking for. I thought it was funny, but it also seems like it might be sort of close to what happened here. Normal people would not just passively watch all that shit without reacting in some way.

Disappointingly, Tiktok could not figure out my desires at all when I tried it. I liked one exceptionally good dance video and then it just kept showing me superficially similar dance videos that weren’t so good no matter what I tried to get it to stop.

Apparently I have fewer problems with it than some. It’s snap. Maybe I could come up with some other minor complaints, but nothing big really. It’s mostly just snap. That is what prevents me using or recommending Ubuntu any more.

Yeah China sure is scary. Centralized social media owned by American billionaires on the other hand can totally be trusted never to interfere in elections.

I think realistic graphics in 3D games got to be good enough that further improvement doesn’t really matter any more in 2011 (Skyrim) but I can see an argument for putting it as late as to 2016 (Witcher 3).

okay I fixed it

    if ( test == false )
        x = 1
    else
        assert( x != 1 )

    if ( test == false )   
        x = 1
    else
        x != 1

Wikipedia says “the inner region has thermodynamically no entropy and may be thought of as a gravitational Bose–Einstein condensate” if that helps

Perhaps there will be an infinite number of steps, each of them getting smaller and smaller as the result asymptotically approaches whatever barely-functional sham version of federation is deemed most profitable for Meta Platforms Inc.

Threads uses can now “follow” fediverse accounts but “only if they’ve interacted with a post on Threads” and the posts “wont appear in your feeds.”

Well played, Zuck. Hilarious.