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I’m sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying “it’s worrying.”

“not that bad” — a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can’t blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

the standard basically just looks better

Place your bets everyone, has OP ever looked at either standard?

Looking at the Firefox Librewolf “print preview” it does actually look quite easy to read.

I wonder how many of my stupid comments on lemmy have been converted to PDF, printed on paper, and stored in a filing cabinet.

The only way to win the game of “Bot, or troll?” is not to play and hit the block button instead. Which I will go ahead and do now.

Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn’t that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it’s that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

I remember figuring out how to get OpenCL stuff working back in 2019 was not so easy, but I haven’t had problems like that in a few years now. More recently, getting blender to do GPU rendering for example was just a matter of figuring out which package needed installing.

I like blobcats

Perhaps because I paused to read a little of the Dunciad before continuing with this essay, I think many of its attacks lack the precision and wit to justify their viciousness. I’m generally sympathetic to the premise, but whatever its merits it does not compare all that well with Alexander Pope. Maybe there is more insight and entertainment yet to be derived from comparing ChatGPT itself to Dulness.

I’ve just switched my GPU mortgage to interest-only. Saves money in the long run, probably.

Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it’s our side doing it.

Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it’s not as if there aren’t Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.