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People are praising #Bluesky for being like ‘#Twitter, but before it got bad’. I was a big fan of Twitter back in 2017–2021, so I was eager to try it out. I mean, if it’s like that, plus decentralized, plus open-source, plus moderated — what else to wish for? But it (still) didn’t click with me. The feed, even though it’s mostly folks I also read here, is more boring. ‘Discover’ is also not working for me. And at first, I thought that the old-Twitter comparison was false. But it’s not! What I failed to remember was that I left Twitter for Mastodon *before* the former got bought and made bad. So, Bluesky would probably be a good choice for 2017–2021 me, but not for the current me. And that’s totally fine. Bluesky is not an enemy, it’s just an alternative, which creates healthy competition on the ‘federated and/or decentralized social networks’ market. If you like it, use it. If not, then not 🤷♂️ Oh boy. I had clicked off MKBHD's latest video a minute in since I realized it was full sponsored and just hitting DJI talking points. But doing driving reckless for a short clip in a video is always wrong. Don't drive 60 over the limit. Not ever, esp for content.
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@geerlingguy it’s been a while since I’ve seen any of his videos but what happened to him? This and that wallpaper app thing is not doing his name any good…  @geerlingguy 96 mph in a 35 is almost 3x the speed limit! At least that's where the video cuts, maybe he went even faster.. The wallpaper fiasco was bad enough, but this even surprised me. @geerlingguy I'm not watching his videos anymore and encourage others to do the same. This also goes for *anyone* putting other people in potential danger as a stunt to get more views. Fedi (as all Social Media) are borderline unusable right now. That’s why you should only follow me, as I will only post cursed tech stuff and German memes. Bear in mind, this only hides, like, 50% of posts I'd like to be hidden. Images without captions or alt text, posts without CW and without explicitly saying anything political. I was thinking of blocking the words "terrifying", "wtf", "wrong", "call", but then I won't be able to read anything :/ @kytta I've done this for the entire 2024, for all of my Fedi accounts. I'm only on Fedi to follow creators not to argue about politics of a foreign nation with randoms online XD. if your free software relies on google play integrity, it's not actually free Saw this popup on StackBlitz and got scared because it looks way too much like the ones from Microsoft Teams :blobcatscared: someone posted about getting Comcast to give them more upload bandwidth somehow and i can't find that post. I have been paying for the more expensive plan just to get at least 20mbps up... and apparently you can say some stuff to have a normal plan with good upload speeds, i really want to find the person who posted about that, i don't want to keep overpaying, please tell me how please boost to help find this magic person I wouldn't consider my new flat to be 100% liveable yet — still lots to buy and renovate (and still no Internet!) — but John Mastodon has already arrived, and I think he likes it here In case anyone needs more evidence for "then, they came for me", Russian government has just accepted the ban on the "child-free movement" using literally the same playbook they used for LGBT people year ago. There is of course no registered organized movement like that in Russia, but the law can be applied to any person/site/etc caught by "popularizing child-free ideology", whatever that means. I accidentally remembered something from my past, and I wonder how many of you have had to deal with the, uhm, "problems" I used to deal with. Without searching, do you know what amtlib.framework is? Anonymous poll
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I know, and I've touched it before
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I know, but I didn't do anything with it
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Voting ended 20 October at 11:05. I wonder where the people replying “I know” are coming from, and whether the results would’ve been different had I said “amtlib.dll” 😏 But yeah, for me, amtlib.framework was this magical file that would make the totally legally acquired (trial) copy of Adobe Creative Cloud work as if it had no connection to the internet. It could not check its licence and would not complain about it. Making the “totally legally acquired” statement a bit dubious :D I have no internet at my new flat (yet), and I've used up this month's high-speed data, so I'm stuck with 64 Kbit/s speeds. I can't say who I hate more: Cell providers for still using the same 64 Kbit/s cap since 2010 or app developers for not being able to use even the simplest of functionality because of the gigantic amounts of data they want to exchange  @kytta idk how fast they ship sim cards (no esim support sadly) but back in the days they solved my internet problem for a reasonable price: https://www.freenet-funk.de/ A month has passed since I moved, and I am finally in internet heaven. 600 Mbps fiber at home, Telekom's 5G network outside. Who needs human interaction? /hj Roskomnadzor has blocked Discord in Russia today, and I'm thinking about moving back, 10/10 best governmental decision ever /hj
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 @samhenrigold I thought the comparison between atomic bombs and peanut butter was well established.  @samhenrigold the cold war would be quite different if we were worried about peanut allergy instead of glowing in the dark.  |
@kytta What's the problem with the WP plugin?