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Ick. I’ve only had a few cups of pre-ground coffee in my life, because they were uniformly awful. I’d believe dead cockroaches are why, for sure.

What gives you’re instance of anything any importance.

As in, why would anyone sign up on my instance? Why would anyone come see my content?

Answer me this: Why would they have to sign up, or come to my instance, to see my content? If I’m not broadcasting objectionable shit, my instance will remain federated, so everyone will see posts from me and my instance on their preferred instance. And I’ll see all their content, on my own instance.

The problem you’re imagining is already solved. Even if a big popular instance gets bought, or taken over by fiat, defederation works as a solution; the content is posted by users, so there’ll just be an explosion of content from a different instance as everyone moves.

This is the real reason I do so much DIY. I don’t save a lot of money, at least on the initial outlay, but I learn.

LLMs will never be people

Boy oh boy, you’re not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

(To be clear, I understand you think you covered this with “computers may be” but my point is different: the law is often dumb and you would be amazed at what politicians who don’t understand tech - or get paid not to understand it - will pull off)

Edit: Downvotes from people who missed the point. You can’t say “LLMs will never be people” because you simply can’t guarantee your/our lawmakers won’t be that stupid.

I watched Quantum Leap with my dad when I was a kid. You’re gonna try and tell me I’m not writing this reply on Ziggy?

Yes, it does imply it. It’s the most common association for mushroom clouds in our media since the bombs were dropped. Doesn’t guarantee it of course, but to act as though “they’re unrelated and anyone making the association is ignorant” would be an indefensible position.

You totally can though. It’s a common phrase.

This is how I know I’m old. I consider the “Reddit API debacle” recent history.

“Corporation” is a legal term; Valve is privately owned, but it’s structured as an LLC or Limited Liability Company.

“Corporation” is a type of company. Valve is a Limited Liability Corporation or LLC.

Hickling estimates he bought 20 packets of Selena Gomez Oreos for the trial, and soon was out in the field in Leeston attaching the cookies along the planks that lead up to the possum traps. “One of the things that’s nice about an Oreo is that you can just drill a little hole through it and just tap it on with a flathead nail,” he says. “People have tried to use Tim Tams in the past, but they are really expensive. Oreos are quite a bit cheaper, and they actually stand up to the rain quite well too, which is a little disconcerting.”

Mate, if you think how they hold up in the rain is disconcerting, you should have a read of what’s in 'em…

Oh, so it’s okay for you to have reasons for doing things other than fighting the system, but nobody else gets that consideration? Here in the US, we can be summarily executed for speaking out, and we’re doing it anyway. Quit being insufferable.

And here you are, commenting on social media, instead of doing something about it.

Fediverse “starter pack” invites, so you can invite people to the fediverse and to your favourite communities all at once? Love it!

Control. I’ve always had a fondness for SCP-related stuff so when I saw Control on sale for $3 or $4 it was an instant mindless purchase. Bored a few days later I decided to give it a go, and then I went and beat the entire game and the DLC. Great power fantasy, great lore, great voice acting, fun moment to moment gameplay balanced between exploring, upgrading, story beats, and boss fights. Also ties in to their other games like Alan Wake; I haven’t played that one, but I’ve strongly considered it just because of Control and wanting more of that universe.

It’s an anxiety thing; the actual name is “rejection sensitivity dysphoria”: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24099-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-rsd

A lot of AuDHD people suffer it. Great example, I started a business and I’ve gotten 99% positive feedback on the product from dozens of people, but a handful of negative comments and two of my best friends didn’t like it, and I’ve actually considered giving up entirely because of that.

Which is insane. I love my product, I’m very happy with it… but my buddies not liking it makes me very sad on a whole bunch of levels.

Also I did delete my old account and comments, precisely because as MagicShel said above: it had existed long enough to be a liability. It’s not as big a deal here as on Reddit though, you can export your preferences and get back to the same subscriptions and blocks very easily on any new account!

With the number of school shootings here, I think it’d only take weeks.

She’s gonna have power over your employment; if you don’t trust her not to use that to fuck with you (and it sounds like you can’t), don’t go work there. You’ll be able to find a position elsewhere.

So elegant! This is too valuable for GitHub, sell this directly to the Saudi government.