Is he poor? Maybe. The question is why is he poor? He just sold Mar-a-lago to a company owned by Don Jr., alledgedly for something over $400 million.
He might be poor because he's hiding all his assets on offshore banks. If so, then the question becomes: why is he doing that?
Another way of looking at it: Lemmy is retaining the engagement of the vast majority of new users who have joined recently.
It's not cancel culture if everyone is just tired of your bullshit.
(Apparently) Unpopular Opinion: I think defederating Threads is the wrong move, because it just locks people into Threads. If people on Twitter had the ability to move to Mastodon AND still interact with all the people they did before, I think we would have seen even more people move. The only reason I still check twitter at all is because I have a few close friends who didn't move. Meta is likely going to have big adoption of people who aren't ready to go to Mastodon, but are interested in getting out of the dumpster-on-fire that twitter seems to continue to be. But blocking those people from being able to join the more popular Lemmy instances, given no actual policy violations, just will keep people in Meta that otherwise could leave. With the "however" being: It's not quite clear to me that Threads users will be interacting with Lemmy as much Mastodon, if Threads were a Reddit replacement, it's more directly connected.
Ok. On the treadmill, at the gym.
Love Doctrow, but this is a loooong article. I've used AI to summarize it:
"Companies cannot unilaterally mediate the lives of hundreds of millions — or even billions — of people, speaking thousands of languages, living in hundreds of countries.The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."
"Rather than passing laws requiring Threads to prioritize news content, or to limit the kinds of ads the platform accepts, we could order it to turn on this Fediverse gateway and operate it such that any Threads user can leave, join any other Fediverse server, and continue to see posts from the people they follow, and who will also continue to see their posts."
"Tech companies are even more concerned with criminalizing the things you want to do to them.
Frank Wilhoit described conservativism as “exactly one proposition”:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
This is likewise the project of corporatism. Tech platforms are urgently committed to ensuring that they can do anything they want on their platforms — and they’re even more dedicated to the proposition that you must not do anything they don’t want on their platforms."
You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Which are over there, near the fireworks.
I'm torn. Do not support building a wall with Mexico. Would support building a wall with Texas.
Last weekend I used https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic to copy my Spotify playlists over to YouTube Music, and the shuffle play is SOOO much nicer there! That was my primary gripe with Spotify, the shuffle play is idiotic
Hackers, absolute gold! People like to crap all over it because it's not realistic, but the vibe of it really fits the hacking scene. Another similar movie, that has some pretty cool hacking vibe, but people also crap all over is Swordfish, 26% tomatoes, 59% audience.
I often will do this. At the end of writing a comment I ask myself "is my desire to comment satisfied by writing this comment, is it more about me writing it than other people reading it, is the response to the comment more likely to bring bain than joy?" The answers often lead me to just closing the comment page rather than posting it, and I feel fine about that.
Trump on the stand, being fined for talking about the clerk: I wasn't talking about the clerk, I was talking about Michael Cohen. ... Gag order gets lifted. So anyway, what I was saying about the clerk...
I've been using it on Ubuntu 22.04 for almost 2 years. It started off rocky, with frequent restarts needed, maybe every week or two. It's been pretty solid, though I did give up on using it for screen sharing and captures, which is unfortunate timing in today's WFH world.
Reminds me of that subtle joke that I love but nobody else ever seems to get: Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me...
This was done with Claude.
I call her by her full name: Rosie the Roomba
Your parents weren't worried about the math co-processor doing all your homework for you? That was the GPT-387? :-)
My pupper really hates boopers, it's quite sad. She'll turn her head when she sees one incoming.
Little known fact: he went by "Hot Rod".
The wonderful ditto machine! Loved the smell of those copies!
This is the weirdest attempt to get my website security question answers... But... Slackware on floppies.
I had been programming C for almost a decade at that time, and was tired of working so low level. I hoped Java would get me higher level, but it didn't work out. Eventually ended up on Python, which was fairly light weight, fast enough, but a joy to program (unlike java).
That's an interesting point, one of the reasons I chose lemmy.world was that it wasn't ban-happy.
You probably aren't wrong about it being overly idealistic and optimistic. :-(
15 years and 4 letter username here as well. I really hadn't done much with it up until 3-4 years ago and I really started liking many of the communities there a lot over the last few years. Some were terrible, but many were great, largely because of the volunteer moderators.
But, I'm all but done with it at this point. Really enjoying Lemmy and Mastodon.
Since writing my comment above, I've come across Cory Doctrow's "Let the Platforms Burn" article where he argues that interoperability and the ability for users to move to other platforms is the best way out of the Meta situation. https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
I'm a fairly slow reader. I figure I've got something like a mild dyslexia, if I read too fast the words get all jumbled up in my head. Never was diagnosed with anything when I was in school, though looking back at it now it seems odd the way I was shadow-banned from the speed reading class in High School.
So, anyway, I'm all about getting some summaries. Yes, I realize it's really hard for writers to condense things, and sometimes the journey of a story lifts the point. So, I'm gonna use the tools to help me out.
Sure, I have no love of Meta either, which is why I would love for people to have an easy escape hatch via the Fediverse...
2023, the year July never ended?
I live near Main Street USA, but not in Florida or Missouri.
I've watched it on YouTube, it's pretty good. It starts "this is an impersonation of George Carlin". Wonder if a court ruling would prevent human impersonation.
You young fellas sit back, I'mma tell you about the time in '96 that I bought a 1GB hard drive for a thousand doll-hairs. And then later that year got 64MB of RAM for another thousand doll-hairs, and the next month the price dropped in half. I could run two java programs AT THE SAME TIME!