Bilb!

Doesn’t that basically equate to “yep, this is an android phone?”

I hope that’s true, but this is a common refrain with various adversaries used as the boogie-man.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-117-the-always-lagging-us-war-machine

The scam goes something like this: A weapons contractor and military-funded think tank publishes a supposedly neutral “report” or a handful “U.S. officials” run to a media outlet insisting the United States is “lagging behind” in a sector that incidentally coincides with said think tank’s funders or government entity’s interests. Credulous American media mindlessly repeats the claims, everyone acts panicked, treating the warning like a work of good faith, sober and objective analysis. Congress then reacts and uses media coverage to rationalize even more contracts to the very funders of the think tank that raised the warning, further bloating the Pentagon, State Department and CIA budgets. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, all the while portraying the U.S.'s gargantuan defense expenditures as paltry and insufficient.

Well, they wouldn’t need to release those changes publicly.

Protests against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians were happening under Biden and they were crushed and with very few exceptions given no support by the Democrats. They paved the way for the Trump admins actions against Khalil and others. Unquestioning support for Israel even against our own citizens is a bipartisan position in the United States.

Its not really useful to think of the Democrats as “the left.” The left has no institutional power in the United States and is suppressed/coopted by both of the political parties.

It’s an interesting point that without any IP law, GPL would be invalid and corporations could use and modify things like Lemmy without complying with the license.

I usually associate it more with Intel since they certify Thunderbolt devices on all the non-Apple hardware and that’s all I use. I forgot Apple had anything to do with it.

I don’t think writers should be paid either. We have AI to do all writing now anyway, so what do we need writecels for anyway? 😏

I think the sign in the photo still makes sense if you interpret it as “Don’t park here unless you’re using the Tesla charging station.”

It’s very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn’t seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It’s not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?

Name just fifty (50).

On my instance, I follow most of the biggest communities with a “seed account” to fill out the “all” feed. This seems to work pretty well.

It’s not real.

Elon Musk is a brilliant inventor nonpareil. He invented tunnels, rockets, electric cars, and now Twitter.

You’re missing the point. I don’t want you to understand my feelings, I want someone to explain to me what the big deal is. How meta “moderates” their platform has no effect on me, a non-threads user. What is my stake in it?

Meta can only do that on threads though. I don’t care, that’s really not my business.

Kind of a drama lightning rod. Fair warning.

Ah, you’ve got them now!

The way I remember “discovery” working on Napster was when someone incorrectly labeled unrelated music as by an artist you searched for. Wow, new music!

Here’s what Kagi gave me:

The passage discusses the concept of “enshittification” in the tech industry, where companies initially attract customers through innovation but then exploit them by increasing prices and fees. This phenomenon has occurred at companies like Facebook, Google, Uber and food delivery services. The term was coined by author Cory Doctorow to describe how these companies stop innovating and focus only on generating value for shareholders at the expense of customers. However, the passage notes that increased unionization among tech workers and more aggressive antitrust enforcement could help reverse these trends and encourage more competition in the industry. An interesting point highlighted is that while enshittification is not necessarily directly malicious, it can be a product of business environment pressures and lack of regulation that incentivize prioritizing profits over customers. This suggests policy changes may be needed to realign company incentives with serving users.

You gotta host your own instance so that when it disappears you can only be disappointed in yourself.