Endymion_Mallorn

If Fediverse software starts encouraging monetization, I don’t think the userbase will even maintain the current strength.

Wait, you didn’t just set up a second account that had a 1970 birthdate?

I wanted to like Google+, but the way they forced it into YouTube ticked me off.

I want to use ed as a proper text editor, but xed has so many features I can’t turn it down anymore.

Mint includes both ed and sed.

No, for an SSD, you have to remove it from power and either apply load to specific capacitors, or use concentrated bursts of radiation.

I always thought it was “What You Give Is What You Get”.

So what? The best outcome is that someone issues a pull request that teaches you how to do what you did in a “better” way. The worst outcome is that someone starts using your code in an LLM and vibecoders learn your style.

Threads in microblogs baffle me too. Doubly if replies occur mid-thread. Tagging should be limited to the person being replied to and the OP, not everyone.

Oh, so the good idea from Bluesky of Starter Packs is now fully in Mastodon. I know that repost-quotes are in too, which is fun.

Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It’s because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.

Yup!

Multiplayer, don’t cheat - join or start lobbies playing the way you want to play.

No Oddjob, no Golden Gun.

Otherwise, it’s all good.

I’m strongly of the mindset that cheating only means taking a dishonest and unfair advantage over another person. Changing the rules of the game is not cheating, it’s house ruling - in tabletop discussion, that’s part of what we call Rule Zero. If I’m not in competition with another person, it’s just playing by my own rules.

I remember one HL1 CS (Specialists Mod) LAN party I was in where we all turned on Matrix Vision and multiplied the slo-mo timer. It was great - utterly chaotic, but everything was equal.

So no, I don’t cheat in games. I just play by my own rules as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. And if I do play multiplayer, I try to bring my house rules to them. I’ve never had any person accuse me of cheating when I ask about various options. TBH, the closest I come to cheating is turning on all of the assistive features - colorblind mode, target highlighting, auto target, sound notifications in minimaps, custom keybinds, and whatever else is in the menu. Everyone else can also choose to do that, and I’m just as happy if everyone I play with has those same things.

Lemmy users are just Reddit users but displaced.

I just want to know that my wife is safe. That’s the only thing that would keep me here.

I wish to highlight that between the Bell Riots and the Phoenix, ST predicted that there would be both the Eugenics Wars and WW3, which leave the world so badly broken that the only “nations” that remain are the Western Alliance and the Eastern Coalition. Alameda, CA gets completely blown off the map; and it’s not the only such place.

It’s not a pretty picture, when you look at the history they gloss over.

It used to be that we considered things. We were rational. Logical. Contemplative.

Almost forty years on Earth, and I’ve never once experienced that. Humans have always been irrational, judgmental creatures, given to tribalism and social pressure. Maybe we’ve gotten more vocal about it as a result of the Western world being mostly peaceful for four generations, or maybe social media has made us more likely to interact with more people than we used to. But when were we rational? When our ancestors hanged or shot people over horses? Were they being contemplative while they burned people (or otherwise killed them) at the stake because they didn’t conform to the tenets of a book?

Was it rational and logical to force whole societies to perform certain tasks, and then deride them and try to harm them for performing those tasks?

It’s always been a crab bucket. It’ll always be a crab bucket. All you can hope is that you’re high enough up to keep your shell intact but low enough down that you don’t get grabbed for the stewpot.

Congratulations to both of them. I’m glad they’ve had the money and connections to get the medical care they needed, and I hope they can pay it forward to others who need the same help.