Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line on the west coast has wifi, but it’s unusably glitchy. The trips I’ve taken haven’t been crowded, so I doubt it was an overuse issue. My guess is either the upstream connection is junk or the trains aren’t kitted out with hardware capable of meaningful QoS (either from misconfiguration or inability).

Going out on a limb here to say that’s it’s a really bad idea to set fire to a building where people are locked in and unable to leave.

Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.

Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.

The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.

I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.

Not buying it.

The product leadership, directors and executives who dreamed this nightmare up and believed in it enough to make it a reality are still there.

Never trust them again.

Here’s what that data looked like:

https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

It depends on your level of expertise. It’s open source software that you download and run on hardware that you lease or own. So you need to know how to do that in order to use it. As those things go, it really isn’t difficult.

No, it’s not as easy as signing up for an account on some website. That’s the difference between third-party services (owned, operated and controlled by some random company your decide to trust) and software that YOU run, on hardware YOU control, with access that YOU decide upon, and no one who will gate it or take it away.

It’s a trade-off. Everyone must consider their wants vs needs and choose what’s most important to them.

What disappoints me is how quickly people are willing to throw up their hands and say IT’S TOO HARD without ever even trying.

Absolutely everybody here is sleeping on zulip.

You know, for kids!

If the mastodon instance never receives acknowledgement that the follow-request was approved, it’s probably not going to start fetching those messages. I’ve tried un-following and re-following; it still doesn’t work.

As I said intially, I think that qualifies the integration as only kinda-sorta working.

I did try that (following the community), but the mastodon account’s “request to follow” has been stuck in “awaiting approval” status. I run the Lemmy community that I’m trying to follow with my Mastodon account, but I don’t see how or where to approve these follow requests.

Are those requests gated by the mastodon admin perhaps?

Kinda sorta.

The specific mastadon instance I’m on (mefi.social) does show the existence of lemmy communities and users, but it doesn’t import their posts or replies. mastodon.social seems and some other larger implementations seem to work fine though. I’m not sure if this is a configuration issue or what.

Careful, that’s how you summon the ghost of old Jacob Marley.

Yeah, I really wanted to pick a different post title, but community rules say I need to go with the source’s headline. :(

No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.

Same. The adults who raised me bought diet soda and always had a jug of fruit juice in the fridge for the kids.

Why yes, they did always vote Republican. How did you know?

The film marketplace this week and next were a desert …

Currently in theaters:

• The Moment (2026, dir Aidan Zamiri) - Rising pop sensation Charli xcx navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.
• The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025, dir Kaouther Ben Hania) - January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Nominated for the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Film.
• Magellan (2025, dir Lav Diaz) - In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal), a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.
• Arco (2025, dir Ugo Bienvenu) - Arco (Oscar Tresanini), 12 years old, lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he looses control and falls in the past. Iris, a little girl his age from 2075, saw him fall. She rescues him and tries by all means to send him back to his era. Nominated for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Animated Film.

Desert my ass.

Moulin Rouge I guess? I understand there’s some sort of backlash to it being unabashedly noisy, tacky and twee, but the way it does those things makes me love it. 🤷‍♀️

They’ve been talking about it forever, but it looks like it’s actually finally happening now. There’s money to be made I suppose.

Having an army of rabid fans who are actively encouraged to hassle theater owners leads to box office success. Who knew?

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