They’re struggling; kids/teens want no part of them. While they’re still ok with being an adult platform, their base will continue to decay. That’s why they’re pushing for threads, but their brand is just too poisoned.

Yeah, that’s the real takeaway. I expected them to send them out them say come and get it.

He did get roasted, and it didn’t help, but don’t kid yourself that it was the catalyst, he flipped a couple years before that happened. I read that same story, and it was just an fluff piece for the media.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-was-once-a-registered-democrat-and-party-donor-why-did-he-jump-ship/wj85mj5yq

He’s changed affiliations 5 times now

Before he ran, his investments were petering out. He owed a substantial amount of money to multiple places. (notably a couple of billion to Deutsche Bank) His contributions to whatever party he was sucking up to were in the couple of thousand-dollar range.

He registered Republican near the end of Reagan’s run. He flipped to Independent in the middle of Clinton’s presidency. He switched to the Democrats when Bush took office. He flipped to republican the year Obama got in, even though the roast was two years before the roast in question.

The Republicans knew that once Obama got in, they could weaponize race and he turned out to be the face they were looking for to empower the right extremists and moderates.

and understand why women would make that choice.

I understand it fully, but am incapable of making the actual < bear guys change. If you try to reason with a chad, they just blow you off and walk away to hang out with other chads. The guys in the < bear circles are completely disconnected from my social circles.

There’s a tricky evolutionary advantage to certain levels of deceit. You tell people what they want to hear well enough, and they’ll put you in charge. Do a slightly less apt job, and maybe they’ll just let you sleep with them. Then for some insane reason, if you do a REALLY bad job at it and walk around angry, you get bad-boy/girl points and people fall all over you to get in / stay in abusive relationships with you.

The future is in making a laptop that doesn’t appear to be encrypted. AI-powered steganography will be the only way to communicate reasonably at some point. The only thing that’ll give it away is that there are more than the usual number of poorly cropped and unique memes.

Tbf, a family-sized (now party-sized) bag of Doritos does contain a day’s worth of calories (2250) for a single person. I can’t keep them in the house, they call to me.

I miss the old military surplus stores. 2/3 of the stuff was cheap crap, but every now and then you’d find something insane. I had this flat periscope, it was designed to go up through a slot on the roof of a tank. You could easily stand on it, and it wouldn’t have broken.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past decade or so, it’s that we’ll never learn.

It absolutely had to be a conservative in his circle looking to punish him.

somebody’ll come by and bitch about censorship in 3…2…

Maybe.

I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.

It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.

Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.

A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.

It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.

They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.

Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.

I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.

I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.

It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.

Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.

I run a pi-hole on a pi 3 and another in a container in docker. Something rarely goes wrong with both and I have a script that sync them.

I replaced their google with searxng, but in the end, they needed ads for their free to play games, so I had to turn it off for them.

First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

That’s a good idea to put first. Of course, like do no evil, priorities change, so we’ll need to keep a close eye on this.

Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.

Transparent is good, but if he things he’s going to add value to monetization, he’s smoking crack. There’s nothing we want from a browser that’s not already provided by a plugin.

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

Nobody wants that. We already had all we wanted from them in trusted software.

I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone’s ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago

I’m up to 45TB of actual used storage. I just want another tape analog. I want inexpensive, slow, long-term storage I can move off-site easily. This paying double to keep disks around and then moving them in boxes is just bad, and online storage is stupid expensive at those sizes.

Was running on Backblaze for years until they screwed around with my client enough that I can’t backup my NAS reliably. I’m not a company, I’m not going to pay the cost of my disks every year to store the content of my disks.

I’ve been considering for a few years standing up a 2u box in colocation.

They do have wheelchairs and ramps that are reasonably well maintained

if they are going to try undermining the elections if they are going to successfully undermine the elections

The try is a given, it’s already started with the SCOTUS changing rules on map redrawing.

Shit’s getting extra shitty everywhere. Its like a couple of countries went a little fash and every politician across the globe went FUCK YEAH, LET US IN ON THAT SHIT!!!

Racial profiling in food is just an attempt to deliver the customer what they want. It would be the most benign form.

I’m oldish and pasty white, I have a hell of a time getting Mexican places to make it proper hot.

That said, I do love me potatoes and gravy…

When diablo sauce first hit, it was reasonably hot. It burned for a good couple of minutes. They’ve reduced it a bit now, but it’s still hot enough to scratch the itch for spicy, just not enough to trigger everyone’s endorphins.