The admins are asking what the threat is, and the only response so far has been “but they are evil”.

Aside from the “well duh” factor, and the fact that this wasn’t even a secret, The demo had to happen long before it was ready to ship because the FCC filings were slated to go public and they didn’t want the world to find out about the phone from that source.

This wasn’t the demo of a defective unit shipped to customers, it was the demo of incomplete software and hardware. The reception of the first iPhone was overwhelmingly positive. So much so that Google abandoned their plans for Android being a BlackBerry knockoff.

The whole thing boggles my mind. Keep in mind that a good number of “Pro” users are corporate types running PowerPoint and Excel but certainly wouldn’t stoop to using a consumer model.

In D&D this would pass a group stealth check because more than half of the group passed.

No one is leading or trailing, because no one has voted.

Polls are not even a little bit predictive this far out.

Polls contain no actionable data for voters unless they are looking days before the election and want to strategically vote in a race with more than 2 candidates.

Sinkit for Reddit does the job on iPhones. It isn’t Apollo, but it makes the web interface usable.

I’m not talking about interactions between instances, I’m talking about Google and Bing indexing Mastadon. That’s who we should be using for search.

When the rest of Hasbro’s business is tanking, they need to exploit the one property that is still making money.

Sigh. Time for another round of patents that all say the same thing, except instead of “…but using the internet” they will be “…but using AI”.

No, you are disappointed that Mastadon doesn’t have the same feature set as Twitter. The fact that you can search off instance at all is impressive. What you are asking for is like saying you should find GM cars in Ford’s search bar. Each instance is its own website. Search engines are designed to do what you want, and as Mastadon grows in popularity, it’s search results will become more prominent.

If you can’t explain how the change makes the company more money, it isn’t enshitification.

Shame on you for not laundering the money through a book deal!

(Unless you’re elected President, in which case, bully for you!)

I’ll just add that BBY and Michael’s business mode is to use the Anchoring effect year round, so they can constantly offer 40-60% “discounts”. If you paid full price for anything at those stores (BBY is out of business, but still) you got ripped off.

They simply do not know how to lose.

That’s why they believe there was fraud - they have first-hand knowledge.

If you go to that website directly without logging in, do you see the posts? It is entirely possible that there are no posts there - sports communities aren’t getting a lot of non-bot traffic.

If there are posts, how old are they? If you are sorting by top, you won’t see any posts that were posted outside your selected time frame.

If neither of those are the issue, I’d blame Lemmy.world. They have cloudflare rules that block other instances without listing them as defederated. It is possible they’ve moved to a whitelist or some other trust based model that blocks new instances by default.

This is a side effect of them having been under a near constant DDOS and other cyberattacks, and so is definitely defensible, however it ultimately hurt the UX for me to the point that I just moved to a different instance.

With Reddick and Sweat, he hasn’t been seeing the field much. That’s probably why he wanted out.

Data scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it.

How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?

The implication is that social media is inherently not private, and it is extremely difficult to have social media benefit you without revealing personal details that can be aggregated to identify you uniquely, if not specifically.

Definitely question the services - that’s why I’m here. I have much more control over my data here than on a commercial, ad driven platform. There is nothing available through the API that isn’t available to logged in user, and remote instances don’t have access to any of my private profile data (the entirety of which is my email address).

It is fine if you don’t like Lemmy, but I challenge you to identify a social media platform that isn’t worse without being so closed that it loses the whole “social” part. If your goal is to have a blog with 4 followers, then you don’t want social media, you want a private Wordpress or wiki instance.

This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

Tell me what my email address is (the only private-ish info that Lemmy has about me). If you can do that, then I’ll think about worrying.

Big data already has enough info about me from social networks to guess my underwear size. The only way to be really safe is to not play.

So, like email?

Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.

You’re not going to have voting under a republican, and that’s what you get if you don’t vote democrat.

This is a fundamental flaw with plurality voting. Fix that and we can talk about third parties.

Nah, the lead Lemmy developers and admins of Lemmy.ml are unapologetic communists and China supporters.

So what you are saying is that Donald J Trump is going to come to the rescue of the oppressed Muslim people of Palestine? The same Trump whose Middle East peace plan was formulated by his Jewish son-in-law and basically said “give Israel what they want, and everything will be fine”?

Gotcha.

“Hey dad, the WiFi in my dorm room keeps cutting out”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

“Hey dad, when I try to stream TV, it keeps buffering”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

Someday they’ll get it.

I foresee one or both platforms implementing a bridge api, if they don’t outright switch to the other’s protocol.

The important part is normalizing federated social networks.

Never said devs shouldn’t care about money. If you aren’t having fun maintaining some code, stop. If it is commercially interesting, you will probably be contacted. Charge for bug bounties. Prioritize features based on compensation. Start a foundation. There are lots of business models for OSS, the author of this article talks about how this problem is already solved - just not for him.

OSS itself is not a business model. OSS is provably sustainable. Dude just wants it handed to him.

There are plenty of people who get paid to write open source software. The internet simply wouldn’t exist without OSS:

• Linux/Android
• Apache/Nginx
• MySQL/Postgres
• gcc/llvm

And that’s just scratching the surface.

That’s how they pay for Android. Just because you don’t pay a royalty doesn’t mean the software is free. (Even if it is libre)

Say you don’t understand the fediverse without saying you don’t understand the fediverse.

By these standards:

• The web is unsafe by default
• Email is unsafe by default

In all three cases, your safety is determined by the home you choose, and who/what you choose to interact with.

That’s my point. This restaurant is try to bait and switch their customers by giving a misleading food price and adding a service charge. It is like a cell phone company adding garbage fees.

As for my initial comment - if you add a percentage for service, that ends my obligation to tip.

If you charge me for service, I’m not paying extra for service.

Call it what it is - a junk fee so they can make their prices look lower than they are. I wouldn’t go to this restaurant a second time.

So my point isn’t that there is some great threat from Republicans. It is just vastly more likely for any given kid to be abused by a Republican than by a drag queen. Yes, this is a population effect. This doesn’t mean we should single out Republicans for discrimination, just that they need to stop treating people who dress funny as an inherent threat.

But proportions aren’t really useful for protecting children when there isn’t a significant deviation from the general population. However, on a given day, a random child is much more likely to encounter a Republican child predator than a drag queen child predator. Now add in the overwhelming statistics that show child predators are usually known to and trusted by the child’s parents, and the emphasis that conservatives place in trusting those placed in authority above them, and you have a recipe for disaster.

So logically, since it is a much larger threat, a much larger effort should be made to protect children from Republicans.

I wish they'd go back to their brief pattern of alternating feature releases with stability & performance releases. Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were rock solid releases.