an empire can never be held accountable; therefore an empire must never make decisions

(ode to the default purple visited link color)

how honest, like a sigh at the end of a day. like sweat on the brow and prints in the snow. don't posture to me with the eager blueness of a fresh link, but settle with me in the purple coming home.

put down your paint. you were once strange to me, words draped across the entrance of a closed door. i passed through your threshold and felt an indelible kiss.

we have tread the trails. we have ventured through it all, and what can we do now but sag into the change it has wrought.

contributing a change request to a project, then immediately folding in on myself in shame and hiding forever for imposing and making myself a nuisance

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.

I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.

It makes everything more robust and reliable.

Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.

"And these 'AI productivity gains', are they in the room with us right now?"

cow tools real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4PFEuWKQ

Larson: if a cow made tools, we would not understand them. A cow's noosphere of purpose would be so irreconcilably different from our human frame of reference.
Veronika the cow: scratch bum :-)

Housemate:

"The existence of http and https implies the existence of http3, http: Resurrection, and http vs. Predator.

Discuss."

Fedi-bookmarking this article for a read myself later on, reminding myself how to interact with Lemmy posts from masto
https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

#lemmy #mastodon #crossposting

every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon

why is it a kebab menu and not skewer­morphism?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're answering a question posted to social media with text you copied/pasted from an LLM without having any clue what the actual answer is, you are currently the worst person on the internet.

Is there a bot that reminds you when you *boost* something without #AltText, not when you post a picture without it? I don't seem to have a problem remembering the latter, but sometimes miss the former.

#AskFedi

Anyone know where to get those cover-up "there was something awful here so have a cat instead 😺" stickers? Ideally waterproof and like 4in square.

Something awful has started appearing locally.

(edit: if it matters, i'm in yorkshire, uk; but i'm happy to order from anywhere!)

(edit 2: Found 'em! https://kolektiva.social/@BigTittyBimbo/115911808912887411 )

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

A tiny sliver of twilight at 5pm. The light is returning...

@TheBreadmonkey Sorry to say the narrative is pure bunk.
Kisses,
An anthropologist

@mcc I don't know, but yeah I want a "no bad UI changes" fork too. I can see their dev (https://infosec.exchange/@celenity) wanting less delta, which is maybe reasonable if the project's focus is on just privacy and filtering out new genAI nonsense: https://infosec.exchange/@celenity/115749357432559165

For what it's worth, both have the address bar on the bottom on my screen. It might even be the default in one of them. Memory hazy.

@mcc Not really a version, but I use IronFox on droid (as mentioned in @librewolf posts onhere)