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Yea, but why not?

I mean, maybe we would all be much nicer to each other if we knew that the other end of our interactions were individuals.

I was the last generation at my school system to even have the options of a home ec class. It is a tragedy.

Bernadette Banner also has many videos on doing this with simple hand sewing equipment, if you aren’t inclined to get a new machine!

I am also always willing to share what information I have about Darning and Clothing repair if needed… but I am just some person on the internet…

I sewed a patch into my pants today instead of buying new ones!

This is the mindset that keeps the world going!

The hacker mindset exists beyond information technology.

GOG uses GenAI for marketing.

I always knew these as Pubnixes which I think is just an older word for Tildeverse

Dr. Kaczyinski wrote a paper about this.

This is them using the word terrorists. domestic terrorism laws in the US are based on ideological extremism.

This post makes many good points but this also reeks of the “Free Speech” argument.

Redacting the political ideology does nothing to protect the instance … it only hides the cause of the ban.

What does the person who had this run against them feel afraid to express?

To clarify: LLMs have no place at all in moderation. They are poorly adjusted linguistic slot machines that do not do a good enough, reliable enough, or repeatable job for this tasks. Especially given the concern about untrained and unsupervised human moderators.

So it isn’t exactly the same as what I was planning, but there used to be a BannerLink maintained by WSMZ (https://hbaguette.neocities.org/) that isn’t maintained anymore.

I have started maintaining that here: https://j4yc33.neocities.org/stuff/BannerAds

If you have a small website and want to explore more, there are about 17 sites on it right now, and hopefully I will be able to add more.

As time goes on, I might be able to use this database of self-submitted websites to create a sort of small web stumbleupon.

Marginalia search has a good explore button for random sites! I have thought about starting a Stumbleupon like tool, but I haven’t got around to it yet.

Stumbleupon was good, partially, because people submitted sites. That requires accounts and moderation though, and getting a community together is difficult.

Also, monetizing the ability to find searches that are not AI slop is, for lack of better phrasing, fucking bullshit.

The just in time economy is running a little bit late.

“Nothing flies over my head, I’m too fast. I would catch it!” <3

Happens to everybody! I hope you have a good day, friend!

Yes, it absolutely is. The /s indicates the end of a sarcastic comment.

This was a sarcastic commentary on Google’s inability to properly categorize things now.

Laughs in AC/DC Model Trains and Battletech

I and my group are all just on matrix.org. We didn’t want the risk of dealing with potentially less reliable servers or federation.

Absolutely a strong way to go.

Yea, there are some historical reasons for the integrations, but they could do a better job evolving the UI to match the current state of things for sure.

I run a Matrix server and it’s deffo YMMV based on the server admin and how good they are at maintaining things.

Getting the federation to work can also be a chore and a half. Otherwise it works super well. The clients often implement features on top of the protocol (looking at Element and their weird jitsi integration for instance).

The problem here is that who owns a data center isn’t a matter of breaking the law. It’s only if the data center starts breaking the law, and only then can the lawmaker share that the law is being broken and by whom. It wouldn’t give them carte blanche to go out and say “Microsoft owns that land”.

I have a funny screenshot about this! I didn’t know Fedora and OpenSUSE were Debian based! /s