The interfaces are relatively modern too, with VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.

A lot of the best communities to be in have a barrier to entry

The community of pilots, the people who work in medicine or on floor X, the people who are proud of what they can accomplish and recognize automatically that the value of the interactions they have are not worthless.

Idk how you bring that to the online space. But it is missing, yes. I like this essay.

You need to read again the thing that was described, more carefully. Imagine for example that by “a page,” the person means a page called /juicy-content or something.

I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.

This is fuckin GENIUS

I kinda doubt there’s gonna be any level of shitstorm

This is, however, hilarious.

I was imagining things, as is tradition

I thought it was confirmed to be Piefed once that is complete enough to be useful. Idk, though, maybe that is me just imagining things.

Edit: I am imagining things, it is Sublinks

What happened to ls -d .* though

It’s a little easier to figure out if there is one answer that is clearly and unequivocally wrong.

25/25/50/75 or something just doesn’t have as neat a mapping of numbers into conceptual categories, for some reason, to me

In addition to probation, the teens will also be required to attend classes on gender and equality, as well as on the “responsible use of information and communication technologies,”

…

What?

Have you not interacted with teenage boys?

I can think of not much more of a better way to teach them there are no consequences and they can keep doing this as long as they smirk and say they’re sorry whenever they get caught

The little prod with it in his direction is absolutely perfect

2019:

Ukraine: We need some fucking Javelins
US: Here’s nothing

2021:

Ukraine: We need some fucking F-16s
US: Here’s some Javelins

2023:

Ukraine: We need some fucking artillery shells
US: Here’s more nothing

2024:

US: Hey we got you some F-16s

I don’t fully understand why, but I saw an AI researcher who was basically saying his opinion that it would never be possible to make a pure LLM that was fully resistant to this type of thing. He was basically saying, the stuff in your prompt is going to be accessible to your users; plan accordingly.

When people were upset at Substack for hosting Nazis, multiple people told me that Germany’s laws prohibiting hate speech were the right way to do it (often claiming incorrectly that the US had similar laws or regulations).

I told those people that restrictions on speech would inevitably be used against points of view they agreed with that needed to be heard, when those became “hate speech” from the point of view of the powerful.

Every one of these people told me no, that’s not how it works, they’re only going to restrict actually hateful speech, so there’s no problem.

It used to be

On November 30, 2009, Johnson blogged that he was disassociating himself with “the right,” writing: “The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them.” He has been heavily critical of conservatives and libertarians since then.

I’d say that’s about 10-15 years too late, but as a total outsider who’s not at all familiar with the situation, it looks like his realization and action on it was sincere.

Also as TA notes, LibsOfTikTok is still up and Meta gave the argument that the reason was phishing/malware without any further explanation. I.e. even if LGF was still hosting extensive right wing propaganda (which would most likely be a fine reason on the surface to block it IMO), I’d still see a decent argument for the real reason being the Kansas Reflector story and not anything propagandastic.

When Netscape Navigator’s initial announcement post went out, people were alarmed about the idea that someone might be trying to charge money for software related to the internet. Some people questioned if it was legal to even do that, since the supporting software, backbone, and all the content were freely created by other people – it was basically at that point a 100% non commercial environment.

Things have changed

Hi, I’m Lemmy BadTakes! You may remember me from such films as “Biden’s exactly the same as Trump” and “Sure Russia’s a homicidal one-party kleptocracy where questioning the leader means prison and challenging him means death. But the United States has racist police and wealth inequality, which is actually far worse!”

IDK; I tried it from VPN from Europe was what I meant by “when it’s accessed from the EU.” I honestly have no explanation why I didn’t see the prompt; my best guess is that either the geolocation or VPN fucked up, or that my adblocker removed a unified package that also included the prompt.

To search for ad settings I tried clicking AdChoices from the bottom navigation (from Europe) and it took me to a page that lectured me about how I should turn off my third-party cookie blocking, and when I tried from a different browser it succeeded (without having prompted me about cookies) and then announced that I had the opportunity to customize my ads experience from 111 different companies:

• 33Across
• AcuityAds
• Adbrain
• Adelphic
• Adform
• AdGear Technologies
• Adobe Marketing Cloud - Advertising Services
• Adstra
• Alphonso
• Amazon Ad System
• Amobee
• Audiencerate
• AuDigent

… and so on. I was also entertained by its summary of privacy policy within the State of California (“If you would like to opt out of the sale of this information, please complete this webform or call our automated line at (877) 365-3500.”)

I stand by my assessment of relative cuntiness of Variety compared with LGF saying hey we don’t sell your info but we do Google Ads, here’s how to disable their tracking of you if you want, fuck EU’s cookie laws and their weird little dialog box, have a good one.

botbogad

No idea what you’re asking me