@jk Access seems to be an important word today: robot caretakers for the elderly?
Yes, there are trained dogs, but....

finally a normal computer

@TheBreadmonkey 🫱

@Banana

I was being semi-sarcastic. 93 / 94 was when the first "web browsers" came into existence. Before that, we all used ftp, gopher and irc. Those were the days!

To be more serious, I think the web took a downspin when (as you say) Facebook and its ilk took over and standardized communication and tangentially pushed out smaller "individual" web sites.

Thus the smolweb revolution happening right now!

BREAKING NEWS: Bernie Sanders Warns Chuck Schumer His Days as Senate Leader Are Up | The New Republic

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has added his name to the growing list of liberal-minded lawmakers asking Chuck Schumer to hand over the reins of the Senate.

Sanders told reporters Tuesday that he would not support Schumer’s bid for Senate majority leader in the new year.

https://newrepublic.com/post/217844/bernie-sanders-warns-chuck-schumer-senate-leader

Sorry to be jingoistic

@AugierLe42e 😽

Welcome!

I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity. Happy to be here!

I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.

I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.

I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.

Any hints?

@ai6yr TABOR

*British willies

I'm a Beardo who is morally opposed to furries.

You want fur? GROW IT YOUR DAMN SELF AND QUITIT WITH THE PURPLE BODY MERKINS, YOU BEARD-APPROPRIATING FREAKS!

Imma need a stripe on that pride flag...

Welcome! That’s what they do here, build up your expectations and then…BOOM!..call you a stupid-head for saying things. Just kidding. Have fun. Also, lots of users here provide me with lots to learn. There are bad apples for sure but so far they are not spoiling the bunch.

Welcome! Had a simular backatory as well and so far I am really happy!

Yeah, welcome. You captured the vibe perfect 👌

Welcome!

Warm welcome! It’s nice to have such a place to read about topics you like and get help when needed.

Also most people here are really friendly despite a few less friendly ones.

Enjoy and try to support if you can!

Welcome :)

@tante I read the experience of an indie game developer that, first, researched a problem, then contacted the original authors of their game engine, before finally consulting AI and arriving at a 10 lines-of-code fix to their problem, and you know what, I can't blame them. Software developers failed them and the LLM didn't.

Us software developers really haven't been doing ourselves any favours the last two decades.