Sounds like a great summary of the reddit experience.

i dont see any goofy self promotion videos on lemmy the way reddit has them. there is just less HailCorporate crap here. and the fixed-by-the-duet garbage that is just really uninteresting except WHEN LOUDLY YELLED AT YOU.

jarvis mock up the ideal pleroma front end

What if inside of it is a pendrive with a bitcoin wallet worth 100 million

I sent a nice package, and I received one. It was a wooden puzzle box. I’m pretty good at puzzles but it’s stumped me; I can’t open it. That was years ago. It’s still sitting on my bookshelf. I can hear there’s something inside, but I can’t get in and I refuse to force it. My daughter looked up instructions but still couldn’t do it - says maybe it was sabotaged. So unsatisfying but wonderful.

@ahermitforhire everyone

retrocomputing is when it takes you two hours to assemble the right collection of software and hardware to move eighty megabytes that's been trapped in the same rectangle for thirty years

Export control against China for NVIDIA chips was a bad idea.

(Yeah, yeah, I know, Jensen Huang should not have cheated on his wife.)

I wonder what this forum thread in this forum for the restaurant game that came out today is about

AWS Emulator is a glimpse at the future of software development in big tech.

Specifications tell agents what to build. Agents write tests, find failures and fix code. Automated security and regression checks decide what ships. Hundreds of agents fix thousands of issues daily.

No humans writing or reviewing code.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-autonomous-ai-agents-built-aws-emulator

@tsturm so desu ne.

@PhoenixSerenity

I remember in high school taking the military ASVAB test. Did not try hard, but got a 99%, "hey, you need to join the Air Force!"

I went to get my electrical engineering degree with my friends instead 💪

and my moral compass is still intact after many decades!

I used to buy guns through r/gunsforsale.

featuring @rin from pleroma

“House Republicans just passed the largest cut to veterans’ benefits in our nation’s history, and they did it on Veterans Day. They did it by voice vote, in seconds, with no roll call and no names. They did it that way because they knew they could not defend it. That tells you everything.”

https://democrats-veterans.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-takano-republicans-make-largest-cut-to-veteran-benefits-in-history_on-veterans-day

The issue is really that it’s not really possible to do good moderation (i.e. censorship) at scale.

When the site is centralized, all users have to get the same basic experience. That means someone needs to decide for the entire world what’s allowed and what isn’t. It isn’t just whether you’ll have porn or no porn. It isn’t just whether you’ll have hate subs, or subs dedicated to violence. It’s where you draw the line at politics. Is sexism allowed? What if it’s just a sort-of sexist joke? Can people talk about Nazi ideology? What if it’s a sub for historians?

What makes something like Lemmy better is that each instance can make their own choices of where to draw the line, and other instances can decide whether to federate with them or not. That way an instance running in Germany might have different ideas of where the lines is when it comes to Nazi imagery, and sex, and violence. One in New Zealand might have completely different ideas. If you’re a user from NZ the NZ instance might match your tastes better, but if not, you’re free to sign up for the German one.