@sushee ...dissolves your stomach from the inside -- except, of course, for the seven-year accumulation of accidentally-swallowed chewing gum.

(I think I remember hearing both of these myths in the 1970s, but fortunately my parents -- for all their other flaws -- were very science-oriented.)

1950, vonnegut

does anyone else feel like maybe this internet thing is turning out to be a bit much

@lowqualityfacts

But poor, poor Lady Gwyneth would be heartbroken if the "dipshits" she disdains, who put presents under her tree when asked, suddenly stopped doing it.

Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"

Comcast plans job cuts and more AI agents for its shrinking cable customer base.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/comcast-loses-more-customers-claims-other-isps-cheap-prices-are-irrational/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Back when they started on that, we were worried they were going to kill ActivityPub like how Netscape got killed by IE durring the browser wars. EEE (Embrace, Expande, Eliminate), adopt the protocol, expand its capabilities while including propriatary portions of code, and lock the competition out when market saturation is achieved.

The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).

@lightspill @kitlith @digitalfox that tracks! I was toying with the idea of a raccoon only being capable of [ɸ] in place of [f] because of a lack of fine lip/jaw control/closure. Vowels... still working on

@jalefkowit 🤣🤣💕

Heaven forbid your kids should be as informed about the world around them all possible before they have to go adult in it. Or are we just afraid conversation with them over this topic will wind up showing how irrational a position you hold, and how much of an insensitive monster you are?

Target fixation. They tried too hard to avoid it and ended up smashing into it head first.

@MoritzGlantz eBay tried that and devs keep using it as an example for why they should adopt React instead

Because eMudhra is in the news, I am sharing a screenshot of a footer of an email I once received from them in reply to my query about my PAN card (a government-issued tax identity and card). #eMudhra

Oh, I neglected to set this poll going for a whole week...

Anyways I conclude that once I've got Alonzo's core working, I'll have an easier time roping in contributors! Then I'll be asking people to play with, & promote, this exciting project. Not learn Lua/Love to help me build it.

I hope to be there in the new year!

There'll still be more to build, but my piece of it will largely enter maintenance.

Also, Threads has introduced extremely strict rules for servers that want to federate.

Entire Fediverse server applications are incapable of following all these rules, either technologically or by concept.

For example, IIRC, Threads demanded a full public timeline. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do have that feature in code. But it’s intentionally turned off server-wide by default, and there’s a very good reason for this and for just about no serious admins of public servers ever turning it on.

It’s like they come almost parallel with self awareness then panic and intentionally jackknife in to a tree. To own the libs or something.