Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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When I feel a decision is on the right track, I get a tingling/warm feeling in my body.
Oenanthe conioides ⁂
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fict (n)
someone or something that is made up
Andrew (making toys)
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25 small forgs on your timeline
@mike starting a new day! ☀️
@tekphloyd Good morning from California!
@etp lololol
@stux Which one is the spy? Spies are usually rather secretive. The one you are speaking of just does everything out in the open. More like a traitor, I think. His spouse is a lot more mysterious.
@bigzaphod In an industry dominated by mega corporations it’s nice to be able to support the small providers.
The ISP I use was architected by one of my coworkers, and the owner (though I don’t actually know him) lives less than a mile from my house. There’s almost nothing that would make me switch away.
As a kid my family’s very first ISP was a local company handing out floppies at our credit union. They were eventually bought out by a big player and their office is a spa/massage place now.
@dmnelson I worked for the very first ISP in town in the late 90s. That was a fun time. Racks and racks of modems. Floppies and later CDs to install the drivers and stuff. Cable internet kinda killed us off, though. lol.
Stadia Maps
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If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: @streetcomplete is now out for iOS!
Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:
Getting in the car to leave Oklahoma.
I managed to do a nearly complete rewrite of this Jupiter's ghost miniseries yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with where it landed.
If we manage to get to our hotel room before 7pm local time, I'll try to record some tonight.
I'm pretty confident that one of the top reasons for people to opt-in into life is Cheese.
Must be in the top 3 reasons.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
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Habt ihr gestern eigentlich eure gewaschene Wäsche aus der Waschmaschine geholt und aufgehängt? #servicetoot
@mike Editing the last session for this year before going to Finland for the rest of the year
@sturmsucht Can't wait to see!
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StreetComplete on iOS
If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: StreetComplete is now out for iOS!
Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:
AI6YR Ben
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11-09-2026 Mobile Bay, Alabama - SS United States - Historic Final Departure from the Port of Mobile #LSM #disasters #video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEJe2D57RvQ
11-09-2026 Mobile Bay, Alabama - SS United States - Historic Final Departure from the Port of Mobile
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Last night my ISP got flaky right around 5pm. I posted about it here, sent them an email then logged off for a bit and got some food, etc.
By the time we sat down to watch TV it was working fine again and I sorta forgot about it.
This morning they called and told me they had a problem on a tower and fixed it by 7pm and they just wanted to let me know.
Honestly, I like my ISP. They aren't the fastest, but they're a small local company, they always call back, and they always fix their problems.
@bigzaphod Sounds like the opposite of one of our big three companies here, who my wife and I were with when we moved to this area, and the service was fine until it suddenly wasn’t. Brutal signal, calls suddenly but sporadically dropped, not a good time.
I called them and they didn’t know why this sharp drop in signal strength.
The crap service kept on.
I called again shortly after that and they still didn’t know why.
The crap service kept on.
I think it was my third call — maybe my fourth? — where I finally asked to talk to the next tier of service, maintaining that someone somewhere actually had an answer for this. And the next person I talked to confirmed that Oh yeah, we recently had a tower go down that serviced your area.
Oh, said I, silently wondering why this little nugget of news didn’t trickle down the food chain, and is there any ETA for the repair or replacement of that tower?
No, they said. It probably won’t get fixed or replaced unless enough people call to complain about the issue.
We left the service immediately after that. 🤷♂️
@evan none of these are outliers. Which one you think of is probably going to be the kind you've worked with the most.
@astraluma OK. Sorry this poll is not for you. Thanks for taking the time, and enjoy doing other things on the Fediverse.
@notrace @blackonions i'm sorry, but i've long said, that onions/tor are excellent tools as long as they don't go against the interests of the US. i do think this applies here, and is not a good idea.
@stf can you explain your reasoning here? Surprised to hear this
