@Rasta

it is argued that widespread travel is what made the Enlightenment possible.

#ThisIsWater

@jon that's the way it should be!

many people have been asking me: "what is the garbage mindset?"

well, I apologize for making the authorities uncomfortable, but it is time for me to post the truth

And I'm sorry if this offends. I mean no offends by means of saying this, but here it is: "embrace da garbage of da mind!"

Gadkeg

It is though.

A profile of Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed with her business partner Kang Wei, who sources say was often introduced as her husband (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/10/technology/alice-huang-megaspeed-nvidia-jensen-huang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PVE.35wY.m-bZUc0uDvGw&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p5#a261111p5

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.

@mike Agree!

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 13

"Anything worth doing is worth doing for money."

Source: Legends of the Ferengi (DS9 novel)

That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

I noticed something:
People who have traveled a lot tend to judge less.

Carnegie Mellon put a Coke machine online to avoid warm soda

https://lockergnome.com/carnegie-mellon-wired-coke-machine-to-internet-finger-command/

#tech #GenerativeAI

In this episode Seven of Nine discovers a new planet nevertheless finds out that they weren't the first to visit the Delta quadrant.

@lyndaljane @phocks
"The bots also appear to have been trying to create Mastodon accounts, per ArsTechnia, a surefire sign that they are not real humans."
A left-handed compliment?

@RickiTarr With regard to the DC golf course - after we rebuild the public courses, we could set aside a small part, next to the trash cans, of course, for a badly maintained putt-putt miniature golf course that we title the "donald j trump public golf course" (lower case, of course.)

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

Pues eso, que hago huelga