Klara the @kde dragon, welcome to my desk! You will join Alfred the dragon and Julius the elf, my trusty debugging companions.

@aral #GenocidalRogueStateTerrorism

@Wen

Jonathan Ross must be running his finger round the inside of his collar and sweating freely by now. To be a friend of both these miscreants, and know nothing about what they were doing, doesn't bear belief. Then there's the jokes he made about them. Other dominos are waiting to fall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwy9jl18840o

@Wen

Jonathan Ross must be running his finger round the inside of his collar and sweating freely by now. To be a friend of both these miscreants, and know nothing about what they were doing, doesn't bear belief. Then there's the jokes he made about them. Other dominos are waiting to fall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwy9jl18840o

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you something that makes you laugh ✨

or as I have started calling it, GNU + Slavery

@planet.kde.org

And this is what it looks like.

You can help support development of this and many more cool features and apps by donating to our fundraiser:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2026/

@colin_mcmillen On voit bien là l'influence sur les médias du Syndicat Unitance @syndicat_poubelles

@404mediaco really? You of all tech media?

ITV says its £1.6B Media & Entertainment unit sale to Comcast-owned Sky is on track for H2 2027, and reports January to September revenue down 1% YoY to £2.76B (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/itv-sky-sale-progressing-cuts-q4-content-spend-1236944980/
http://mediagazer.com/261111/p2#a261111p2

You people will boost anything

"Research by Who Targets Me, an organisation that campaigns for transparency in digital political advertising, shows #ReformUK outspending the rest of the field on platforms for which data is available. Over the past month, the party poured £301,433 into Facebook and Instagram ads, an unusual volume, sustained at unusual pitch for a period with no elections. That’s more than four times as much as the #Tories; six times more than #Labour."

#UKPol

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.

I made a Mac app that saves you $14,549 on the new MacBook Pro.

https://tiptop.software/smudgy/

Israel kills Gaza goalkeeper days after playing in cup for slain athletes
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/11/11/israel-kills-gaza-goalkeeper-days-after-playing-in-cup-for-slain-athletes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

In this episode Mr. Sulu discovers a new planet yet the crew has mutinied over the latest holonovel!

Not sure if it did DM’s, but there’s about 1,000 Roan Cong accounts atm. They make a new one send 1-4 posts and make a new account, with a new domain after a few accounts.