Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Dumpster Fire Pin. What a funny coincidence, "The horrors persist, but so do I" also happens to be my email signature at work.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNZZTSQZ/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_apa_gl_i_CT6C42WEY2Z0BHN5FFH3?linkCode=ml1&tag=lowqualityfac-22-20&linkId=9cfe9c3e7f567bd8734411eccd3b586f&gaOptInStatus=true

@manawyrm @azonenberg it's pretty secure -- you have to change to 1200 baud first, then send the magic password, then change to 115200.

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.

A free browser-makers’ tool gives coding agents modern alternatives to outdated web code

https://lockergnome.com/browser-teams-cli-stops-coding-agents-writing-legacy-javascript/

#tech #GenerativeAI

BONG

The version of the Joker from the Harley Quinn show is the one most likely to declare that some annoyance will turn him into The Joker, but doing so would give him a headache which might turn him into The Joker.

That said, I'm not sure where he's getting his ideas about the malignant version of "woke" -- I've only ever heard the term applied as an identifier by right-wingers talking about how terrible it is, never by a group claiming to support it.

...but that could easily be a social media bubble effect; I don't get out much.

burger king employee make me a hamburger with no pickles, make no mistakes

Oh my god these people found me

In case it’s not clear, my answer is HELL NO

Mid-August 2023.
2 weeks after 2 Saanich cops trespassed in our home, I showed up in front of their PD to call them a bunch of cowardly, ableist, antimasking bigots, who invaded our home when Dad was dying from covid cardiac arrest. Lead cop was Jason Whitaker. He is Saanich PD union president & a massive arrogant POS.
I will hate Saanich PD for the rest of my life.

Fuck their entire rotten barrel.

If you're a bootlicking dipshit - block me. I won't be kind to you at all.

#ACAB #Ableism #Bigotry #Antimaskers #DipshitsWithBadges #AbolishPoliceUnions #ExposeCops #YellAtBootlickers #FuckThePolice #DirtyRottenCops #iHateCops #AsianMastodon #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountabilityNow

@hacks4pancakes

Aren't there just one or two ships in the entire world that can actually repair the cables?

I seem to recall reading a story about a while ago.

The fridges seem not ok. https://www.midnightblue.nl/blog/multiple-rce-danfoss-aksm800a

@rightsprung No that's actually a few blocks over but I know the one you're referring too.

@BenRiceM Got it. Can’t wait to try it out.

hearing that jensen huang has tripled the amount of partners he has in just under two weeks.

if these trends continue, i think we need to have a serious conversation about the possibility of jensen huang dating every women on earth.

even in moderate scenarios he may send up with 82% of all leather jackets

#armisticeday One of the most moving war memorials is Sir William Goscombe John's one at Port Sunlight, on the theme of defending home and country. It doesn't really need much comment; it speaks for itself. It's unbearably sad that so many people, armed forces and civilians alike, are still suffering in war zones https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/john/14.html

@Migueldeicaza

Duuuuhhh.....Sure not. Why did he even think smth like that about Taipei government?