If you care about privacy, don’t use biometrics.

It is sad because it is less convenient, but that’s what’s up.

I edited the comment, and I honestly think it’s funnier / more impactful without it.

Eh, maybe so.

It is rare for something I see on the internet to make me bust out laughing.

In fairness, ICE has wanted to deport you if you have tattoos for a long time, and they had a habit of telling judges that the tattoos were ironclad proof that you were the next El Chapo. The difference is that now they don’t have to involve judges in the process at all, they can just fly you out and dump you in the jungle.

I think probably it is not 😕

RSS bby

“Listen, Jessica: If you decide to put a damn balloon collar on me, you’re going to hear about it.”

Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

I feel like in the current climate, a lot more people need to be adhering to the doctrine of go fuck yourself.

“But we had the ARBITER say you COULD NOT”

“Yeah good luck with that”

“We will SUE you and RUIN you”

“Hey I’m doing a gofundme then good luck with all your stuff, people definitely know about my book now.”

Wait, what the fuck? Was anyone hesitating to stand up for this guy because of his politics?

“Protest leaders shouldn’t get arbitrarily detained by the feds, maybe thrown out if the country, without having apparently committed any crime” should be one of those I-don’t-give-even-the-smallest-fuck-what-the-guy’s-politics-are kind of thing.

He needs a laundry hamper.

I like how he clarifies that he lives alone.

“Sure, one of my roommates could have come in and poked around in my butthole while I was sleeping. But no one was in a position to do such a thing.”

The idea of Java was grand. Too many of the people who were involved in making it had been corrupted by C++, though. If it had been people who had come up with Lisp and Smalltalk, the execution would have had some elegance, and it maybe could have been a masterpiece.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

-Alan Kay

It’s a studio apartment, Michael. How much could it cost? $300 a month?

$1200 more per year? That sounds way low. Do these guys know how much 25% is? (Even leaving aside whatever other countries are going to do in response with resulting follow-on effects to the economy)

Yep. You are 100% correct. ActivityPub has some significant flaws.

I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.

A lot of drugs that give you uncontrolled mental energy will give you focus, insight or creativity, in short uncontrollable doses. In the same way that burning down a building will let you see into rooms that you never were familiar with before. For a short time.

I have heard that meditation can give you the same type of experience and insight without destroying you while you are doing it. I can’t say I know for sure, but I can believe it.

Hm, I would try just changing it back first. Use geekroom.tech. Any community or anything that federated or went into the database, with one of the other hostnames, is probably cursed now, and best just deleted and never looked back on. But, if you try to reinstall, you won’t be able to keep geekroom.tech as the domain at all, you’ll have to pick a new one (or just use a subdomain like lemmy.geekroom.tech).

Once stuff is federated out from one install under some given domain name, it’s pretty much immutable from that point forward. It probably shouldn’t be that way, but that is the current state of things with ActivityPub being the way that it is unfortunately.