Please don’t, it’s still usable to browse Gemini content with software like Buran and Deenum.

AltaVista

Core Memory Unlocked

Not really federated. You can’t, for example, raise issues or set PR requests from another instance.

Never have been. </astronaut-meme>

inb4 “it depends” but, well, really, it depends, on the what.

Having something to lose because you care for them means they are a liability and a weak point that can be exploited. They are also a natural distraction. In that sense, their presence and status as “things to care for” make you weaker; however, the fact that you care grants you motivation, as well as spite, that can be pretty hard to find elsewhere. You won’t find people who truly care so much as to give their lives for their employer, even top level bootlickers shy away once things get dicey. And spite is quite the damn effective motivator! So, the fact that you can have something to lose promotes you to keep up a higher “action baseline”: waking up in the mornings, keeping yourself healthy and open enough to actually go and protect, etc…; those make you stronger.

As someone who has had 8 cats before and has also provided support for 7 other ones, I can easily tell that their cute little purrs are energizing and I’m more active and aware of the world around me simply because I have to find good quality cat food for cheaper. So if anything I’m a “stronger” agent in the commerce.

Boot it once, don’t let it ever fully power down (suspend is fine).

If your V1 is on firmware 3.1 or 4.1 but does not work with the RCM jig and you have run your serial ID through the test site and it comes up as “possibly ipatched”, you might be able to use “online boot” via Pegascape, which you can also host locally (eg.: in a raspberry pi) and there is at least one alternative frontend. It’s pretty much the only way to boot an ipatched > 3.x into hekate without a hardmod, and even then it’s only limited to firmware 4.x that I know.

(On such a setup, you’d then install an eMMC partition for CFW with the firmware you want, eg.: 16.x).

That’s the neat part, you don’t!

Aaaah finally, a counterpart for the “two women angry at cat” meme!

The void:

Hey! Listen!

Void in training!

“Hoooman, I’m not gonna help you with that 23 kg limit”

At least we’ll always have the ironic laugh at how the US, a country with guns for everyone, didn’t even get a tin medal in shooting the Olympics, and how the US, a country with the 2nd Amendment, can’t even kill a tyrant right.

Which means 15m people don’t mind being fascists, which functionally is the same as they actively want to be fascists.

But hey at least they don’t want to be Canada… I guess?

effectively forcing their own personal feed preferences on everyone who uses Lemmy

But… that’s how voting literally works. Hence one of the smartest ideas I saw once for Lemmy (and for the Fediverse in general) was to substitute upvoting/downvoting for “voting on tags”, such as being able to tag a post as “fake news”, “inspiring” or “AI generated” and have people vote on those instead of on the psot / comment proper. Alas, I don’t know what ever happened to that proposal, and could never find it again to track it down.

But, see, that’s the thing and that’s why there’s an important difference between blocking and downvoting:

If I block something bad, like say fake news or fascism or AI, I block it only for me, it’s only protecting myself; but if I downvote it, I also help protect my peers. If we want to make community, that’s very important. And like any measure, it can be gamed, but so long as it’s the one option we have, we gotta use like that. I expect AI slop to be batch-downvoted; if I didn’t, I’d be back at Reddit.

…What, being like Canada? 👀

punishing people for downvoting AI slop

Now that would be quite the turn… Downvoting AI slop is the basic human decency I’d expect from Lemmy.

Well, then kick him out. Or maybe guillotine him out, so that he doesn’t return.

Like, if people were actually that irked that he won, they’d be doing something. But no, from what I hear El Trumpo actually won the popular vote: the US wants to be fascist. Maybe Canada too. (No, not as in the US wants to be Canada… although that’d be an improvement…)

So basically they balked, went for a “more of the same”, then balked off that and went back? Can’t imagine why.

Then again XMPP / Jabber is so much easier to host, you can do it in the cheapest Linode VPS, yet communities don’t use it either.

isolate your identity! avoid leaks! avoid payments! don’t use tracking! avoid analytics!

come join us in our Discord!

…something… does not compute.

They didn’t even hand me a uniform or a qt cap, and they work with Node.js despite several warnings; I ain’t representing shit.