msprout

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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 2 pts · 1y

On old Twitter, community notes was simply a function of raising a flag for tweets that got ratio'd. This would open those tweets up for Community Notes users to submit a fact check. Then, the fact check with the highest upvotes gets displayed as the default one.

Now? Not sure. Elon is a sneaky fucker. But I do think it could be implemented as a simple comment queue that admins and moderators could set user roles to help with.

Yeah. And AWS was supposed to replace on-prem hosting. Except, now, they represent a higher opex cost than even payroll.

I see no reason why OpenAI isn't just charging peanuts for service to build a gigantic user base who can't think without it, then jacking the price up to whatever they want — and I can assure you, if Sam Altman has the option to become an immortal trillionaire, he will take it.

on 8 bit rule · c/memes · 5 pts · 1y

I'd kick your ass if I didn't spend all three of my wishes on churros from 7-11. :/

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 0 pts · 1y

Could be a good feature to add to PieFed, which is built on Python specifically to allow more developers to have access to building extensions and plugins.

I can earnestly say that, as a former 13-year-old boy myself, none of the other girls my age really compared me to George Clooney. All of us were ugly and awkward at that age, and if you think otherwise, I might grow a little leery of your intentions.

Yeah in my high school, a girl I knew got into serious trouble for trying to bring her 25 year old boyfriend to junior prom, when she was 16. 😩 For some reason, the district allowed it. 😭😭

I was browsing Epstein's black book yesterday, and it is actually a little alarming how many Kennedys are in there. I know an address book isn't the same as a client list, but it does mean that they most likely knew one another.

I also learned that Minnie Driver as of 2008 or so, when this black book was seized as part of an investigation, used an EarthLink.net email address lol

I dunno. I haven't seen that proven definitively yet, but I know that several of her siblings did go into the intelligence industry. It is not farfetched, either, given Alex Acosta's comment that he was told Epstein was an intelligence asset and to leave it alone.

I understand the cynicism, but, I actually think that GM knows what happened to Epstein. From reading interviews and her online presence, you can tell quickly that she is a very timid and fearful person in the face of all of this, but she also seems to display the usual sense of self-preservation that most of us have too.

I think she knows that she is at risk of being 'suicided' by speaking to the US government. I don't think Trump would get her to agree to say nothing happened and let her free, because if she is free and fucks off to Belize, she could still ruin his fucking life from 3,000 miles away.

Personally, I think that the situation we are looking at is that she knows that if she doesn't pipe up and drop more dirt, she WILL be silenced before that can happen. I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibilities that GM has a dead-man's switch operating somewhere; for Christ's sake, she was the chief of staff of the world's largest and most elaborate sex trafficking and extortion ring.

Why would it be beyond the pale for her to have shipped a box of Epstein's hard drives from his Florida properties? They could easily have been shipped to some douche in another country who benefits from a trust for as long as they sit on that information, with instructions to release the documents online if GM is reported as dead.

God. That woman is so brave that I can't even imagine what it's like. Kanye, crazy as he is by himself, also has a league of devoted fans who will make this woman's life a living hell.

Why the fuck do we make it so hard for women to just be alive? We carve a special space out for them, then just crowd the walls to make it impossible to breathe there.

Sometimes, designing systems for non-technical people requires a little compromise on the licensing extremism that is very baked into FOSS culture.

It is why most Linux folks are stoked that Linux can play Windows games reliably — it means that millions of Windows lifers are getting exposed to Arch Linux for the first time. Sure, Steam is proprietary, and so are Nvidia drivers, but nobody decides to start with Linux and stay there (they do, but, I am talking single digit numbers vs the billions using Windows). Everyone has to start somewhere.

That said, big frown on Ubuntu. I would personally prefer something like Debian that has fewer major update increments, or an immutable Arch setup.