You can get a RaspPi instead, and after a year or two you’ll have saved enough electricity to have paid for itself.

Probably not worth it in the electoral sense, but you know what? I’d rather have a human than a robot calculating the electoral effect of every interaction he has with another person.

This wasn’t strategic. It was just human.

Also it wasn’t a “unity gesture”. It was a funny moment for the people in the room and/or was intended to make the Trump convert more comfortable.

Either way, it was absolutely fine in context. The only concern is how it could be taken out of context, and fuck that. I’m tired of walking a tightrope worrying about what Fox News might say.

If it was a “unity gesture”, it was for that one guy. It wasn’t for the Fox News audience.

Oh no. Are we forever to dance around the next moronic thing they decide to turn into propaganda? I hope you don’t have a cat.

Disagree. I prefer XML for config files where the efficiency of disk size doesn’t matter at all. Layers of XML are much easier to read than layers of Json. Json is generally better where efficiency matters.

Just to give a concrete example, there are a couple blatantly political posts on !fediverse. Do they belong there? Absolutely not. But by the time I saw them days later, the damage was done and they were already taken care of by downvotes. Should I really mod remove a week old post with 50 downvotes? The discussion there about why it didn’t belong was fine, and didn’t need to be hidden further.

If votes are anonymous and federated, it’s very easy for me to add or subtract 900 votes from whatever I want.

You should consider anything you do on social media to be public. Even if Facebook tries to claim that it’s not.

At least this advice should always be paired with classes at a shooting range.

Be clear that it’s not the pictures that are the problem. It’s the threat.

You mean like if they went all tankie? Or like AOL email? This has already happened several times before and it’s fine. Google could kill gmail in six months and we’d all move on.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a little centralization in your federation. It works well enough for email. The point is that you have the option, not that you have to use it.

You don’t have to trade one extreme for the other. In fact, I think this is the perfect example of that. Lemmy.ml is the developers’ instance, and by default would likely be the largest. Except… you know. Many, many people started there before going to other instances, especially the largest competitor.

Goodbye Chromecast!

Hello, thing that’s totally not Chromecast.

was in the top 98% of dentists

So 2% of dentists were worse? Doesn’t seem like much of an accomplishment.

If I have vegetables or alcohol, I’m going through the cashier line.

If there’s no reasonable cashier line it’s 50/50 that I’m walking out.

They were legally not allowed to as part of an agreement to not be s monopoly and allow competition.

Fighting? I didn’t think that’s fighting…

Lichess. It’s also completely free.

Meanwhile Trump’s syphilis riddled mind is sharp as a tack?

The dude literally wears diapers.

It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.

Do you use websites? They can also track your IP.