I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.

too real

The developers building Lemmy are very different from the folks building bots. I’ve got a half-assed repost bot working, but there’s no way I have the time or inclination to work on Lemmy itself.

Generally speaking, a bot needs to meet a much lower quality/reliability bar than the server does.

I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.

As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.

Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

There’s definitely scenarios where that is the case.

Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It’s my characterization. I didn’t mean to imply that you said it.

Agreed.

Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.

Generally, Hanlon’s Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity user error.

There’s a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we’re under attack.

Preach. Thanks for the kind words.

Over 20 years. We probably met through mutual acquaintances 30ish years ago, but that is lost to the mists of time.

I’m hoping to move back to the town where my friends and family live. I’ve been in my current place for a few years, and it’s fine, but I feel like my life is on hold.

I’m kind of looking forward to my kids getting a little more mature. Parenting lil kids is not what I’m cut out for. But it’s bittersweet - that gets them closer to moving out and starting their lives without me.

Good luck on the job hunt. I hope you manage to find something in vfx.

Do you still possess this talent?

weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Eh. Still seems pretty good.

Even in death, he still serves.

I’m fine paying what I pay, but I reserve the right to question the quality of services they pay for.

I’m not talking about the US, I’m talking about US Magazine. I’ve seen other US publications use “sex” to refer to sex.

Agreed. It just seems like a weird editorial decision. Maybe it’s because I’m not a regular US reader, or I live in a different country, but it seems to slightly obfuscate what happened.

Seconded.

OnlyFans star Annie Knight is sharing an update amid her recent hospitalization after sleeping with 583 men in six hours.

It’s bizarre that US uses “sleeping with” to mean “had sex with”. Readers clearly understand, she uses the word “sex” in her quotes, but the magazine/site insists on using that bizarre euphemism.