Friendica says “hello”.

the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

This, so much. I really wish I could read Japanese, because the really active Misskey instances look genuinely fun to be on. It reminds me a lot of the OMGPOP days, which I miss dearly.

Even if you enjoyed game testing (which there is definitely some appeal to for a certain type of person), it’s not worth doing if you’re relying on having any sustainable amount of income. The pay for game testers has always been among the bottom rungs within the gaming industry, and has only gotten lower in recent years as more game studios have begun using overseas contractors to do all their testing, which lets them skirt a lot of labor laws.

On Mbin, it shows as just a regular upvote. Emoji votes would also be a great change, too! I like the way Misskey-like instances use them.

Yeah, but installing a screen protector is a “permanent” action. If you ever decide “I want to watch a video on my phone with my partner”, you’re pretty much out of luck unless you want to destroy your screen protector for a single 2-minute YouTube video. Making this a toggle is actually a really good idea IMO, as this gives users more agency over when their screen is private.

I think votes should honestly be a bit more like old school SlashDot voting, where you had several different types of votes you could leave on a comment like Insightful, Funny, Helpful, etc. Have a few negative ones like Bad Faith Argument, Spam, Advertisement, etc. And also like old school /., you’d have a limited amount of votes you can give. Make them replenish once per day, or have users earn additional votes for receiving positive votes on their comments, or something along those lines.

That would prevent bombing an entire comment thread with downvotes, and provides much-needed context for any given comment’s score.

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Oops! I saw police overreach and just assumed it was US.

Even if it was glorifying nazis, that’s still protected by the 1st Amendment. The police had no business stealing these properties from the owner.

Is it satire, though? These ghouls are actually nazis, after all.

Well that just gave me a new fear.

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Maybe, and this is just a crazy hunch, but maybe they fell in love for reasons other than height.

Gotta try before you buy.

Given the average user experience Matrix offers, they’ll be back on Discord within the same day.

Matrix is just not anywhere near ready for what most Discord communities want out of a platform.

Weird, they’re supposed to be very easy to find!

This used to be my job. They’re not controlling the cars. They’re basically completing real-time CAPTCHAs, telling the car whether the cameras see a stop sign, a bicycle, temporary barriers, etc. If the car can’t identify an object that could possibly cross its path, it pulls over and stops until an operator can do a sanity-check on whatever the car’s confused by. They only need to be able to identify objects on the road, not know the rules of the road.

No. They just end the ride and send somebody from the local depot to drive the car back to the garage.

Source: I was on Waymo’s Fleet Response team for a year doing literally this job that is now outsourced overseas. While the tech exists for full remote steering, NHTSA regulations disallow it, and that’s one of the few agencies that Google actually has to abide by if they want to drive their cars on public roads.

Even with the recent struck child, Waymos are still light years ahead of human drivers in terms of safety. Honestly, the faster we can replace human drivers, the better. Almost all traffic collisions are caused by human error, remove that and the roads will be the safest they’ve been since horse-drawn carriages first entered the scene.

Won’t happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it’s free.