I think it was called The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.

Most folks here are tech savvy and don’t mind the kbin name, but I don’t expect some of my friends to ‘get’ it.

To be honest, I don’t ‘get’ it either. Does kbin mean anything? Is it meant to be like ‘cabin’ or something…

Yeah, Feedly is great. Been using it for years and very happy with it.

It’s kind of a bummer that RSS never took off the way it deserved. It is kind of a precursor to what we have now with Fediverse/ActivityPub.

All I knew playing it was that if I lowered them, the game played cheering sounds and booed me if I raised them.

As a kid, whenever I had to raise taxes, I would raise them one increment higher than I needed and get all the boos. Then lower back down one increment to get the cheers. I figured if you end on cheers, that must mean they are happy, right?

Lemmy has so far made $0 total profit. So that makes them substantially more profitable than Reddit.

Oh, that’s too bad. I’ve been using Stitcher for years and was pretty happy with it.

What other podcast apps for Android are people using that they would recommend?

I’ve tried using Spotify previously for podcasts, but I find it frustrating since the app is primarily designed for music. It works well for music, but the podcasts experience is awkwardly grafted on and does not work well for me.

I found this bit amusing:

To get WinGPT working without a proxy, the Dialup.net developer has also developed a 16-bit port of the WolfSSL library to support TLS 1.2 and 1.3 connections on the ancient operating system. This port is, as the developer says, “not secure, not reliable, and there is no warranty,” and it should be used for entertainment purposes only. The port doesn’t verify security certificates and uses “a fake random number generator” to function.

Very photogenic kitty.

otherwise a very nice device.

“Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”

On the other hand, kbin has a cumulative score, but currently implements it badly wrong. Your cumulative ‘reputation’ is calculated as “boosts - downvotes”. So if you post a thread that gets 100 upvotes, 9 downvotes, 80 comments and 5 boosts, you are rewarded with ‘-4 reputation’. Nobody really uses boost, so it is very easy to rack up negative reputation.

Thankfully, I don’t think ‘reputation’ actually does anything, but it is still kind of annoying to be ‘punished’ for posting.

“911, what’s your emergency?”

“I urgently need to take a screenshot of this youtube video to post on social media.! Help!”