It costs $0 to tell the police…

You can literally walk up to any cop and say “my brother says he wants to kill me and I’m scared” and that’s more than plenty.

The way I see it we have very little agency in this world. That’s why I choose to believe in predestination. If your brother kills then he was always destined to kill, you can’t know that about him like that’s not something anyone could know about anyone else. But I fully believe and live by the truth that it is possible to know a little bit better than everyone else.

By the nature of things you know more about the situation than I can ever. And you know more than the other people experiencing this situation. There is nothing immoral about such a state, the correct way to characterize it is “a potential matter of life and death” therefore “the potential of dialing 911”, and back to my thesis it cost $0 to give the right people a heads up.

There’s nothing wrong with knowing better.

Full disclosure I’m kind of suffering with my own motivation issues, I have things in my life that feel small to me that I just can’t do for my own reasons. I’m sorry if I presented the words “my brother says he wants to kill me and I’m scared” as easy.

Hope to hear from you again ༼ つ ◕u◕ ༽つ

I’ve never seen a more perfect representation of the average Republican. The same one who’s a transphobe in Texas sometimes flies to Thailand.

You have to report back which individual switch it is such that another person is able to control the light bulb reliably because they know which switch

Best response! I pray I will remember it if I ever get in this situation.

I collect multi-tools, there’s always a knife on me bc they all have knifes. I mostly have them for scissors and can openers and they’re awesome!

What are they a carrot?

This has got to be some sort of psyop

That almost feels analogous to the world burning… like this is going to sound a little macabre but are you really expecting 2026 to be better? If so can you articulate why??

When I read about this I’m always brought back to the conversation of “internet as a public utility”. I hope it’s cool if we can take a tangent.

See unlike any of our other utilities like natural gas electricity water and sewage, the only thing that could potentially give any meaningful information about us is our sewage, and the government already tests sewage for diseases. If we allow the government to “sell” us our internet they would basically be able to know everyone we are “talking too”. Also how could we ever have enough regulatory oversight to protect everyone on the internet. Symmetrically if the government wants to have so much regulatory control over our internet it should maybe pay for it.

Like I wouldn’t mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for “private internet” just so the government can have their free and regulated “public internet”. Or would I (⁠・⁠–⁠・)⁠ゞ?

We already have activitypub, and projects like Gitea are actively implementing it (at this time I don’t think it’s live enough yet)

I feel like we should be treating git as more of a federated system. What rule is there against pushing to multiple remotes?

Can I ask what this “personal information” could possibly be? I’ve been 100% aware of all the information I put on the internet and the only thing that really bothers me is chatgpt. What information have I put on the internet that I wanted to keep a secret but like “whoops” it ended up on the internet?

Frankly I feel like this is what most people feel like. I mean who cares that Amazon can recommend to me something that I might actually want, it’s still up to me to buy it if I want it. I’m not losing control if anything

The same advantages as all free and open source solution, it’s free and open source. That means how much it’s going to cost to your business is directly under your control. You can make a decision on how you acquire hardware based on your business’s needs. If you want to add or change features you can decide how to do that based on the deals you have with your programmers (like pick the developer you have with the best skills and the lowest cost), and then you get to control how much it costs you and how reliable the result is going to be.

If you feel like the support you get from customer service from Amazon or Google or Microsoft is reliable enough and you don’t need more reliability then go ahead and stick with paid products. But if you already have a team of really expensive and talented engineers you might as well let them solve problems with free and open source equipment.

I wish Rocket Chat got more attention

Shit you’re going to have me learning French now

Fuck the French

That’s what we get for saying “why can’t I get a mortgage when I pay more in rent just bc my credit is bad”, the banks figured out how to rent properties to you.

There is a metadata protocol called opengraph, it’s how apps get the information to display a rich preview. Basically the app takes the link as it’s written in the SMS message or Twitter thread and then it tries to fetch that page and then read the open graph metadata from inside. That should give it enough to show a title description and a background image, considering the web developers implemented opengraph.

If Google is planning to use their own servers basically as a proxy then all this means is that the opengraph rich metadata is going to be a little more stale than if the app just fetch the page and generated the rich metadata itself

If you go to the complaints section, it’s a form that sends a letter to your local state representative

Exactly that, if I change a pixel then the cryptographic signature breaks

The NFTs tried to solve this problem already and it didn’t work. You can change the hash/sig of a video file by just changing one pixel on one frame, meaning you just tricked the computer, not the people who use it.