…until found by another means.

And we have cats communities to deal with that one!

I feel like this is an issue of (either accidentally or incidentally) putting focus on something that doesn’t really need it. Picking instances should not matter; not in the sense of “it’s federated blah blah” but more in the sense of “it’s 2026, there’s password managers, noone uses their real identities for everything; having multiple accounts wherever it’s convenient should be normal”.

Where do all those meme posts about “Lemmy is bad name / bad branding” come from? I’ve seen it recurrently enough every time someone launches a FOSS thing that I would normally suspect it’s part of a LLM farm or a scam attempt from some sort of naming / patents agency, but I’ve seen these reactions from long enough (2015-ish).

Fifth consecutive month I have to remind people that XMPP exists.

And somehow magically all corporate product names land the one you want and all fediverse or FOSS inventions land the one you don’t? Come on it’s a quite common, low-hanging fruit complaint. Besides, the domain space for naming things is unpredictable.

Don’t forget about the cats!

Lemmy say that this whole “name dumb” thing is idiotic and completely subjective anyway. You should really go outside and take a look at the names of products people use.

No, it’s free real estate for scams, slop and the like.

I was hoping with the year run-up we’d have a better alternative replacement, but alas.

Apologize? XMPP has existed since almost longer than I have.

The Colt was “democratizing”, but regardless of how liberally you interpret that (eg.: whoever can make the gun has more power over its distribution), it was at the cost of getting more people killed.

Sometimes, ready access to a technology is not a good thing. Imagine if we all could make nukes.

Exactly. Even if it isn’t immediately detectable, once it is you’ve run afoul of the rules twice, so you can get extra punished.

That why we now need for the other CROMs to get in touch with the manufacturers and get a partial measure that can get other phones well-up and operational. My personal take, they need to request the ability to relock the bootloaders of devices that are already off the market and would next turn into ewaste otherwise. Frame it as an olive branch so that the people who keep those devices might at least think of fetching a privacy / environment focused successor of the same brand for the next cycle(s).

Thanks to inflation, we have a special prize for your country: $2000.

Technically correct.

No one would care if AI replaced them at some menial soul-sucking job. If they could live and pursue their passions instead they would all be glad to.

If the cost was still the destruction of the environment and the genocide of foreign children, we’d have nowhere left to follow our passions in (worse if they are environment-related arts) nor people to teach or pass it down to.

AI is not just about the implementation. There’s entire ethics behind it. As a technology, its entire purpose, its only purpose, is to replace humans, and it has to be understood in that capacity.

Dear god the condescending tone. The passive-aggressive edit to the statement so that it still says the Nazi was “doxxed”. The inability neither apologize nor correct their bad behaviour (the original reporter is IIRC still banned). The between-the-lines insistence on “please be kind (to centrists and nazis)”. The insistence that making decisions on AI usage does not involve ethics.

Reminds me of the times when Fedora was exclusionary and racist to South Americans (dunno if they still are, lost them long ago).

KDE went to the trash like, woosh. This fast.

I hope they make it possible to install GrapheneOS on their budget phones as well.

Not within Graphene’s intent, alas.

Still, from the fact that this deal worked (so far…) I now expect other Custom ROMs such as lineage to reach deals with manufacturers to release the bootloader relock keys for near-EOL (or even EOL) devices that are already on the market. The way I see it, it’s a win-win: the segment of people who are privacy or environmentally conscious were not going to buy a new phone from them or the competition anyway, so securing that they continue your brand gives you the option of data input to tailor next models to them, prevents ewaste from going into the environment, and keeps phones of the brand circulating in need for repairs or replacement parts which means the brand can license parts and operations.

, make it successful

How.

With a Epstein Class price tag, the only ones who can make it successful are… the Epstein Class.

Moisturizing. Focusing. Inourlaneing. Flourishing.