My thoughts exactly. It’s like the TV equivalent of a gym membership.

People who refuse to exercise critical thinking skills, which is a terrifying percentage of the population.

Now we wait for them to be put in car headlights.

Ah yes, the thing I’m most concerned about giving me cancer: toast.

Not the microplastics, environmental pollution or stress of living in the collapse of modern civilization 🫠 /s

Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.

Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)

It’s not new either. Iirc certain books were fully banned in Boston (amongst other places) up until the mid-20th century.

A country founded on bass-ackwards puritans hellbent on making others suffer isn’t going to magically lose that DNA. Just remember they got kicked out of England because they were antisocial controlling assholes, not because they were “persecuted.”

This is precisely why oligarchs are trying to clamp down on these tools.

It’s not for “the children.” It’s for their protection, or so they think.

Kind of. Scaling back your calorie intake while getting enough macro/micronutrients is a tricky balance, but doable (if you’re going from a very high weight to something in a middle body mass range).

AI Agent = LLM, or fancy autocorrect chatbot

Lands PRs = is successful with pull requests: successfully gets generated code added to software projects.

OSS Projects: Open Source Software. Software that has its code publicly available.

Targets Maintainers: seeks out humans who write and regularly update the original code

Via Cold Outreach: relentlessly spams without prior network connections. Basically plays a digital door-to-door sales technique, using a numbers game of 100 “no”s to 1 “yes.”

Quick translate: Slop bot harasses human programmers into allowing poorly generated/formatted code into important software projects.

Why should I worried about what seemed like novel mocap-type technology when I live in a surveillance state dystopian hellscape where roves of masked racist invaders are ripping my neighbors off the street, and the tech companies here are gleefully enabling and profiting off it?

Completely irrelevant but I hear that in Bender’s voice every time

Good on those parents for advocating for their kids’ wishes!

When even the students are stressed and overwhelmed by the enshittification, that should be a glaring sign that something has to change. Humans need a break from the always-on, endless stream of digital information, especially that young.

1 day old account with 25 article posts and 0 comments. I fear imminent deletion :/

Wait I thought toxic masculinity was a broader social concept that negatively harmed men directly by enforcing narrow definitions of what qualifies as manhood?

E.g., toxic masculinity makes a man feel like he can’t sew or watch a romcom without being labeled “not a real man.”

I love your optimism

I have the 2DSXL, and have played about half of those. I was just sad it was primarily limited to mostly online (Pushmo’s servers are dead) and first-party titles. I was a GBA/DS kid so expected wider variety beyond that.

It’s a fantastic little device for modding though!

I thought Apple/most smartphones would never move to USB-C, or away from proprietary chargers. Pleasantly surprised - thank you EU.

I thought wireless controllers were going to be a fad, or at least garbage in their reliability/connection strength.

I thought VR was finally going to take off as the next major gaming experience when the Vive came out. Unfortunately it remains niche.

I thought Linux was going to be unusable for gaming/mainstream use cases for much longer, but Valve has made huge strides on that with Proton, and OSS devs making things like Heroic for other stores has been awesome. Also shoutout to KDE for, well, everything. Krita, KDE connect, Plasma. LibreOffice has also come a very long way.

I also thought we’d never get another steam controller. Also pleasantly surprised.

I thought the switch was gonna end up with the same depressing library as the 3DS, if that’s any consolation.

No mention of the iPod? Shocking

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