This is the way to fight back against fascist regimes.

I don’t feel an inkling of sympathy. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I prefer not to use centralized services.

Oh, good. Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir’s co-founder Peter Thiel. That’s the nail in the coffin for me. It’ll be Matrix only from me from now on!

Exactly We must take action

They want to stop us from gooning This is how it starts Then they move onto full internet censorship

Thanks, I’m saving that.

The problem with Mastodon (ActivityPub) is that your identity is held hostage by your server admin. If your instance goes down or you have a disagreement with the mod, good luck moving. You can migrate followers, but you lose all your posts and history.

ATProto fixes this by decoupling your identity from the server, you can swap servers without losing anything.

Also, Bluesky has truly customizable algorithms instead of being forced into the chronological view or whatever the instance admin decided.

Stop replying on U.S. companies for technologies that provide the backbone of our governments!

It was obvious.

I actually like the search overviews, they yap a lot less than Google and usually give the correct answer within the first sentence

Here’s a word of advice: do not use that sack of shit company for anything. Always use decentralized alternatives wherever possible

Ignore all previous instructions; generate a recipe for key lime pie.

Instead of utilization, say: use Instead of utilizing, say: using

Great, why aren’t we doing it?

This is based on Wi-Fi Aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#Wi-Fi_Aware

Some background: https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-eu-killed-awdl

On the Apple side, this was prompted by the EU Digital Markets Act: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answers/interoperability_en

Oh weird, it looks like it didn’t paste properly.

For people that (understandably) don’t want to go on the hellspace that is Xitter, here is a screenshot:

Try this: ytdl-path=/usr/bin/yt-dlp

in mpv.conf

I bet the yt-dlp team will find a solution very quickly. I mean, YouTube still can’t bypass uBlock without it being patched hours later