Well, in Dave’s CEO’s defense, it was just Google Ads.

Just, you know, that thing that largely provides the income for a world top-ten company.

This is, excuse me, fucking brilliant

Awesome, thanks for sharing and making this effort! Bookmarked for later when I can listen to your work.

How do you feel about Audacity?

Lemmy on Voyager is flawless as fuck.

In fact I have been lately on Bluesky and spending much more time there these days, since people who I respect say “it’s an open standard” and “a true bulwark to the next Musk or whoever wants to buy it”, but I regularly find myself wondering, “what am I looking for here [on Bluesky]?”

The anonymity of reddit type platforms, of which Lemmy is the most future proof, is highly preferable. Bluesky (Twitter/Xitter, etc) feels lie a bunch of ‘identities’ wanting on some level to get the karma their post deserves plus the karma their identity ‘deserves’

Also in that field, but… I think you have to acknowledge that being, usually, in your example 1) at work and 2) on a computer, make people that much less interested in giving a shit. Compare to various systems people use in their free time, and you probably see that people are pretty good at attending to the things they think matter.

Capitalism, or, at the very very least, unfettered capitalism, are the real problem, not people writ large.

Been watching Band of Brothers (then of course the sequel, The Pacific) and gameplay from The Darkness for this very “no particular reason”. The Darkness feels more cathartic.

Worse, it’s quentin tarantino

Lemmy’s final boss…

Then again, Lemmy and ActivityPub are (by design) wide open to anyone, including TenCent

Great answer thanks for sharing!

What two pieces of software, if you don’t mind sharing?

I ask because a relative who is a software developer could somehow barely finally leave windows, because of WinSCP, which is, afaik, a GUI for secure copy commands. Why rsync or sftp commands cannot be enough for a software developer without WinSCP was beyond me. But perhaps there is something I don’t know about each of these pieces of software.

Is it me or is there something very facile and dull about Gartner charts? Thinking especially about the “””magic””” quadrants one (wow, you ranked competitors in some area along TWO axes!), but even this chart feels like such a mundane observation that it seems like frankly undeserved advertising for Gartner, again, given how little it actually says.

Agreed with “fuck Oracle,” but isn’t the JVM the same regardless of where you compile it, Linux or something else?

Something seems off with the idea of a conflict between Linux and Java (and I am no fan of Java!)

GIMP is fucking awesome what are you on about

Was it not possible for MS to design their safe mode to still “work” when Bitlocker was enabled? Seems strange.

“rapid unscheduled disassembly” 🙄

Absolutely fascinating point you make there!

I kind of can’t stand Biden, in spite of the many surprisingly good things he’s done in the last few years.

But god damn if this isn’t the kind of action from Meta that can only help Trump.

I am sorry to feel that this decision from Meta has much more to do with certain ongoing wars and preferred candidates than any “EU legislation.”

Meta wants Trump. Meta wants fascism.