Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?

If it’s not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global “the Chinese” or doing silly shit like “China scientists” everyone’s grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.

Reality has executed Satire in broad daylight

GameCenter is back again, let’s goooo

Unlikeable asshole entity tries even harder to get people to like them. Results are mixed

Fisker, due to going bankrupt, arguably is the worst version of this right now

The EU is probably working on that front at the very least. Unfortunately the US side may need regulators to carry it forward

Price Has No Limits™

PayStation ∆◯╳☐

I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me

Seems a bit silly to comment confidently on changes happening within Windows that you don’t experience then, no?

So glad I didn’t actually go through with opening a Yotta account. Maybe it’s not them directly that screwed everything up, but their money (their customer’s money) just went poof.

The finance system is sketchy enough, Fintech gives me the willies.

♥️ winget my beloved ♥️

Well this is Interesting.

Video storage and bandwidth is probably my most pressing concern, but that’s the same as with peertube, no?

Speaking of which, are they going to consult with PeerTube for cross compatibility?

Expecting FaceDeer to not glaze AI is like expecting the sun to not rise.

The fossil fuel industry is dying

Upvote to make it die faster

On the low end, yearly OS upgrade compliance.

On the high end, dealing with the Kafkaesque whims of the App and Play stores randomly deciding to nuke your app (and thus business) from orbit as an “oopsie”

Clearly you haven’t dealt with a Mastodon instance having a major defederation event.

For most users, regardless of the validity of the defed, the user experience is terrible. Their social graph just suddenly, stops working, the people they follow can no longer see their posts, all because of the actions of a few bad actors or administration failures.

This paired with the fact that maybe only Firefish or Misskey lets you (mostly) seamlessly migrate to a new instance with your data intact, and the lack of a standard way to see what followers you will actually keep when you migrate, means that the defederation experience is sucks, and migrating to a different instance to escape that is a pain in the ass.

Meta has already shown it has piss poor moderation in the best of times, and actively boosts incendiary content in the worst of times, all while collecting, profiling, and exploiting your data. It’s literally inevitable that they’re going to break the rules of all but the free-est of free speech Instances, so for the privacy, safety, and headaches of everyone in the fediverse, we might as well save ourselves the trouble.**

404 sprang up from ex-Motherboard writers when Vice Media went bankrupt this year. I think their articles are alright, because paying the bills as a journalist is very hard.

Dark Brandon is Awake.

I wish he was around more often than Sleepy Joe. 😔

Banning the Internet Archive??? What on earth is happening over there???

Dashing little pup

Scale that up to a 4 ton production-ready consumer vehicle without introducing defects, I imagine