@evan I think the purpose was to force people to set up automation. Setting up automation is harder than just installing a certificate, but you only have to do it once instead of having to do it yearly (which you may forget). In the long run it's more convenient.

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

@nay @87flowers windows 2000 will be released in 192000

Did you know that David Zinn's little creatures even make waffles using the things they find on the pavement? I feel like I'd enjoy one this Sunday morning 🧇

#StreetArt #DavidZinn

@RunxiYu @merlin Not every modern federated chat protocol tries to do E2EE. ActivityPub is newer than Matrix and makes no attempt to do E2EE. Problems with E2EE compatibility between different implementations are mostly to do with the client software, not the server software, since E2EE does not usually require any support from the server. Not supporting federation does not help with this.

@lanodan @famfo @a1ba GNUstep is still part of GNU

Nice to see that everyone is referring to the new pope by his chosen name.

🏳️‍⚧️ Do the same for trans people! 🏳️‍⚧️

Mask bans are a tactic of #surveillance and control. Not only do they infringe upon people’s rights to health, safety, #privacy, and #accessibility, they cause disproportionate harm to racially marginalized + #disabled people. https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/03/perfect-storm-of-criminalization-analyzing-mask-bans/

Meanwhile in Switzerland: after US embassy demanded to know if the bakery that supplies them with baked goods is not too WOKE and send them a questionaire, the bakers responded with sending US embassy a questionaire asking if they are willing to respect human rights, otherwise they might bake their right-wing croissaints themselves.

https://www.bernerzeitung.ch/fragebogen-an-us-botschaft-sind-bei-ihnen-faelle-von-zollwut-bekannt-286877868867

shocking news at the Vatican as they announce a unanimous vote that Odin is the goodest boy

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected

@guyjantic @cwebber The solution here is not to rephrase with LLMs, but rather to abolish Corporate Polite Speak and always say what you mean as directly as possible.

@q66 I use chattr +i to prevent KDE Plasma (or anything else) from messing with my GTK settings

@ellie COLD WET CHATS
(this is a pissnet reference)

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.

Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.

The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.

#climate #climatechange

print(f"This is either python, or c code with the open parens in the wrong place");

xD

@ariadne When people post messages with excessive hashtags I like to imagine they talk like that IRL too