Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It’s one I haven’t read, yet, but if you’re talking about another story, I’d like to read that, too!

Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket “no,” forcing him to go his own way.

Not arguing, just asking.

On Android, you apparently just have to push the power button several times (six times, I think?). But yeah, the assumption that it’s universal is tantamount to sharing misinformation.

I think they’re still a pretty small operation, and I’m just grateful that I have a functional alternative to Goodreads.

They’re talking about Twitch’s own internal moderation, not streamer-specific mod tools.

A streaming suspension applies to violations occurring during a livestream. This penalty blocks the user from going live and temporarily disables chat on their channel.

It was not. Poe’s Law.

They’re a complete stranger, and there are actual people who unironically say stuff like that, even on the Fediverse.

Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.

I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.

One of the many reasons I’m thankful that my instance doesn’t federate downvotes.

Sigh of course it’s a Nordic thing. I should have guessed. White nationalists also love other Heathen/Norse symbolism.

Good to be careful, so thanks for educating me.

Can you explain why you feel that way? “Hyperborea” is not a term I’m familiar with vis a vis Nazism.

Join an instance without downvotes, and you’ll never have to care about them again.

Thanks for the reference!

Because I’m tired of people making flimsy arguments for why LLMs are “akshully really good and underrated.” I’m tired of regular people, wittingly or unwittingly, carrying water for the billionaires who are currently fucking over the economy, the environment, and even entire supply chains in an effort to show—against all evidence to the contrary—that LLMs are much more than fancy chatbots.

It has been an incessant drone of sloppy arguments and omitted facts, and I am tired, boss.

Obviously, my mini-benchmark only had 6 questions, and I ran it only once. This was obviously not scientifically rigorous. However it was systematic enough to trump just a mere feeling. … If and when AI usage expands from here, we might actually not drown in AI slop as chances of accidentally crappy results decrease. This makes me positive about the future.

Spoken like a true AI apologist. You ran one test, and you extrapolated your results to an optimistic outcome that conspicuously matches what you wish to be true. Not scientifically rigorous? Bruh, this is the very definition of confirmation bias.

If this is actually a hypothesists you want to test, maybe contact some computer science researchers to see how to best design an experiment. Beyond that, this is virtually the same as flipping a coin once and drawing a conclusion about how often heads is the outcome.

I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol

NYC Mesh!

https://www.nycmesh.net/

There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.

Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.

Anyway, somebody working for Microsoft isn’t proof positive that they share the values of Microsoft (unless you’re in upper admin); you’re not guilty by association. People generally need to work to eat in this capitalist hellscape, and FOSS doesn’t tend to pay well.

If better means “more inclusive,” then yes. It’s better. Did I say to stop downvoting? No. Did I tell people to abandon their downvoting-enabled instances? No (though have a look and see how I’ve been told multiple times to leave mine).

Dunno why people are hellbent on excluding people who don’t want optional downvotes when non-optional reporting exists.

But do go on about how I’m excluding the poor instances with downvotes by recommending an inclusive action that they also benefit from.

It’s not basic functionality. It’s optional, and I don’t want it. So, no thank you.

The insistence that everybody experience the Fediverse in a particular way is what makes centralized services garbage and prone to enshittification.