When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

ISBN Search is a non-monopolist source of the same information.

Neat. I’ve been holding out for a new higher quality retro emulator without sticks. The old games I want to play don’t use sticks, and the sticks make it harder to carry in a pocket.

Not Jumping Flash, after all? Neat.

That’s what resonates for me.

We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.

Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.

I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”

Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.

I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.

That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.

I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.

Lol. That’s true! There are DVD menu games with higher approval ratings than some CD-I games.

There’s a timeline where I’m not automatically alarmed by something just because Elon supports it.

This isn’t that timeline. Where’s the grift?

I’m not old. Lalalala. I can’t hear you. But I’m not old, or anything.

Is flying too risky for me?

Sounds lile “Yes.”

I’m going to be flying over the ocean most of the flight, and all my Epi Pens do is give me an extra 20 or so minutes to get to the hospital.

I hear you saying that if the airline or a random passenger screws up, you get to die horribly.

I wouldn’t risk it.

I want to encourage you that you have every right to say “that doesn’t feel safe” rather than risk it.

You don’t have to risk it if you don’t want to.

I generally don’t take any “I might die horribly” risks, myself, when I can avoid them.

Open source projects aren’t doomed to lousy UX forever.

Shoves GNUImp behind a desk with a foot.

Just look at recent releases of Gnome and KDE. We can have nice things, it just takes time.

You’ve nailed it. That’s the key bit that organizations of all kinds are going to figure out.

Any profit goes back to employees and paying users.

You just described a normal non-profit, but doomed. Lol.

Organizational committment to remaining non-profit seems to be critical to the recipe.