it’s a storyline thing :)

RIP Red ♥️

I wish we could just signed diffs and stop with the whole “make an account literally everywhere” mentality.

the email-list only folks are like 3/4s right; federation isn’t a solution to bring decentralization to an already decentralized system, it’s to just stop thinking that every saas has to “own” your stuff, and keep it behind auth and secrets and a big heavy database.

Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew (I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads

Mazel tov, mutherfuckers hits the button

https://youtu.be/GFokXnCCMf8?si=rk5Wo8VP9XesI48-

I really admire the arc of character growth

ugh, this so much.

muppets from space is both one of my favorites, and contains the travesty that is whatever happened to Fozzie’s writing.

How do you think he got matched up with the Libyans? It’s not everyday you get offered to help smuggle nuclear material…

it’s a hard thing for me to wrap my head around, but it’s cool when you think about it: there’s actually no possible shared reference; even with atomic clocks, based solely on the bouncing of cesium atoms ticking away, the distance travelled is dependent on acceleration in your reference frame.

relativity really is!

gimme that black ICE

it’s a bit different, in that they’re just constantly broadcasting a singular id, over and over. The “tracking” is the application on various devices which receive the broadcast and report it to Apple, along with that device’s location.

Sidewalk was packing up actual user data and running it over your network, which has other implications.

I hear you, but I think a lot of us just amortized that cost over time as we’ve gotten those devices, same as you will now, but at least it’s cheaper to start now than 5 years ago?

not at all defending or praising the idea, but I’m very sure the foundation of my house is larger than that.

if I want to follow you home, I buy an airtag, drop it in your purse/truck bed/gym bag, wait for 45m and then go to where the airtag is.

That’s why it’s referring to anti stalking protections; the devices work too well, and allow you to track all sorts of things, even stuff that doesn’t belong to you, or that has the agency to not want you to.

my 2c:

that we live in anything approaching an Adam Smith style capitalism at all. The scope of regulatory capture, anticompetitive behavior, cartel building et al in the current corporatist handwave means that prices can never go down, competition can’t really unseat incumbents and so on.