take the blue pill, self-destruct: sign back up for facebook, make a tiktok account. Always carry the newest iphone and a stock android phone on your person. Post live photos on instagram of where you are and what you are doing multiple times a day. Sign up for X. Buy a blue checkmark. Live-tweet your fight against constipation. You have nothing to hide if everyone already knows everything about you.

They don’t wanna give you actual numbers. That might be useful. eww…

I hope it has a cape.

I mean, if you have a billysbool class anyway, you’d make its truthiness correct according to bossman’s scheme, and then the not operator would work correctly.

This but I am tucked up in bed.

I get that, and I even made an account on PeerTube’s GitLab just to submit a tiny fix on a secondary project of theirs, but do you think an average issue submitter would bother? I do not. And it’s not as simple as this process separating the wheat from the chaff, either.

The choice every developer has to make is between having a potentially successful project, with contributors and community engagement, or hosting their stuff on an open platform. PeerTube even has a GitLab of their own, and yet they host their main software on GitHub, because they simply have to.

I’m a sucker for AWPer Hand and I refuse to consider any other rifles. (Bows are not rifles.)

pig goes in the pig aisle

You’re going to be really happy when you find out it’s a whole gif!

Facebook was an okay name, Meta boils my blood.

I’m currently at the second, kinda scared of the third but maybe a little excited? I was thinking I should join a religion about it.

Aren’t you basically just describing FOSS and framing it as a complaint? Valve for example has a vested interest in improving their software stack, and they do just that by donating both money and engineers to various projects. If these open source projects did not exist, they would have to spend the same or even more money on a proprietary licensed alternative, or to develop their own solution.

I wish that news articles would actually cite how they know things

Yep. When I actually started reading some news articles and quickly found out that I was on my own if I want to learn more or verify what I just read, really put me off that stuff.

When I actually post something informative, it seems crazy to not include the links I already have anyway. And make sure it’s viewable in the wayback machine if it’s something so predictably ephemeral…

Here’s a handy flowchart for checking if a website has had CSAM uploaded to it:

Has the site ever allowed file uploads by users?

-> No: Users have not uploaded any CSAM.

-> Yes: The site has had CSAM uploaded to it.

If you’re willing to believe a couple of random news outlets:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/09/altoona-mcdonalds-luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare https://www.ibtimes.com/altoona-mcdonalds-flooded-angry-1-star-reviews-after-arrest-suspected-unitedhealthcare-ceo-3754683

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/altoona-pennsylvania-mcdonald-reviews-go-negative-/

Not hard to imagine thag G**gle would be on the case, deleting reviews by now.

Helicopter, obviously!

That shading work on the meme tho, excellent

not sure if arguing against tldr, or just trying to defuse a bomb

If you want to mess with the command line, I recommend tldr. Anyone could do xkcd’s tar challenge if they can run tldr tar first! (pretty sure it’s in mint’s apt repos)