@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world my kids (8 and 11) play “fuck elon”. It’s slugbug for cybertucks. We don’t encourage profanity, but don’t punish them when they use it appropriately. This seems VERY appropriate.

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@Majorllama@lemmy.world our dog is trained IF we give him a command like “leave it” BEFORE instict kicks in. If we see another dog while walking, “leave it” works. If we knew the ad was coming, we’d be fine. We’re usually half watching dumb tv to wind down when our dog tries to save us from dog on the other side of the glass. Once he’s in “holy shit, they’re coming to kill my pack mode”, we can only turn the tv off. Can’t pause the ad. Can’t even swith services since our “smart” tv continues playing the previous video in 1/4 of the screen while selecting another app.

Our dog is only 2. If he’s like every other dog we’ve owned l, he will either accept that nothing ever comes through the tv or no longer have the energy to defend his pack.

@hark@lemmy.world

@drmoose@lemmy.world

When I learned to write headlines 30 years ago, the goal was to capture the gist of the article. We’d write something like…

Proposd Take It Down Law Would Be Used as a Weapon

I’m not sure it’s possible to train AI to write effectively headlines after 20 years of clickbaiting and controversy “journalism”.

@tazzy@lemm.ee

@NightOwl@lemmy.ca the “majority” actually voted for someone else or chose not to vote. Only ~30% support this circus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections

@haverholm@kbin.earth I don’t know much about this plugin, but I do know it was “aquired” by Automattic… basically meaning that the developer was hired to work for Automattic. I don’t watch every episode of As WP Turns, but in the last episode of that drama I watched I think Matt announced that Automattic was scaling back their contributions to the open source aspects of WP… which would include this plugin.

If you want to see this change, you will likely need to make the request in the form of a PR. If you don’t have the knowledge and skills required to do that (and aren’t willing to invest the time it take to gain that knowledge and skill), I suggest you start being more professional and polite when making requests for the changes you want.

You’ve paid nothing for this code. Have some empathy for the maintainer.

@mesamunefire@lemmy.world I was just discussing how to add NodeBB comments to Drupal in https://community.nodebb.org/post/103485

@jqubed@lemmy.world

@mesamunefire@lemmy.world @m_f@discuss.online

There have been 2.5 million WordPress posts pushed to ActivityPub. The engagement on this is near zero, but it is happening.

The MAU number is complete BS. Most of these users don’t even know the WP instance they are logging into gives them a federated presence. Logging into WP makes the use active in the endpoint used to share data with https://fedidb.org/software/wordpress

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@anzo@programming.dev are you referring to kbin.melroy.org? Don’t let the DNS fool you. Like most Kbin instances, kbin.melroy.org is now running Mbin. In fact, kbin.melroy.org is run be the developer leading the Mbin project. My understanding from following a bitnofnthe Kbin/Mbin drama was that Melroy tried contributing to Kbin, but found Earnest unwilling to collaborate or delegate. If you look at https://fedidb.org/software/mbin, you’ll see many of the large instances that launched with kbin in the URL are actually running Mbin now.

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@anzo@programming.dev when I joined Pixelfed, I was able to use my fosstodon.org account. Do any of the MBin instance allow that type of cross service authentication yet?

@alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml

@wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io fair point. The Biden recovery wasn’t raising all boats equally, but effort was being made to stimulate job creation in many parts of the economy. Not only have programs and grants that created jobs had their funding disrupted, we are now “potentially” paying 65K of the 2.1 million federal employees not to work for 7 months? I stress “potentially” as Elon made the same offer at Twitter and then just didn’t pay.

@alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml

@wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io

The thing about history is if you don’t want your name associated with homeless Trump Towns in every city in America, maybe don’t take a healthy economy and run it into the ground. Maybe don’t let a PE hack who has never built anything like Tom Krause near the institutions the American people rely on.

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/hoovervilles

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/

@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world

@moseschrute@lemmy.world sometimes it takes letting it play out for people to remember the leason that history could have thaught them. Do your best now to prepare for some tough times. If you own your home outright, get that basement ready for a renter. If you’ve already leveraged 80% of your home, get out from under that NOW and look for a basement to rent.

Read some Steinbeck. Watch Idocracy. Strike up a conversation with the oldest people you cross paths with about what they remember their parents telling them about the great depression. It’s going to suck, but when someone can convince this many Americans to vote against their own interests their is a more fundamental problem.

I personally take a little joy from the interveiws with people laid off who didn’t realize the company they worked for was producing products for federally subsidized clean energy initiatives.

@astrsk@fedia.io

@HK65@sopuli.xyz @normalexit@lemmy.world @GreenKnight23@lemmy.world

The posts you are replying to ha e been deleted. I’m really currious what they said because we have one vendor who claims to be/is locked into usung “master”. This either requires us to write CI that merges main -> master and mirrors master back to main or use master. This can confuse junior devs once or twice, but it is really not an issue. The ONLY time I felt compelled to use master because of this vendor was when working with a group using GitLab. GitLab has a feature called Pull Mirroring that is MUCH more reliable than a pull/mirror action in GitHub that does the same thing, but to use that the branch names had to be the same.

I see both sides of this argument. The master/slave relationship in tech is NOT like masterworks or mastering a craft. It is based on one “owning” the other, but I don’t think that allowing technology to work that way is violating its rights. Obviously changing the name doesn’t change the behavior and isn’t it really only when that behavior is applied to people that we have a problem with it?

I never fully supported the effort required to change, but I’ve also never written anything in a way it would be difficult to change. I recognize that it could be considered a micro aggression, but it’s not like we are going to stop ants or bees from treating other classes as forced labor. Slavery exists. It is bad when applied to people. It accurately describes tech. Changing the name of the master db or branch did NOT free the slaves.

@moseschrute@lemmy.world no need to call. @npr@flipboard.com is already on a federated social solution with 2.3 million followers. Until the end of 2020, they were also active at @NPR@mstdn.social. If you want media to prioritize these new, unownable solutions over legacy social, you have to show them there is an audience here and follow them.

If you are from CO, please follow @coloradosun@mstdn.social and @RyeBread@toot.community.