At least base your distaste on reality. The term was born on 4chan back when it had a mostly leftist penchant (around the time the OWS movement was going off). It has nothing to do with “right wing”, that’s just you putting political polarization on everything.

the expectation would be a better solution will surface in reference to streaming… the same way streaming was a solution to cable.

What would that look like though? The current streaming model was pretty easy to predict ~15 years ago with the advent of online video streaming in general, especially mainstream forms of it such as YouTube. I have a hard time imagining how any other business model for distributing video content would look like, but then again I don’t have a very entrepreneurial mind.

…and those who didn’t expect a ternary joke!

Have you ever questioned the nature of your own reality?

*un vélo

But I wonder how Sync does it under the hood.

if(!blockedInstances.contains(comment.user.instance)) {
    // Show comment
}

Probably something like that.

Being good at chess isn’t about being “smart”, a lot of top chess players will tell you as much. It is however about things like spatial awareness and pattern recognition, and some studies have demonstrated those traits to be, on average, stronger in male subjects. I’m sure evidence to the contrary exists though.

Not really true for a lot of Europe, but yes, it is a good thing.

That’s genius. I was always more of a screenshot-your-desktop-then-set-it-as-wallpaper-and-hide-taskbar-and-icons kinda guy but that one is so damn subtle it probably just leads to people thinking everything works normally except that it feels ever so slightly off, but they can’t put their finger on it. I like it a lot.

Even though I’m very much an oldpeth person, I’ve come to love some of their newer songs. Ever since I heard Eternal Rains Will Come and Allting Tar Slut live I’ve been hooked on them.

Incredible track. Far and away my favourite band. It’s incredible how they always manage to sound fresh. måsstaden under vatten is nearly 2 years old at this point and it still sounds so forward-thinking to me.

His program was more of a virus than a lot of computer viruses out there.

I don’t know how much you care about this, but even within each product class (i5, i7, etc) there can be a huge performance delta between specific models, especially in laptop chips. The same applies to AMD.

Which was part of my reasoning for joining there, along with the fact that I’m a dev myself so it aligns with my interests.

A YoY inflation rate of ~10% is most assuredly not natural in most of the developed world. I fully understand why it happened, but that serves no justification for the negative impact on the lives of the majority of the population.

They’re not, what the attackers are most likely doing is just repeating some regular operation that they know is very costly to the database. It could be something as simple as just spamming the upvote button, for example. Write a script to do that frequently enough and boom, instance taken down.

Internet user tries not to make everything political challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.

You’re partly right. The implementation of government regulation is a problem. Lawmakers are, for the most part, absolutely incompetent when it comes to making effective regulation.