The number one thing I’ve learned through the last several decades is that if it’s bad for the economy, no one will do it. Greed is the number one driver of everything right now. Maybe that will change, but I doubt it. Look at all the positive progress we try to make, it’s stopped the second anyone rich would lose any money.

Yikes I thought you were referencing something else, but yikes

Okay I’ll admit the fan thing is clever…

When I walk through my house I have sweet motion activated lights and doodads that I have spent hours tweaking and I enjoy thoroughly.

In the bathroom I use a switch.

Not everything needs to be “smart”

Hey they wanted a sure fire canary, that’d do it

Thanks for keeping the “if not sold”. They’ve had many opportunities to make it legal, and they’ve fought it all the way. It’s not a “ban” as much as it is a forced sale.

I’m guessing next week we’re going to hear they spun it off to a totally american company, or meta taking it over or something. Then everyone will celebrate that it’s back.

The GTA 4 mod was just given a takedown by rockstar. Not illegal, but they didn’t like it for sure. So just build a mod for rockstar, Nintendo, one of them

incels gonna do incel things.

“Sure, just work on yourself a bit and you’ll do great! We believe in you”

Nah.

Well, okay then, enjoy misery I guess.

For us who are bad at writing though that’s exactly why we use it. I’m bad with greetings, structure, things that people expect and I’ve had people get offended at my emails because they come off as rude. I don’t notice those things. For that llms have been a godsend. Yes, I of course have to validate it, but it conveys the message I’m trying to usually

I use it for parsing through legalese or terms and conditions. IT IS NOT PERFECT. I wouldn’t trust it ever over a lawyer. But it’s great for things like “Is there anything here that is extra unusual or weirdly anti-consumer or very bad for privacy?”. I think it’s great for that.

People here are just “it will take jobs it’s inherently evil”. They said the same about Photoshop, and computers before. I think there are evil uses for it sure, but that doesn’t mean that it has no valid usages

Exactly. Even Meta and their thousands of lawyers would immediately say this. How does it harm people? Prove it does. Why are they singled out? They’re just showing content they think is relevant, and I’m guessing they honestly are. It’s that political groups take advantage of that, and make slop that enrages and inflames. But Meta would just say “you can’t punish us for trying to make our platform successful”. A mess all around

It’s their basic “backup” plan. B2 is more enterprise and you pay standard s3 rates for it, if you have a single computer you want to backup then you want their personal backup plan. Flat rate for unlimited data

Backblaze was solid. If it’s only one computer you get an unlimited account and you’re set

Cara Nicole. She does a good job at explaining finance and budgeting to the layman, I liked her because I found that what she said more or less aligned with what I’ve found to be true, so I think she’s sending out smart ways of managing money to people. Plus she does fun videos about things like giving financial audits to Michael Scott and breaking down people’s wish lists. Idk I always enjoy her videos.

https://youtube.com/@thefinancialfreedomgirl

Nothing like a good power trip from the admins. Even if mods are power tripping people can make a new community. This was a bad response by admins, they bowed to only the most vocal minority. Vast majority of people have been fine with the moderation on .world. only classy thing to do is to take it back and play it off like it was a trial run that didn’t work out

I’m personally looking into setting up a friendica instance for my family

Don’t forget one of our largest cities is currently on fire because of our own man made climate change that we are (I believe) the number one cause of, but those same leaders are telling us to shrug and say “who knows why”

Name and shame that mod

Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.

Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.