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The brain damaged lead generation has the power.

Decades of shit code made browser development so difficult and expensive that Mozilla is dependent on Google’s teat to stay afloat.

I like the term “confabulation”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

Might also be chronic illness. I tried to reduce stress by dumping all hobby projects, quitting my job, and moving to a better climate, but it was really malnutrition, deficiencies, and leaky gut.

Odyssey 5 (2002)

… five space travelers … witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.

Rubicon (2010)

… an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.

Took a few decades and wasted billions of € to finally come up with the obvious.

I don’t want to use any messenger that has that feature. Telegram allows anyone to delete everyone’s message history. Sure it would be fine to delete a sent message that no one has read yet, but afterwards - fuck that.

“I told you not to remove the blade guard from the circular saw! Now the intern has seven fingers left!”
“No you didn’t!”
“You promised you wouldn’t!”
“No I didn’t”
Proof of the discussion has been deleted from Telegram.

“I’m sick of your shitty comments about me! You’ve been at it for years!”
“Which ones exactly?”
Proof of bullying has been deleted by sender in Google Messages.

“Where the fuck is our message history? A decade of texts and photos just gone!”
“Sorry, I hit the wrong button in Telegram. I tried to delete a single message I had sent.”
“Jesus fucking Christ! Did any of you ever save a backup?”

Everyone who designed an air conditioner without a HEPA filter to stop the dust from feeding the wet coils is an idiot. There’s dirty air being blown through, so you might as well clean it. The mesh filters you can see through don’t do shit about the invisible dust that will kill you.

Yes, it’s a problem when you’re the last seeder. Torrents are shared in blocks of data, not files. When a file is missing, the whole block containing it is not sent. If you delete a tiny file before a big video file, the video will be broken for downloaders because the first block contains the tiny file and the video file’s beginning with the index with video metadata, without which the video becomes unplayable.

https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/environmental-issues/studies-show-3-of-drivers-swerve-to-hit-snakes-and-turtles

… pickups or SUVs accounted for 89% of the “kills.” Cars accounted for the other 11%.

When you come up with a new name in English, I’ll start using it. Until then, chronic fatigue I can remember.

we’d know by now

Not necessarily. When intake rate finally exceeds human ability to remove plastic dust from the body, the accumulation begins.

This reminds me of when Quora automatically deleted questions containing spam (instead of reverting the spammy edits for some reason), so some political actors used it to provoke the deletion of thousands of years-old inconvenient questions (with all answers) by editing the questions into something that triggered the spam deletion bot. Quora never restored the questions and answers. They did ban the editing of anything, so now the site is full of bad grammar and typos, redundant topics, and wrongly bot-tagged questions.

That’s barely evil. Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base:
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Does this make possible federated supply-demand matching, like dating, jobs, and any kind of marketplace?

American and Chinese AIs telling European managers to fire the best workers.

If you’re so damn smart that you can see what trash is what, separate that trash! That’s a job for a tireless machine.

Not Fediverse, but an example of what works:

Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it’s all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; “How many apples…”. The excuse for AI tagging was “tags can be abused” when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.

They never made the obviously needed features of:

• being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like “What do you think everyone needs to know in 2025?”).
• the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I’d need to follow that topic from good writers only.

Also microdoses are usually decidoses, but that’s irrelevant because in this use mega means large and micro means small. Microcar. Microcomputer.

But what size are microplastics when also mentioning nanoplastics? Are they still “5mm and smaller”?

Insignificant improvement on the shit services Match Group owns and makes worse.