And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

And then every photo’s a close-up.

Satire of toxic masculinity is doomed because the target audience Will Not Get It.

I don’t give a shit what children see.

They’ll live.

Stop spying on adults.

Fabulous prizes!

2021: Edge is just Chrome now.

2026: Bing Video is just Sora now.

2031: Xbox is just Playstation now.

2040: Windows is just Android now.

Microsoft… what is you’d say you do, here?

They’re just shuffling cards. What defines conservatism is nodding along with everyone in that lame podunk church. It’s ingroup loyalty as a theory-of-everything. Reality as a team sport. Opposite claims from the same authority figure can and will be met with the same positive response. If you’re left confused, well, do your research, pray about it, study it out. Find whatever excuses let you maintain allegiance to people instead of ideas.

The fact this even almost works remains fascinating. Someone got a full-featured bare-metal operating system to program itself, and it’s halfway between early ReactOS and that Flash game for Windows Really Good Edition.

We forget that computers are for everyone. They’re supposed to be a bicycle for the mind. Needing to rely on existing mature applications, created by teams of experts, is an obstacle we’ve been fighting since BASIC. Anyone should be able to slap together some program that suits their needs. And not just theoretically capable - able. ‘You could learn to do it!’ means you cannot yet do it.

There’s a handful of languages intuitive enough to make people dangerous in matter of days. Until recently, suggesting that English was one of them would be laughable - but now you really can describe what you want and swallow the elephant. It doesn’t work, but it’s alarmingly close, for amateur use of this fiddly tool. The computer literally did your work for you, and people still complain about limitations.

An actual intelligence trained on StackOverflow would look at ‘make me a new OS’ and respond, ‘but why do you want that instead of modifying BSD?’ An intelligence that’s also been trained to avoid backsass would start from structure and complete its own todos. Which some guy claims to have done, for compiling a new language that mostly uses stupid names for things. He’s got the right idea, for weaponizing an LLM into something useful, but that idea is to make it act like diffusion.

Looks like Freedoom.

Reporting live from Weinerville.

Good taste?

As opposed to which course of action where they wouldn’t say those things?

Our most dudes-rock president. The first in an airplane - after being president - back when a quarter of the takeoff weight was him. To the pilot’s immense frustration, Teddy leaned out to wave at the crowd.

"President Lambert of the St. Louis Aero club introduced me to Roosevelt. Lambert said something about my trip from Springfield. Roosevelt said he envied me. ‘Here’s your chance,’ I said to him.

"All right,’ said Roosevelt, ‘but let’s not make too much fuss about it.’ Roosevelt was on the machine before I was. He was bareheaded. A newspaperman gave him a cap and he said 'let ‘er go.’ We started.

"I didn’t look at Roosevelt until I felt the machine wiggle. He was waving at the crowd. We were up about 150 feet.

"‘Be careful not to pull any of those strings,’ I warned him. He was sitting directly underneath the valve cord of the engine and the engine would have stopped had he touched it. ‘Nothing doing,’ he shouted back, showing his teeth. The propeller made so much noise we had to shout. I heard him say ‘war,’ ‘army,’ ‘aeroplane’ and ‘bomb,’ but the noise was so great I could not hear the rest.

"I was very careful. I said to myself, ‘If anything happens to him I’ll never be able to square myself with the American people.’ I was mighty glad when we landed. I never felt a greater responsibility in my life.

“‘Hoxsey, you’re all right,’ he said as we alighted.”

Tom Scott flew in roughly the same airplane, over a century later.

“Increasing the average IQ of both countries.”

This is a crime and you are the victim.

There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.

No one running this software thinks they’re the last person who’ll ever bother. They got into it figuring it was a sensible protocol and they only bail once they cannot be arsed to moderate all the people who show up.

Surely the fediverse is better-off letting some existing userbase soldier on, under whoever constitutes new management, than destroying any existing instance and expecting a fresh spate of randos to show up.

The US government running its own Lemmy instance would not be worse than any established instance suddenly disappearing.

Who could possibly give a shit?

Art belongs to its audience.

People have a right to culture.

There’s two entire months between this announcement and the fuck-you date.

How long should it take to vet someone?

Would it really be worse to let a flawed bastard take over, versus deleting everyone and all their content?