Since you (like me) are pedantic about apostrophes, I’ll be pedantic about “pedo.” There’s no evidence Trump is a pedopile–that is, primarily attracted to children who have not yet reached puberty.

Plenty of evidence strongly suggesting he’s a child molester, though.

I just saw that 2024 Moto G models (or at least one of them?) is supported. This makes me happy.

Not having true vectorization and having to regularly code that into Python helps even the odds.

This has got to be the best, most legitimately funny programmer/computer joke I’ve seen in years.

And that’s how it’s been understood for decades. The article creates a silly and false premise.

Yes, that’s always been more or less the case. However, the brain’s uptake/use of neurotransmitters like Dopamine has been understood for decades to have at least some specificity to it. We always knew we were shooting flies with shotguns, though.

Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons.

Thank you. Almost every word of the sentence above is very much not what college freshmen have been taught for 30+ years. Dopamine was never thought to “flood the brain.” For a few decades it’s been understood to have highly targeted action, restricted by various factors not least of which is the fact that dopamine is only produced in/near certain synapses.

Straw men are sometimes the most annoying men.

I’m sure this might be interesting, but the video is letterboxed so aggressively that even on fullscreen my laptop screen is 80% black with a postage-stamp of video in the middle that lasts about 3 seconds.

This goes a bit deep. Seems like it’s going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers’ needs.

I’m sure it’s a hard problem to solve. However, I’m still not using a product missing a critical feature just because the developer found it too difficult to include the feature. Sympathy to the developer but also I need that feature.

This is a great list and thanks for posting it.

Also, the pixelfed guy needs to give up full control of his project (no matter how nicely or reasonably he argues “not yet”). I have asked on mastodon and nobody seems to know of anyone else who truly understands the project so if he dies or gets disappeared the project… Dies? Maybe? More concerningly, it isn’t open source. He cotes good reasons for this (the massive labor to refactor and whatever else goes into open sourcing a functioning project), but he also occasionally humblebrags about being offered huge sums of money to sell it to corporations. I suspect it will become corporate at some point if he doesn’t open source it soon.

I don’t think that works on shared hosting (at least not without similar workarounds and tweaks), but I hear that the AIO method and snap both work really well if you have root access on the machine.

I have been on Opalstack since they started. I like them. I pay for hosting monthly. I’ve self-hosted several apps there (or tried to, sometimes; I couldn’t make everything work all the time). Nextcloud is dodgy; I like it, but it’s a pain in the ass for someone like me (not a dev, not a coder) to deal with the almost inevitable problems every 2 or 3 times I need to upgrade. And I’ve never been able to get an office suite working well. Much of this could be because I’m trying to run NC on shared hosting; even opalstack’s support doesn’t fix all of that.

Email: opalstack has email. I use it. I don’t actually know what service it is, but I have three or four mailboxes linked to a couple of domain names I own, and several hundred email addresses* Thunderbird does great with IMAP on my laptop, desktop, and phone, with opalstack as the server.

*lots of emails because when I sign up for something I create a new email address just in case they sell my stuff and I start to get spam.

This is cool info. I also wonder, looking at his picture, if he was born in 1988. No idea, but hey.

As a smart person said several years ago, “Context is everything and everything without context is a lie.”

On the surface, yes. Look up Gail Slater and then decide if you really think she’s going to do anything about monopolies. Her career since leaving the FTC has been spent defending them.

I think we have different ideas of what “politics” means.

After I eventually parsed that sentence: think hard about how logic and language work. A person promoting a lot of horrible things isn’t the same as that person inventing them.

You seriously don’t know anything about Trump?

Imagine staying onboard with someone promoting nearly every horrible thing in our world just so you can have easier email access.