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2026-10-12 03:15:14 GMT

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People constantly tell me how the gold standard is a bad idea because we need "liquidity" in the economy, meanwhile we keep having stuff like this happen where liquidity comes out of nowhere as a side effect of these loans. I woudn't care what someone two continents away does except when bad loans get offloaded into my own country, thus making it many more people's problem.

2026-05-30 03:34:01 GMT

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This is the correct take. It especially annoys me to see people raging about AI and screaming about "slop" like any of us have the power to just wave our hands and "fix" everything. It's just adding noise and annoying everyone else in the chat at this point.

2026-04-02 05:11:59 GMT

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We really don't. I remember a post that counted the comics, and like 70% of them are about AI somehow. We all know AI exists, and we get that the writer doesn't like it, now lets talk about something else.

2025-12-17 03:43:03 GMT

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I'm not sure I agree. This is the kind of mistake that's only really possible if the person writing the article doesn't understand what they're writing about and doesn't really bother to check. I don't think anyone who was informed about Mastodon would have made that confusion, and naming "John Mastodon" as founder is wild, because literally a single second of Googling would have cleared it up. Also, "named after himself", again, a single second of googling would have shown this was false. There are multiple points where "facts" come out of nowhere it's not just one single confusion.
I also note that the article is now substantially different, the word "founder" doesn't appear anywhere for example.

2025-12-16 15:08:49 GMT

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I don't understand how a single article like this just causes people to stop reading a news source completely. If their one article is effectively made up then how do we know that all their articles aren't made up?

2025-12-15 02:08:30 GMT

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And all of the interesting games for the PC-98. I get the impression that most of them still haven't been translated.

2025-08-08 06:38:56 GMT

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I think I've benefited a lot from my air purifier. I looked up Choice magazine reviews and one of the top rated ones was a $80 one from IKEA, plus $20 for an extra filter that fits on top. It's completely silent on its lower settings you you don't even notice it.

2025-07-31 04:32:03 GMT

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I think a lot of people have a warped perception of what is naturally attainable without effort. Every single person I know who had any muscle definition worked out almost daily.

2025-07-29 13:21:38 GMT

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That *is* impressive. If it only needs RAM to run, I can see value in upgrading some of my own machines to handle it. Local models that can feed back into themselves could be very useful, since you can have it process your files until you get a sufficiently high confidence answer.

2025-07-09 18:53:06 GMT

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Feel free to name and shame them. That being said, at some point we'll probably end up with keyword or link based blocking that just audo deletes posts containing a certain string.

2025-04-27 07:12:08 GMT

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Doesn't IPV6 have a minimum MTU of 1280? It looks some of these together get perilously close to that value?

2025-04-04 07:14:42 GMT

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It's good to know it's becoming cool, I still have a bottle I only used a few times. It's not a bad smell though.

2025-02-28 15:15:13 GMT

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There's always Waterfox, and I think there's one other fork as well.
I was just switching this machine over to Waterfox, it works fairly well with no issues, and I had it running on my other machines for a while without any problems.

2025-01-29 17:05:17 GMT

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I do get that people make their own instances, but those instances share posts and images to each other. So each new instance adds additional strain onto every other existing instance; especially if you're on an instance that sees a larger portion of the network.
As I understand it, the global feed is based off of which instances users are subscribed to in your current instance, so on smaller instances users won't even be aware that large parts of the network exist.

2025-01-29 16:52:50 GMT

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Having more people migrate to the fediverse would be great. Though I do hope it comes paired with more optimizations to the software, since it's not reasonable to expect the instances to keep adding hardware to maintain a reasonable user experience.

2025-01-23 06:26:43 GMT

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If we did want to join a Pixelfed instance, which instance do you recommend?

2025-01-23 04:37:02 GMT

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True, and it's not really a surprise. I've been creating an absolutely massive blocklist to trim down on all the "snark" and bitter comments. Otherwise the feeds and comments are just this huge wall of petty backbiting and "I don't know who needs to hear this" style preening comments.

2024-11-09 00:34:56 GMT

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The biggest problem is not just echo-chambers, but the fact that Democrat supporters don't treat politics as something that you have to *win* at. The idea that people will just naturally come to realize that you were right about everything and support you is a bit naive, but that seems to be the unstated expectation.
The explicit assumption that anyone who doesn't naturally vote Democrat is inherently evil is also a problem. Given that there's places in the US where people live on less than $10,000 per year and scurvy is making a resurgence. At the same time saying that "The economy is booming" is just insulting those people. In retrospect there's lots of places where the campaign just fell flat.
I'm just blocking them outright. If they wanted to win, they should have tried harder. I'm not American, but now we're all stuck with Trump as president. Of course they can elect who they want, but I'm over listening to people whinge about it.

2024-11-04 11:37:41 GMT

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I have a washing machine that does this. I try to avoid sarcasm, but every time I have to use it, I keep thinking about why someone would build controls that are super sensitive to moisture, on a machine whose sole function is dealing with water.

2024-09-04 12:18:17 GMT

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Yes, we'd have to be naive to think that this won't be a huge issue. I can only imagine what's going to happen when places like law firms and medical practices realize that Microsoft's turned on the data siphoning without telling them.
For normal users I always advise installing something like AME, for example AtlasOS's AME. Which will disable all the telemetry as well as updating (so it can't auto-reinstall). It does mean that you have to reinstall windows to add updates but that's a consequence of linking the telemetry and update systems together.
I still remember back when online security updates first started taking off and Microsoft absolutely assured people that the updates would only ever be used for security fixes and absolutely nothing else, while implying that it was just paranoia to think otherwise.

2024-08-24 12:17:59 GMT

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If finding new features were actually important, they could include a thick, well designed manual with the device. Not including manuals is just a cost saving measure, and having a poorly written slip of paper is not a manual.