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Apple: “I play Lawyer in attack position.”

It’s free for Apple honestly, just for unauthorized use of their trademark alone.

That’s kind of where I’m at with the whole idea too. Should we be in such a situation, it just moves all our existing questions about “What is reality and the universe?” up one meta-level to the theoretical actual reality. I doubt we would stop finding out as much as is possible about this layer, but we would be wholly unable apply our findings or assumptions to the true reality.

But even if that true reality remains forever unknowable, it at least sets what I would consider some “sensible” bounds on our universe. As things are now, I’m not sure if I’m more dumbfounded by the idea of an infinite universe or a finite one - both boggle the mind for different reasons.

This is why I die a little inside each time I see someone post an LLM summary of an article.

As if generating it in the first place and then reading that is somehow less work than just reading the article to begin with.

Different platform, but exactly the same deal moderating Twitch chats. I think my favorite insult that I’ve received was that I was personally “the downfall of Western civilization.”

The upshot to those disruptions happening in an active chat like that though is that everyone sees how much of a knob that person is being and is perfectly happy to see them gone.

Certainly a possibility, but I don’t really expect it to be a common concern. Defederation is mostly about keeping problematic people out when an instance’s admins either can’t or won’t resolve whatever problem is at play. Most instances will never even realize a single-user instance is lurking at all if they don’t bother to crawl the logs and said user doesn’t cause a scene.

I’d expect most whitelist-only instances will have been that way from the start instead of growing large and then shutting the door, because the goals of running an instance like that are fundamentally different.

I’m definitely interested in seeing how the single-user instance offerings develop across the various federated applications. I have no interest in taking on the role of admin or moderator for people I don’t know personally, but am more than happy to run my own front-end service that’ll let me lurk and interact with all varieties of ActivityPub content.

For now it seems kbin might win that fight for me since it’s equipped to handle reddit-style communities and threads while also providing a workable microblog interface. But it does seem to be a bit on the heavy side… I wonder if we might see some software created for this particular usage scenario one day, if it isn’t already being worked on somewhere.

Great recommendation. There’s something special about doggedly tearing down those massive hulks of metal piece-by-piece and executing your plan of how to crack the thing wide open.

100%. What an experience.

If I’m not careful, an entire afternoon will disappear before I notice if I fire up Trackmania. It’s just so good at getting me in to a flow state of just really dialing in my gameplay.

Journey is just One Of Those Games. I like to replay it once a year, usually on some quiet December evening when I can really just shut out the world and focus on a front-to-back play-through.

I wouldn’t consider myself a power user on ebook servers by any means, but I spun up Kavita a few weeks back and it definitely handles everything I need it to so far. Feels better to use than calibre IMO too.

Exactly. Reddit needing to force communities back open is the point. This protest is forcing Reddit to follow through on burning the bridge rather than just getting back to business as usual for free.

I’m making use of a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this purpose actually. While I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it just for the purposes of RSS, it’s a nice addition to the platform for someone who happens to be running an instance for other reasons already. Most of the web-based RSS reader solutions I’ve come across relied on advertising or other premium membership models to support the service, so an alternative would have to be pretty damn compelling for me to transition away from Nextcloud and start subjecting myself to ads again.

Sea of Stars is jumping straight to the top of my To Play list once that drops. I’ve heard great things about Chained Echoes too. I should make some time for it.

Shadow of the Colossus fits the bill on this one for me. Jacob Geller’s video on the decade-long search for the game’s last secret is a much watch IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw

Honestly that’s a big reason that Personas 3, 4, and 5 stand as some of my favorite games. Letting a player focus on the main character’s relationships with the supporting cast around them just makes the main story hit that much harder when it involves all of these people you’ve ended up forming strong feelings about.

It’s kind of amazing how this is playing out exactly like when Musk’s Twitter started blocking Mastodon links. Bit of a fragile ego, it seems.

Yeah, firing spez and the leadership team that pushed this forward is the bare minimum for showing contrition here. I’m not against a paid API that has prices based in reality instead of whatever the hell they gave us, but fundamental changes to an API like this require a minimum 12 months lead time before the change goes active.

The 30 days they gave shows an intentional disregard for the business continuity and contractual obligations of the developers who utilize the API.

They all implement ActivityPub which is just the protocol used to move everyone’s posts and such around to any other server that’s supposed to receive it. So yeah, you can use Mastodon to follow Lemmy or kbin magazines. You can also do the opposite where you follow Mastodon users from Lemmy/kbin. As long as the blog uses ActivityPub federation, you can ingest that content in to whatever other compatible service you want.

I will say things get a little weird if you follow on a service that presents that information in a drastically different way, but it is doable.