Reading a lot of "no, guys, Meta's Threads team are really nice! they have super-great intentions! this time will be totally different!" takes from tech pundits and the sorts of people who call themselves things like "fediverse entrepreneurs" and it's like... guys.
My favorite thing is when The Media reports on some subculture and interviews people who want to remain pseudonymous and have pseudonyms like "Big Dripping Dragon Gapes" and then just diligently and seriously refer to "Mr. Gapes" for the rest of the article.
Going through my YouTube history for Reasons people can probably guess at, it occurs to me that I watch a lot of YouTube? Like to the point it would easily be my most watched streaming service and I should probably, like. Pay for it?
But, also, conversely, give Google's current War On Adblockers I feel paying for it now would be sending the Wrong Signals and, thus, it remains unpaid for...
It was exactly five years ago today that I got the wild-ass idea to register a domain and host a fandom-focused fediverse server. I didn’t really expect much to come of it and was proven wrong immediately, from the moment of registration.
It’s been a wild ride since then, but a lot of fun, so thanks to everyone who’s been a part of it this last half-decade. 🖤
Initial indicators of “was that worth it?” are “hell yes!”
There’s also a recipe for crispy chilli oil I want to try, but the recipe wants you to have a thermometer to check the oil temperature and I do not, so… another time.
So it might take a little while for all the various CDNs and object caches to expire but, thanks to my new exciting CSS skills, alis.me should now have a dark mode.
The intrinsic human urge to, whereupon realising an object makes an unexpected and pleasant sound, to immediately attempt to make it do the thing again.
(Yes, this is about accidentally, and then on purpose, hitting the side of a metal vacuum keep cup with my phone.)
Hey infosec nerds: A couple years ago I went all-in on the Apple ecosystem, and I’ve been content with Safari as my default browser since then. Everybody is pushing Firefox as the best alternative to Chrome’s growing enshittification, but is Safari an adequate choice if you’re already elbow-deep in Mac?
@trixter Yes, it’s perfectly fine. It does a bunch of tracking minimisation out of the box and also supports additional ad blockers and privacy extensions in the App Store (I use 1Blocker and Magic Lasso, at least on iOS, FWIW). And while Apple aren’t perfect, they use privacy as a market differentiator compared to Google and Microsoft, so don’t do so much of the aggressive user data harvesting stuff.
Siri very helpfully has noticed I have a block of time scheduled out on my calendar tonight called "DnD" and is asking if I want to turn on do not disturb mode and it's like... bless. (But no.)
@MarineHaddock It's also a bit disingenuous to compare Tumblr to OpenAI, of all companies, which is currently getting propped up by Microsoft to the tune of billions of dollars and also, quite frankly, has no pathway to becoming profitable given how computationally intensive it is.