Thanks, this reminded me of the time Chris Chan tried to roast Mike Pollack by telling him that Eggman’s name backwards kinda sounds like “nah, I’m gay.” I am now dying of terminal second-hand cringe.

Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search “something site:someforum.com” since the built in search was so ass

Something Reddit has in common with old forums

Your cloud backups are not encrypted either, and you have to explicitly opt out of cloud backups. That means any chats or group chats that involve someone who hasn’t opted out are sitting unencrypted on Meta servers, even if you personally have opted out. Even if everyone has opted out and assume it’s encrypted, they still know who you’re talking to, when you talk to them, how frequently, etc.

Behold! My vibe coded website!

http://localhost:8080/

Mullvad has built in ad-blocking as well. Haven’t needed my pi-hole in over a year.

Yeah I’ve bought my last couple laptops from my company’s asset disposal department, I’ve gotten pretty good deals and usually just need to replace the battery after a few years. Not looking forward to when their stock starts getting into the models with slop buttons.

Well bribery and corruption are illegal only in theory and only if you don’t call it “lobbying.” Google has a lot of money so it really doesn’t matter (to the people making the rules) if these things should be on the road or not.

Plug an old PC into what?

No way they would wait that long to start pecking down the trans tree.

I distinctly remember thinking last year “Sure I’d like to upgrade my ram, but $60 for a nice-to-have just seems silly.”

Jesus fucking Christ I am a fool with 16GB.

Yes. Even some US government websites updated from LGBTQ to LGB. The travel information page is now down to just “Gay and Lesbian travelers.”

And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

People are more likely to donate to a project that they actually use. If more people are using piefed, it means more money going to that project rather than a bunch of tankies. So I can see why people who disagree with the Lemmy devs might want to direct people elsewhere even if the software itself is apolitical.

Lemmy and Piefed are both Reddit alternatives. I’m not sure what all the pros and cons are of each, but Lemmy’s developers are tankies so probably better to direct users and funding to a different project. I’m only on Lemmy because I wasn’t aware of Piefed when I first joined.

And cis people can’t be persuaded to transition.

Yeah but transphobes don’t believe that. They’re convinced that confused kids get groomed into being transgender the same way socially isolated boys get groomed into incel/far right groups.

Ah, so not sincerely. Just part of another transphobic rant insinuating that trans people are corrupting the youth.

Wait what? Did she actually say that?

If she owns the rights she could theoretically put something in her will that states x% of proceeds from her intellectual properties will go to [insert TERF organization here]. Considering she’s made it her life goal to make society as inaccessible to trans people as possible, I assume she’ll make sure she can do so in death as well.

At least it’s not more explicit. It’s not like there’s some potion that lets you change your physical appearance at will that is even capable of turning you into a furry. Or a type of witch/wizard whose special ability is to change their appearance at will, as shown by a slightly androgynous woman who regularly changes her appearance based on how she’s feeling in the moment.

the “no censorship” part is already being weaponized by Nazis.

Yeah, this is the inevitable result with any app that tries the no censorship schtick. It happens every single time, obviously this time won’t be any different.

“Good movies”

“Oscar bait”

I think the Avatar films fall into this category