I did this once in college to use up food plan “points” that would have expired at the end of the semester. I drank half a mug of espresso and was NOT ok afterward.

Any port in a storm.

I don’t think it’s a location thing, it’s an intelligence thing - I’m in Florida and it doesn’t make any more sense to me

“Do you have and/or operate armed drones” has not been one of the questions I’ve thought to bring up at past PTA meetings.

I wonder if the tele-cops operating these things will get bonus points for friendly fire hits

This reads like a MAGA wet dream.

They should finish getting their shit together and then implement cap-and-trade carbon pricing for all trading partners to finally complete the Uno Reverse on the West.

I’ve been using it for 10+ years on a combination of Netgear, TP-Link and Raspberry Pi hardware, so at least that long?

Weird, I must be seeing a different screenshot, because all I read here is “TP Link would like you to overwrite its firmware with OpenWRT.”

What did the world do to you that you felt the need to make this?

I’m literally on this call right now!

I love this image. I think it should be required on any smartglasses packaging like the surgeon general’s warning is on a pack of cigarettes (for now).

So the most recent wave of fascism in the US is relatively new but we’ve had numerous brushes with it in the past. McCarthyism made certain kinds of speech subject to political retaliation in the 1950s just like we’re seeing now (well, worse then than now, actually). Outgroups like the Japanese (WW2) and Native Americans (always) have been forcibly moved/removed like we’re seeing with basically all people of color and, African Americans in the past were painted like the cause of “societal breakdown” just like LGBT folks increasingly are (another perpetual outgroup). So there’s a lot that’s the same as before – it’s not right, certainly not. But it’s also not new, which is sad.

The good news, though, is that elsewhere in the world, and even in the US, a lot of things are measurably better than before. The first chapter or so of Doughnut Economics does a good job of outlining where we’ve been successful at reducing poverty and disease and increasing liberties (even if you can’t get through the rest of the book, which I did struggle with).

We can (and must) do better. But there’s evidence that our efforts do actually improve things sometimes. It’s not hopeless.

It’s the same world that’s been here the whole time. The hidden parts are just more out in the open now.

Ah , I see were reading today’s issue of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” magazine.

I hope they’ve properly licensed that character design.

RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).

For a while DMOZ was the authoritative source for whether a website was real and relevant for a given subject. It was 100% human-curated (I administered a couple of topics for years) and was so trusted that putting a site into a category could get it to the first page of Google pretty much guaranteed. That power waned over time, but not because Google found something better, but because their motivations changed. Maybe it’s time for a dmoz comeback. Maybe something federated…

Then you get to load and execute 10MB of JavaScript while another 5MB of ad content loads and displays in the background. With the obligatory two dozen API calls to various trackers, counters, taggers, and “optimizers” in the background of course.

You can tell they’re scared of it because they immediately tried to retract/clarify the statement.

Though IDK why they’d care this point since the Supreme Court already declared Google a monopoly and turned around and said they weren’t abusive enough and gave them no punishment.