I don’t get it. Screw worms devouring animals alive is extremely painful, so we should eradicate them? The process of any animal eating another is basically always excruciating and fucked up.

Because I want to read it?

Edit: oh, oh I see.

What’s the name of the story?

People putting out buckets of candy for Halloween instead of handing it out at the door. No more social interaction or tradition. Just grab free candy and go.

If you citizens arrested yourself then the criminal would also be holding the arrester hostage.

I’m confused - I have a catch all alias, so anything @mydomain will work. Is there any reason I’d care about syncing these aliases?

Night of the Hunter (not the remake)

Meanwhile mobile Firefox doesn’t even support YubiKey / FIDO2 for some godforsaken reason.

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The search engine magic isn’t just about caching pages. It’s also extremely expensive / complex to:

• maintain an index of all the websites in the world. This is an extremely high cost
• refresh that index in almost real time. How long will your self hosted crawler take to find new content for every website in the world?
• there’s also the algorithm for weighing results. The order of results and their relevance is not easy at all. How many times a word appears on a page is a terrible metric.

A hosted search is also a lot more environmentally friendly - that gigantic search index and all the energy poured into the work is something that can be shared by everyone. If everyone did that themselves at home, you spend that same amount of energy for every single household.

This x100. Obviously anyone who has fun using well crafted tools to explore a vast frontier of information is a shill. /s

Kagi is pretty awesome

I like Kagi a lot. It has a Small Web feature that is results from smaller sites like the good old days. Also has a Fediverse filter.

I agree. But also add in the movie industry that’s been complete trash for a while now. Not to mention books. I’m not sure if we’ll ever see another Harry Potter level book again, at least in our lifetimes.

My take is we’ve already left the golden ages of movies, music, and books and probably won’t get another for an extremely long time.

Video games are going through the same downfall which streaming services brought. Physical media left the movie scene as a standard while ago, but video games took longer. Now it’s going to be all streaming and subscriptions where you can never own anything.

Once that happens, enshittification will peak, companies won’t be incentivized to make the games good anymore, standards tank, and people will forget how good things once were.

Yep, I got a post deleted by a mod here who also is a mod on Reddit. I was criticizing Proton, but they removed it for “trolling”. I messaged them explaining it was not trolling and asked politely for an explanation, but got no response.

Pretty sad and ironic that Proton needs to censor criticism like this.

distributed social web

…ActivityPub?

So if it’s not a bean, what is it? It’s not the fruit, so is it the seed?

Are they? I see ones like

Small government

This is sarcastic, but it’s as much of a joke as Stephen Colbert - it’s touching on something pretty real. Not sure what’s wrong with pointing out hypocrisy.

The main thing keeping my partner from leaving Big Tech services is that Proton Calendar and other basic functionality sucks balls. The pricing plan is great but for the love of God, fix the basics and stop with all the new nonsense like AI and crypto.

I don’t think they’re saying she should be paid for her work in the Olympics. I think they’re saying she is a very talented person who, even outside of this competition, cannot afford rent, which is sad.