Holy Shitballs:

Sam Santala

Jun 5

Also, hilarious that I can't even get ahold of your support chat to question this unless I agree to these terms beforehand.

Jun 5

I can't even uninstall Photoshop unless I agree to these terms?? Are you fucking kidding me??

Jun 5

Realising I also need to agree to the terms if I want to sign in and cancel my subscription

16h

Can someone there give me an email for someone who can cancel my subscription without having to sign in and agree to these new terms first?

Fall Guy. Now they can point at him as the entire problem, then say he’s not there anymore (implying that 2025 went away…).

I hate to say it, but within minutes of hearing about the attack by Hamas against Israel, the unexpectedness of it, and the scale of it, I asked myself, “Who’s funding this,” and, “Who gains by this?” And my brain replied, “Putin.”

Sure enough within days his puppets in our government (the USofA GOP) start talking about reducing/stopping aid to Ukraine.

G. Elliot Morris on Bluesky did a breakdown of the numbers and his very conservative, low-end number was 4mil. Top end was 6mil.

He’s been removed from the bench: https://apnews.com/...

“A redshift of one corresponds to a distance of more than 10 billion light-years. JWST’s studies showed that JADES-GS-z14-0 has a redshift of 14.32, the highest ever recorded.”

Wow!

“Usually gases like oxygen show up only after large groups of stars have lived their lives and died in supernova explosions,” Hainline says. “So seeing oxygen in a galaxy this young is like if you are an anthropologist and you find an enormous, ancient city that has evidence of iPhones.”

That just boggles the mind!

Can’t wait to get more data on this wee, spry, bizarre find.

One thing I am always aware of are apps that want permission to access Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi and/or Networks.

Even though Bluetooth is very short ranged it can still be used to tie you into a location within a database based on other database records that are more detailed.

Yeah, I love playing you “My Great Dog-sitting Simulator” (not a real app) but you do not need access to my BT. The OS handles sending your audio to my headphones!

Before you share unasked for information with someone consider these two points:

1. Is this a teachable moment?
2. Does this person want to be taught?

If the answer is No to either one or both, keep to yourself.

In related news: Sometimes people want to vent, sometimes they want solutions. If you don’t know which one is needed it’s okay to ask!

Okay. So how do we turn it off!? I’ve read nothing in my Samsung manuals about this “feature” and here no instructions for turning it off.

Just finished watching that train wreck and it went exactly like I (we!?) thought it would!

It’s weird that Donald Trump can’t speak without being nasty. Donald Trump is weird in that mannerism.

Bragging about sexual conquests.

If I wanted to know about your sex life I’d ask for your Only Fans.

I was on Lemmy and saw a post where a user named TooManyPancakes (which is a lie!) asked everyone for some uplifting news to brighten their day.

It was a wonderful exchange! This caring person, with the poorly chosen user name, took time out of their day to reply to as many comments as they could, with uplifting affirmations of their own.

Completely made my day to see someone ask for help and then return it in kind, many times over. ❤️❤️❤️

Last heard (a few months ago) the cost is in storage. The protocol isn’t too complicated now, but it generates a shit ton of data, and IIRC you need a minimum of 3 copies.

NSFW INCOMING…

It's important to note that the #1 rule of Misinformation is: Be First.

The information doesn't have to be accurate, verifiable, etc., it just has to Be First and it'll get repeated often enough that people will start to believe that it's true. "Oh Shirley, how can 'Biden Eats Babies' be wrong when I've already seen 18 shared posts on my wall this morning [Meta/Facebook] talking about it. I've received 3 e-mails from other family members talking about it. Why I even saw 4 articles on my favorite websites last night and this morning reporting on it. They can't all be wrong!"

Then when the truth tries to assert itself there's so much noise that it gets drowned out.

I’m not going to pretend I have my finger on the pulse of ‘gays everywhere’ but I’ve never heard, read, seen, or experienced that word being used as anything other than the common usage for a food item.

Edit: You may have witnessed an attempt to make it something, but that sounds like an attempt that failed.

It’s also the devs server and they have Lemmy code to write. Can’t be spending time moderating.

Non-shithole site link: https://apnews.com/...

No offense FlyingSquid.

Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.