That’s one hell of a conclusion to jump to. We’ve all got fucking eyes and can see the header, bozo.

If it was just some person’s opinion, it would be posted as a Facebook screed, on a personal blog, Medium post, or Substack post. You get the picture. There’s an infinite amount of places online to personally toss your own opinion up for the world to see.

While the opinion piece label is a very important disclaimer-- The New York Times reviewed, vetted, and made an active choice to publish this drivel and attach their name and reputation to it. Pretending that doesn’t mean anything is a mistake.

Apologies in advance, I may have just discovered my personal inner schizo.

Don’t forget that there is a massive, coordinated campaign to get us to eat our own by overemphasizing life differences in the range of poverty to upper middle class while shrouding the realities of life in the 1% amd underemphasizing the difference between “can send my kid to private school” and “could build a private school for my kid”.

On its face it sounds absolutely absurd to lump in Ivy League Greg with Trailer Park Steve, but they both have far more in common with each other than they do with multi-millionaires. The knee jerk almost primal rejection of that idea that comes quickly to most people is fucking intentionally taught into us.

Ok, so now you’re looking at Lemmy plus Pictrs (I think that’s the image hosting software most instances use on the backend, but I might have the name wrong).

If you also want video support loke Facebook, that’s an additional load on the server for whatever you use. Probably piped?

Maybe all of that together is still lighter weight than Friendica. I’d be surprised but it’s possible.

So far we both seem to be going off of gut feelings and anecdotes, so if you (or anyone) has harder numbers that would be neat.

Then there’s the workload of the modifications to the code, especially what would be needed to manage potentially nuanced visibility settings for each piece of uploaded content. That would mean that you wouldn’t only need to mess with Lemmy, but how each of the other services work as well.

And then how do you manage federation while ensuring the visibility settings are kept?

By the time you would have a proof of concept that had the basic features down, it would be significantly diverged from Lemmy anyway.

You mention LemmyBB in your other response. I wasn’t aware of it before, but an “old school” forum is significantly more similar in function to Reddit/Lemmy than Facebook is. It’s just Reddit/Lemmy without nested comment replies, so everything is a top level comment (or displayed as one) in chronological order. Plus upvote/downvotes wouldn’t need to be displayed.

None of this makes what you’re suggesting impossible, but you’ve got many additional layers of complexity right out of the gate compared to just using what already exists for the job at a resource efficiency hit.

Would it truly not just be simpler to work on improving Friendica’s efficiency rather than rebuilding the wheel using layer upon layer of leaky abstractions and approximations?

Lemmy is easier to host specifically for the reasons that it wouldn’t make a good Facebook alternative. Hosting what is mainly text content and links is pretty lightweight.

There’s no benefit to trying to be clever with this by manipulating something not fit to task when there is already an existing solution.

Just use one of the Fediverse Facebook alternatives if you want a Fediverse version of Facebook.

You do realize, even for an opinion piece, this is astoundingly poor quality and taste? You can tell by having two brain cells to rub together.

I expect this sort of shit from a tabloid, not from any organization claiming journalistic integrity. A shitty piece is still a shitty piece, even if it’s hiding behind the opinion column banner.

“Cranking your hog” could be used as euphemism for male masturbation, but the “joke” is that it’s probably the most ridiculous way you could refer to jerking off.

It also could be used to mean cranking the throttle on a motorcycle.

So THE PACK (the “wolf” pack) is kind of a mix of taking the piss out of: edgy/hardcore biker t-shirts/culture, ridiculously over the top support groups, occasional “wife bad” boomer humor, and the fact that a lot of “strong male” branded stuff is just a hair away from being extremely homoerotic. They’re also legitimately just a fun group of general positive supportive posters.

I DON’T MIND DOING THE DISHES BUT I’D RATHER BE CRANKIN MY HOG WITH MY BROS

Can anyone provide any more context besides a github that only has a multi-page code of conduct as the readme?

I thought homeassistant rolled out voice control features around the end of last year/start of this one.

My daughter isn’t even two yet, but I’m definitely trying to plan a balance with this. It’s a huge part of how I learned, and I don’t think I would have learned nearly as much or as well otherwise.

At the same time though, I can’t help but feel like ads and the internet are far more insidious than they were when I first went online in 2000.

Malware is much more sneaky. There’s more spare resources for it to use without impacting performance. Ads have likewise had plenty of time to develop/advance/get worse.

Thankfully, ad blocking, anti-malware, and recovery tools have also advanced.

I think for the early days I’ll have her on an isolated, locked down, pre-protected device for learning the basics of using a computer (mouse, files, the type of stuff they used to teach in elementary school).

Then slowly take off the training wheels.

Always wanted my car seat to resemble a wrinkly scrote.

I’ve got a tyke under the age of two. I always let my wife eat first while I feed our kid.

If my daughter is being tough, by the time it gets frustrating my wife is done eating and I can tap her in. If my daughter is being easy, I can get her taken care of and whatever mess she makes eating cleaned up first, so I can eat in relative peace.

Unless the charming little gremlin decides she needs some of my food. “Daddy daddy, bite please! Yum! Yum! Please!”

Regardless, I can avoid feeling rushed, or like I’m putting off something.

According to the itch.io owner on bluesky, a forum was created on itch.io for discussion of Funko Fusion (a licensed Funko game that just released on the Switch, per Funko’s twitter).

Funko uses a third party (Brand Shield) for IP protection and issuing DCMA requests, as most big companies do to help shield from bad PR.

Brand Shield uses an AI based system that flagged the forum as infringing. Instead of contacting itch.io directly through proper channels for DMCA claims with the site itself, they contacted itch.io’s DNS registrar iwantmyname. These are people that connect “itch.io” to the IP address of the server, so you can get to it easily online.

iwantmyname forwarded the complaint to itch’s hosting service, who forwarded it to the owner.

The itch.io owner took down the forum/page that was flagged as soon as they recieved notice about it, as they say it’s not worth trying to fight this sort of thing when it’s just a basic DCMA flagging. They informed their hosting service, who confirmed the page was taken down and itch.io was in the clear. They also informed iwantmyname, who did not respond at all, and instead stopped pointing “itch.io” at the itch.io IP, taking the site down.

itch.io’s owner starts posting on bluesky and x about the event, and within about half a day the registrar reinstates the site.

Someone (so far unidentified but clearly associated with Funko) contacts the itch.io owner’s mother and makes some threatening comments to her about statements on her son’s social media accounts, scaring her into texting him a “please call me” type text. He screenshots this and posts it to twitter.

Funko makes an “apology” post on twitter that distinctly lacks any actual apology, shifts all the blame to the third party IP protection company, and states that the flagged page was impersonating an official development page for their game. But they’re “happy” the issue is resolved.

Funko publicly stating the page that was flagged was impersonating an official page is a pretty serious claim, especially along with the very obvious scare tactics of contacting the itch.io owner’s mother. Make no mistake, those are both big fucking threats.

Fwb doesn’t have romantic elements. The “benefits” is sex, not any other relationship stuff. The friendship doesn’t even have to be a particularly good one.

I find that intentionally trying to hide things just makes this occurence 10x as likely.

Just password protect it and leave it where it’s convenient. I would hope that you aren’t in a situation where getting robbed is likely.

That’s some bullshit. Looks like it’s time for a new registrar.

Huh? Is this referencing some extended universe content that has come out since the show ended?

There’s a difference between tempering, and making sure the artillery is aimed at the most valuable targets.

We need this energy to stay pointed at the 1%, and to not get mixed up in the weeds. The last time we had energy like this was Occupy Wall Street, and the momentum was killed by attempting to expand the scope from the initial target of the 1%.

It is. But if the world and life were so simple we wouldn’t have anywhere close to the amount of problems that exist.

Houses require maintenance over time, and there are people who need a place to live but can’t afford sudden repair costs, which can be absorbed by a landlord. There are people who prefer not to own for a variety of reasons. Maybe they like being able to make repairs someone else’s problem, or they like the freedom of being able to uproot and move easier.

I have an uncle that makes fucking bank doing contract work all over the place who falls into that last example.

I agree that everyone who wants a home should be able to have and keep one, but there are bigger fish to fry (CEOs to shoot?) before it’s worthwhile to start in on smaller scale landlords etc.

The rich want us squabbling over differences of wealth at these lower levels. It helps distract people from the biggest offenders.

Don’t waste your effort. You see similar in every discussion on this site about landlords too. No nuance allowed.

The local guy renting out his late parents’ home at below market rate is just as despicable as the slumlord lackeys of the investment companies that don’t do any upkeep.

Maybe it’s because I was an only child, or maybe I wasn’t aggresive with doors as a child, but my family never had issues with door hinges or stops breaking growing up.

Had both the solid “stick” doorstops screwed into the baseboard, and the spring ones attached to the baseboard.

The stops that sit on top of the hinge with one pad to press against the door and another to press against the wall, usually adjustable by screwing one of the sides to be longer or shorter? My family definitely broke a few of those ones.

There’s also the plastic/rubber patches you can put on the wall where the door handle would slam into the wall. Never used those anywhere I’ve lived, but they seem to work well in offices and commercial buildings I’ve been in.