Drunemeton

They added 1 million new users yesterday alone, so it’s happening! And so are the growing pains.

Jay, their CEO, had a Twitch stream yesterday and she said they’re a 20 person team!

It truly is like old Twitter.

Citation needed.

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Vans don’t have trunks asshole!

(A paraphrasing of “Castles don’t have phones asshole!” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show …)

Trunk-or-Treating!

FTFA: “Launched federation for self-hosters and developers. Now there are over 1,000 other personal data servers (PDS) outside of Bluesky.”

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!

Well bsky.app has added almost a million users in 1 day! They actually call these events “EMEs” (Elon Musk Events).

It’s a great site, that I highly recommend you check out.

You may have heard of Folsom Street Fair? The sex & kink positive, all-inclusive, world-famous, 2-day long, San Francisco street fair?

For the first time in over 2 decades of attending my husband and I were turned away from the new, unmarked, Trans & Non-Binary Gate & Safe Space because we weren’t, nor did we identify, as such.

Wow!

“Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.”

And “1984” was a warning, not a “How To”…

Yeah…

Hey! Perhaps they’ll use A.I. to weed out the A.I. generated bits.

I think that’s the “25-times faster” bit. They seem to be in a hurry to collect as much human-generated data as possible.

Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.

I got as far as Tom Cotton. Everything else in that article is just going to be a waste of time to read.

The man is without ethics or morals.

I wish people would realize that terraforming is the only way we’re going to colonize other planets.

Sci-fi showed us landing on Earth-like planets and making a new home. Reality will show us dying in a completely alien biosphere as bacteria and viruses we have zero resistance against ravages our bodies the moment we’re exposed to it. And we’d expose the new biosphere to pathogens it has zero resistance to.

We might be able to adapt by living in a protected environment (i.e. our biosphere) and slowly exposing generations of our descendants to the new biosphere. But many, many of us would die in the process. Not to mention genetic mutations.

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.

I wholeheartedly agree!

I guess they just don’t have any other curated content to fill that space… /s

I’m not a fan either, but according to Apple their main News posts are “curated” by staffers.

Therefore it’s not an algorithm that can filter out certain topics and sites per your preferences. If they decide a post is newsworthy in the main area, and it just happens to be from a blocked site, you see that.