That was my first thought, as well.

The data may not lie, but it can still be dead wrong.

Lemmy is open source. You could start an instance and run it this way, as a trial.

I’m not sure it would work. It’s very hard to effectively replace volunteer effort with an algorithm.

The headline, “Local man gets living shit beat out of him”, is a hilarious detail.

I’ll just point to the sign:

“Sometimes rich assholes reveal themselves to have (once again) done exactly the kind of shitty behavior we suspected them of.”

Not very catchy. Maybe I should workshop it.

We can go to a fancy restaurant, like Taco Bell!

He knew the blue shell was some bullshit before he used it.

Thank you for your service.

Yes. I think we just need a cultural norm where indie instances proudly proclaim their indie credentials and the associated risks, while large reliable servers share how they are backed up and managed, as well.

Yes. Filter lists to subscribe to would be a big help to new users.

Especially if we could generate a default one that just includes some kind of median block set across users on the current instance.

Then a new user could just make one early choice: “Automatically filter unpopular content” or “see everything”.

Oh! Thanks!

No. Put the Genie back in the bottle. We need air traffic control for this shit. Or we just gave to shut down all the PHP and NodeJs servers. (This is sarcasm…mostly.)

Allowing private corporations to have the ability to block what is seen on the internet seems to us to be a dangerous and infinitely deep problem.

Is a great quote, and gets to the heart of the issue.

But the French authorities are idiots. So there’s no win to be had, here.

Maybe deep packet inspection to drop any traffic that happens to be in the French langauge.

There are more important reasons geoIP blocking will not work. We already prevailed in a similar legal case in Germany in 2021-2023 in which we learned an important lesson: we tried to use geoIP blocking as a “hack” in a similar circumstance at the start of the legal proceedings, allowing us to continue services in Germany until the case concluded. The plaintiff (Sony Music Entertainment GmbH) then used a VPN to access the blocked content from Germany in circumvention of the geoIP blocking. The court agreed with Sony in their assertions of noncompliance, and we were fined for contempt of court.

A very “fuck you” to Sony, once again, as well.

We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.

Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.

But “Craigs List” solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.

So it’s possible. happening now, I’ve just learned. Neat!. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade

(Edit: Added link to the surreal thing. Thanks!) (Edit 2: I swallowed the onion whole. Mostly jokes, there, I think. I’m gonna leave the link anyway.)

That poor cosmic horror. It needs a soothing cup of tea, and maybe a nice hot bath to wash away the stink of having had to be in the presence of private equity.

Never half-ass a transporter meld of two officers. Always kill the transporter abomination, to recover one full-ass vulcan officer.

If Neelix also survives, you can claim you did that on purpose, too.

I just want my warp core back, man!

Finally, someone has subverted those pesky expectations we have about Christian ninjas.

Yes. It’s hard sometimes to tell who has been genuinely deceived by Christian Ninja propaganda, and who is just being paid to prop up Christian Ninja talking points.

Sorry, I’m in a silly mood, and just desperately wanted to yes-and your delightful post.

These resources helped me successfully switch from Ollama to Lama.cpp. Thanks!