Was in Chile earlier this year. There is a nice museum in Santiago which is basically about the Pinochet era. Seemed to be pretty honest about the whole thing. They didn’t blame the CIA at all. They did talk about the school of economics that Pinochet subscribed to. That’s influence, yes, but not the same thing as orchestrating the coup.

LinkedIn is like a tenth as bad as others. At least it is (still, somewhat) marginally useful.

Well the ads percentage in the feed keeps going up. And more AI generated crap. But show me a social network (that isn’t Lemmy) where that isn’t true.

The Matrix was right. Lynch’s Dune was peak humanity.

It’s a pun!

Joke’s on you! I’m a Betazoid. Captain, I feel… Intense… Scrolling.

Aha, so it’s treating the pasta as one would a fruit filled pierogi or crepe. Just a wheaty medium for delivery of fruity goodness.

Someone tell me more about pasta with strawberries please. I say this as a pineapple on pizza aficionado.

Probably just a shoulder check used for photo. Probably an unrelated stock image for the transmission. Still a funny meme template

I mean it uses location and acceleration info for driving habits. What did you expect?

And they can request location info and other things, and most people just click Allow.

Nice perspective.

What would you consider to be a contribution of value? Posting? Comments? Moderating? Installing a server rack in your closer for nightly backups? What would you suggest a minimum contribution for continued use should be?

I spent about a decade as a KDE developer.

KDE has this mindset where if someone wants to implement something they think is cool, and the code is clean and mostly bug free, well – have at it! Ever wonder why there’s 300 options for everything?

Usually (because there’s a bunch of people trying to optimize the core for speed and load times and such) this also means that the unused code-paths are required to not contribute negatively to things like load times. So a plugin like this that doesn’t get loaded by default unless enabled, and thus doesn’t harm everyone else’s performance. It also means that if it stops working in the future and starts to bitrot, it can be dropped without affecting the core code.

I worked on open source software for over a decade (KDE). When we started having in person conferences, that’s the first time money changed hands. And even then, the conference attendance was free. Viewed through this lens of experience, this feels like an attempt to earn money from the fediverse for running video chats, rather than a grassroots effort.

Old man yells at cloud.

Paid online event? Weird. What happened to IRC for these sorts of meetings. I’m old.

I’m in this comment and I don’t know why

Yep.

Pissing into the wind.

Sorry, I’m not American. Looking at it from the outside. There are a lot of things America can do better.

But from a purely math perspective, it’s a good metric to explain why Japan has what it has.

Or healthcare. Or whatever else. Yes.

But you’ve already lost the war against the capital class and are left dreaming.

Japan is smaller than California, with several times the population density.

Reframe your thoughts as: taxpayers per mile of track. Then begin to understand.