I believe this states the take many have - much like nobody batted an eye about auto-contrast, content-aware fill, or line smoothing. They weren’t trying to replace humans with programs, weren’t causing huge environmental impact, and weren’t trained on stolen content. It’s the ham-handed implementation that most are opposed to, combined with the obnoxious techbro mentality.

We just have the one record player, and they bought it for themselves, but we all had a nice time listening to it. They started collecting vinyl recently, and got me back into the hobby after a 40 year long hiatus.

Very cool, I need to check these out.

What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”

And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”

This feels like clickbait - I find it hard to believe the writers of this piece are unaware of the protests. The better question, perhaps, is “why does media refuse to cover the protests”, and the answer to that is obvious - the media (damn near all of it) is controlled by the very oliarchs we’re protesting.

Great band!

Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.

I’m a huge fan of RSS, it’s how I get 90% of my media now.

I believe my first impressions of bsky when it finally opened was “oh, it’s like twitter from 2006. but why?”

I know so many people flocking to it, and I’m just not getting it.

Absolutely, those two are both amazing. This record is pretty solid, and available really cheap most places - I think I paid $5 for this one, and it’s in really good condition.

Can’t think of any times when “undesireables” have been sent to prisons/gulags in other countries. Nope. Nothing springs to mind…

A little disappointed that the ‘solution’ requires so much heavy processing that it basically becomes almost as bad as the ‘problem’, but I guess that’s par for the course these days.

Thanks, it’s a fun album

Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted “buy” info on his socials before reversing.

If we had any kind of system of laws, that’d be jail time.

Anyone else feel like their head is spinning from all the craziness right now? It’s a bit much tbh.

The pink panther theme still sits as my favorite, from childhood on.

I believe it uses a combo of bing and google with anonymizers, yes. I’ve just started poking around there due to waterfox mobile using it by default.

I’ve had really good success with https://www.qwant.com/ and with https://www.startpage.com/

Fingers crossed, right?