This definitely has been the narrative recently. Not just from Bland Altman but also from other billionaires it seems.

Perhaps he could take a page out of the book of authors and publish a new game under a non-de-plume?

Oh that reminds me of when Patrick Moore said he’d drink roundup then absolutely refused to do that when called on it.

Welcome @INeedMana@piefed.zip ! Thank you for your efforts! And you as well @demigodrick@lemmy.zip as always

Not to my knowledge. Granted all I did was a 1 second kagi search so there might be something floating out there. I do feel like if he made some kind of official statement, it’d be pretty big news though.

In the US? It’s not about prisoner rehabilitation and never has been.

Incarcerated workers are under the complete control of their employers, and they have been stripped of even the most minimal protections against labor exploitation and abuse.

Nationally, incarcerated workers produce more than $2 billion per year in goods and more than $9 billion per year in services for the maintenance of the prisons. https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers

I agree that prisoners should be kept active, given opportunities to develop skills, and that setting them up for continued employment after incarceration is a good idea too, but there are better ways than what we’re doing right now.

I’m not sure piefed has crossposting, but feel free to do so yourself!

Oh, no notification badges sounds heavenly. I don’t consider myself addicted to my phone but I do get twitchy if I see any dots or anything.

Sometimes I wish I could just smash a dumb phone and a raspberry pi together and just Build-A-Phone haha.

I’m not sure what you mean by text launcher. Do you mean like a custom launcher that only displays text and not icons?

I particularly like using it to capture a snapshot of the website for, say, my paid newsletter subscriptions that I might want to read later. That way if I do let my subscription lapse, I can still access the content I already paid for.

In their heads what they’re actually saying is ‘moral rights.’ As in “I have a moral obligation to destroy trans kids.” Everything else is, as you said, a dog whistle. But if it’s a MORAL right, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing because they are wrong and an enemy.

He’s pretty active on Bluesky if you want something bad but not AS bad to follow on.

Kind of wish people had actually read the article instead of downvoting you into oblivion since it was very snarky and skeptical and a delight to read.

Edit to add an excerpt:

This is not intelligence at work; this whole thing is essentially a melange of human-written stories that have been chewed into tiny chunks and then reassembled by an algorithm at the cost of an entire small nation’s power consumption.

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Good point, I stand corrected.

They do use it in the title though (the title on this post was auto-generated from the article, I didn’t pick it out.)

I agree with OP, it’s not really age verification in the sense we’ve been seeing in the news, but it IS a step in the direction of following the letter of the law without intrusiveness.

Welcome to self-hosting! I hope you have fun learning stuff. I’m still kind of on the lower-end of the intermediate scale myself, so I’m hoping they’ll be using dockers and docker-compose once the self-host docs are up.

Right now I do think it has screen share, but it doesn’t allow you to share audio at the same time (known bug). Bummer for me too.

I’m just glad that Discord pushed back their age verification stuff for at least a few months so there’s room for Stoat, Fluxer, etc to get some work done.

Agree that tumblr sucks, but if you can find a public instance of (or self-host) priviblur it’s much more tolerable.

When did you last check the self-hosting documentation? I just poked my head into it and there’s a big post talking about why they’d rather people wait on self-hosting.

That said if you liked Fluxer but are not satisfied with it right now (which is completely understandable. It’s in beta, after all, not a finished product), I’d say check back in 2-3 months. I would bet that the self-hosting is ready to go by then, judging by the rate of how other things have been updating.