I mean, fuck Apple, but …

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Hanlon’s Razor (Wikipedia)

Still, though — fuck Apple.

Background on the Vice stuff for those interested 👍

Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!

Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can’t comment, or maybe it’s just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.

Official site says “Hiking safety GPS”, something to that effect, but all this talk of “local topics” has me confused. What’s your use-case?

1. Most of the world uses Google.
2. Everyone must accept Google EULA to use.
3. Google adds arbitration rule to EULA.
4. Google adds “EULA covers all Google subsidiaries and partners” to EULA.
5. Google sells “partnerships” to every company that can afford it.
6. Profit.

Partner killed by a faulty Ford truck? Never signed a Ford EULA? No worries, Ford is a Google Partner™! See you in arbitration, bitch! 😂

No, no! You see, the specific combination of sounds that we use to identify and address a given person shapes that persons body, especially their facial features!

How else would you explain how every person over 50 named Henry looks exactly the same‽ Or why people over 50 named Charles and Charlie look so similar?

I’m 44, and have a friend who is 43, and has the exact same name, and everyone we know always comments on how they’re 100% certain we will look like twins in 7 years.

It’s just science. Get your head out of the sand!

Hell, I wouldn’t be the least amount surprised if everyone over 50 named Gretchen not only look identical, but are also the exact same height. I guess that’s an idea for their next study. I can’t wait to be proven right.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to read how my day tomorrow — and, incidentally, that of the other 1/12 (roughly) of the planet born with the same zodiac sign — is going to turn out.

That’s actually pretty good. And then they’re open to getting sued when caught.

I guess it could be done on an instance basis, although I’m not sure how happy fediverse users will be if their instance has an official policy of open-sourcing (or maybe it’s public-domaining?) all their content by default.

I feel the same way about MeGusta — x265, always great size/quality ratio.

Thank [some deity] for video chats, those little bastards couldn’t spell to save their lives 😅

Isn’t that a bit too much like beating a dead horse?

Lifetime jail + lifetime jail for X generations of offspring, depending on severity?

Or instead of jailing children at birth, maybe just confiscating X yachts, depending on severity.

/* claps hands excitedly as a Linux n00b who picked Fedora /*

AltCeption!

In short, and mirroring what seems to the general sentiment: no. I like it here, and I like the heavy moderation and intolerance towards intolerance 🙂

I’ve yet to see a Beehaw de-federation action that I disagree with.

A winning strategy 👌

I think we need to look a bit back in time for the answer:

“If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them…let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted.”

— From Dr. John Bridges’ Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587.

It’s pretty funny how you can’t keep I/he and my/his straight in your post. And the “not mine” label is a nice touch! 😂

I think you owe it to yourself to make this into a post on /r/amitheasshole. I have a feeling the results will surprise you.

Zorg ZF-1s fired!

Paging Dr. Allcome!

Was introduced to Merlin a few weeks ago on a scout nature course, and I love it so much!

I’m using it a sort of real-life pokémon game, trying to grow my list of found birds (Life List). So far I’m up to 36! 😍

Don’t have any data to back it up, but I’ve been using Photoshop for 25+ years, and got the clear impression that this was 100% part of marketing; from what I gathered from friends back then, pirating Photoshop was so astonishingly simple that it seemed deliberate. If you’ve got the software that’s the easiest to get hold of for kids and students, that’s what they grow up with, that’s what they know, that’s what they expect to have access to in future employment situations.

Now that they’ve managed to pull off Subscriptions (and consequently fucking us all over by making it a legitimate business model, which instantly spread to, what, +60% of all paid software?), I’m sure they’ve calculated that the higher bar for gaining access to their software is more than adequately offset by the readings on the yard stick in their Scrooge McDuck money vault building(s).

And still, nobody has managed to make something that can replace their bloated, shitty software for professional users.