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“body count” is not really offensive, more like irrelevant. it makes about as much sense to take that into account as how many people someone has ever talked to. i can’t attribute …

personally, i would never use a dating site built by a guy who uses terms like “body count.” you cannot expect to have a decent relationship with someone if you are dehumanizing th…

having one menu bar at the top of the screen made sense when macs had nine-inch screens. it saved some screen real estate, which was at a premium at the time. but the bigger the sc…

paul lutus himself is an occasional hacker news commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp

it is becoming irrelevant because the new regime is not prioritizing what was good about it. dismantling trust and safety is just one example of that. "engagment records" ... yeah,…

yep, i agree with this. twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance, but threads will not be the thing that scoops up all the refugees. twitter never worked for me, but i can se…

they did not “fall for” anything. the article is very careful to never say that geller is capable of anything unexplainable. what they are doing here is a reframe: “hey, let’s just…

as long as we are talking about security cameras, i have a related question. i have a bunch of power-over-ethernet cameras installed in my home. all the ethernet cables route back …

i am a lifelong fan of electronic music. given that wendy carlos is one of the pioneers, i am in the process of buying up all her records. as has been mentioned previously in these…

from the article: > For three consecutive years, the country has had the lowest fertility rate in the world, with an average of 0.78 children per woman. [...] The country is on ale…

i will start by saying i love dart. i learned it solely so i could make flutter apps. but now, three or four years later, i can say for certain that i love dart a lot more than i l…

> As far as I know, migrating servers is in fact very easy. I haven’t done it myself, but there’s a big button to click in the interface to do so. i have, in fact, tried pressing t…

i kind of love the fact that posting fediverse links on hacker news is coming to be almost as common as posting twitter links. and i already read this, because one of the mastodon …

that sounds to me like a great excuse a billionaire could use to make himself believe that no, really, me keeping all this money is actually good . sam bankman-fried is purported t…

i'll take a crack at it: the act of accumulating a billion dollars is an anti-social act. billionaires should have been giving it away hand over fist long before that happened.

several hours later: yep, i did, in fact, just move my account! it wasn’t exactly easy. not something i would expect a novice to be able to do by themselves. but anyone who is reas…

my mastodon link is on the front page of my site. i decided not to put it in the article because i want to emphasize the phenomenon rather than my own small place in it. and who kn…

here's an example from in the wild: https://mastodon.social/@willoremus/109552745423998782

it's a matter of degree. you are free to make your own choices, just as i am free to make mine.

> Wait! You do know you can see the users and posts of any server (even if it is not the server you are on) on the server you have account with, right? yes. but that is not conveni…

if you look at a user or post who is on your server, i.e., the domain displayed in the url bar is your server, then you're fine. if you're viewing a post or user on their own serve…

are you using one of the apps? if so, then yes, it's as easy as that. but if you are using a web browser, then that's where all the rigmarole comes from.

i agree with that! i solved it the way you're supposed to deal with new technology, i think: i lurked for awhile. read accounts from other mastodon users, to get a feel for things.…

argh, if only it were that easy. if you try to follow someone who is not on your instance, there is a whole rigamarole you have to go through. likewise, if you try to interact with…

my mastodon account is less than 48 hours old, so i am not the best person to answer this. i will say this much, though: anything i write that i feel has value will always go onto …