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All nerds, for sure. I was young, so my idea of age was a bit off... but I recall them being from their mid-20s up to their 50s. Mostly in their early 30s, though. I should also no…

I was about 12 or so when I discovered BBSes. That was way the heck back in about 1987. 1. I used to go to local computer stores to get a locally produced "magazine" - printed on n…

Very cool take. So, how have you fought off similar oppression in your utopic part of the world, wherever that may be? Please, enlighten the rest of us.

Naw, decentralized means not having everyone on one platform. ActivityPub-enabled sites (Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc.) can be run by just about anyone, and can serve multiple us…

Perhaps not so much "wholesome" - because I can definitely provide a handful of historical and current examples that definitely aren't - but certainly more "community minded". In t…

About as effective as robots.txt.

I'm in my fifth decade and I only answer the phone if it's someone I personally recognize - and, even then, I often let it ring out or dismiss it, unless it's my immediate family m…

It was recently stated that 40% of owner-occupied homes are mortgage free: ( https://www.fastcompany.com/91376388/housing-market-the-real... ) Various stats put the ratio of owner-…

Have you never been to a Maker Faire?

> Once upon a time, we geeks truly believed that computing and telecommunications would bring us together. I still believe that. We just lost the plot. We can get it back.

And what, exactly, are we paying congress for? We could save tons just firing the whole lot!

I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it. However... If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dep…

Remember: PG&E is a for-profit company. The CPUC consists of folks pretty much entirely in bed with PG&E. I also love California - it's beautiful here, and the people are generally…

Currently using SvelteKit for a project, and I dig it. I've used Vue in the past and tried to get on the React train, but both felt a bridge too far from good ol' HTML, JS and CSS.…

I bought it in the hopes of causing mostly harmless mischief, but its capabilities in that realm are oversold. That said, I knew very little about UART communication or SPI until I…

The social pressure to "be interesting" is one of the factors that I think leads to a lot of our collective misery. I think the problem is one of scale - if you're not engaging wit…

No - the clapper will kill the power to it, so it won't be able to respond. You need to add a Google Nest device that will respond to your request for claps.

I've been feeling this way for a while. So much human effort spent on producing human suffering and death. No wonder everyone feels like everything is falling apart.

If the org has a software development team, there's really no reason not to roll your own. As stated previously, this is a pretty well solved and well documented problem. A lot of …

I agree mostly with this observation, but would add to it - people are willing to work when they own their work. There are definitely a lot of jobs and likely entire industries tha…

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"Lobbying and weaponisation of PR" is just artisinal, organic, farm-to-table corruption.

This is a cleaning house / loyalty test: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-prote... Reddit mods who do not want to be exploited further are best walking away n…

I have a pet conspiracy theory that the leadership there thinks this may rid them of "troublemakers". Huffman's seemingly ludicrous hardcore stance against third party Apps and mod…

I run my own instance of Mastodon just for myself - and am thinking of doing the same for Lemmy. I, of course, can do that because I have the skills - most don't, so they must rely…