Notices by Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)

@futurebird @cwebber They don’t want to be moderators. Never have. They want to build a platform that allows others to provide moderation-as-a-service.

The problem isn’t with their views on moderation, even though their take is terrible. The problem is how Jay interacts with people when they are mad or upset about an issue on the platform. She shitposts on them.

Error-driven development:

Place new code behind feature flag.
Deploy to prod.
Enable feature flag.
Watch logs for errors.
Disable feature flag.
Fix errors.
Enable feature flag.
Repeat.

@chris I discussed with my wife and son. We’ll reevaluate in 6-12 months to see if it’s had any impact on Disney’s business and behavior.

Canceled my Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max streaming services today. I will cancel the TV part of my fiber internet/TV bundle this week so that my money no longer supports Nexstar or Disney.

Aren’t FCC licenses just for use of broadcast frequencies? And the licenses for those frequencies are split among hundreds of affiliates across the country, owned by various companies?

Multi-channel cable providers also need a license, I think, but afaik, you don’t need a license to have a cable channel or an internet streaming service.

So, how many folks would be affected if ABC could no longer broadcast over the frequencies allotted to WABC-TV in New York?

Oh! This is what I was missing. Nexstar is a large conglomerate that owns many of the ABC affiliate stations across the country (including my local affiliate WKRN in Nashville), and they are the ones who decided to pull Kimmel from their broadcasts. Since it would no longer run on most of their affiliates, Disney followed suit and canceled the show.

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/how-to-boycott-abc-action-plan-revealed-after-jimmy-kimmel-cancelation-3253382/

And, of course, Nexstar wants to buy Tegna, which requires FCC approval, just like Paramount needed FCC approval to merge with Skydance, which was magically approved quickly after they announced Colbert would be gone.

@noondlyt @inthehands @mcnado Broadcast license doesn’t even matter for streaming services. They don’t require an FCC license. The license is only for over-the-air broadcast.

@noondlyt @inthehands @mcnado I’m not even sure whose license they would revoke. There’s WABC-TV in New York, which has a license for broadcast in that region, but revoking their license wouldn’t affect the hundreds of affiliate stations across the country that aren’t owned by Disney/ABC. ABC could continue to provide content to their stations without needing a license, I think.

@noondlyt @inthehands @mcnado I don’t see anyone even talking about that aspect, so it’s more likely that I don’t understand how it works.

@noondlyt @inthehands @mcnado I figured out what I was missing. Nexstar is actually the one who decided to pull Kimmel, and Disney followed suit. Nexstar owns my local ABC affiliate (and hundreds of others).

So, we should boycott Nexstar, too.

https://phpc.social/@ramsey/115227974138870932

@renewedresistance @tchambers Is this sarcasm?

If Trump decided against sending troops to Chicago and didn’t make plans to send them elsewhere, I could see this as a genuine statement. Since he’s sending those troops into my state instead, when we didn’t ask for them, all I can see is that the bully decided to pick on a different target, so this must be sarcasm?

HR 3860 allows the Secretary of State to revoke the US passport of anyone “whom the Secretary determines has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.”

There’s no due process, and the only way to overturn it is to “request a hearing to appeal such denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving notice of such denial or revocation.”

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3860/text

@dansup Are they going to disallow political speech on their platform?

Interesting thought about how folks search now:

They use LLMs to find things. SEO doesn’t work. LLMs distill opinions about your products/services into a response. To optimize, you must build products that make users want to share positive messages.

Biblically accurate Furby #DragonCon #DragonCon2025

@chris The biggest thing that bothers me is that, sometimes, there aren’t very many results, but they explain this in their documentation. They don’t return results that aren’t relevant to your search, so there are fewer bogus results to sift through. When I look back at the results returned from DDG and Google, I get it: sometimes I’d hours going through page after page of search results, not finding relevant links.

@chris I used DDG for years, but I’ve recently started using and paying for @kagihq. I like it a lot.

What are folks using for job/message queues in #PHP, these days?

@raganwald @paninid I opened LinkedIn today to find contact info for someone, and every single post in my feed was someone trying to convince me that AI changed their life and it’ll change mine, too, if I just accept it into my heart.