Notices by Phosphenes (phosphenes@glasgow.social)

@tinydoctor @dalias @yuhasz01

You could take out all of Starlink with a suborbital sand bomb, but it would leave LEO unusable for a while.

The problem with fascism isn't the fascists. There aren't enough of them to swing most elections.

The problem with fascism is all the normal people who don't believe it will hurt them.

At this point our descent will not stop until every citizen has personally drunk the Drano and felt the pain.

Our fascism is no longer a political problem, it is now a cultural problem. The only cure left is experiencing the disease itself.

That's bad, but eternal sickness without cure will be worse.

@molly0xfff

So everybody was freaking out about the prospect of the US government buying into crypto bigtime and possibly tanking the economy with the next crypto crash.

This doesn't look as bad though right? Just hanging on to confiscated assets does not put us at risk?

@dalias @mastodonmigration

I thought Pixelfed was just a photo sharing network. Can it replace any other functions of Facebook?

@mastodonmigration

Where is this current exodus coming from?

@molly0xfff

So what does the key with the dog/cat footprint do? 🤔

@molly0xfff

Why does anyone use Amex? I constantly see 'all cards accepted except Amex'.

Why is Amex so especially limited, and who still needs that?

@sjvn @TheNewStack

Unlike the other AI products, can Red Hat users opt out?

I'm not anti-AI, I just have no use for it yet and want my CPU cycles back.

@molly0xfff

Trump suggests using crypto to solve US national debt:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/donald-trump-says-crypto-could-help-pay-35-trillion-us-debt

Marrying the nation's economy to crypto seems like filling your gas tank with hand grenades.

But what would be the specific economic effects?

@cstross @juniper

All of my neighbors are immigrants. Our children played together.

You know who is NOT going to ethnically cleanse our neighborhood? Kamala Harris.

@disisdeguey @cstross @juniper

The American genocide of Gaza is horrifying. What do you recommend we do about it?

@disisdeguey @cstross @juniper

I am not selling weapons to Israel. How am I supposed to stop doing something I never did?

Did YOU stop selling weapons to Israel?

@cstross

Extremism is not a position, it's a direction.

It solves zero problems, so has no halting condition.

@kaia @ZachWeinersmith

@Suiseiseki

I mean, just provide some proof that the kernel is proprietary.

First you said the Linux kernel is proprietary then you linked to a Linux kernel that is non-proprietary. That's like saying 'Birds are blue' then pointing to a bunch of red birds.

It might be more accurate to say 'some modules in some kernels are not free'.

@Suiseiseki

My 1997 Ford diesel has electric windshield wipers therefore it is an EV?

@wall0159 @Suiseiseki

Yeah WTF! Linux's most famous attribute is that it is open source and free.
'Unfortunately, lions are not cats.' 🤔