Notices by ikanreed (ikanreed@mastodon.social)

@gamingonlinux it's a good thing, but their motives are not fundamentally different than the app store disallowing 3rd party stores.

Sometimes corporate greed aligns with consumer interest, but usually not.

@dansup must be hard to think of incentives to offer when your code and platform and all its features are free already. I'll Kickstart some merch if you do that, though.

@glynmoody You know, populism is when you do exactly what the richest person around wants.

That's what the word means.

Yep.

@Gargron There's like two dozen mostly-defederated instances that are exactly what these people want anyways.

@gwynnion why is it a non starter? Because it's deeply ingrained into thousands of different threads of society?

@cstross you want China then.

They banned crypto, limited AI, and built more solar capacity than the rest of the world combined

@ErikUden the worst person you know has a point. Gmail does suck and I wish I hadn't tied my online identity to it.

@AnthonyJK I feel like the libs think they don't do that, because they don't recognize their role in perpetuating the status quo of extractive capitalism.

@waitworry @gwynnion The invention of the fictitious "moderate voter" who represents something between the center-right party and the far right party is one of the greatest coups ever pulled off.

@yogthos one of the most expected heel turns in the history of heel turns.

@br00t4c yeah, it's too late to stop this tech. It's everywhere and it's watching us.

@br00t4c wow, it's almost like living your entire adult life under extraordinary oppressive inequality causes you harm.

@br00t4c having 2 far right parties, not just for Americans anymore

@mekkaokereke @feld @PJ_Evans there's a lot of people who just assumed that Obama would never take on one of the most far-right, racist senators in the Democratic party as his vice president.

"Balancing" the 2008 ticket has turned out to be one of the most destructive choices in Democratic history.

@bean agreed, but a redirect extension and xcancel.com can help a little.

@tillshadeisgone and frankly you don't have to be a minority to see the deep, abiding problems in American society that liberalism likes to sweep under the rug and conservatism actively seeks to make worse. You've just gotta have eyes and a memory longer than a few weeks.

@br00t4c it's tempting to frame it as foolishness, but I think this is classic iron law of institutions dysfunction.

Those who currently control power within the democratic party would rather lose the election and keep that power, than give some of it up and have better chances of winning.

@br00t4c zoox, whatever tech parody show came up with that name should fire the writers.

No one would name their serious company trying to solve an actual problem "zoox." It's way too dumb.

@ark_lamp_umbrella @privateger @seraph sorry to pick on you, but to anyone reading this: don't use regular expressions to parse your urls. Use a trusted library like urllib in Python or URI in .net.

There's way too many pitfalls, don't reinvent the wheel or you'll be like Elon.

@Gargron But cakes made entirely of fondant and cardboard both are used within the arts, aren't they?

I don't mean this from a mean spirited place: don't garbage media have things to say?