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@evan I'M OFFENDED THAT ATLANTIS IS OMITTED

Considering the audience of this network, I suppose I need to explicitly point out that the preceding post was _sarcasm_, and that I'm seeing just as much of the content here as I would on literally any other platform.

That's the point. The point is that they're not different in reality, You can tell yourself they are, but you're wrong, and giant sudden news stories reveal that to everybody, so you should stop telling the general public that The Fediverse is a flowering, sunny, green utopia.

Does anybody know what web sites I could go to to find some sloppy hot takes about current events? Because Mastodon and the entire concept of the fediverse is magically impervious to those on principle, I'm going through a lot of withdrawal today. It's like a desert out here!

@evan Like I keep trying to point out to people, literally anyone can slap the name "Nobel" onto something, prizes included, and it's as valid as the competition — just plaster on a couple of prepositional phrases 'n' such if you're antsy:

https://mastodon.social/@n8/115367999530548751

The ball might really be in your court on this one. I'll chip in a couple of bucks for, like, 3d-printing the medal or whatnot

@evan ..."often called the Nobel Prize In Everybody Likes You and Being Cool"

@mattl That won't be easy; my stuff is all in storage. Maybe you can find a boxed set of the whole season on eBay or Netflix -- I think I remember December 31 that year also had a lot going on.

@mattl NBC Nightly News, May 20, 1999.

@mattl, you are the dot in dotcom.

Confound it I just had a great idea for a Mastodon bot, and I have so many other things I have to be doing..

Okay, back to seething with absolute outrage.

I momentarily do not absolutely hate JavaScript.

(apropos of nothing happening on the internet today; I've been hunkered down trying to complete a demo for a couple of days. Just logging this fact for the sake of the long arc of human history which, as is widely known, trends away from JavaScript.)

(...and I appended that particular link because it does a good job of explaining in plain terms that "operating income" is not some esoteric, meaningless statistic cherry-picked for the purpose of making this point. Selling & shipping socks has a margin of < 2%; selling CPU time and disk quotas, > 30%.)

I'm getting tired of software developers berating normal people for buying everyday household items on Amazon, considering that 3/4 of its operating income comes from the cloud computing services it sells to software developers.

(read it here when you feel all haughty, nerds: https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/10/amazon-e-commerce-company-74-profit-this-instead/ )

So far, I have not seen an actual lawyer give an analysis of the newly-announced #Firefox #TOS thing and, to be frank, the hottakes that I have seen boosted by all yall here have not met my standard for "this person is doing a careful assessment".

Instead, there is a whole lot of "this undoubtedly verifies what I always secretly expected" or "everything in these sorts of statements in a trojan horse intended to cause harm."

So, please: If/when you do see some analysis by a lawyer, boost that.

Does anybody create their own custom, possibly local-only XDG (or not, I guess) URL-scheme handlers?

I know it's doable; I just never hear about it.

The Calendar app thing has reminded me that I meant to do that for a handful of #selfhosted applications.

@mattdm No no; what I meant was the "16.0%" etc, which are peculiar values to be specific about, and which are unevenly spaced. (Also, what the top-most & bottom-most numbers are, like is it 0%–16% or is it 12.7%–16%). And the color saturations/brightnesses don't seem to line up to the numbers....

Those are kinda red flags for me; they smack of charts generated by Excel with a bunch of settings left at defaults.

(doesn't mean the source is wrong, tbs; I just get antsy about viz misleadingness)

@mattdm I have questions about how that numeric range was split up into those really oddball percentage-bins....
#PTSDfromHavingToDoDatavizMyself

@3janeTA You might be using your faucet differently than I do....

Tech dudes will literally post a rant that all the local plumbers have Facebook pages and should "learn to make and own their website" but they won't consider learning to fix a leaky faucet themselves.

@wjt If you can't afford having an AI do all your creative work for you, then I GUESS hiring an artist is okay....