Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 2

@cstross
Just curious about something: Do you remember getting wild light shows during & immediately after your reattachment surgery? With colors & patterns you hadn't ever previously seen as eye flashers?
I saw these cobalt-blue flashing lights in intricate patterns, almost a little like a throbbing cuttlefish. They persisted (with decreasign frequency) for around a day & a half after the surgery.
@jredlund

@inthehands @breadandcircuses
For me it's just a rationalist version of 'let go & let God', where 'God' is whatever vague thing Schmidt thinks he means when he says "AI".

Matt Mullenweg looking weirder by the day as WordPress.org now requiring anyone who logs in to certify that they are "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise."

(Also IANAL but couldn't this provide weight to a claim of 'actual malice' on Automattic's part?)
#WordPress #WPEngine

[h/t @da_667 @ https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/113277898755249499 in a much funnier way]

Without the ability in WordPress to easily specify an alternative plugin repository for automated updates, Matt Mullenweg is basically a living supply chain vulnerability in the WordPress ecosystem.

Put another way: if Matt & #Automattic turning off #WPEngine access to WordPress dot org demonstrates anything, it's that #WordPress has a fundamental supply-chain vuln in the form of its total reliance on WordPress dot org for automatic updates. & in Matt's autocratic control of the platform.

@carnage4life TBC Automattic has never even tried to offer a service that's truly comparable to what enterprise WP hosts offer.

@eaton Do you happen to recall if it was a Nuke derivative?

It would be interesting to see #WordPress fork hard in response to Automattic's clear desire to have their open source cake & copyright-restrict it, too.

I'd find it fascinating if someone did a database-compatible fork with a wholly new front end. That basically happened w/*Nuke in the early aughts. (Hell, when I first looked at the WP database schema I was like 'holy crap this is PostNuke!' I still think they basically took a *Nuke schema as a starting point & wrote a new front end.)

Oh my god, he took the bait on the rally question. Holy shit she's playing him like a fiddle.
#debate

donny gets this smirk when she's landing shots.
#debate

Taking the bait on criminal cases.
Case after case she's laying rancid meat on the floor & donny's tearing right into it.
#debate

Hey, donny, you know where else crime is down? The US.
Maybe we should let MORE foreign criminals in!
#debate

Now bragging about how many people he's fired. Trying to play the #Apprentice card.
#debate

@rbreich yeh but how often has that ever made a difference to a Republican candidate?
The lack of qualifaction bothers me a little less than the particularly dangerous combination of spinelessness, viciousness, & desperate need for approval.

@mrdiamondj fuck, not me, I wear a Garmin that I don't plan to replace at least until I can't get it through a day on a single charge.

@mrdiamondj (I drank the smartwatch koolaid when I decided to get serious about weight loss, so I am at least that far gone.😉)

This is how I learned someone had tried to shoot Trump.
Also this is a great example of why #Mastodon desperately needs the ability for us to turn off replies on posts: if I were someone with much of a following, it's the kind of post that would invite discussion of the wisdom of shooting a president (FTR, I think it's stupid), which is one of many free speech nullifiers under US law.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112783642933338644

Oh good grief, could tech "journalism" please outgrow their juvenile obsession with tiny signifiers? "Apple used orange first, you can't use it now!" It's the tech equivalent of 'everything deploying the same very general plot arc is a copy.'

Next up: If anyone but Mercedes-Benz makes a 4 wheeled automobile, they're copycats, because Mercedes did 4 wheeled automobiles before anyone else.

https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-copies-look-apple-watch-ultra-airpods-2024-7

@goatsarah have they always been that way, & just had better PR in the past?

(My token experience is that at least British rail service has gone downhill in recent years. We were in England/Scotland for our honeymoon c2007, then again for a conference in 2019, & took a train north from London both times (Edinburgh in '07, York in '09, so same line). In just those 12 years, the experience degraded really strikingly.)

@goatsarah
this makes me sad, as one category of things I've had on my retirement list was using some of the extensive European rail networks I've been reading about my whole life.

What's most disturbing is the sense that they're making a heartfelt apology for behaving with basic decency. 'We promise never again do anything our most strident rural customers might find upsetting.'
https://corporate.tractorsupply.com/newsroom/news-releases/news-releases-details/2024/Tractor-Supply-Company-Statement/default.aspx
[h/t @hrefna | https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112692159525694561]