Notices by contrasocial (contrasocial@mastodon.social)

@Gargron

Yeah, I switched to Qobuz a while back and while it's been generally quite servicable, I do think Spotify has a better algoritmn for creating radio stations and identifying similar music. Qobuz feels a bit like it just selects a random track from a tangentially related artists work without much regard to tone, instrumentation, mood etc.

@dansup

Atta boy

@gamingonlinux

Hopefully the linux dev community takes some lessons from Bazzite in terms of meeting average users where they are.

@fesshole

It's weird to me that so many people never developed the basic social skills to politely back down this kind of situation and instead choose to just flee.

Just don't stoke more conversation, let it dwindle. It's not a cruel thing to do to not engage beyond basic polite acknowledgment.

@Laukidh

LA Taco is doing good work, but it's an incredible indictment of our press that some random guys who had a taco business and felt compelled to try and infirm their community are having to pick up this mantle.

@dansup

It definitely is noticeable that there's more content and more varied types of content being posted, which is awesome. Hopefully it'll keep steadily going up and eventually hit a critical mass.

@selzero

A bit of advice from the US; the way to deal with these idiots is to throat-stomp their movement immediately before it metastasizes further. Ideally you'd want to catapult Nigel Farage into the ocean as well if possible.

Judging from the way the UK seems to mirror the same kind of bad decisions as the US with a ~10yr offset you maybe have 5 years to organize an alternative narrative to give people that's to the left of Starmer. Expect resistance from Russian and Chinese bots.

@gamingonlinux

Someone actually made a Linux version with more than Linux nerds in mind and it did well. I'm absolutely shocked.

@fesshole

I never give charity through corporations like this, as most of them will take your money and use the majority for "administration costs" and then a tiny fraction might actually make it to the people who need it. It's simply a tax write off for these big corporations.

Instead I find ways to give as directly as possible when I do, or through reputable charities that aren't part of a for profit corporation.

@br00t4c

Getting de ja vu. We need an international peacekeeping force in occupied Palestine to stop Israel bombing again when they get the hostages back.

@br00t4c

Slowly turning into China without the manufacturing capacity.

@fesshole

Management: "Who are these bums down here at the bottom of my productivity chart? AI Assistant, fire these people immediately!"

And thus the socialist utopia was born.

@fesshole

I feel this one in my bones -_-

@fesshole

And then they named their kid Bingo Bolger-Baggins.

@JimmyB @aral @wackJackle

It's a culture where "profits = morality", so naturally this is how they think.

The normal ones in the financial sector must pretend that it's a matter of ethical practice in order to live with themselves, so in that sense it's existential for them.

@Gargron

I looked up photos of an animal as an anatomical study/reference for drawing and there was so much AI trash in the results I couldn't always be sure what were real photos or not. I literally was not able to have any confidence that was I was studying was real or not when it came to specifics of the animals anatomy.

Really depressing cycle of bullshit information getting recycled into nonsense. AI represents a future in which learning about reality will become increasingly difficult.

@gamingonlinux

When someone makes a linux distro that actually does the thing people want in the way they want, they have no problem embracing it.

Now the linux devs just need to make a desktop OS with the same philosophy.

@bolderbekah

I miss my '91 Civic hatchback that was basically an engine, four wheels, seats and a steering wheel.

It wasn't bullet proof and it didn't monitor my facial features for signs of dissent, but it did have this convenient feature where, if it ever caught fire, I could just pull the door handle and get out.

@NoahLoren13

Yeah, and I say fuck those motherfuckers. I feel no need to whitewash their racism and misogyny, they are directly responsible for poisoning our democracy from the start.

We shouldn't honor or make excuses for those who commit atrocities simply because they claimed they were doing so under a banner we favor. Apologies and sentiment don't bring back those who were murdered.

The Cuban revolution was a failure and should stand as nothing but a cautionary tale about dictatorship.

@NoahLoren13

Why would anyone honor mass murderers and homophobes? Simply because they were also antagonistic to the US?

Claiming dirtbags like Che Guevara "put people first" is laughable. Put them in front of a firing squad, sure.