They don’t really care about the effect on pirates, it’s all about being able to sell the illusion of stopping piracy to suit wearing idiots.

You can also retroactively do it from play history, iirc.

There’s actually 4 choices because you forgot Code - Insiders and Codium - Insiders (probably not work thinking about). Which yes, have a different set of extensions available.

Logo or some other lisp would probably be the next logical step, one of the smalltalk environments (Squeak, Pharo) might also be an option, since they’re designed for teaching and have a ‘if you screw up, you can just reset the image’ mentality - remember, pre-2.0 Scratch itself was based on Squeak

I started off on a topic-specific instance, that the owner made private and deleted the accounts without any notification sometime in the year between creating it and my renewed interest in mastodon when twitter was first bought.

After that I went to a different instance (that I cant remember now) that was shut down after 3 months for being too high traffic for the owner, then moved to another that was defederated due to not taking a hardline-enough stance on bigotry. I’m now on one of the big instances, that some smaller instances are talking about defederating because they don’t reject the idea of threads being federated at some point enough.

My suggestion is thus, spend time researching the owner and intended community to be sure a) it’s a stable instance that has a future, b) you’re willing to focus mostly on that server’s community, while federation is a good thing, it’s not something you can rely on.

edit: to clarify, I was ‘ok’ with the defederation due to not banning bigotry, it would have been nice to know that the site owner was that kind of person up front though. Defederating a huge instance to disagreement over future ‘guilt by association’ is a little sourer tasting, but I suppose I’ll cope with it if it happens.

I also have a second account on a semi-defederated NSFW instance so that I can keep that aspect of my life seperate, anyway.

Tomato flavoured milk sounds delicious.

Ugh, never liked phpBB, vBulletin or Invision were always far better. Of course, tapatalk managed to ruin them all with their invasive integration that foolish board owners insisted on accepting.

Ark?

DDG or Mojeek normally

Every android phone I’ve had had a one-press ‘Emergency’ underneath the 0 on the lock screen, is it not the same for others? (although I’d argue that is too easy to hit)

Honestly, the most surprising thing is that they managed 6 successful dives to titanic before it failed.

It’s starting to be pickup trucks here in the UK too. It’s fairly common to see F150s and L200s on the roads, often taking up more than half the road on the smaller lanes.

No F350s yet that I’ve seen though, but they are available here so it’s mostly a matter of time :(

I was 11, and handled the ‘samples’ at a BNFL booth (at an airshow) where a geiger counter was set up, it wasn’t til the demonstration guy returned and demonstrated to someone else how the coin-sized samples set off the counter that I realised it wasn’t a ‘self service’ type demonstration. The samples were labelled with their atomic symbol, and the most reactive samples were labelled as uranium (about 20mm diameter) and plutonium (about 5mm diameter). At the time I told myself they were likely fake, since leaving a plutonium sample lying around wouldn’t be very likely.

I’ve not died of radiation poisoning or cancer yet, but it’s only been 41 years.

There’s also $HOME/.local/share for ‘static data files’ as part of XDG.

My ipad only has 50MB of free ram after the OS loads as it is, I’m not updating ios any further - and I’d probably be just about willing to pay to downgrade back to ipados 12 to make it usable again

Hey now, badgers are lovely creatures

Don’t forget Eich’s bigotry.

That IS what happened, in april.

What happened this month is that the API users (aka 3rd party authors) expressed their dismay at trying to work with reddit’s announced changes or getting any movement out of reddit that would allow them to continue.

Replying to this not because I believe you’ll need to know, but because others might see your comment and wonder…

Anyone can get a GPT 3.5 API key now, you don’t need to have a subscription.

This coupled with sgpt gives a nice command line interface to GPT, and a way to get GPT to generate the right (sometimes, anyway) shell commands for what you want to do. I use alias ask="sgpt --chat temp " to give me the ability to ask general one-line questions from GPT, or you can use ask --shell and it’ll ask about a shell command, then offer to execute it after showing you the command generated.

The tags that boing boing has assigned that story, rofl.