“chat” is this Lemmy thread, in this example. it addresses the audience. it’s the streamer equivalent of breaking the fourth wall.

hrm, that makes sense. I wonder if you could transport a bunch of batteries by shipping an Uninterruptible Power Supply with a huge array of Li-Ion batteries inside. they’d have protection circuitry and they’d be contained within the chassis, so seems like you should?

isn’t it dangerous to pack a plane full of lithium ion batteries? it didn’t go so well for UPS 006.

greetz in the resume!! hell yeah

I’ve been denied all the best ultra sex 😞

once in a lifetime recession

slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible

once in a lifetime pandemic

monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible

it was a very easy pivot from removing hateful boards to removing Luigi memes and posts critical of Musk, unfortunately. honestly, I think it’s because of advertisers. Reddit admins dropped their free speech absolutism when they saw the ad revenue they were missing out on.

unfortunately, advertisers are now starting to feel uncomfortable on platforms with lgbt or “radical left” content. it’s why FB and YouTube now allow transphobic hate speech. we’re a political liability to them and their ad revenue stream.

it wasn’t a slippery slope, the hill changed directions on us.

America: third world country, first world prices.

it’s extremely rare to find such a cheap used car. my partner spent $8k on one that lasted a year. also, you might be surprised to learn that driving isn’t optional in most of the US - it’s literally impossible to live without a car. I live in a suburb. it’s several miles of dangerous roads to get to a grocery store. there is no nearby public transit. even large cities like LA were completely designed around cars. zoning and urban planning here completely screwed us.

yes, it sucks, yes I’m aware, yes I’d love to live in a walkable European city with commuter rail and cafes on the street corner, no I don’t have a choice.

weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

is this… somehow… real?

could you make this?

Friendship ended with nuclear non-proliferation. Now nuclear proliferation is my best friend.

I’ve literally read the code for Signal’s double-ratchet protocol. It’s extremely high quality cryptography, written in Rust, open source, with several independent audits.

The server code isn’t open, but we know they (used to?) use Intel SGX enclaves so the contact metadata is sealed from even the Signal Foundation. Admittedly SGX fell prey to a number of speculative execution attacks, but Signal had no way of foreseeing that.

Also, Moxie hasn’t been involved since 2022.

What on Earth does Signal requiring phone numbers have to do with Israel?

the Classicists and the classists!

oof.

My passport got “corrected” to M after being stuck in weeks of bureaucratic limbo and waiting hours at the passport agency. One of the agents even told me I should just accept it so that way I’d be able to leave the country.

Yeah, I dreamed of EZIC.

and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

I really like your art style! happy you came over from Reddit. 💜