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"Paid protesters"

Every accusation is a confession. Flock pays for support. They have a marketing department and they tell cops what to tell elected officials to think.

Transcoding is always the bottleneck with these, right?

720p is good enough for me so... can we all just use that and give up on transcoding?

License. GNU is copyleft and the new thing is permissive.

We might see a fracture open slowly. For me, even AGPL is not enough

I was just gonna throw a beefy Ryzen into an ATX chassis. I don't want to pay Mac prices

KDE gets it right, too.

And it offers me THREE different chess games I could install!

I've also found these guidelines helpful:

1. In general, do whatever Wikipedia does. e.g., start with a one-sentence definition, then a couple paragraphs of summary, then go into short specified sections, and keep links to the "Citations" at the end. It's been refined for 25 years, it's older than most of your engineers, it's 50+% correct by default.

2. Keep every section to one screenful. If your reader can't see a headline, they get lost.

3. Put a funny picture at the top of the page. Or at least something off Wikimedia Commons.

4. Don't spend a lot of time writing anything. And don't use AI. The AI doesn't know what's inside your head. You yourself have an inkling. The longer you write, the further you'll get. Just write one short thing at a time and refactor aggressively later. Never throw shit over a fence blind. Nobody reads shit that's been flung over a fence.

Steven King said writing is telepathy. All mediated communication sits on a Pareto trade-off with face-to-face communication. Media is always less interactive with slower iterations. You need to figure out exactly what your audience needs, right when they're reading, and write just that, knock 'em dead, and leave. Don't add detail. They'll ask if they need detail.

You wouldn't need history. You can probably build a flowchart choose-your-own-adventure that gives good financial advice, and then have an LLM hold the user's hand through that flowchart.

Like, do you have $1,000 in an emergency fund? No? Start there.

They aren't great on transgender topics I hear

codeberg is doing fine

What if process_the_character takes multiple seconds waiting on a network request?

Yeah. You can follow microformats and use Bridgy to syndicate to BlueSky and Fediverse

Just speculation:

The houses got expensive because homeowners wanted housing to be an investment, so they voted for laws that make it harder to build or densify housing.

Cars are expensive because the government puts tariffs on perfectly good imports to protect the American car companies. The American car companies produce garbage, and even the electric car companies like Tesla and Rivian are producing super-high-tech luxury land yachts. The government incentives are also captured to produce huge trucks, and many states don't have regular inspections, so lifted trucks are common. The companies don't want to build and sell small cars because the perception is that a small car is going to get pancaked in a crash with a bigger, heavier car. Gas prices don't matter because the government artificially suppresses them, sometimes with war.

Corn and dairy are cheap because the government subsidizes them at the behest of the corn and dairy lobbies, which use small good ol' boy farmers who don't even exist as their marketing. A lot of the corn goes to ethanol for fuel, even though it's a crappy fuel and an acre of solar panels results in many more miles of EV driving than the same acre of corn ethanol. So you can also get a cheap soda and a cheap cheese pizza, but a lot of the food pipeline is captured by seed monopolies and middle-men. Somehow milk became a bit of a right-wing meme, and it's basically a naturally-occurring dessert, so people love milk even though it's not good for you and not a good way to get nutrients.

> Even food where normally you could walk in a shop

You aren't supposed to walk in America. You're supposed to drive. Don't get me started lol