Well, Bluesky claims to be a federated service, so I guess people should consider whether or not the service they are backing is capable of fulfilling its promises.

This was an indigenous community that believes that eating these turtles grants long life and health. They don’t recognize the endangered status at all, and aren’t equipped to detect the threat of toxic algae contamination. In many cases, the victims of these incidents are children, who are fed turtle meat for its proported benefits.

Think carefully about publicly celebrating these people’s deaths.

I’m not sold.

Only two Ethernet ports. No SFP. Only available on AliExpress. Dishonestly marketed as the “first router designed specifically for OpenWRT”.

Perhaps they are the first to make a router for OpenWRT the FOSS project, but certainly not the first to make one specifically for compatibility with the OpenWRT the Linux-based OS.

CZ.NIC (Czech Republic) makes several fully open-source routers under the “Turris” brand that run their own open-source variant of OpenWRT called “Turris OS”. It’s basically just an Open-WRT based distro with a custom frontend + root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla if you want to.

GL.iNet (China) makes dozens of routers all designed for OpenWRT. They come standard with a custom install that includes a custom frontend and a handful of integrations, but you’ve gotta root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla.

There are probably more out there. I think GlobalScale makes a few also, once on Kickstarter.

Hey, maybe the Department of Education just never had anyone in charge with professional wrestling experience. Maybe that’s the change we’ve needed. /s

Unrelated, just sharing this banger.

Filtering the cooking oil through the digestive systems of an entire urban population really adds an earthy flavor profile.

Yeah, but what if they’re right wing weirdos obsessed with genealogy and they reach out to you first because they want to save you or something?

What an absolutely insane hypothetical you had to come up with, just to slide your tongue across the muddy sole of a boot.

What’s the alternative here? Let the company’s schedule be determined by sporadic PTO usage that they are expected to have no control over?

Yeah, that’s the idea. You give me time off, and you prepare around the dates I give you.

Or I’ll find an employer that respects me as a person, and I’ll quit by ust not showing up anymore because fuck you for denying my PTO request. Don’t disrespect me while also telling me that you can’t survive without me. You’re just telling me that I can ruin things for you by leaving without notice, and giving me the motive to do it.

Wow, and all those other routers I’ve been using from Turris and GL.iNet must not have existed. What a shock.

It’s an open federated system, just like Lemmy. Your posts belong to everyone.

OpenAI is a tech company, so I guess it’s tangential. Your post is about the music industry…

That’s 1.7 quadrillion dongs.

Goddamn I hate America. 12 year old kid runs away from home, and the solution is to put his life in danger PITing him on the highway, and then charging him with a felony.

In Washington, a solid-blue enclave in the PNW.

The vaping industry likes to argue that they are safer than other tobacco products, and don’t deserve to be regulated the same way, but the evidence suggests otherwise. It’s a fine example of why we should be happy that regulations exist at all.

I can’t see how that would ever work.

What if I lose my token? How do I get a new one? Does the old one stop working?

If the old one stops working when I get a new one, then neither was ever anonymous.

If the old one works forever even after I get a new one, then there will be a booming black market for fake IDs.

You are correct.

Gen-X and older mostly had computers come into their lives during adulthood. It’s something they had to force themselves to be familiar with.

Millennials grew up with Computers. Most of us had the Internet by the time we were tweens/teens. We had to learn shit as it was created. We remember all the weird little iterations in tech, and know lots of ways to use a computer. We had to know how the computer worked to use it!

Gen-Z and younger grew up immersed in fully corporatized technology. The iPhone turns 18 years old next year - there’s not a child alive who remembers a time before the iPhone. Nearly every computer they touch was designed to be as easy to use as possible.

While many of us remember running “install.exe” files from floppies to install software in DOS, kids now literally just browse a bunch of colorful icons with “install” buttons beside them.

I grew up in a world that prioritized computers for learning. We now live in a world that prioritizes computers for entertainment and profit. I used to have to go out of my way to find community online, now I have to go out of my way to escape the largest, most corporately controlled communities online.

This is something more people need to understand. Just because Putin is the bad guy doesn’t mean that everyone ethnically or nationally Russian is your enemy.

Hell, with conscription and an estimated death toll of 725,000 on the Russian side, we need to start recognizing this as a profound tragedy for the Russian people. Most of these men don’t know what they’re even fighting for, and a lot of families are going to end up shattered as Putin continues to use these conscripted men as pawns.

Way too many folks out there ready to celebrate the Russian death toll while flinging around ethnic slurs (“orcs”) because they think that they’re somehow sticking it to Putin, the man sending his people to their death.

A small city usually requires one gigawatt continuous power. 10 minutes of power is equal to 100k kWh.

A 200x200 GenAI image takes about 2 seconds on an RTX 3060 running at 170W. That 2 seconds of power is equal to 0.000094 kWh.

The meme is off by a factor of 1,063,829,787.