Churbleyimyam

@Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently that’s why there is no organic honey produced in the UK. You need to be a certain distance away from land that is sprayed with chemicals to get organic certification for your honey and nowhere in the UK is that far away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fingerprints on ancient terracotta figurines show men, women and children worked on figurines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That surprised me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that is dark!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YUNOhost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty amazing isn’t it?! There’s no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I’m curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were travelling abroad and needed a place to sleep for the night. They stopped at a farm and asked the farmer if they could sleep there. The farmer said “Yes, you can. But all of you must promise not to have sex with my beautiful daughter.” They all solemnly agreed and were shown to their room for the night.

  One by one though, each of them was overcome by temptation and sneaked down the hall to farmer’s daughter’s bedroom to have their wicked way with her.

  I’m the morning they came downstairs and were greeted by the farmer. “Good morning!” he said, “I hope you all slept well. Take a basket each and go out and pick something from my farm to eat for breakfast”. Being very hungry from their travels they all eagerly went out to look for their favourite food.

  The first to return was the Englishman. The farmer was waiting for him - with a loaded shotgun. “I know what you did last night!” shouted the farmer, pointing his gun at the Englishman. The Englishman threw his hands up in the air, dropping the basket of strawberries he’d picked for breakfast. “Bend over and put those strawberries up your arse and let that be a lesson to you!” The Englishman did as he was told and pushed the strawberries up his bum. Seeing that the farmer was satisfied the Englishman ran out the door and off into the distance.

  Next to return was the Scotsman. “What did you pick for breakfast young man?” asked the farmer. “I picked carrots” answered the Scotsman. “Well put them up your arse you dirty bastard!” screamed the farmer, pulling out the shotgun “I know what you did last night!” “Please dont shoot me sir!” Cried the Scotsman, as he painfully pushed each of the carrots up his bum before making a break for it and running out of the house.

  Last to return was the Irishman, carrying his basket on his back. “You dirty lying son of a bitch!” screamed the farmer “You had sex with my daughter last night!” “Now tell me what you picked for breakfast.”

  The Irishman heaved his basket onto the floor with a thud.

  They both looked down at its contents.

  “I picked a pumpkin sir.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Static site generator for an idiot who doesn't want to learn a new templating language just to have a blog?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guaranteed Crypto Loss.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitcoin is NOT based on thin air.

  It’s based on wasting loads of electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet! I might get back into it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peachy. Sounds like there’s nothing to worry about then (from a user POV).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

  I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I think it’s already done, and been done for a long time, without AI. So much of who we are now is based on and informed by what we’ve read and watched online. It’s our been our dominant frame of reference, language and value system for quite a while. We are the AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree that it makes Mastodon less entertaining I also think that it makes it a lot more fair, representative and trustworthy as a lens through which to observe & participate in social discourse and share information and opinions. That in itself will probably mean that it remains less popular but I think it’s also what makes it more valuable IMO. We need to calm down from the urgency of the digital dopamine cycle, for many reasons. If social media is a truly human media then it should be boring at times because that is a human reality that we are adapted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair: The farm equipment giant has fought against letting farmers repair their own equipment for years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that many of their customers are young contractors on credit who have valued ‘brand identity’ over more practical concerns.

  You don’t see many old boys on their tractors, in the same way that you wouldn’t see many of them using Apple computers.

  My bet is that a decent proportion of the John Deere owners who are up in arms about this are those who bought one while they were young and impressionable, then realised that they were getting punished for it and that they couldn’t offload it on their younger contemporaries because they wanted a new one and couldn’t offload it on their older contemporaries because they were too wise. These modern tractors are enormous investments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair: The farm equipment giant has fought against letting farmers repair their own equipment for years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cackles in Fordson Major

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tap on the screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely one for dadjokes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU approves steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey why is this EV so cheap?

  Chinese taxpayers have paid half of it for you.

  Down with China!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grind or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Junkies and crackheads were the true pioneers of hustle culture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Er, what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love RFF. In fact I’ve enjoyed listening to it more than any other online source of music for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a community internet radio station that plays music (and some spoken word) from artists on the Fediverse.

  I love it, especially their ‘Comfy’ channel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

  I had an instance recently where it was faster and easier to literally make an item with my bare hands than to coordinate a purchase of one via marketplace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram changes its tone on moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a strong tradition in France that when you get pissed off with a company you take its CEO hostage.

  It seems to be really effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse.

  Can you recommend any good books? I haven’t studied Russia much but recently read Killer In The Kremlin and would like to read more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't let go of my addiction 😔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever did this is an absolute legend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much like everything else corporations do then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO they should not have been bailed out. For most people the economy has already failed and it should be allowed to crash fully so that it can be rebuilt and restructured in full. That might sound extreme but I don’t see many other alternatives. Something has to be sacrificed for the sake of the vast majority of people and the real economy and I think it should be the financial sector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to see commercial content. I also don’t want others to see it because it will pollute the culture of the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This a beautiful story. Bankers get shafted lending money to apex capitalist.

  🤌