FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
@artbyflashmob on Instagram
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 1 day ago:
I don’t think screening is the answer, but with Roblox and Discord, the follow-up on reports of predators is lacking and should be punished severely by the courts. I don’t care if your profits go down a percentage point or two, you need to improve your product.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 day ago:
Same. I run a dual-boot with Linux Mint, but have a windows installation for gaming. I do 99% of my computing on Linux now.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 2 days ago:
Yup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 2 days ago:
I actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 2 days ago:
Yeah, people have been arguing about it for at least the last three years, since the first big twitter migration.
Everyone just kind of ignored that you could screenshot a post and reply to it already.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 days ago:
They’re certainly trying.
And the weird-ass bugs are popping up all over the place because they apparently laid off their QA people.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
A few weeks ago my Pixel wished me a Happy Birthday when I woke up, and it definitely was not my birthday. Google is definitely letting a shitty LLM write code for it now, but the important thing is they’re bypassing human validation.
Stupid. Just stupid.
- Comment on The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing 5 days ago:
Necessity is the mother of invention, baby.
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 6 days ago:
I just wish I could get people to care half as much about health care and wages as they do about their meaningless pieces of nylon fabric.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
I wish it were that simple, and not a whole-ass culture that’s made it okay to be casually cruel to men.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
It’s true.
Make friends with a few trans-men and listen to their stories. The extent to which it’s become fashionable to be cruel and hateful to men has had meaningful consequences.
- Comment on Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering? 1 week ago:
No.
It’s good when bad things happen to bad people. It’s better when bad people kick the bucket.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 week ago:
Because Lemmy is moderated by human beings.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry OP.
Racism has always and will always be a part of America’s identity. I’d go so far as to say I think it’s part of human nature, given how pervasive and common it’s been throughout all of human history.
- Comment on After two years of development, Heroes of the Seven Islands, a cRPG that I drew by hand on paper, will be released on Steam, in four days the 9/9/2025 (demo available) 1 week ago:
Looks cool. I’ll give the demo a try.
Thank you for giving us try-before-you-buy.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 week ago:
Not enough people are willing to vote with their wallets
That and most governments are wrapped up in Windows, and therefore kinda just captive to the insane pricing. I get everything I need out of LibreOffice, personally.
- Comment on Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality 1 week ago:
This is, at least, a nice reminder that these motherfuckers are mortal.
But it doesn’t matter. Lots of worse people stand in line to assume those mantles.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
There’s also Europe, which has led the way in regulating against monopolistic power for Big Tech.
- Comment on How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing? 1 week ago:
For starters, find a way to discipline yourself into using social media less.
Lots of people feel shitty and stressed because they’re using algorithms designed to make them feel shitty and stressed.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 2 weeks ago:
Jeanne D’Arc and Silent Hill Origins were pretty good.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason why Marsha P. Johnson is remembered.
For throwing the first fucking brick.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you OP.
I have no desire to remain animated myself past the point when my quality of life isn’t worth the time. All I’ll say is you should make the best decision for you. It’s your life. It’s your time. It’s your health.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 weeks ago:
Yup, at least in major cities they were.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t gone through a drive-through in three years, but McDonald’s tried this and it was atrocious. Every time I tried it it did not work and a human had to be pinged in.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 2 weeks ago:
Agreed.
I’m lucky in several respects, being on a public transit line and only 10 minutes from work, but we have a guy on my team who drives, in his own car, 90 miles each way for our one day a week in the office. It’s dumb.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 2 weeks ago:
There’s so much good 80’s stuff I’m not sure why anyone would bother.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
You can probably find a converter that will rip those files from Youtube for you. I did mine a year and a half ago. If I open Spotify it’s just to see the playlists they made for me, because those are actually pretty good, but I rip those files and store them too.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
That would be nice, but outside of major cities, I can’t see that happening.
I may just have to start wearing a hoodie and mask everywhere. I really, really don’t like the idea of these glasses.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
Can someone EL5 me on how this is different from our data being stolen under the Patriot Act for the last two decades?