scytale

@scytale@piefed.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one more RIF bro. I swear the line will go up. One more RIF bro..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What about lead pipes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On its own it doesn’t really have a distinct taste or smell to me. I rarely cook eggs without adding seasoning or flavor. At the minimum I cook it in butter, so that already adds great taste and smell to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but the point still stands that extensions are hit-or-miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I have uBO installed and it doesn’t seem to work. I just use it as a spare browser now outside for Safari and Firefox Focus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody Think That The Coconut Crab Is The Cutest Fucking Crab Ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but the coconut in their diet helps make them tastier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had two of those! One red and one black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody Think That The Coconut Crab Is The Cutest Fucking Crab Ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are delicious though, because of their coconut diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a couple of cybersecurity communities in the fediverse. You can try posting your questions there. Like !cybersecurity@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, it’s simply because they are supposed to be different kinds of social media, the same way Twitter is different from Instagram. One is primarily for microblogging and the other is catered for images/videos. Sure you can probably create a different UI for twitter to make it look like instagram, but by trying to merge them you inadvertently dilute their core features. Pixelfed probably has more features that cater to images and videos, while Mastodon does not because it’s primarily a text platform. And Mastodon has more microblogging features that Pixelfed does not require for it to be an image sharing platform. So why would a user want to use mastodon with a more image-focused UI if they want to share photos (and not microblog) when they can just use Pixelfed that is designed for it?

  I don’t think activitypub has anything to do with it, it’s just that both platforms were designed for different things. When a platform tries to be everything, it usually becomes messy. Look at short form video for example. At first it was just vine, then tiktok of which it was the primary feature. Now every social media has its own short form video (reels, shorts, etc.) because they’re trying to grab users by being an everything app, and they get bloated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears or no bears?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What would the equivalent be for “penguins” and “no penguins”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learn to use the mute button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a post about someone not realizing he was already muted, so he unmuted, farted, and muted himself again. So to everyone else on the call, it looked like he deliberately unmuted just to fart for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks

  They were, or at least detected if not prevented. That’s how they knew it happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that whenever there's an internet disruption, the first thing that I assume is happening is war, civil unrest, or government censorship, or some sort of conspiracy happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not weird given the current state of things. Personally, the first thing I think of is DNS. isitdns.com?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5/7 with rice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my younger days that would be a normal serving. And I might have a second bowl too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandola effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then he said “It’s psycho time”, then proceeded to psycho all over him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit the greed knows no bounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And water bills too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s a beautiful morning!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s as long as the city I live in from top to bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YYH for the win! I was surprised to learn that it wasn’t as popular around the world as I thought (when I watched it in the 90s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear heavily cushioned shoes for comfort, and the common tradeoff is they don’t have an outsole to reduce weight. The midsoles have direct contact to the ground and since they are super soft, they wear out fast if you regularly wear them. Once I start losing traction or I can feel the ground through the soles, it’s time to replace them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that pretty much any LLM that you localize and not allow it to feed your data into the mothership?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would’ve sounded better if they said “live below your means” instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The burger is also on a wood chopping board. We want plates!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hate to see a Berserker Duck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enough is enough⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Krispy Kreme gave out free donuts for 2 hours as a consolation for the outage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s gonna be enshittified from the get go. Reddit grew organically then enshittifed over time. Creating a new platform backed by VC in this day and age is guaranteed to be immediately bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You shall not cut!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Sometimes they’re all in one section as well so I make sure to distribute them evenly. I also add another layer of mozzarella before baking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar 1803⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this is historically accurate because of OP’s username.