The worst problem in this world is that we will all be endlessly told to just work on ourselves and make ourselves better every time we have to deal with cretinous motherfuckers who will never spend a single moment of their life working on self-improvement or being a better person.

Some days I really wish that China’s social credit score thing was real, but actually effectively applied at real anti-social people. Like right-wing fucking thugs who chose to cough all over people during COVID because they decided they were smarter than scientists and doctors and it “must be a hoax!”

I wish there was a system to force these people into doing some basic fucking self reflection and choosing to be better.

Genuinely, my entire life has been spent being prosocial and trying very hard to be a good person, and every time I fall apart because I’m surrounded by selfish fucking asshole idiots, it’s my job to get the fuck over it, never their job to become better people.

As for you, specifically, a healthy workplace is one that doesn’t judge people for being different but instead sees the hard work they do and accepts that every individual has their own needs and can be healthy and productive in the workplace without being just like everybody else. I am so sorry you’re experiencing this, because you don’t deserve to. Your accomplishments at work should be the measure of whether you matter, not whether you are sociable enough that’s just silly.

This feels like wishcasting. As long as they can fake their numbers, I guess it doesn’t really matter because nobody calls anyone out on anything.

Tesla’s stock price seems unaffected by Musk bullshitting the most recent earnings call, or not enough to matter. Its still above $400 a share and this is after he finally admitted current hardware can’t actually do FSD.

The market is full-on irrational and invested in being irrational. Capital always aligns with fascism in the end. They will believe the bogus metrics fed by these companies for their “engagement.” The same people who fell prey to Elizabeth Holmes can’t see that all those profiles on Facebook and X are AI generated and automated.

Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

Bibliotik baybeeeee

Hey they did support it until they were getting difficult legal contacts because some users were abusing it, and getting turned away by different hosting providers.

They shut it down to protect the rest of us who use it without abusing it.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports

Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked.

I know the port forwarding thing can be a deal-breaker for some people, but it’s not Mullvad’s fault that they needed to remove this to be able to continue providing quality services for the rest of their customer base.

This is sadly one of those “this is why we can’t have nice things” type deals because when enough people abuse it, it becomes a problem. I have no ill will towards Mullvad for taking it away when it became financially and legally foolish to continue doing so.

Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.

God damn it these fucking techbro loligarchs and their dipshit nerd humor.

Hurr hurr we’re making a fork of the US government code hurr durr.

What a bunch of juvenile fucking delinquents.

SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.

The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.

Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.

Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.

There is no character limit that I see.

At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.

Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads

More like 1938:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany#British,_Swiss,_US,_Argentinian_and_Canadian_banks

The same VISA that blocks payment processing for sites that have pornography or unsavory politics. Things that are both widely available on X.

The amount of companies making super fucking clear that they don’t care that Nazis are in charge, they’re here to make money, is what we should have always expected.

They care more about the profits than whether the society they exist in has morals or values. If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards at all.

I understand. In death, members of Lemmy do have a name. His name is Lemmy.

Not a historical country, per se, but I love traditional names for places.

Here’s a little song about such a thing.

My grandpappy got to work in the mines with a high school education! He got paid well, he could raise a family, and he only died from black lung at 43! I deserve to work a shit job for lower wages than I deserve to be able to pretend I’m getting a good deal out of society like my grandpappy pretended until he croaked! That’s when grandma got to stop pretending, too, and she married her neighbor Ruth. Fucking women ruining men’s lives and killing them young with black lung is the real issue!

Or something like that. A big big part of it seems to be genuinely a deep resentment for anyone educated and skilled, and a feeling of being deserving of a certain quality of life while not contributing much… which is wild because like… How do they not see that everyone deserves a decent quality of life even if they don’t have a great education? Because they can’t feel positive about their quality of life if they’re not lording it over someone who has it worse than them? It feels like all these things that they rail against like higher minimum wage and unions and whatnot all would give them what they want but they’re somehow too fuckstupid to put it together. It’s such a deeply fucking broken way to live, and it must be really lonely.

I know modern versions of Lemmy have a way to import/export account settings, but I don’t think it’s a full-scale move all your followers thing.

As always, Forbes only wants to profile the most narcissistic people.

Daniel Supernault lists all his apps as developed by… Dan Supernault. Despite the fact that there’s plenty of other people’s fingers all over the Pixelfed github. Hey Dan, we can all see this. Maybe you shouldn’t take all the credit for yourself, yeah?

Further, Supernault left moderation as a backseat activity to fast growth of Pixelfed, leading to a less than stellar user experience since the moderation was weak to nonexistent.

So let’s see…

1. Thinks growth matters more than a cohesive community.

2. Labels things that involved the labor of lots of different people as though all the work was done by Daniel Supernault.

3. He literally named one of the apps after him fucking self. Sup, the WhatsApp wannabe, and I’m really skeptical of the security bona fides here. Things like Matrix, Signal, XMPP and so on already exist but Supernault wants to re-invent the wheel again.

4. Didn’t take moderation duties seriously instead focusing on explosive growth just like all the corporate apps.

I’m just waiting for number 5 to be this motherfucker pulling a Matt Mullenweg and fracturing the communities because he thinks he owns them.

Just because it’s Open Source doesn’t make it an overall good, especially when the people involved seemingly just want to use the Open Source community to launch their own careers and hope and dreams and fuck all the little people who helped. Sounds pretty corporate to me. See also: Kagi search

Yeah this has been online a while now and I’ve seen no attempts at providing evidence from theconcernedbird other than linking to the github that shows examples of how it can be used.

Persona Management software has been around for a long time, so it’s not even like the idea is even new, it’s just a new way of doing the old thing that’s been going down on the US internet since about 2010-2012ish.

We need actually evidence it’s being used for specifically this, not just an example of how it could be detailed in the github. The entire Republican establishment and corporate establishment function almost exclusively on the idea of “plausible deniability” it’s all about what can be proven in court, and now these groups have such massive coffers or money that almost nothing can be definitively proved in court. It’s why Musk wears his cheating and his alts and his nazi salute like medals of honor because “nyeah nyeah you can’t prove it.”

And part of the reason they act that way is because US courts have fecklessly surrendered “the justice system” to the corporate class for fifty fucking years or more, if they ever weren’t being bought by corporations. They’re legally shielded by our idiot ass broken fucking system and now they’re literally rubbing our faces in it.

Honestly, having said we need hard evidence, I’m not even 100% sure that hard evidence of this even matters anymore. It feels like the Iraq War torture leaks, and the Snowden disclosure… What changes? Nothing changes. The government was always just gonna keep doing what it did, and now Trump has taken steps to take quick control of all of that and twist it into his own dark ends.

“There’s nobody you can talk to. Everything is automated.”

Yeah this is the stuff that needs to be regulated asap. You should have to have a contact you can refer to for pay disputes, this just creates an unreasonable burden on the person being paid when they have no one to contact.

Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don’t read history repeat it.

Sounds like the management at Tiktok see it as politically expedient to fluff Trump to be able to continue to have access to the US market.