Beginning to feel a peculiar compulsion to confound tourists with ice cream.

Geeking out over the origins of HTTP 418 kinda got me a job once. But that was back when that kind of stuff, connecting interpersonally with the humans that you work with, mattered during hiring.

It’s still making the festival circuit, but there’s a short film OP should watch:

Hungry Hollow (2026, dir Sarah Ruyle, trailer) - A girl left for dead gets devoured by forest spirits.

The best comment on this I’ve seen…

It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

Which… isn’t very monetizable for normies.

…yet. 😈

I wouldn’t call the crowd shocked so much as left wanting. Conan was doing his regular humor, but holy cow did those jokes of his just thud in that crowd, which was a pretty big loss since (imo) the intro bit with him in Aunt Gladys drag was hilarious.

But between the humor not working and TERRIBLE mic work, the technicals on this show were not there.

I loved the expanded in memorium section tho.

Found the Oglaf reader.

🤯

Here’s the news story about it: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-kills-eats-pet-peacock-pasco-county/67-d216ccbf-d32a-462c-be3d-65c41907095e

1. There’s nothing wrong with eating peafowl. People have been eating them for centuries and still do.

2. While some species of peafowl are endangered, the species that people keep as pets are not.

3. This guy was reportedly arrested for his slaughtering methods. I’m no butcher, but I believe the commonly accepted method of slaughter is to swiftly break the bird’s neck to ensure the death is quick. According to the news article, he cut the bird’s necks and let them bleed out which counts as animal cruelty. A person would theoretically get arrested for doing this to their pet/feeder chickens as well.

Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line on the west coast has wifi, but it’s unusably glitchy. The trips I’ve taken haven’t been crowded, so I doubt it was an overuse issue. My guess is either the upstream connection is junk or the trains aren’t kitted out with hardware capable of meaningful QoS (either from misconfiguration or inability).

Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.

Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.

The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.

I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.

Not buying it.

The product leadership, directors and executives who dreamed this nightmare up and believed in it enough to make it a reality are still there.

Never trust them again.

It depends on your level of expertise. It’s open source software that you download and run on hardware that you lease or own. So you need to know how to do that in order to use it. As those things go, it really isn’t difficult.

No, it’s not as easy as signing up for an account on some website. That’s the difference between third-party services (owned, operated and controlled by some random company your decide to trust) and software that YOU run, on hardware YOU control, with access that YOU decide upon, and no one who will gate it or take it away.

It’s a trade-off. Everyone must consider their wants vs needs and choose what’s most important to them.

What disappoints me is how quickly people are willing to throw up their hands and say IT’S TOO HARD without ever even trying.

Absolutely everybody here is sleeping on zulip.

You know, for kids!

If the mastodon instance never receives acknowledgement that the follow-request was approved, it’s probably not going to start fetching those messages. I’ve tried un-following and re-following; it still doesn’t work.

As I said intially, I think that qualifies the integration as only kinda-sorta working.

I did try that (following the community), but the mastodon account’s “request to follow” has been stuck in “awaiting approval” status. I run the Lemmy community that I’m trying to follow with my Mastodon account, but I don’t see how or where to approve these follow requests.

Are those requests gated by the mastodon admin perhaps?

Kinda sorta.

The specific mastadon instance I’m on (mefi.social) does show the existence of lemmy communities and users, but it doesn’t import their posts or replies. mastodon.social seems and some other larger implementations seem to work fine though. I’m not sure if this is a configuration issue or what.

Careful, that’s how you summon the ghost of old Jacob Marley.

Yeah, I really wanted to pick a different post title, but community rules say I need to go with the source’s headline. :(

No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.