You are changing the subject instead of defending your position.

Biden has nothing to do with it. He wasn’t running for President.

Kamala’s position was to strive for a ceasefire, and Trump’s position was to give Israel whatever they need to get the job done.

By voting 3rd party, you’ve taken the position that these two options are identical in your eyes. Either Israel continues with likely similar reluctant support, or Israel continues with encouragement and unlimited support. Which do you think will lead to more Palestinian deaths?

On top of this, this was Kamala’s weakest policy, and she still clearly wins out. You are not only willing to throw the Palestinians under the bus, you’re willing to throw trans people, women, and immigrants under the bus too. All of this so you can be on your high horse and pretend to be morally superior while enabling the worst future for everyone. Good job.

Right, so a genocide that kills 1 million Palestinians is the same as a genocide that kills 2 million Palestinians, for example?

Just because two things share a characteristic, doesn’t make them the same. One genocide can absolutely be worse than another. You are completely lacking nuance and reason.

So we might as well just let Trump win and kill the Palestinians faster. What a champion of Palestine you are.

So might as well let the worst one win then? If there’s going to be a genocide, might as well be a good one? Gross.

Kamala was not insistent that Israel have free reign like Trump was. Kamala said that she wanted a cease fire, and Trump wanted Israel to finish the job. In the context of these two candidates, they are clearly not the same.

Voting third party is not a “fuck you” to anyone. No one who matters gives a shit about a third party vote.

A third party vote is a waste of a vote and no different from abstaining. A third party vote is simply shrugging in the face a fascism. Trump loves it, because it opened the way to his election.

They were not equally pro genocide. Kamala said that she wanted a cease fire, and Trump wanted Israel to finish the job. These are not the same, one is clearly better.

Voting is not an endorsement. We had the choice between a candidate that was bad for Palestine, and a candidate that was even worse for Palestine.

It’s a pretty simple argument that someone who cares about Palestine should vote for the less bad candidate.

I don’t understand the cost:benefit analysis here. All this cost for some shitty chatbots? Even the more practical uses for AI just don’t seem worth that cost.

It kind of feels like this is another symptom of wealth inequality where some people or companies are so wealthy that they can make unjustifiable investments like this.

I’d like to think that the AI bubble will pop and take these investors with it, but that’s probably wishful thinking.

I think he meant “I’m going to feed you to my poisonous snakes”

Except that all of those produce HTML. They are all HTML websites.

PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor” because it is a Preprocessor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

If we are talking about browser performance, none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all and are therefore irrelevant to Firefox’s performance compared to another browser.

From a browser’s perspective, every website is HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Can you give an example?

My impression is that AT_Protocol lends itself to decentralized computing resources moreso than decentralized control or authority.

In the fediverse, instance owners have pretty strong control over their instance, the content it hosts, the people who can use it, etc. Bluesky takes advantage of self hosters for more distribution and reliability, but still maintains centralized control over content and user management.

The key difference, to me, is that if someone doesn’t like how the main Mastodon instances are running, they can make their own and have a completely separate network from those bad actors without rebuilding the world. With Bluesky, there’s not really any exit door like that.

I was just playing with setting up an account on friendica.world, and so far that shit is pretty rough.

I’ll go play with Signal and see how I feel about it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yea, part of the challenge is that the average age in my hobby (kite flying) is somewhere around 50. So I’d need something with a low barrier to entry.

I like the concept of Friendica because its the most parallel to FB, but it doesn’t seem to be a very popular platform and it has little/no mobile apps :/

I’ve thought about trying to host my own Friendica instance, but haven’t gotten there yet.

Have you had much success in migrating a hobby community to the fediverse? Any tips on what approaches worked well?

Just tried it, good suggestion! It seems like it’s trying its best to do what I want. Filtering seems to fail sometimes when the page loads more content, but it still helps I think. It’s amazing just how much junk can be filtered out when it works:

This is literally an idea I had when I was 16 years old. I was pretty dumb when I was 16.

I’m heavily into sport kites. These are controllable kites with 2 or 4 lines. It’s an outdoor activity that can get fairly physical depending on what you are up to. There’s a very small community, mostly focused in coastal areas, but it exists all over the world.

Once you get some basic skills, most people shift toward flying to music as a ballet individually or with a group as a team. If you get good enough, there are travel opportunities where kite festivals pay for all or part of your travel expenses to perform at festivals. I’ve been all over the US and to 11 countries across the world to fly kites in my 18 years in the community.

Past that, there’s also kite making that is a nice extension of the hobby. I build my own sport kites, and build them for others on occasion. There are open source sport kite plans out there, I’ve got a few on my website (https://watty.us), but there are even more at https://kareloh.com.

A good starting place to get into the hobby might be https://sportkite.org, or some Facebook groups like Sport Kite Pilots Lounge.

I will use PayPal when making purchases, mostly to keep from giving my payment information directly to yet another company that could handle it improperly.

Not to say that PayPal wouldn’t misuse the information too, but it’s one company that might misuse my information vs many companies, so I’ll go with the one.

JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. They are completely different languages and environments.