DINGO: Dipshit Invents New Government Organization

Technically it died and was resurrected.

I thought this was missing in the text too, but it’s valve, they’re well know for treating their employees much better than other companies. Tech interns are almost always paid, even by the more exploitive companies.

I wouldn’t assume this was an unpaid intern or that they didn’t get a bonus for saving valve just because there’s nothing mentioned in the article.

There was a bunch of weird rebadged Ubuntu derivatives back in the day.

Ubuntu satanic edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-satanic/

Ubuntu Christian edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-christian/

Hannah Montana Linux https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

This probably isn’t a hallucination in the classic sense.

This is probably a near copy of a forum post where a user was channeling fight club and trying to be funny. The same as the putting glue on pizza thing.

And guardrails don’t work very well. They’re good at detection tone but much worse at detection content. So an appropriately guardrailed LLM will never call someone a “fucking ######” but it’ll keep telling everyone that segalis have an IQ of 40 until there’s such a PR backlash that an updated is needed.

I didn’t think so. It’s a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.

This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let’s you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you’re stuck with standard algorithms.

None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they’re mostly topic feeds, but who knows what’ll happen.

And yet you’re on Lemmy which also has a hot feed.

The things is you can do both, and it’s hard and unrewarding to find interesting things on Mastodon. So I stopped trying.

The really dumb things is the new feed is also an algorithm. You’re just proud that it’s not very good.

It’s just a mathematical inevitablity that it won’t work well.

Most people’s posts are not as good as their best ones and if I’m just going to dip into a site I’d like to see things I’m interested in that other people also thought were good.

Some people don’t like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.

Yeah but most toots are boring, and the chronological feed, and refusal to even hide repeated posts by the same person, does Masterdon absolutely no favors.

I think the last time I logged in my new feed was entirely posts by Cory doctro, who just decided to toot an entire article, and after I clicked more posts enough, it was just showing pictures of someone else’s cup of tea.

There’s a hacky bridge that’s meant to allow for it, but Bluesky uses a different protocol, so no they can’t without a bunch of effort.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/bridgy-fed-connect-mastodon-and-bluesky

Yeah I tried to move to Mastodon but without a hot feed it’s just so boring.

Unfortunately only Bluesky and Lemmy seem to be attempting a decentralized hot feed, and Lemmy is too quiet for niche topics, and Bluesky is only decentralized in theory.

Just calm down and wait. You don’t actually need massive amounts of milk from the start, and it takes time for everything to kick in.

If there’s still not enough milk, you can mix bottle and breast.

Some people genuinely need to bottle feed, but that’s not what was going on in our case.

The important thing about NHS care is that half the midwives are completely insane, and they all contradict each other. They have basically no medical training and are just meant to get someone qualified if anything goes wrong. Instead they go mad with power and use it to bully first time parents into doing what they say.

Our midwife was insistent that if there wasn’t enough breast milk immediately after birth we had to switch to bottlefed. I don’t think you can figure out the official NHS approach based on anything a midwife says.

That’s probably more a stalling tactic then anything else.

The longer they can run down the clock, the greater the chance is that Trump dismantles the FCC before the case is over, and even if he doesn’t do that it lets them keep selling data for longer.

Yeah and all this is important because it means things won’t get automatically better as the nationalization goes ahead.

Maybe the promised planning reforms will help, but anything where you have to modify a bridge or a tunnel in a city to make room for electrification is always going to be a pain.

Except that all the UK trainlines are being nationalized.

I guess you could say puts on sunglasses it’s posterior collapsed.

Privacy badger does this.

Every embedded link to Twitter requires you to click to enable them.

He’s a pub landlord. That’s a traditional title, it means something like bar manager.

https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/publican

It doesn’t mean he owns property or collects rent.

This is missing at least 9bn of Tesla subsidies. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-embraces-trump-scorns-subsidies-tesla-still-lobbies-us-benefits-2024-08-12/

Tesla’s first major manufacturing facility, in Fremont, California, was developed with the help of a $465 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, repaid three years later. More recently, Tesla has reaped almost $9 billion since 2018 by selling what are known as “regulatory credits” securities filings show.

The boring company also depend on us government contracts.