There are plenty of BBS clients/services that are still kicking.

They assume 3d printers are made by monoliths like HP or Canon. There is software in 2d printers that will prevent you from printing currency with an ink jet, which is probably where they got this idea from. The issue is that a lot of 3d printers are more Macgyver than mass produced product. In addition there is the obvious issue of "prohibition only creates black markers" and all the "unregulated" Prusa and Bamboo Labs printers will just be imported to New Jersey.

I agree this is stupid, New York's attempt at regulation is again a reminder that you need people who understand things making the laws for them.

There are likely single digit people in Gen-Z who get that reference, unless their parents are massive nerds.

More Cowboy Neil options in the site polls. (and in my case, to bring back the April fools day gag posts)

A quote from Spaceballs (1987)

Its taken a long time, but I finally understand this point of view...

To me (having grown up during the prequel era)
The original three are the best and are functionally Hidden Castle in space.
The prequels are remembered fondly and are functionally Hamlet in space.

And now I stare into the void of the sequels and deny they exist... Except for Rogue One, you stay.

"Get Good"

- love
Microsoft Copilot

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffedecan.ca%2Fen%2Fguide%2Fge...

I left for the fediverse during the 3rd party app purge and I can say the grass is greener on the other side. Were also trying to fix the communication issues with new users being overwelmed by which instance to choose and having to set up their own filters. Just pick an instance, if you dont like it, make an account on one you do.

There are a bunch of projects that mimic larger platforms, Mastodon looks like the artist formerly known as Twitter, Lemmy mimics Reddit, Pixelfed is Instagram at home and, Loops tried to emulate TicTok without the spyware.

[raises hand] I live in the Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon), its nice once you build your own block list. There is a growing sentiment that major platforms are intentionally toxic and while the Fediverse does not completely fix that, you have a lot more control over the content you see. Plus, if you dont like your own instances moderation policies, you are free to set up your own.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmatrix.org%2F

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmatrix-org%2F...

Federated, Decentralized, Encrypted chat platform. It hits all the buzz words for open-source bingo. I set up a personal instance in my home lab a few days ago and its quite nice.

What's this? A rare species of bees having their land stolen by a large tech corporation? My Endangered Species act of 1973 should put a stop to that!

Its a collection of self-hosted, usually open-source, federated social media platforms. They for the most part use Activity Pub as their underlining protocol so that platforms can communicate with each other to distribute the load of hosting social media instead of relying on a monolithic tech company to do all the hosting.

Im personally on Lemmy.World (federated Reddit clone) and its honestly a much healthier experience than Reddit but it lacks niche communities. Im hopeful for the Fediverse, but so far its really only populated by the tech-literate socially conscious crowd or extremely political fringes that are persona non grata elsewhere, with very little in between.

I feel like the new cyber security words are all made up by CompTIA so to sell people new Security+ text books.

someone call Katzenberg, its time for round 2... 3...? Ive lost count.

I stand corrected, he did actually found this company, (unlike many of the others he flouts) so says Wikipedia. Still does not change that its success is despite the actions of its founder and not because of it.