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LLama

@lordllama.bsky.social

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Software dev. Video game enjoyer. Llamas are neat.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 8h

"Professional robber says having doors on houses will make their job harder. More news at 11"

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 8h

My eyes are on the 18th. It would be a pretty good time for them to "have a law enforcement operation" where large protest groups are going to be moving through. How it would play out after that has already been written in front of us 100 times on smaller scales.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 1d

In that case, imo, a culture shift needs to happen.

I think part of the issue is bad UX for forums, but we can't deny the common allure there seems to be for an app that is essentially just a text box with a "show the whole world this" button

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 1d

Like, ultimately I believe we will NEVER get over "individual mod makes individual decisions nobody likes", and until someone figures out how to make mastodon more appealing to average folk we're ALSO going to have to deal with the problems of centralized moderation.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 1d

Granted, but ultimately the data has to live somewhere and SOMEONE will be making decisions like that. That's unavoidable.

There is content we all (hopefully) agree to call "illegal" (eg, revenge porn), and we all agree should be terminated with more prejudice than a 3rd party moderation filter.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

100% agree with the "junk drawer" critique

Though forums serve a wonderful niche, there's clearly a general desire for something more "open" (or we'd be arguing on a message board)

It just feels like the tools the app/protocol provide for an individual to keep the drawer clean are underutilized

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

I am not a lawyer, so frankly I am not equipped to answer that question for you

But what i do know is that, in our non-ideal world, the options for a response are pretty limited

But if your chief concern is state censorship, then imo having platform level moderation capability is only detrimental

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly my point
bsky.app/profile/lord...

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, I think there is still a space for platform-level modding, but I also think for stability that it should be relegated to no-question illegal or hateful conduct.

It's easy to forget that the more faith we users put on corp mod teams, the closer we are to another musk-twitter scenario

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, I think there is still a space for platform-level modding, but I also think for stability that it should be relegated to no-question illegal or hateful conduct.

It's easy to forget that the more faith we users put on corp mod teams, the closer we are to another musk-twitter scenario

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 2d

The cycle you're describing is true

That said, I have never used a "public" social platform that gives the user as much authority over their own feeds as bluesky does

Eg, having 3rd party curated feeds and mod lists let you "pick and choose" what level of moderation you want, imperfect as it is

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 5d

I am BEGGING for someone to port opensearch to rust or something. Just get it off of java for the love of pete.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly it's kinda like how PDF is an awful format for literally anything except making something pretty for an end user to read visually, but all the customers at my job still expect reports and data tables in PDF format delivered by email instead of literally any of the dozens of better ways.

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 7d

I agree that it isn't Libre Office's fault that MS sticks to proprietary formats that are intentionally obtuse and difficult to work with. 100% MS being garbage as a company

Unfortunately, some 95% of my exposure to that kind of software is in the context of someone sending/expecting .docx/.xlsx

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Good Store @thegooddotstore.bsky.social · 7d

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LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 7d

The last time I really gave Libre Office a try was in ~2014 or so and as I recall the experience was.... just terrible. Bugs, frequent crashes, poor compatibility with MS document formats, etc.

I haven't kept up with the project at all since then, but is it actually good now?

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Sarah @sarahinitaly.bsky.social · 9d

Putting Microsoft and vibe in the same sentence is the same as using Walmart and haute couture

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7d

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jan 30

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11d

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 12d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 15d

I mean, not if you have their cultural understanding of what those things mean:

- "fiscal responsibility": Poor people deserve to be poor, the rich deserve their wealth
- "free markets": consumer/worker protections are bad for profit
- "limited government": culturally conservative government

LLama @lordllama.bsky.social · 15d

Assuming we make it through all this we need to do a better job of teaching the more "universal" dynamics of fascism.

The way it was taught in public school where I grew up you'd think it only ever happened in 1900's germany. Many americans don't have a strong idea of what fascism even is.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19d

It's very hard for me to tell right now how "real" the boycott of Disney+ is in terms of impact. I've seen people claiming Disney's site was down at the same time I could pretty easily access it. But I'm hopeful that it might pick up enough steam and a strong enough narrative to matter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."