Yeah, that’s a possibility. However, as some Mastodon folks said recently, no platform is forever. Signal’s prospects seem reasonable to me, right now. If they co corporate and enshittify next week, I won’t feel my time and investment with them was a waste, nor my financial support (which hasn’t been much, tbh).

ha. That site is fun. I’m also clueless about some of it. Do you know what the “Come and find it” shirt references? I have a couple of guesses, but I really don’t know.

This is some good info about Matrix, thanks. I’ve been considering it as a Discord alternative.

This comment right here is going to make somebody $50. From me.

1080p less than content?

Holy shit. How does that have a positive value? Still, Pittsburgh… hm…

Has that “absentee owner” law (or whatever the name is) taken effect yet? Do you think it will help?

Well, there goes my dream retirement plan.

Definitely under 50K (USD), but that’s because I live in the sticks.

Even Muad’Dib started out small.

IDF member

As someone who’s been hearing impaired my whole life, yes. The urge to punch the person in the face right at that moment sometimes seems irresistible.

It’s a toss-up between Elon Musk and people saying “WHAT?!” when I tell them I’m hearing impaired.

Damnmit. I asked that kid to clean off this coffee table and now there’s a pepper grinder, a bag of terrible candy, three remote controls, and some crushed fortune cookies, all under my back.

Of course you’re an engineer. I could tell you didn’t have to take gen ed courses from the punctuation mistake.

As someone who speaks Spanish

culoclean

choking on my White Russian

Your wife sounds like mine. I value transparency and openness fundamentally, but after a decade of “no” to almost everything, I’ve learned that if I just do stuff without asking, she frequently says, “Oh, that’s a nice idea.” If I ask, however, it’s “not a good idea,” “not now,” “we don’t need that,” etc.

Not that strange, but certainly fucking annoying: at universities it’s becoming more common to have “closed searches” for upper administrators like presidents, provosts, deans, etc. This is very much a labor/management thing, and historically (in the US) public universities have had open searches, where faculty and staff get to meet candidates, ask them questions, etc. Upper admins have taken over all decision making power in recent decades, but in the past few years they’ve even started preventing faculty/staff from even knowing who is applying to be their new uni president. Under pressure to do something about “the consent of the governed,” admins have “allowed” some faculty and staff to view interviews and things, but are forced to sign NDAs to do so.

At public universities, using taxpayer money, promising large amounts of taxpayer money to some person. It’s stupid and annoying.

Those three people already know each other, so…

No, Yemen declared war on Israel. It’s war, so it’s cool.