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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • What's an animal that's MUCH cuter as an adult?

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  • Mud daubers or damselflies in a 'Ghibli characters come to life' way. Those things look like they flew straight out of a Ghibli flick.

  • US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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  • It'd be very interesting to see Rimac and Yangwang duke it out for top speed similar to how Koenigsegg and Bugatti have been doing with gas cars since '05, assuming physics doesn't stop them first, because like I said, at some point physics is gonna intervene in the top speed wars and it ain't gonna end well when it does. I mean, we as a species have already broken the 300mph barrier for land vehicles, at some point there's gotta be a line which can't be crossed without bad things happening to the car for any number of reasons from the tires blowing up past a certain speed to the chassis getting crushed by excessive G-forces past a certain speed.

  • US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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  • Oh, China recently took the top speed record from Bugatti in an EV even, with the Yangwang U9 Extreme outsprinting the Chiron SS 300+ last year, so gas cars don't even have the top speed card to play anymore. EVs are now more efficient than gas cars, are at least theoretically cheaper to maintain, and now they're officially faster too.

    These guys ain't playing.

    Something tells me the hypercar makers are gonna hit an upper limit in how fast they can go before catastrophic failures occur due to physics intervening though; you can bend physics, as Koenigsegg and Bugatti have proven in practice for 20+ years, constantly pushing the envelope for how fast you can go in a land vehicle and setting a new top speed record every time, but you can't break physics; at some point it's gonna snap back and that's when bad things can happen, and that'll be the physical upper limit for how fast you can go in a land vehicle.

  • US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars

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  • Big Autos is bribing Congress to kill anything they deem as competition.

    -Ftfy

  • Why is the Internet reverting to the 90s?

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  • That also probably drives the Fediverse's adoption as well because people are tired of getting walled in by hostile corporations.

  • Peertube instance to recommend to a group of people new to the platform?

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  • If you don't have a lot of content to move over, and rarely post, I'm pretty happy on peertube.wtf, however there's a 100GB limit and you can only upload 10GB a day. Meanwhile if you're at active YTer with a lot of content, CuddlyTube also seems pretty good from a cursory glance and has no upload limits. Oh, and if you're considering MakerTube, they're paywalled now because of some shit going on at Hetzner, so let that be your warning for going with that instance, and spectra.video's also considering paywalling for the same reason that MakerTube is paywalled.

    You could also self-host if you have the hardware on hand or can afford the VPS to, and you have the admin skills to pull it off.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • and it’s likely any project that integrates it, with be “extinguished” via legal action in the future.

    That would mean killing the entire internet whose servers run Linux, because the kernel is messing with AI now.

  • OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More.

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  • Madoff Altman is at it again.

  • Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)

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  • If you're a creator who still primarily or exclusively posts to Twitter after Nitter was killed off, you're not gonna have an audience outside of Twitter anymore moving forward. Meanwhile Mastodon will let people see or even interact with your content without a Mastodon account as anyone can see a public post without an account, period, and anyone with an account on any ActivityPub or ActivityPub-compatible platform can interact with Mastodon posts.

    If you want to post your own content on a public instance, you do need an account for that, though, or you can self-host.

    But basically, if you're still posting exclusively to Twitter, you won't have an audience outside of Twitter anymore, while someone on PIxelfed could interact with a Mastodon post or vice-versa, for example.

  • Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans

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  • You think Meta is generating most of it themselves to intentionally stoke Islamophobia? They're evil enough to do that and they have a past history of this sorta thing.

  • Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try: chicago.com

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  • Hypothetically a given public media service could host their own Fediverse instance if they can afford to maintain it, and they should if they can pull it off.

  • Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?

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  • They'd be a fun snow generator too, though, provided the outside weather is already cold enough to support snow, that is.

    Ooh, Charmander could use his Flamethrower attack to fire hardened and glazed pottery in a pottery class too. Who needs a kiln in the Pokemon world when the finished pots can be placed in a pit for a cute little fire lizard to use his Flamethrower attack to fire them instead? Surely someone's depicted this in fanart already and I'm not the only one to think of it.

  • Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year.

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  • Maybe the reason Mastodon never got off the ground is because Bsky basically strangled them by popping up out of nowhere and stealing their potential userbase?

  • Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year.

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  • Beyond that, the fact that Bsky came up out of nowhere and ate Mastodon's lunch around that time just reeks of hostility to me.

  • YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

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  • No, AFAIK they still push ads on you whether you're monetized or not.

  • YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

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  • As Google intended.

  • Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?

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  • Buneary, or Pichu and Dedenne would be fun, and really cute, to hang out with, too.

    Ooh, or even Glaceon especially as it could literally make snow to play in whenever it wants, at least so long as it's cold enough outside for it to not melt.

    Happiny would be a fun one too to decorate rocks with. Happiny running around with a rock painted up as a mini-me of herself in her pouch would be adorable.

  • Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?

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  • The Pokemon universe would be kinda fun just to have one of the creatures there as someone to chill with.

    For sure me and Jigglypuff would end up in marker scribble fights pretty frequently.

  • uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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  • How soon before the rest of the web chases ad blockers away?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

    www.govtrack.us /congress/bills/119/hr8250
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Called it months ago.

    www.tomshardware.com /desktops/apple-discontinues-mac-pro-after-20-years-system-had-been-in-stuck-in-stasis-with-m2-ultra-since-2023
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.

    forum.artixlinux.org /index.php/topic,9304.msg55607.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Not good.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

    LibreWolf remains AI-free!

    chaos.social /@librewolf/115716906957137196
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    GenAI is a fraud and it needs to start being treated like a fraud.

    friendica.world /display/84b6ef2b-4869-378b-a84a-f52936373467
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    RIP Mac Pro, I guess.

    appleinsider.com /articles/25/11/17/in-with-a-bang-out-in-silence----the-end-of-the-mac-pro