Tootfinder

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116607701984958777
I really want social media to save the context of when you block someone so that you can later know what the asshole did when you’re no longer sure when you blocked them.
E.g. “you blocked this account on this specific reply”
Ideally let me add a private note.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440570565467277
"These long-running, parallelized workflows can yield great value, but they have also challenged our infrastructure and pricing structure: it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur cos…

Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats https://www.404media.co/township-leader-resigns-in-tears-over-openai-data-center-death-threats/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116785384638714849
deeply bothers me that there’s tons of people who have never seen a movie from before 9/11 or never watched a TV show from back then or never seen a newscast that was more objective than whatever the shit is we have now
(don’t @ me with “but not everything was good back then”)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440656264396865
Base model Mac mini: 1½ months lead time
High-end Mac mini: 3 months lead time
Base model Mac Studio: 1 month lead time
High-end Mac Studio: entirely unavailable
It was easier to buy toilet paper during the height of COVID than to buy a Mac now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116612510349875234
This is not some sort of purity test by the way (I’m a customer of some companies that I find repugnant, out of necessity; e.g. Amazon).
But spending your limited time on this Earth to help destroy nice things and make people miserable is an active choice.
“I need the money” is not a valid statement when your job entices using flamethrowers to burn down playgrounds.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603070039160133
Actually trying to find the source for this, it appears to be from one of those “1,000 things to do on the Web” books from the Y2K era.
I have some books coming to see if it’s in any one of them.
If you search online for this (in a real search engine, not Google) you will find a lot of random Reddit threads that all say it’s an “ad” despite it clearly not being an ad and all images of it are always this specific angled image, just with different crops.
Trying to find the truth where it’s from so stay tuned.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603032749756623
I assume in a few years they’ll make it so that Chrome can only load approved-by-Google websites, probably “to protect the children” or somesuch bullshit

huh