I don’t know how you’d measure driving “goodness”, but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.

This is hilarious

Yeah, it’s the bloody-mindedness that keeps you going

20 year Linux user here. Definitely more depressed than autistic (but not claiming to be 100% NT).

Also I just got given a macbook for a new job. Feels weird.

Any instance that interacts with any other instance is federated. Which is the vast majority of instances with more than a handful of users.

Is the same not true of Lemmy?

Mastodon federation is not opt-in. As soon as anyone on one server is following one person on the other server, the servers are fully federated. From there, it’s opt-out, via blocking.

That’s nonsense. I’m on one of the main servers, and like 90% of my feed is from other servers, and it includes lots of small servers. And that’s been true for years.

It’s try the search function was bad prior to earlier this year, but it’s improved a bit. And if you are looking for someone specific, then presumably their account would be listed somewhere on their website?

Everything you just said is also true of mastodon.

Mastodon is scaling fine though? I’ve been using it for years, and it’s great, and still growing. User base is a bit tech focused, could be more general, but I think it’ll get there eventually.

No please

It’s America

Wat

Not really. Many of them are already heavily invested in life extension tech (not that I think it will work, but it means they’re optimistic). I think their general worldview is that technology will fix it, at least for them.

It literally promises to generate content, but I think the implied promise is that it will replace parts of your workforce wholesale, with no drop in quality.

It’s that last bit that’s going to be where the drama happens

I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up. Their description is here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/

It sounds interesting… It also sounds like it will fail, because Mozilla seems to think that trackers are primarily interested in collecting ad stats, and that targeted advertising is less critical, but I think in reality it’s the other way around, and advertisers won’t accept such a limited solution.

Rueben Bolling’s comics are nearly always just as on-point as this. Well worth following.

Source?

A new character? In this Hollywood economy?

I’m middle aged and I’m still only half way through that saga