I should stop being such a positive polly and over-the-top doompost more. So that people constantly argue with me by reassuring me that everything will be alright.

ChatGPT users are upset that the latest version doesn't speedrun narcissism for you as quickly.

I hate how many places where special characters in passwords are a problem.

"Holding your side accountable just lets the other side win!" is a big part of the reason why things are so shit.

FOSS activists thinking about putting aside petty issues to cooperate with others.

When your crush chooses a LLM over you. ​:wojak_depressed:​

New Truthstream media video on Trump's latest moves in militarized policing. I think the points about criminalizing homelessness are sadly quite salient. Dark days, curious how Mark Carney is going to sell our version of these measures. This is tyranny

What Fediverse software can we expect to implement ID/age verification to cozy up to tyrannical governments? - Mastodon feels like the free bingo slot here but I could be wrong. But I fully expect any instance that's fine with state-sponsored policing of 'misinformation' to eventually fold. That's when they'll start using all the complying instances as a justification for harsher measures against independent instances. I think the time of free speech on the clearnet has come to a close and over time the last few vestiges will be routed out. The Internet no longer interprets censorship as damage. I'm in the process of deciding how much I care about hanging on to a clearnet internet presence.