He’s way past fucking just his customers, he’s been fucking everybody for a while now.

I definitely associate FTW with ‘for the win’ first. Now I’m heading to wikipedia to read the disambiguation page to see what else it means.

Edit: for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.

Going to the hardware store is fun! I could walk around looking at the stuff there for hours.

Home despot is a last resort for me if both the smaller stores with competent employees (I blame HD for this, not the employees themselves) don’t have it and waiting for an order to come in is a problem for any nunber of reasons.

That’s why I’m here. Really enjoying it, it reminds me of early days of reddit when it was just a bunch of nerds. I saw a socially awkward penguin meme yesterday, just need some gammer aficionados in the comments now.

I can see value with bigger, more robust platforms that can house smaller communities. More platforms like Lemmy could allow for a future where entire communities can move platforms if it no longer suits them or a better fit emerges would be nice. Need more platforms that don’t constantly abuse their users with dark patterns for that to happen though.

I’m flipping between this comment thread and another one about a tv that looks similar to mine saying it’s out of storage with the discussion being about thee fact the storage has likely been filled with unsynced log files. I’ve been thinking about loading some custom slop firmware on my tv for a while now but I’d rather work on fun projects than have to ward off the onslaught of major corporations trying to abuse us.

The problem is I don’t know the answer! It’s a case by case issue that takes real effort to resolve each time.

I think that makes a bit of a dilemma. Which is better slop software with quality issues or proprietary closed source which could be running any number of malicious processes?

Good catch, I didn’t see that before your comment. 😂

Good attempt! Your joke still makes sense. Bob Barker hosted the price is right not Jeopardy.

I agree with you, I recently explained it to a group of engineers and techs.

I haven’t read the article but what’s described in the headline is abhorerent. Ironically the technology could be used to identifying times when artists’ identities are being misattributed or stolen. Pretty simple for an artist to define their portfolio then have a bot flag anything it finds with their signature on it that they didn’t create themselves.

The original justification for patents at least had some logic to it. In exchange for progressing the state of the art and telling everyone else how your new invention works you get a period of market exclusivity. There was/is the option to not patent ideas and keep them as trade secrets instead, at the risk of others figuring out your idea.

Unfortunately for all of us 20 years is a really long time for exclusivity at our current tech development pace and in no way are patents consumable information for laypeople. The nonsense filings that get granted and all the lawyers involved have turned it into yet another tool only available to the wealthy.

Unfortunately this looks to be another area where a previously functioning service is no longer being provided at the same level of quality.

Stitched video of two small poultry producers discussing recent poor experiences with recieving chick via mail. https://youtube.com/shorts/dcGOdro04uE