Good luck, America.

Don't fully agree with everything here, and it could use some editing, but a useful introductory text that addresses some of the important issues: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113426448740956241

@mhoye I lack first-hand expertise. But real experts who seem to me smart and honest are pretty confident.

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

In which I lose my temper at the relentless onslaught of LLMM (Large Language Mobile Marketing), and explain why it is increasingly making me sad: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/10/28/Peak-Bubble

@timbray verrry sneaky!

@VonGuard He kind of did until he screwed up his shoulder.

I wouldn't want to pitch to Freddie either.#WorldSeries

@brennen @luis_in_brief @brooke It's just not “somebody”, check out the list of boosters: https://contentauthenticity.org

Trying to make my Pixel 7 a webcam. I plug it into the Mac, tell it to be a WebCam, tell Google Meet to use the Android WebCam, an Android notification pops up encouraging me to preview the webcam setup, so I do, but can't figure out how to to say "make it so" and have it actually start webcam-ing. Hmff.

In the next room, a piano tuner at work. Surprisingly pleasing background. But the cats are spooked.

@timbray wow. Covid damaged my visual recall ... I'm guess I'm lucky that I don't operate in a pictographic language!

@timbray Didn't expect a game that entertaining.

I mean, it’s not as though editorial-board bloviation actually influences voters.

@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud *coughs*.

Is it just me or is this umpire wildly inconsistent on where the edges of the strike zone are?#WorldSeries

OMG Valenzuela’s whole family looks just like him!#WorldSeries

@danbrotherston In 1990-ish it was good that there was Gopher and www and I seem to think some other alternative striving to be the on-ramp to the net.

@wesdottoday @vmstan @bplein FWIW I'm in a 3-story place with in-floor radiant heating, which basically means a layer of concrete between floors, which is death on WiFi. Fortunately, the house is well-wired with cat5. So I have one ethernet-connected WiFi router on each level. Simple and seems to work OK.

Autumn.#Photograph