Yelling at people who finally did the thing you’ve thought they should do for a while is counterproductive.

The default user agent string for the browser that comes with the Steam Deck appears to identify it as Linux, so anybody counting that way without explicitly separating it would count it as Linux.

People have been claiming that the current year is the “year of the Linux desktop” because of some improvement to Linux usability or action Microsoft took to offend people for decades. The claim has not come true by any reasonable metric for just as long.

It would be less surprising to me from someone who doesn’t understand how computers work at all and only wants to use SMS. It’s weird from someone who already uses several messaging apps.

What (if anything) does that friend use for messaging?

And the video stability doesn’t match with someone holding up a phone like that.

Image stabilization can be pretty good lately, but I must admit that I don’t spend much time watching handheld phone selfie videos.

You probably also guessed that the stripper isn’t actually attracted to you.

I watched the three video clips and would not have initially guessed the leotard gymnast and the mechanic are generated. The sad gymnast looks a little plastic.

What actually looks fake in the mechanic video after a couple loops is the valve notches on the pistons, which are rotated from the correct orientation, and overlapping in a way that the laws of physics would not support.

I don’t see anything in the Bluesky posts I would expect to get moderated on a .world server. Odd.

Sure, you have the right to manage your servers however you like… and I have the right to unfairly use you as a proxy for my rage at everyone who has ever broken the Internet’s global nature to make their server log files a little less noisy.

You have experienced the problem and you do it anyway?

Services that do region blocking also tend to block public VPNs. Breaking the internet like this is bad, and you should feel bad for doing it.

That’s his version of events that he’s showing to his audience. People who get banned from things often share a harmless-looking excerpt when that’s not really what got them banned.

It would be good to have the whole context before reaching a conclusion.

The statute is constructed in an unusual way because it doesn’t require that the threat is transmitted to someone who believes it. It says:

(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly:

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(3.5) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner a threat of destruction of a school building or school property, or a threat of violence, death, or bodily harm directed against persons at a school, school function, or school event, whether or not school is in session;

Laws against transmitting threats are usually written in a manner that excludes jokes sent to friends who understand that they are jokes.

Also, use Signal. Signal will not call the cops when you send dumb jokes to your friends. There are no good reasons for most people to not use Signal.

This post says who he is and that he got banned from mastodon.world, but it does not say what he posted there before getting banned.

The .world network is not known, in general for having unconventional rules or heavy-handed moderation. Without more information, I have to assume he posted something that would get him banned a lot of other places too.

Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer.

I pretty regularly run into things that block access or make me complete captchas while I’m traveling. I may not be in a region you intend to service, but I’m (possibly) from a region you intend to service. Airplanes are a thing.

Buying access to a residential proxy to deal with that situation would be an extreme step for most people, but as a cybersecurity practice, it’s problematic.

Absolutely. 500mW+ lasers can injure human eyes in a fraction of a second, even from a reflection, similar to how they can destroy a camera sensor.

They’re not particularly hard to get online in the USA though.

Sure would be a shame if someone pointed lasers into them.

Opt-in denylists with pre-populated categories would be a reasonable feature. A frontend author trying to trick users into thinking there’s a technical issue with servers the author doesn’t like is presumptuous and disrespectful of the user.

People did similar stuff with Mastodon clients when the far-right microblog service Gab migrated its backend to a Mastodon fork and I didn’t like that either.

People in a wide variety of circumstances report positive experiences with psychedelics.

I think someone in a bad situation they can’t improve through their own effort might feel better numbing their experience with drugs. The trouble with that is people aren’t always good at judging whether there’s anything they can do about their bad situation.

I think it’s best we just maintain some recency bias when it comes to how harshly we judge people for their past internet behavior. If you were an asshole ten years ago and haven’t acted that way recently, I’ll just assume you were 12. We were all 12 once.