[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the United States, at least: There are retail stores - brick and mortar, I know! - where various “beauty supplies” are sold. Find one where they sell hair bleach etc. They will also sell hair shears.

I got the second-cheapest set they sold, for around $25. For our amateur purposes, these student-hairdresser-grade shears are more than adequate.

I cut my own hair probably 6-9 times a year, and those shears are still the sharpest things I own, fifteen years later.

(Shears are actually really specific cutting tools. Mine have only ever cut hair, which I credit for their long life)

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, if republican politicians and catholic priests are any guide, this means Kutcher and Moore are almost certainly prolific child abusers.

EDIT: oh FFS, their org is THORN?!? The same group of wine mommies trying to destroy the internet with that awful and mislabeled “kids online safety act”?

Fuck them AND their parent-pandering bullshit. Scientologists are nasty business.

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

I too have played the disappointed and befuddled architecture evangelist. The counter-argument that inevitably ended these conversations was: “This is a business. We make money by getting stuff out the door. Demonstrate how the time it would take to rework this code base would correspond to an increase in profits, then we can talk about how your time and people budget is impossible to justify.”

“Pretty behind the scenes” doesn’t make any difference when you’re focused on getting people to build you a moneymaking machine as fast and cheap as possible.

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 117 points 1 year ago

I think the headline is framing this wrong. Apple is not threatening to kill these services.

Apple is refusing to break their services just to accommodate broken, stupid laws written by a broken, stupid parliament.

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ironically, you cannot find out if your car is affected unless you’re willing to share your VIN with the helpful folks at privacy4cars.com

So, since I don’t own a model specifically listed in the story and I value my privacy …

Edit: I was wrong, they would much rather I download their helpful app and use that software they’re implanting on my PHONE to help me re-assert my right to privacy 🤡

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(duplicate story in LGBTQ+; comment moved to https://beehaw.org/comment/382649)

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yay! Another enshittified product to replace with a federated one! @funkwhale here I come …

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Update:

Thanks to everyone who reached out, fediDB.org and fediverse.info will remain online going forward.

I'm not going anywhere either, though I think I need a break from the fediverse for a few days.

(https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110572348499857791)

[-] amotoohno@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ayup. Or rather, that’s the most recent of it; I don’t have historical background.

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submitted 1 year ago by amotoohno@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

These messages are from Daniel Supernault, primary maintainer of Pixelfed.

I don’t want to recap the FediDrama here (drama recaps have a way of becoming drama themselves), but I suspect it’s the reason he’s taking a break.

I’ve never met @dansup but I know he’s contributed so much to the Fediverse and OSS communities. I am still a newb myself (Twexit era). But - for the good of the OSS community - would it be too much to ask we show some respect for the pioneers who got us here?

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