I’d be A-OK with more Oglaf – thanks for posting this!

Folks should be aware that it can run NSFW at times.

#savedyouaclick:

That’s because the US enacted a law called the Wolf Amendment in 2011, which prevents NASA from using government funds to cooperate directly with China.

Wolf Amendment

What’s with 7942 being lit up like the North Star?

Only thing I can think of is that The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published in 1979.

States can establish religions. Federal government can’t.

Over the last 150 years, the Supreme Court has pretty consistently found that the Bill of Rights applies to state as well as federal government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

See especially https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_v._Board_of_Education:

Everson v. Board of Education … was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that applied the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to state law.

Automating anything blindly carries the risk of unending buckets of water or a universe of paperclips.

Nutty – I was just chewing on that similarity myself.

That’s just “El Reg’s” style; they’ve been that way for years. Don’t let their pseudoinformality fool you, though, they know their stuff.

The CAD program with one level of Undo, an unreliable Revert option, and active hostility toward incremental saves.

I don’t know the first thing about CAD, but lmao.

Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you’ll find on the internet, my dude/lady.

It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.

I’d encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.

+Roquefort gang.

Hi there! I’m you. My first computer was a TRS-80 in the early 80s, and my daily driver today is Debian (a flavor of Linux). I’m not an IT person, but I’ve had some skin in the game for a while.

You won’t need to purchase a thing unless you have some weird/old hardware where drivers will be a challenge.

There are a million flavors (“distros”) of Linux. The most straightforward ones to start with are probably Ubuntu and Mint.

Most Linux distros have a “live CD” version that you can “install” on a thumb drive. That allows you to take the entire OS for a test spin without changing anything on your “main” computer.

I’ve been beating this drum for years, but Autoduel as a MMORPG.

The legend of scarabic lives on.

Great growth so far. How does this compare to Reddit?

In 2020 their year-over-year growth was around 50%, or roughly 4% per month. (source)

Serious question, what are we looking at and/or being mildly infuriated about here?

I think they’re “communities” here?

Do moderators have the ability to “require approval” for new subscribers? I’d assumed that “pending” meant that someone had to “let me in” because that’s how they chose to run their corner of the internet (which is great).

Is it actually just lag/a tech issue?

Can’t decide which I prefer at this point.

But they’re basically interoperable, yes?

So far I miss being able to see a graphic associated with links I post

haha, my first post here I tried to post both a URL and an image, so it looked like I made a post that consisted solely of the defector.com logo. :/

In retrospect, it’s kind of shocking how many obviously wrong turns I had to make for that to happen.

I’m sure the folks who know this stuff better than I are already exploring it, but I imagine that PixelFed integration would be relatively straightforward.

Exciting times!