same as it ever was — this is not to criticize the article, as it’s entertaining, but anyone with a history in san francisco remembers the seagull mafia at the 'stick as well. it seems to have taken them a little while to figure out the move, but theyyy’re heeere.

what i haven’t seen return are the hot dog wrapper twisters, where a section’s worth of paper and foil would assemble into an impromptu tornado in the outfield come the 8th inning.

if giants brass really wanted to be rid of the scavengers, they’d need to change how we package and how easy it is to dispose of it properly. we don’t have a culture of everyone bringing their cups and wrappers upstairs, and if everyone decided to do that one day, there’s nowhere near enough waste receptacle space.

we’ve normalised the idea that we own celebrities, that they owe us continuous intrusion into their private lives as a condition of fame. there’s always a line, a fuzzy one, currently drawn somewhere near paparazzi (they’re evil vs they’re a necessary evil, how else would we get our pics).

society is built on these lines separating the acceptable from the unacceptable. they change, more quickly than we remember. we don’t smoke in restaurants. we do wear seat belts. but the people who fought those battles, not that long ago, were pariahs.

ellen degeneres (before she became 😡 ellen 😡 for different reasons) was blackballed for coming out. chappell roan is kissing women in her videos. if she wants to try to move the privacy line, and risk being a pariah for it, good for her. she’s either proven right or wrong over time. she’ll either pay or she won’t. but she’s using her capital for something that’s important to her, and that she sees as important to her industry. everyone’s entitled to try.

I’m torn, because on the one hand, yes! — the hour I spent figuring out which PGP XEP was the right one is an hour I won’t get back. But, “only the XEPs you need to implement for a modern messaging application, ignoring historical cruft and excessive backwards-compatibility” sounds so much like the beginning of an extend-and-extinguish cycle.

thank you… more of a thought experiment now than a true need, but it seems like if it became a need, i’d be better off building a matrix account. i suspected this but had hoped for more :/

got my tech within the last year, was stunned at how not old-white-guy the class was. all age groups, balanced genders, mixed races. many seemed there for neighborhood emergency teams. the airwaves are dead most of the time i’ve turned the rig on, except during the net hour. i feared exactly what you’ve heard but thankfully haven’t run into it. yet.

i had drifted away from sabrina over the years but she just cut me off and slid back into my lane

i am the only person you know who’s seen her live. any ‘you’ 😛

aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?

it seems to me that flying drones into trees would be a massively expensive hobby

wth ‘taylor’s version’? like there was an o.g. eras tour that made money for scooter?

The last show of hers that I saw was on the Dedicated tour in 2018. She played in San Francisco during Pride Week and worked it perfectly. My +1 was out of town and that was likely for the best. It ended up being the gayest show I’ve seen, and I’ve seen Kylie six times.

2m fm, 146.820 (in new orleans)

Welcome! I’m a new amateur in the States. Like you, I peek in here and find that at the moment, it doesn’t take long. The frog boil has worked quite well in Reddit; the frogs are staying in their pots even as enshittification becomes obvious (pro tip, it’s spelled IPO). Unlike you, I’m new enough that I have nothing worthwhile to contribute yet.

As for Mastodon, I’m on an instance with a 5k character limit. Some instances run modified versions known as glitch or hometown, which allow the admin to set a limit (well) above 500. I didn’t find a handy list of these easily, but a little searching in google or r/Mastodon may turn up ideas.

i hadn’t realized that the ist’s were separate

It’s a very heavy building - multiple stories in earthquake country, and I’m not on the top floor. Everything dies when I leave the nook with the windows. NOAA works literally only on the windowsill, TRACON almost never clears the noise floor once I’m not near the window, and I hear some smaller UHF repeaters away from the window but haven’t yet heard the 2m (it’s not super high traffic, so can’t say I haven’t just been unlucky).

We’re allowed on the roof and I’ve been up there, everything’s peachy. When I’m at the office downtown, I’m on a high floor, so I can pick up the 2m easily even though I’m on the other side of the building.

NO. HOW MANY OF HER ARE THERE TO BE DOING ALL THIS?!

they’re trying to save time, so i had always wished for something that would waste their time. like a bollard that popped up and stayed up until the next bus came. money matters, but it does indeed matter differently by how much you have. these are misbehaving dogs. the corrective is best served up right at the point of infraction, and by taking away the advantage they were trying to get

it’s perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.

i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn’t already have a backdoor into the designated substitute

is 2fa reliable now? in the early days of lemmy one could end up in lockouts when trying to set it up

no idea. impossible to rule out. there’s no good answer to ‘why’ that i’ve seen