Mastodon is annoyingly gatekeepy too. They are super heavy on content warnings, and tend to not play nice when someone doesn’t respect those unspoken rules.

Also, servers are much more likely to defederate with each other, due to what some perceive as “minor scuffles”.

All in all I understand why people prefer Bluesky over Mastodon, it’s simpler and the search function isn’t borked to hell and back either. Blocking is also incredibly effective on Bluesky, if you block someone neither you nor they will ever see each other’s content again.

Shoutout to the 3DS custom theme shop for having a Tuxkart theme

Those who continue to do business with them will be punished

Most AI models used Books3 as part of their dataset which is a collection of pirated books. Here are a few articles talking about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224450/anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-pirated-books-ai

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-29/australian-authors-copyright-books3-generative-i-chatgpt/102914538

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

Fellow Zer here, my elective IT class had grading done depending on how well you could use the computer:

‘A’ if you could do everything perfectly well, ‘B’ if you needed some help from the instructor, ‘C’ if you needed a lot of help, ‘D’ if you couldn’t even get past the login screen on the windows machine.

We had a lot of people who got a pity ‘C-’