Was that DM to Elon? Or is Elon spying on private messages?

Weird. I can’t see the .ml after your name. Must be a Lemmy bug.

I don’t think they realize how easy (and low risk) it can be to set up a Mastodon server. Particularly when you don’t have to allow the public to create accounts.

Pizza places have dealt with that forever. It’s normal.

The key between UberEATS and a much better service you describe is that the drivers need to stay on site, and the site needs to be geographically in the same place.

But yeah, I agree a better model would be tiny GrubHubs that service one, very small restaurant area. Basically the pizza delivery drivers also deliver for the 4-5 restaurants around the pizza place.

It’d be better service for the users, likely cheaper, and better for the restaurants who have 4-7 consistent drivers, and it’d be better for the drivers who actually get an hourly wage on top of their delivery fees.

Someone just has to build the infrastructure for this, have the capital to get started, sell the restaurants on it, and advertise the service.

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He’s lying. About his experience on Lemmy about AI.

Okay, dude.

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You just get a longer USB-C cable.

For home stuff, look for the tech “Matter over Thread”. They’re protocols* designed to allow your stuff to work with any ecosystem, including local.

It’s been slow to roll out, largely, imo, because companies would prefer to lock people into their own ecosystems and apps. Apple, Google, and Samsung do have some motivations to be interoperable though, and Matter/Thread is that effort. Consider looking at Home Assistant if you want to know more about this ecosystem and local, open control.

I could go into more detail, but this is already a tangent.

Guys, rail against the things that are true. There are enough of them that we don’t need to exaggerate or make up new ones.

Regardless of what you think of Tesla, “recall” here doesn’t mean what people expect it to mean.

It doesn’t matter how smart you (think you) are if you’re not educated. It’s possible to educate yourself, but unlikely for the vast majority of people. If you were a smart slacker, you wouldn’t be one of those teaching yourself “boring” topics, whether that’s trigonometry or history. You could barely motivate yourself to open your mouth while being spoon fed.

He’s not my first choice, but if the choice is Trump, Vance, or Johnson, I’d choose Vance.

I doubt this will compare to four years ago. It’s going to be much worse.

I’m hoping he keels over in the next month and we get President Vance. I know three things about him.

He’s really condescending towards people who didn’t “escape” rural areas (from his book).
He’s close with Peter Thiel.
He doesn’t believe anything political he says. He previously said Trump is a dictator. He says what he needs to say to gain power.

There’s a non-zero chance that he’s full of shit, and then turns out to be a great president. Either way, an unknown quantity is better than the one we’re about to get. Hopefully it happens before the appointments, since the appointments can’t be worse. Trump is what, 78?

If something is irredeemable, it’s not the government, it’s the voters.

All of this could be fixed if just enough people understood the truth.

I think it was mostly that Mastodon wouldn’t send referer headers.

So when people look at where their traffic comes from, 50% would be unknown, 20% would be Twitter, 10% would be Bluesky, and most importantly, Mastodon would never show on that report.

(Numbers made up and inaccurate.)

I think that was the plan. We were prepared for it. And then they just didn’t need it.

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Lemmy came through (below). Things are getting better here. I feel like we’re reaching critical mass, if only we could stop the infighting.

do not cost anywhere near 30%

You missed some context. Maybe you had issues with the sentence structure. My bad.