Shoulda put up a sign that said “click on all the traffic lights to open”.

I expected a different ending to “click click boom.”

The only scrollbars I remember myself liking had dots and letters to help you track your position in context.

Looking for Shogun? You’re in the M’s now, just a few more letters to go. Tap the S and you shot straight to that section.

That style only really works for media libraries in alphabetical order, though.

They’re going for style points.

under 18 (OP)

saw my manager fuck my classmates

Has there ever been a chess variant with a succession mechanic ?

As in, if you get the king killed, the queen gets demoted becomes the new king, and if they both die, one of the bishops becomes king, but now you’re a theocracy and the rooks have a 10% chance each turn to betray you and attempt a coup.

The knights are chill, though.

What is a man trap?

Summary
Forgejo v15.0 refines areas of day-to-day usability and security, and incorporates new capabilities in advanced Forgejo Actions usage.

UI enhancements in issue filtering and the releases list make Forgejo easier to interact with. Auto-linking containers to repositories removes a manual step from repository administrators. Git notes can now be modified from the single-commit view in pull requests.

Repository specific access tokens allow for more secure API interactions.

Forgejo Actions can now expand reusable workflows, providing a better user experience and more powerful capabilities. OpenID Connect support allows for secure access to third-party systems. Forgejo Runner registration improvements allow a simpler installation process for most users, and ephemeral runners allow secure autoscaling capabilities for advanced integrations.

Would you rather date a Claude or a Tyrion?

Would you rather date a Siri or a Khaleesi?

My comments:

// Do not change this timeout value. There’s a compatibility issue that causes requests to hang. Come back later to add details

// Should probably refactor this bit

// drunk, fix later

Assuming you set it up perfectly the first time, instead of it breaking for some reason six weeks later and then you spend three hours figuring out/remembering how you set it up in the first place and another two nights after work fixing it so it works as intended.

Also your use case has changed, so it needs to be retooled to address the new situation.

Other than that… worth it.

I would’ve figured they were immune to fire, given their name.

I agree that they’re not mutually exclusive. I wasn’t saying that they were.

I was pushing back against the idea that age verification is the best and only reasonable response to our internet problems (the “lesser of two evils” argument).

I personally exclude age verification when other, better options - like the ones mentioned above - exist and haven’t even been tried.

It’s like watching someone try to build a fire, fail, and then chuck a grenade in the firepit.

It’s easy, but it’s not going to get you the result you were hoping for and it’s likely to make everything worse.

My reply here.

Tl;dr:

• Support decentralized alternatives*
• Exercise parental controls on-device and IRL
• Teach the children what we learned

It’s not a magic bullet, but it’s better than putting the Epstein class in charge of protecting the children.

*Obviously, there are cesspools on the Fediverse, too. But we’re incentivized and empowered to curate and to moderate these spaces, in ways that we’re not on Twitter.

There is no ‘we’ in your hypothetical

We is everyone that isn’t those companies and is impacted by social media.

The only power you or I have is local, and this is a national problem.

We do have little power on a national level, but that doesn’t mean the only power we have is local.

Sure, we can’t flip a switch tell the engineers to program a switch and flip it for us like Musk and Zuckerberg can, but that’s not the only power that matters.

We can build and support alternatives to addictive, enshittified centralized tech (like the Fediverse). I was offered the “choice” of accepting a degraded Twitter experience or paying for Twitter premium. I chose to check out Mastodon.

We can use the parental controls we do have, both inside the ecosystem and in the real world. No screens in the bedroom or at the dinner table. No smartphone until you’re 16. Schools that ban phones in the classroom. Venues that ban phones during shows.

Edit: Another option is educating ourselves and our children to be safe on the internet. I had to learn that the correct response to “what are you wearing” is “a robe and wizard hat” and then blocking the pedophile all on my own because my parents didn’t know those threats even existed. I do. Most parents in 2026 do.

I’m not imaginative, but we have a lot more power than just choosing between “let it suck forever” and “give up even more of your privacy and I’ll pretend to fix the problems I created/encouraged because I make more money that way.”

Reminds me of Bruce Sterling’s Swarm. (It was adapted into a Love, Death, and Robots episode.)

“You are a young race and lay great stock by your own cleverness,” Swarm said. “As usual, you fail to see that intelligence is not a survival trait.”

Upvoted because it is a controversial take.

My problem with age verification is that what we’re being sold is not what we’re going to get.

“Choosing the lesser of two evils” implies that only two options exist. When the same companies are responsible for both evils, we should be talking alternatives, not letting them make us decide between getting punched in the face and giving up our lunch money to make it stop.

Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation?

Not being able to follow someone isn’t a federation problem, it’s an instance mismatch problem.

When you can’t follow the people you want on Twitter (because they were banned), that’s an instance mismatch. Your preferences don’t align with Twitter’s.

The difference is that, with Twitter, there is only one instance. You can’t switch to a different Twitter where those people aren’t blocked.

On Fedi, you can choose an instance that blocks and federates according to your preference. And if you can’t find one (unlikely for most users), you can host your own.

If you just want Piefed instances with less regulation, these appear to have the fewest number of blocks:

• Quokk.au
• Keyboard Vagabond
• Bookwyr.me

Password was Huntarr2