It really irks me when people change the titles of the articles they link to to try to fit their narrative. Because sadly people dont really click through to the article. Just share the real title and give your commentary on the comments.

I think the person you replied to is just assuming it’s off by default. But if there’s a kill switch, that implies that it’s on. And if not, there wouldn’t be any need for a kill switch.

Is this really new just because AI is here, though? Even before AI, any kid that was an over-achiever, actually studied unlike their peers, continues to work harder to achieve greater things (even when the masses don’t) experiences this exact same path all their life.

Is this any different from how one starts to look as they grow older in age?

Oh god yes. Then there’s this RSS bot that keeps spamming new articles. Wish they’d stop trying to make Lemmy a big RSS feed.

Anybody else hungry?

Yeah, will never understand why these big billionaires keep taking these “we are for the people” stances, but are still trying to spin up these same ol for-profit, centralized products. If they really cared, they’d use that money to help nonprofits or decentralized services and stay out of the damn way.

The Chinese have it right with the food too. Love me egg foo yung

And probably not as intentional as most people think it is vs just laziness and maybe a lack of planning.

This is so mildy pedantic it’s adorable lol

This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.

There’s a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like “uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money”.

It’s just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.

Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.

That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

“Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.

Hmm I was gonna suggest Mastodon. I always thought it allowed long-form writing similar to blog posts.

Not interested in the short-video concept. But I like the name, though. Short, sweet, doesn’t sound too “techy”, not too complicated to pronounce or spell.

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Sounds like you might just want the news without fluff.

I use AllSides as my main news source for federal news. Give them a try. The writing is succinct and gets straight to the point.

They give you news of the day in small chunks separated by topic. Each topic has a quick context, run down of what’s happening, and (my favorite) how the left right and center outlets are all covering it.

They also have an RSS feed (provided by Open RSS because they dont serve their own feeds. https://openrss.org/allsides.com

Left a comment to another user in this feed. Do you use RSS feeds at all? If so, you can use that to get notifications. But if you don’t use RSS feeds for sites, probably not worth it.

You can if you use RSS feeds. For instance an RSS feed for the threads in this post is at https://openrss.org/beehaw.org/post/15660443.

Ubuntu here as well! Sticking with just the LTS versions tho 😎