Think he means trapped as in “can’t run while holding an ice cream cone so I’m stuck here and they found me”

Think you’re thinking of this Swords comic

There’s at least one more comic coming up that we see them in, though I don’t think we see them in their original forms after that

I won’t use threads, but the Fediverse is relatively small. It would suck if they managed to play dirty tricks and steal a large fraction of current fediverse users.

Think this is the same topic as over here: https://slrpnk.net/post/15832439

There’s reasons to keep cash around. It’s used by disadvantaged people or people without bank accounts, i.e. people that need it really need it. It’s a physical object that you own and can’t be deleted in a database by a malicious government. It’s also resistant to tracking, and allows things like paying for products in a legalized state when it’s illegal federally.

Most people can live their lives right now without worrying about any of that, but we’ll see what the next 4 years brings

Yeah, it does a pretty good job of upscaling. Here’s the entire command I’m using:

convert input.gif -crop 25%x100% +repage +adjoin miff:- | montage - -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 miff:- | convert - -resize 200% -colors 256 -depth 8 -filter Box output.png

I don’t think it can realistically recover that text though. I can upscale it manually and make out “Copr. 1951 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.”, but that’s by looking up who owns the copyright and matching it. This is about the best it can do:

Kirk’s number two is the Spocker 🖖

There’s a lot of shitty things they can do. They could push for changes to ActivityPub that nobody sane wants, confusing everybody that says “We support ActivityPub”, and spread FUD about anyone that doesn’t move to their new shitty version. Similar to how Google pushes through changes to web standards that benefit them, forcing Firefox to implement them too.

Here’s one that shows it pretty well:

Next challenge is to take a trajectoid and turn it into a fair die that could be used for gaming while still spelling things out

Depends on how you write it, I think. I’m seeing both looped and unlooped versions looking through image search results. Trying to just write it myself from what I remember of cursive, I’d probably write it without a loop, regardless of what’s “official”.

Nope, those are all not clickable. Probably requires logging in or something. Does not inspire confidence in them being a long-term team player, but we’ll see what happens I guess 🤷

Good catch. I want my money back!

Interesting. Can’t tell if that worked because it wants me to log in. Wonder why they don’t just allow appending the instance at the end like the rest of the fediverse does. Does that post show the username as plain text for you as well? It’s still showing that way for me.

The advantage of the Fediverse is exactly that, that each instance can decide if they federate or not. The thing that I’m wary of is a renewal of Embrace, extend, and extinguish. I’d like to think that Zuckerberg isn’t going to try playing dirty tricks, but we’ll see what happens if and when Threads ever becomes really successful.

I don’t see how anything has changed. I don’t use threads, but this URL doesn’t work:

https://www.threads.net/@georgetakei@universeodon.com

And the post from the article just shows his account as plain text:

https://www.threads.net/@pcottle/post/DDKj4lpxUaf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scott_(YouTuber)

Here’s an announcement of the Matrix 2.0 spec, which includes a switch to the new OIDC system:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/

That links to this Matrix spec proposal:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/hughns/delegated-oidc-architecture/proposals/3861-delegated-oidc-architecture.md

IMO the tl;dr is that they’re switching to a widespread standard that has a lot of development around it and security auditing. It will take a lot less of their time to just use that vs maintaining their own stack. OIDC will let you use google/github-style “Login with…” approaches, but you can use that with any other service that supports OIDC, not just a few blessed services.

There’s also this site with a “Why?” section: https://areweoidcyet.com/#why

Cards are required for federal funding:

The new standards will require that all stations receiving federal funding allow payment by credit card.

Requiring allowing cash would also be nice, but given the current state of charging infrastructure, it would be somewhat hard to do. Sometimes there’s no clear way to get a hold of anyone in-person if something is wrong with the charger. Though maybe charging stations should be pushed towards that anyways.