Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I’ve been to:

“Never gonna give you up”

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

“And desert you”

The Grim Reaper sharpening his scythe for geriatrics Trump and Putin

And in civilized places, you can do it without fear of imprisonment

ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list

so decentralized, so Internet

shit registration functions

… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit

… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit

EDIT: But it’s Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way

This. I am a Silicon Valley manager, been hiring & managing teams for 25 years. For the same budget I can bring on 1 developer in California, vs 2-3 in Mexico or India.

TBH the quality of engineer has very little to do with their nationality. It has a lot more to do with what school they went to. It depends most on how much fire 🔥 is in their belly.

noop; noop; noop;

explode

I believe the technical term is “ass-plode”

I wish every magical-thinking person would join the reality-based community.

I wish the magical-thinking community were not treated like adults and given the ability to vote. That’s just carelessness with our Democracy.

It’s all new people now sadly Edgar passed just a few years ago. But the new troupe studied and played with prior TD for years and very much has the same vibe

Their whole catalogue from 1960s to now is a perfect soundtrack for a thinking person’s life

And miracle mile and a bunch more

What I see in the world is a lot of proof that people have gods

clearly built the world in a way that does not absolutely prove his existence

There is nothing we observe that requires supernatural explanation.

We have multiple plausible naturalistic and quantitative theories about the origin of life, the nature of consciousness, and the origin of matter and spacetime.

At this point you need God to explain the Universe the way a fish needs a bicycle.

“b00bies”

I’m pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon

Yeah I wanted to check for that but didn’t find it in ~60 seconds of clicking around

But your question prompted me to ask Perplexity, who said:

Estimating the active number of users on Dreaddit (usually called “Dread”), the darknet’s Reddit-style forum, is challenging due to the platform’s anonymous and illicit nature. However, several reputable reports, including cybersecurity analyses and investigative journalism, provide the most credible figures currently available:

User Estimates: As of late 2023, Dreaddit/Dread reportedly surpassed 200,000 registered users. This figure comes from contemporary cyber intelligence briefings and video analyses, which note that while this community size does not rival mainstream platforms, it is substantial for a darknet forum accessible only via Tor or I2P.

Growth and Activity: Dread reached 12,000 users within its first three months in 2018, and by June 2018, it cited 14,683 users. Since then, significant growth has occurred, with user counts likely fluctuating in response to cybercrime trends, law enforcement actions, and DDoS attacks, but reliable reporting indicates the active number has stabilized in the six-figure range since 2022.

That Battlefield Tsar one is indeed epic. I like programming to Epic music sometimes it feeds my fantasies. Plus the vocals are sufficiently muted and possibly not English so I don’t find them distracting

Tangerine Dream. The soundtrack for my programming life.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mp7n8bX8d2g

Hear me out: Stellaris soundtrack

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U9Tnppi4bZ0

That’s sort of its whole point, yes