It looks like he is the president of the Unites States as written on the document they all signed.

lol this is true, some communities basically re-post reddit posts :)

lemmy might be an alternative, start at https://lemmy.world/

My reddit account is 16+ years old, but for 3 or 4 years now, since the API backlash, I just lurk from time to time for specific thing I search, never post, never upvote.

My /. account is I think 29 years old and I come here daily.

I went to look at the parent comment, and I'll admit that I was disappointed that your reference was to the Vandals, and not Finnegan's Wake (as "Oystrygods and fishy-gods" was about as far as I made it before I acknowledged to myself that I wasn't *that* committed to being well-read).

Would be fun, no more cellphones, laptops, or TVs in USA

Some SCADA stuff that monitor powerlines and water utilities and all are super old, those working with 3G modem are being replaced at least, it is sometimes 20 years old technology without security. For instance it reports by SMS and you send SMS to it to execute commands and all.

What a world we live in, it's incredible LOL

The only thing the internet is is an ad platform.

My KIA has a startup screen where you can press "confirm", but there is a 7s timeout or something so it's not too bad, I just ignore it.

I don't have any objection to people getting educated on how to be literate with the technology available for doing their jobs and interacting with their world. I also agree - just because I think it's stupid doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

What I have a problem with is not with the information itself, it's with the increasing trend towards abuse. With traditional marketing, it's more obvious that it's sponsored, and there are more obvious standards as far as how far you can go with stretching the truth for your marketing. With "influencer" culture, we blur all the regular communication lines, and end up with far more advertisements dressed up as if they're documentary news.

My problem isn't with "Product X is healthier than Product Y", it's with "Did you know that people who buy Product Y are putting literal poisons in their bodies!!?!". I'm in favor of the advertising from The Invention of Lying (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stbwqSOJwL4).

There were a number of things I could say on the topic, but they all unfortunately end up reinforcing the unstated premise - I'm older and I think new things are stupid.

Be it Bluetooth, meshtastic or meshcore

When discussing a robot made by the same company that makes RealDolls, you might want to be careful with your phrasing.

I'm using Qwant for a couple of months, on both PC and phone, both in Firefox, it works well.

Wow great UID, I am here on /. since before we could have username and all too, 1998 or something? Glad to see old coots like us are still here!

I got involved in a contentious topic on Reddit recently (amazing, right?) and I went to AI... can't remember if I used Gemini or ChatGPT that day, but I asked it to provide evidence supporting or refuting the redditor's claim.

It cited as evidence in support of the claim the very post I was disputing.

Full disclosure, I use AI daily (almost always for work, because our corporate overlords require it, but also for one-off jokes when accuracy doesn't matter.) But I loathe ubiquitous, unsolicted use of AI in my daily activities and I never trust what AI tells me; at best I use it as a suggestion list of topics I can research in depth on my own.