A lot of (western) people really insist on and lie their asses off about the importance of organic food and how GMOs are evil, for example all the lies and misinformation about golden rice, telling third world people that non-organic food is poisonous and will eventually kill them. If you really tried to live in a purely organic and pseudo-"sustainable" world (no farming of any type is ultimately truly sustainable, but you can always be smarter about it), billions would starve to death, but those people live in the third world so they don't really matter.

I hate stuff like PDFs, when having to open a PDF from someone because of tax info or some other stuff, I always think "what sort of zero day am I executing now?"

The syntax of some of these examples seems more verbose and harder to follow than just writing the XML or JSON itself, especially the anchor examples. Aside from that, XML to JSON conversion exists, though with limitations, seemingly the same ones, such as no comments in JSON so instead you're adding an additional key. Might as well just write one or the other and convert, especially because libxmq is nearly JSON anyway.

I got a sense that it started to change because they wanted to "Millennial" one to be as long as possible to include as many people as they could. Then again it really was always changing and never really set in stone to begin with, but I always got a sense that some would make Millennial 50 years long just to more bitch about as many people as possible. I'm Gen X until they move the goalposts further back... again.

I'm torn between Eloi and Morlocks just because the latter has the whole avoiding the sun thing, i.e. somewhat analogous to never going outside unless you have to.

hate to break it to you but /. does all of those things. maybe not as effectively as tiktok but still

With Threads we're now pushing a hundred million users. As big as twitter during arab spring.

Delete your slashdot account and put your phone down and never pick it up.

The real world includes the world of human social interaction, and that has always been mediated as long as we've been communicating with groups outside of our little hamlets and demes

wrote up a comment but it was deleted. tl;dr free speech exists on the fediverse, and if you choose to value it you can have it. whether or not the fediverse is "about" free speech is almost irrelevant. The parts of the fediverse that have free speech are "about" it and there will be those of us who connect the rest of the network to freedom whether or not the prudes and the censors want to try to wall themselves off.

'Multi-server but all under control by an unaccountable central point of failure' you mean

Search is way easier in centralized systems, obviously.
As far as algorithmic filtering of content, you can do that already on the fediverse, you just have to do it manually on your own database of posts. The UI isn't quite there yet on servers like pleroma, but it will get there if it's seen to be a useful feature.

good thing disney's priorities is making their service more defective by design, and harder to use for their paying customers and not fixing their buggy-AF UI or producing more content

it makes it easier to compete with them and an easier sell for a cartoon producing entity to replace them

Since you can't distribute modified versions, this is effectively locked within microsoft's walled garden, just like winamp always was. It should be considered a dead project, since no one should be touching github in the first place.

Did you submit these as bug reports to the audacious/other projects?

Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.