@dominiquec@lemmy.world

@MemmingenFan923@feddit.org can confirm. My son bought a set that was missing on of the bags. Filled out a form and uploaded a picture of the box + what he had built so far and the remaining bags. 48 hours later, we had the missing bag and he was back to building.

So many other brands wouldn’t even respond to something like that. You’d have to take it back to where you bought it for a refund, buy another set and start the build again.

Lego customer service understands that their product is more than colored plastic.

@JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee isn’t part of the point of ActivityPub to avoid vendor lockin/single point of billionaire enshittification? I read and interact with a fair amount of Lemmy content through an Mbin instance.

You can already limit Google using site:[DOMAIN].

If every ActivityPub driven service used a common TLD like .edus, you’d be able to limit results to that facet of Google’s index, they don’t. If they did, we’d be back to a single point of failure.

Google supports limiting searches to content using a Creative Commons license based on the licensing metadata in the URL. ActivityPub content already has the metadata, but it took a decade to generate enough content before Google offered the option to filter searches by CC-BY-SA… and Google was a VERY different company back then.

@Yazer@lemmy.ca there is also the 50501 group organizing protests in all 50 states April 5.

As others have commented, there haven’t been protests this large and often in the US since the Vietnam War. Organizing this takes time. Organizing without using billionaire owned services with questionable privacy policies takes even longer… but it is happening.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

@Yazer@lemmy.ca my kids didn’t have school yesterday because their teachers were protesting.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/20/hundreds-of-teachers-rally-to-protect-schools-at-the-colorado-capitol-as-lawmakers-look-for-cuts/

@SPRUNT@lemmy.world the recent college athlete image likeness settlement couldn’t happen at a worse time for public schools who have to disclose these payments. Can you imagine having a PhD and teaching physics for 1/4 of what a school is paying a teenage who catches balls well?

@Valmond@lemmy.world

@Opinionhaver@feddit.uk @StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca read, upvoted AND commented. Are we best friends now?

@adarza@lemmy.ca

@Confidant6198@lemmy.ml I thought we were finally making progress with Rank Choice Voting starting to gain traction, but agree… there may not be enough left to salvage after this unless the MAGA movement collapses before the midterms… assuming we still are have elections and people other than white land owners can vote. Still not entirely sure how far back Trump supporters need to go for the “again” point when America was great.

MAGA are NOT the majority of Americans, but sadly they only slightly exceed the Americans who don’t vote at all. While not the government many Americans wanted, when “I’m not into politics” stopped resulting in an immediate response of “so you aren’t American?”, we ended up with the government we deserve.

@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io

@Mee@reddthat.com Is the tradition the Animal House experience while in school and then graduating to multiple job offers that pay well enough that your income alone was enough to buy a house and raise a family. Because if that’s the tradition they are looking to continue, I’ve got some bad news.

Online education should make education more affordable. Instead, most organizations charged only slightly less than in-person credits.

@jwr1@kbin.earth I’m a PHP developer and was following the Kbin project drama for a few months before learning about the MBin fork. I was hesitant to get involved since it wasn’t clear Mbin would continue if Kbin collapsed and Earnest disappeared.

6+ months later, Mbin is still going strong and appears to be getting better with each release.

I’ve quit using all walled garden, billionaire owned social recently so I’ve been spending more time on Mbin instances and other ActivityPub services. The increase in activity is noticeable.

@AidsKitty@lemmy.world

@juergen@feddit.org Are you a Tesla owner who only charges at Telsa charging stations? Tesla doesn’t even own the majority of charging stations in the US. They only recently started allowing non-Teslas to use their chargers. Where did you think all the other EVs were charging?

Tesla will be taken over by PE who will sell off the charging network. Once rebranded as ChargePoint or Electrify America, they will will no lobger be targeted by vandalism and arson. The cost of removing the toxic Tesla brand isn’t trivial, but the locations and infrastructure have value. They won’t just be turned off when there is profit to made.

https://evadoption.com/ev-charging-stations-statistics/us-charging-network-rankings/

@juergen@feddit.org “Fuck Elon” is becoming the punch buggy of this generation.

Combine a toxic brand with a level of ridiculously poor Quality Control we haven’t seen from a US automaker since the Saturn brand, and you get a price point/distressd asset that PE will be looking at. They’ve already calculated the value of selling Tesla for parts and just waiting for the stock to hit a number to act. Elon is so over leveraged, there will be nothing he can do to stop it.

@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone

@yogthos@lemmy.ml @Xanza@lemm.ee there ARE city owned fiber and wireless networks. The dark fiber bought up in the early 2Ks to form the existing Internet2 that connects Research 1 universities and many other non-commercial entities is also real.

You CAN in fact communicate using open standards like DNS, SMTP or even ActivityPub between some points without using a service or network owned by a billionaire. What you CANNOT do is communicate without hardware made by billionaires. Even if you did manage to create a compute device using open hardware to create and consume the communication, traffic over that fiber is being routed with some very expensive, very proprietary hardware.

My point is that it IS possible and there have been a few people who are not only NOT lazy, but visionary thinkers motivated by more that greed building protocols, tools and networks.

DNS, TCP/IP and HTTP were all designed to function if large parts of the network were no longer available. They were more concerned with nuclear war at the time, but the design works just as well to route around walled gardens.

I agree that most people are too lazy to care… let alone take any action to change the status quo, but here we are discussing this through MBin/Lemmy./ActivityPub.

https://www.lightwaveonline.com/business/article/16657705/level-3-inks-dark-fiber-deal-with-internet2

@Tea@programming.dev being threaten with jail time and fines won’t be enough, but the potential punishment needs to be so severe and harasment so relentless they’d consider hanging themselves instead. Aaron Swartz will not be forgotten.

@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world my kids (8 and 11) play “fuck elon”. It’s slugbug for cybertucks. We don’t encourage profanity, but don’t punish them when they use it appropriately. This seems VERY appropriate.

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@Majorllama@lemmy.world our dog is trained IF we give him a command like “leave it” BEFORE instict kicks in. If we see another dog while walking, “leave it” works. If we knew the ad was coming, we’d be fine. We’re usually half watching dumb tv to wind down when our dog tries to save us from dog on the other side of the glass. Once he’s in “holy shit, they’re coming to kill my pack mode”, we can only turn the tv off. Can’t pause the ad. Can’t even swith services since our “smart” tv continues playing the previous video in 1/4 of the screen while selecting another app.

Our dog is only 2. If he’s like every other dog we’ve owned l, he will either accept that nothing ever comes through the tv or no longer have the energy to defend his pack.

@hark@lemmy.world

@drmoose@lemmy.world

When I learned to write headlines 30 years ago, the goal was to capture the gist of the article. We’d write something like…

Proposd Take It Down Law Would Be Used as a Weapon

I’m not sure it’s possible to train AI to write effectively headlines after 20 years of clickbaiting and controversy “journalism”.

@haverholm@kbin.earth I don’t know much about this plugin, but I do know it was “aquired” by Automattic… basically meaning that the developer was hired to work for Automattic. I don’t watch every episode of As WP Turns, but in the last episode of that drama I watched I think Matt announced that Automattic was scaling back their contributions to the open source aspects of WP… which would include this plugin.

If you want to see this change, you will likely need to make the request in the form of a PR. If you don’t have the knowledge and skills required to do that (and aren’t willing to invest the time it take to gain that knowledge and skill), I suggest you start being more professional and polite when making requests for the changes you want.

You’ve paid nothing for this code. Have some empathy for the maintainer.

@mesamunefire@lemmy.world I was just discussing how to add NodeBB comments to Drupal in https://community.nodebb.org/post/103485

@jqubed@lemmy.world

@mesamunefire@lemmy.world @m_f@discuss.online

There have been 2.5 million WordPress posts pushed to ActivityPub. The engagement on this is near zero, but it is happening.

The MAU number is complete BS. Most of these users don’t even know the WP instance they are logging into gives them a federated presence. Logging into WP makes the use active in the endpoint used to share data with https://fedidb.org/software/wordpress