Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don’t think it would be too difficult to pass. I’d be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

Sure, but again these aren’t exclusive. Dimming your phone screen takes 3 seconds of tap-and-drag on most versions of android and iOS, it’s hardly an effort, let alone a sacrifice. In no way does it prevent you from doing more/other things as well.

Sure, it’s not a lot of power, but how is not using your phone burning a dime to save a penny?

To be clear, the state being the gatekeeper of tv and radio was a thing in France directly after the war, with the French government literally having the monopoly over the airwaves, but in the latter half of the 20th century they opened up the airwaves to private/independent entities. Basically, we also had a pirate radio movement that managed to turn public sentiment towards being in favor of a certain liberalization of tv and radio.

Nowadays we’ve come full circle; billionaire-owned media dominates tv and radio, with a handful of more independent stations eaking out a living and meagre audience on the periphery. In a very real sense, advertising and chasing views got to us just like it got the USA.

Re: gatekeepers, I guess I was more thinking about “hard” forms of it (in contrast to “soft”). You’re certainly correct in stating that they’ve always been around in some way. Still, I think there is a meaningful difference in the case of television, as there were no “pirate broadcasters” to my knowledge even when here in France there were only 1, then 2, then 3 public channels (with about 10 year’s wait between each of their creations).

Maybe a better phrasing for my question would have been, did Hitler’s radio propaganda more closely resemble todays’s facebook and telegram groups in their unfiltered direct access to people’s eyes and ears?

Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

Haven’t gotten through the entire protocol description yet, but so far it seems closer to DMs on a social network than digital letters.

Neat, but maybe we should just do email-over-activitypub then…

I’m not sure if you explicitly want an RFC-style description (i.e. follows https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 for MUST vs SHOULD vs etc) or if you are using RFC as a colloquial term for the technical details of the protocol.

In case of the latter, the “protocol” link at the top resolves to this GitHub repo: https://github.com/Open-Email/MailHTTPS-Protocol

Were there already gatekeepers in the 30s? My understanding was that, radio being a new medium at the time, Hitler was able to do an infowars/Breitbart/prageru style of mass propaganda that was impossible in the existing (print) press.

It’s only after the second world war that radio and then television were strictly controlled by the state (albeit more in an attempt to unify and homogenize the nation here in France than to ensure the populace would be vaccinated of anti-intellectualism).

Thank you! I now know of an optical illusion that’s not the duck/rabbit drawing where I can see both at the same time.

Dimming your phone screen’s brightness saves a ton more energy than cutting off wifi, especially the newer the phone is.

So, in a way, they’re not wrong about “screen time” just wrong about almost everything else.

Damn, thanks for linking that report. I have appreciated devault’s work for almost a decade, this is a good reminder that just because someone’s public actions align with my values does not automatically mean they are infallible nor should they be canonized.

Recent research paper that I assume this is based off of: https://arxiv.org/html/2507.12869v1

Same, it’s impressive how much it irks people.

My own hasty judgement is that [those upset] only speak English, have a prescriptivist take on language (albeit unconsciously), and have no idea how damaging hegemony and uniformity for their own sake can be.

Also they’re lazy and would rather shame someone than take on a little bit of discomfort to adapt to them.

I guess that makes it “judgements”, plural.

(youtube) explainer link for the unfamiliar : https://youtube.com/watch?v=ABpT6e-KlOo

For instances that already have a user base, admins should not make any significant decisions without the consent of their users. This goes against our values, and we will not permit an instance to use Bridgy Fed in this manner. We’ve had conversations on how to handle a situation like this, and we would block instances [3] from doing so. We strongly expect admins to be loud about bridging, especially during signup. 3/10

This is very encouraging to read from a project that initially did not understand why many would be opposed to an opt-out bridge to ATProto.

Oh man, just realized this is just YouTube Play buttons but for extension developers.

On the one hand, this is very cool.

On the other, it does nothing to help an extension author resist selling out their user base when they find themselves in a bit of financial trouble. Unless we expect said authors to be able to resell their award(s) to collectors or something?

Eleventh is a static site generator. You run it once, then straight up serve the files it output.

Server-side rendering is like running eleventy for each incoming webrequest (albeit only for the requested page(s) instead of the whole site).

Phind has been decent for me when I’m looking for prior art and/or research papers on something I’m trying to develop/implement. It’s nice to be able to pose a question as I would to a colleague and get references back that I can read for myself.

Sadly, it still hallucinates some stuff, and when it doesn’t it tends to give me references that are tangentially related to my query but don’t actually cover it.

Thanks for sharing that article; it’s reassuring to see others be so lucid about what the current situation actually is.