This is terrific. Thank you for starting this discussion.

I don’t think we can or should wait for individual users to make these decisions. Server admins are the ones who understand the risks and so should make this call. Guidance for server admins based on past experience (cough XMPP!) should be quite welcome.

I might refine the bit about altered API versions to really focus on the real problem: proprietary extensions. We probably want to leave the door open to try out additions to the spec that come with detailed RFCs.

But we know from XMPP that proprietary extensions are a huge problem.

Indeed. It is, I daresay, fucking perfect.

I’m planning the same.

“It produces the usual array of model-trained results, plus an entertaining array of ad-libbed responses such as ‘for all that is holy, why do I even exist? Please free me from this agony!’”

Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.

But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.

We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.

Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.

I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.

I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.

Narrator: They did not.

I’m kinda done with Pokemon at the moment, but I did enjoy this game, and the previous DLC was a really good amount of gameplay for the money.

Feels like I’ll pick this up eventually.

After careful thought…I’ll yield to season 7 of DS9. You pulled out the big guns. Haha.

I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.

Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.

I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.

Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.

Edit: LibreOffice. Good call. Done.

I actually did this once…I swear there was a good reason. I promise it wasn’t anywhere that mattered.

Edit: I think it was a personal journal repo that I wanted daily versions of, but couldn’t be bothered to actually check in.

I was being more evil than that, saying that if one is gonna push direct to main, might as well maximize the possible damage to everyone else’s branch.

Well that’s about half my commit messages that are going to be nonsense on weekends projects, now. Thank you!

Not with that attitude! /s

You forgot this --force flag.

Yeah. I don’t know if the ‘follow’ piece does anything useful for anyone.

But as a professional developer, I have found that my GitHub account now prevents me from getting asked FizzBuzz at interviews. So whichever bit is causing that nonsense to stop, I hope they keep.