@generalx When I lived in Los Angeles for a bit, we used to gather at my apartment, smoke some weed, and watch Wally George. Considering how things stand now, it's not a funny anecdote anymore, but anecdote nonetheless.

@mayintoronto I consider myself as the most boring person in history.Others might think otherwise.

@mayintoronto I mean, professionally… the devs are really my users

@64bithero Don't know that I like the "Heavy mixture" wording... Seems over-representative of what people do here...It comes down to: most people are here to communicate with other people. There can be a mixture of some business with that communication, but communication without the business is every bit as, if not more, important than the business side of things.I block people if all they post is business / promotion stuff.  OTOH if someone writes personal / jokes / other stuff most of the time, and business stuff when they need to, then it's fine.

@jik now do pulp in OJ

Thanks everyone. It's a key ID. The reason you think it's an actor ID is that Mastodon uses a fragment id for it. But the id is for the key, not the actor.I appreciate the conversation!

@aburtch @the_etrain that was the background for my question. I would be talking about it, but unless someone calls it out I am not actively asking. At least not yet. And the transition the other way around would feel more natural to me. There are however many I feel have a presence here or would be suspected to have an interest, but I have not yet pushed for their details

@evan I did pass them in the past, regularly as it is common practice in critical infrastructure to be done by some US federal body or alike in European countries. I passed a dozen or so of those in the last 2 decades.

@SeaFury voted I don't eat because that seemed closest to: I don't think I can taste bitter at reasonable strengths, and also why the heck would you ever eat anything that has gone sour? I don't usually do that either so for the intents and purposes for this poll, I think I don't eat :')

@mayintoronto I'm in the younger portion of this group, however I think as the internet becomes more and more enshittified we'll get a younger and younger group of people asking:Where can I go to connect with people in a way that's not surveilled or controlled.When they ask that I think protocols, usenet, forums will be there for them should we keep them going

@heluecht @raphael https://ghost.evanp.me/why-i-use-activitypub-api-or-social-api/

@HamonWry Scheduled demolition

@wulfric The timing coincides, but it was Geocities and Livejournal.

@WeirdWriter @mayintoronto Unfortunately, "AI" (which has always been a bullshit term) has become entirely synonymous with LLMs. "AI" sucked to begin with. Let's talk instead about "machine learning." LLMs are irredeemable. The entire concept is fundamentally flawed. It's a parlor trick gone horribly wrong.

@mayintoronto I would leave… because I’m not fluent in meow and it gives me social anxiety!

@HamonWry A rapist and war criminal walked into the room and remains at large?

And if that was not bad enough, hospitals and doctors want to be your #AISlop casino dealers. . . > Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/americans-ask-ai-for-health-care-hospitals-think-the-answer-is-more-chatbots/#ThisIsAmerica #BadEconomy #sloperator #cogsucker #HealthCare #medicine #tech