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That's good. The more Microsoft boycotts itself, the more people shift to Linux.

Using AI tools sometimes makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. And by forcing the usage of a tool that won't necessarily help, MS is only adding more meaningless busywork to its own development, like sand in an engine.

I hope so, too. Their current situation isn't currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I'm kind of hoping to see a revival, but that's at the mercy of the STF, so I can't completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It's "let's wait and see", you know?

I'm also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

Hold my beer! I'm going in!

TimeSpeed? I use it. Unless I limit myself, it makes the issue worse - then I'm trying to get a clean farm day 1*, and rich in the first Wednesday (rain day, spent mostly fishing catfish).

*I do the same with the SNES version of Harvest Moon, since time doesn't pass at night. I wonder why I always marry Karen in that game /s

Memory is a funny thing. People around me often highlight that I remember oddly specific stuff, but I forget what they make a huge deal of.

So for example, I do remember the name of the girl of my first kiss. And her face, including her ears. Her birthday too, although that's because it's close to mine.

I also remember the weird smell of the nurse who took care of my sister when sis was internalised, 30 years ago. (I was 9 back then; now I know the smell is disinfectant). I also remember the specific pitch of my neighbour's dog "yuuuunnn~", as he brought what-used-to-be-a-ball through the outer fence of his home, so I could throw to him. (I had dogs back then, but neither was into playing as much as that good boy.)

I also remember my grandpa completely drunk, but taking care of me, when I was 6. And my grandma scolding him for that. Or the toy grandma gave me, a coin that flipped as if it was "magic", as it went through a house-like thing. (It was themed after Ducktales.)

However I'd be lying if I said I remember the face of my father, even if I lived with him until he died (I was 18). I also tend to forget the specific date of my nephew's birthday, even if I care a lot about him. I'm also always pausing to remember how many tablespoons of coffee I need to add to the machine, for a specific amount of coffee.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

[Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show "ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty", all the judge will say is "so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.".
2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

So there's still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn't leave room for the judiciary to claim it's unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.

For context:

There's an older law called Marco Civil da Internet (roughly "internet civil framework"), from 2014. The Article 19 of that law boils down to "if a third party posts content that violates the law in an internet service, the service provider isn't legally responsible, unless there's a specific judicial order telling it to remove it."

So. The new law gets rid of that article, claiming it's unconstitutional. In effect, this means service providers (mostly social media) need to proactively remove illegal content, even without judicial order.

I kind of like the direction this is going, but it raises three concerns:

1. False positives becoming more common.
2. The burden will be considerably bigger for smaller platforms than bigger ones.
3. It gives the STF yet another tool for vendetta. The judiciary is already a bit too strong in comparison with the other two powers, and this decision only feeds the beast further.

On a lighter side, regardless of #2, I predict a lower impact in the Fediverse than in centralised social media.

I like how Stardew Valley has a calendar and seasons, but I don't like how it keeps track of the year. It makes my inner min-maxer go like, "I need to complete the CC before year 1 ends!!!!", and I grind instead of enjoying the game. It also feels off to see the kids never growing up.

Yellowcake, sponge... lemon flavoured sponge cake?

Kent Overstreet, Bcachefs maintainer. There's new drama going on between him and Torvalds.

Perhaps. I can't rule out completely the possibility of Lemmy stagnating. In that case as PieFed development progresses, and the feature gap becomes wide, more and more instances shift from one to another. I do think however the Lemmy devs won't simply see their software being replaced without "fighting back" (in a good way).

A third possibility would be specialisation - PieFed and Lemmy still coexisting, but taking different niches.

We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn't just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It's lemon flavouring!