Excuse me, it’s amateur mathematician to you.

Reminds me of the Indiana pi bill that would’ve legally set the value of pi as 3.2.

Ah, right, it’s nonstandard markdown. According to Jerboa’s issue tracker, missing spoiler block rendering was reported in June of 2023 and solved a few days later. Is it possible that you’re using an outdated version, or that you have to enable nonstandard markdown in the settings? Scratch that, I just checked and confirmed that it is still an issue. If you can, you should open an issue on Jerboa’s github.

I’m using the standard Lemmy web UI (version 0.19.3 hosted by LW) on a desktop browser. I’ve just checked Alexandrite, Photon, Voyager, and the old.reddit-style UI, and they all work fine.

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…or even just consistency in their immorality.

Another one from Saxony.

A man drives his car to the junkyard, looking for replacement parts. He greets the owner and asks:
“Windshield wiper for a Trabant?”
The junkyard owner thinks for a moment, then replies:
“Sure, sounds like a fair exchange.”

corpoposting

I think it would be best to define those terms. I have a vague idea of what “corpoposting” means, but rules should be concrete and subject to as little interpretation as possible.

If you want to keep the neat list format, you could use :::spoiler tags to create rollouts that contain a detailed description. For example:

In the early 80s, American scientists and engineers produced the smallest precision drill bit ever created. With great pride and fanfare, they sent it to their West German colleagues for study and reproduction.

Just days later, the engineering team received a parcel. In it, a note: “Thank you for letting us test our equipment” and the original drill bit with a hole drilled through its center.

I can’t believe you forgot to mention the worst offender.

Packaging.

For some reason, Linux insists on the asinine practice of hypercentralisation where you’re only allowed to install programs from a single approved website. The rest of us are living in 2025 but Linuxists seem to be stuck in 1984. It is literally baked into the system (with a healthy dose of trademark infringement (I mean, Pacman? Seriously?)). Besides the obvious restrictions on user freedom, it would only take one bad actor to call into question the safety of the whole walled garden. Trust is the user’s prerogative. A truly open ecosystem would let the user decide whether to get their software from Microsoft, from a third-party Russian website, the seven seas, from a lost-and-found USB stick, whatever.

(also, I don’t want to be That Guy, but not having a large language model baked into the kernel for optimal performance in 2025 is fucking stupid)

Does it also include links to pbs.twimg.com (CDN where images are hosted) and similar connected-but-separate web services?

Yo, why does the website play boss music in the background?

I’ve never understood this obsession with massive, flashy, expensive birthday parties with hired entertainers and dozens of invitations. Is it an American thing? Do other cultures have this?

Some people seem to get off on calling others mentally challenged for freely made choices that they disagree with. This comic mocks them.

I’ve seen supposed democrats rally against their own interests because their candidate wasn’t the perfect example of virtue; because Harris didn’t deviate far enough from Biden’s policy on Gaza, or because her candidacy was pushed through instead of another potential candidate. I’ve seen them vote for that hopeless independent because they’d rather risk four more years of Trump than accept Harris’ imperfections. They are complicit, and now they get to burn in that dumpster fire. Only 1459 days left of that, then, who knows.

We didn’t just realize it now, we knew since before 2016. It’s Americans that seem to have forgotten.

Some guy made a subreddit called 195 (named after their dorm room number IIRC) where the only rule was that you had to post something before leaving. They later closed the subreddit because it had gotten too large to operate by one person. 196 was created by the community as a successor with the same one rule. Just post. Simple as.

some developers “hope” the next installment in the GTA franchise will be priced at $80–$100

Management are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Executives are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Shareholders are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Sounds like their application fell through the cracks (not surprising on a small-scale service) and they never did a thing to remedy the situation.

David Cage is a pretty good hack

I still don’t understand how you thought this unilateral decision, including squatting on the 196@LBZ name, would be received well in the community. I question the soundness of your judgment.

Hold a vote of no confidence. Let the community you tried to screw over decide if the moderators should stay or resign.