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Except purple, or so I've been told. It's apparently actually what happens when your brain errors out and can't parse what it's seeing, so it's less a color and more "404 Color Not Found".

Purple is my favor not!color. Also my favorite color, purple haters can get stuffed :V

I am planning to jump the ship as soon as Blue Sky will go into a public beta. After all, there are basic dignity.

From a couple days ago, but from what I've been seeing I'd probably suggest really strongly to not. Bluesky's run by the same kind of nut techbro libertarian as musk (Dorsey, who's on their board and heavily involved in decision making and design literally helped found twitter, and has gone pretty full freeze peach crazy over the years), and is currently having some pretty incredibly concerning things going on regarding how it handles stuff like child pornography.

There's no dignity in that particular platform, to all appearances. Unless there's some serious changes there's no indication the current owners are interested in making, it's going to release in the state of "8chan-tier cesspool"

For what staggeringly little it's worth, the change doesn't just target businesses, but artificial entities in general. It includes nonprofits (including, probably tellingly, churches) as well as more traditional businesses, and wouldn't grant anyone local extra votes; it's there to allow non-resident, non-property owners the ability to vote in the relevant elections.

... there is, admittedly, a certain je ne sais quoi in GOP politicians pushing an election change to literally let people bring in non-residents and foreigners to influence an election, though.

That said, shit's mostly kayfabe -- seaford is a town with all of 8k population, 5k capable of voting, that sees elections with less than 1k votes fairly often. It's not exactly some kind of major population center, and it's not precedent either; there's other (also tiny, from what I could tell) municipalities in delware with similar provisions. It's dumb and shouldn't be allowed to pass and the city in question are idiots for trying to begin with, but as stakes go, they're small.

Quote from: Frumple on June 27, 2023, 08:11:04 pm

... one of these days I am going to look up laws on vehicle painting, though. I'd love to turn my ride into a purple zen tangle, but I'm not 100% sure it'd be legal, just due to how distracting that sort of patterning can be.

I'd like to introduce you to the concept of vinyl wrapping your car.

That's... neat. Entirely too regular for what I'd want, but it does suggest there's not a major problem with the general idea.

E: Replacement hard drive arrived and installed, seems to even be working (substantially better than the old one even disregarding the whole "getting prompts to repair it due to corruption twice a day" thing). Now to... do stuff to it.

E2: Now if only I could get the computer to stop setting my entire friggin d drive to read only I could actually use it aaaaahhh

Let me rephrase, this isn't affecting me, and I suspect it does/would not affect most people.

That'd be really unusual, because it's been hitting a ton of people really hard since it started. The specific implementation is so shit folks are hitting the rate limit sometimes in minutes, just in the process of normal usage. If you're actually able to browse for any particular length of time, you're either going extremely slowly or somehow managing to stick to tweets that have almost no replies to them.

For bonus points, folks have figured out that "read" means "load in any way, shape, or form", and includes things like replies to a post that loads. People are hitting the rate limit from nothing, sometimes on loading literally one post (due to it having a lot of replies). It's wildly broken.

It's worth noting, google was due to cancel cloud services because of non-payment, well. Yesterday/today. There's reporting some sort of deal was made to continue functionality on that front, but this whole mess looks a lot like their hosting services (quite possibly involving more companies than just google) decided they were tired of musk's shit and stopped providing, with twitter's reaction being to drastically cut traffic in a very short period to keep their in-house stuff from buckling entirely.

... though do note, the uptick in scraping is largely self-inflicted due to twitter playing fuck-fuck games with API access and such. The issue* was manageable before the management in question decided to intentionally screw the pooch.

* To the extent it actually was one, mind; it's a big claim to say one of the biggest social media websites in the world was being meaningfully impacted in regards to server capability by what scraping efforts existed, and one of the only sources making that claim is, well. Twitter. Currently lead by a prolific liar, one known for doing things like not paying their bills and firing a great deal of what staff might have been able to navigate the problem, heh. It's more likely server capability's been kneecapped by poor admin decisions than anything related to scraping.

Quote from: Il Palazzo on June 29, 2023, 09:52:38 pm

Brutalism for the win. Gorrillion folded reinforced concrete slabs arranged in domicile-adjacent shapes make mother nature cry and Fuhrer proud.
That said, I like looking at these, with a 'fuck that's ugly' general vibe going through my head. I wouldn't want to live in one.

I actually like brutalism in the root of the style: exposed materials likee concrete, steel and brick. The shapes that we think of are also alright with me, honestly. I'd be fine to live in a half-finished building apparently.

I mean, it's finished when the insides aren't exposed to the elements anymore and the desired utilities function. Everything past that point is just extras :V

Last opinions for this SCOTUS term. Two 6-3 along party lines, one unanimous.

303 Creative LLC v. Aubrey Elenis: The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.

(6-3. Correct, IMO)

One of the "fun" things with this one is that apparently a great deal of the case was based on shit that was just outright fabricated. Details on that one seem to be pretty fucked up, which makes it entirely unsurprising it was a 6-3 party line ruling.

That wasn't what the colorado law did, anyway; it was a specific prohibition against certain forms of discrimination, not just "messages with which the designer disagrees". The state had basically said you don't get to be a bigoted shit if you want to do business there, SCOTUS has said 'nah fam, be a shit, we got your back'.

Other 6-3's pretty crap too, for that matter. Really, you can just kind of assume anything 6-3 along party lines from this SCOTUS bench is a royally fucked up decision on some level. I can't think of any cases since the majority went that direction they weren't.