Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@elizatech (Remember to also click the "change all" button, and confirm the ensuing dialog.)

@elizatech "Get Info -> Open With" doesn't let you configure this for all files of that type?

@ottocrat @popzeus Never give the apologists something to deflect to. Just in case you'd forgot that one.

@Popehat She deserves that much just for writing like a pretentious middle school yearbook staffer.

@hasmis 'kin 'ell, this is of a piece with Fox News' legal defense "but yeronner, nobody believes us anyway". Which was actually successful.

@hasmis @JohnShirley2023 Well as ever you can forget it when it comes to the chains. But the little ones, they're wonderful.

@JohnShirley2023 Indeed, but I can see some experienced lawyer in a DA's office somewhere holding his head and moaning as he tries to imagine a practical and proportionate investigation, enforcement and prosecution regime.

@JohnShirley2023

Yes. "Influencers" in particular exploit it aggressively. There's a lot of pushback against them now, but I'm not sure how to go about systematizing the response.

@JohnShirley2023

(Yes, i know you were making a very different point, but thought I'd mention it.)

@JohnShirley2023

It's fascinating to see the effects of the online review dynamic. One thing I noticed when traveling in Europe is how the behavior of small hotels has changed: they respond with incredible warmth and alacrity to small requests, in a way I never saw in the 90s or aughts. They know how powerful each little review on tripadvisor etc. is, and it's a good investment to them to take 5 minutes to be really nice when you bring up something that matters to you.

Basil Fawlty would be in a lot of trouble nowadays.

@matt @cstross

Liberty for me, not for thee.

@trinsec I know what you mean. I recently found out about an interesting-looking traditional network TV series ... from 2017. I managed to scrounge a copy and watched a few of them (without commercials). Not bad, if also not on balance a great use of time.

One way I feel increasingly disconnected with the rest of society is when people complain about a particular commercial.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a commercial, but it must be easily a decade. If a source a) has commercials and b) I can't block them, I don't watch that source, ever.

@peterb
And if the podcast is a two-hander, the first five minutes of the transcript will look like this:

"[Reference to running joke]"
"huh huh huh huh huh huh"
"[Reference to second running joke]"
"huh huh huh huh huh huh"
...
...
etc.

@marshalla99 @SeanJones
Wonder how many grammas back in the day asked the obvious question when you told them they had to plug in the wireless.

@johninfante @pebonilla Let's not forget being made to feel uncomfortable about what your ancestors did, or to entertain the thought that you might be a member of a class which is still advantaged by those things.

@pebonilla Surely purpose of all that tuition is to bask in your comfort zone for four years.

@ianbetteridge i wonder if they'd be more impressed if the app included in-app purchases -- even if the thing you're purchasing is an obvious joke. Like

$5: we put a little mastodon icon next to your handle when anyone else sees you on this app
$10: Feel really god about yourself because you gave us $10.
etc.

If anyone actually uses those things, Apple gets 30%