Have you tried it though? I find that it’s not lootbox-like in any way, although to some extent I suppose it depends on who you follow.

I do not accept “infinite scroll” as shorthand for all that bullshit. I don’t like infinite scroll much myself, for other reasons, but this is the Fediverse. There are plenty of people around here looking at pages containing nothing but things in chronological order posted by people they chose to follow, and choosing to load more by scrolling down.

How the scrollbar works says nothing about what’s on the page. You could make similar claims about web pages in general — you never really know if you’ll get what you were looking for. If anything, having to click “next” to try again would make it more like a loot box. But still not much like a loot box, usually.

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m31KxsBb78U

If we suppose that belief in Hell does some good for some people, what about belief in the Easter Bunny for an alternative? We could train everyone to know that the Easter Bunny exists in Heaven, takes a deep personal interest in every one of our lives, is always watching, and wants us to be good? Those who displease the Bunny will have bad luck until they repent. It might just work, if we’ve ruled out humanistic approaches to morality for some unstated reason.

If KDE starts expressing feelings of love for its users, what else could it do? Might it get envious of Vim if its user spends too much time just editing text? Will it get into a fight with the web browser over memory resources? If it feels like its love is unrequited will it pin forlorn pieces of melancholic poetry to the task bar? If it’s a multi-user system will it like some of its users better than others? Will the window manager get dissatisfied with its repetitive job and decide that it wants to try a new career as a compiler? The possibilities are endless in the glorious AI future.

In my feed people who post stuff every hour get blocked or unfollowed, unless it’s really good stuff.

For the past ten years I’ve been routinely telling people not to let their TVs have access to any networks because they can not be trusted. This morning I find myself insufficiently optimistic to believe that any great number of them are going to start taking that advice now just because there’s suddenly a boatload of new evidence backing it up.

I assume that scheme is part of a long-term effort from Google to reinforce the idea that nobody but them should be allowed to have root on their phones, and is therefore working as intended.

You’d think that “no AI” would be an easy feature to implement, and it’s much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that protein comes from salamanders.

I mean… by now probably millions of people have done it. I’m one of them, started in 1997. It was easier then in that for example nobody used “Teams” (it’s still the case that nobody should) and it was harder in that Wine was not as good.

relevant xkcd

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Workers without a boss are like a fish without a bicycle.

The talking bomb in Dark Star was more realistic than the people of 1974 could’ve imagined.

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Oligarchs divide by multiplying

No, it would be less hated. Maybe only detested instead of loathed.