Do you really think that you will get better answers on non-topical questions from these chatbots than from generic LLMs that are free to use anyway?

because when I wrote the above comment, around 80% or 90% of my lemmy homepage was just your posts, which felt kinda spammy

bro are you just mass-crossposting things from reddit or what? Those camel case titles aren’t really common here, you know.

Yes, but we shouldn’t have to mention Epstein in order to make our point. That just makes our side look dumber. Epstein died in 2019 and none of this has anything to do with him at all.

We should be opposing it because we want a free society based on individual rights in which people are allowed to speak, communicate, associate with anyone they want about anything they want.

Yup. I remember in the 2000s and early 2010s it was very widely agreed that websites that allow user generated content are a good thing and politics should advance their existence, not try to pass laws making it harder.

Nothing about the facts has changed since then. Politicians’ attitudes meanwhile…

It’s a problem for any kind of social media, not just federated.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally/

I still remember that the first time in my life I gave any thought to RAM is when my childhood PC was upgraded from 1GB to 3GB.

I don’t do radically different things on the computer nowadays than I did back then, yet that would nowadays be unusable.

Steam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it’s relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I’ve also played on a console (those hours wouldn’t be counted there), so I suspect that that’s the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.

It’s possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.

OK, if it is intended mainly as a description of investors and other “business” enthusiasts, then I agree with fighting against what they want.

If I don’t know what that means I’m fighting against, I won’t be fighting against “techbros”, not even using that term. I might still fight against specific things they are doing…

I wonder if I’ll ever read a coherent definition of the term “techbro”. Aren’t most KDE (and other FOSS) developers also men interested in technology? If that isn’t the definition of “techbro”, then what is?

It’s like free advertising for Nintendo.

eh, a lot of people have been Pokémon fans since childhood before they gave very much thought to such things as “advertising” or “copyright” or “corporations”, and we find things like this entertaining. I think I may even have watched some of that channel’s videos at some point, though am not sure whether I may be confusing it with another one.

That is good news…

So, uh, I assume the Dutch government will heavily push back against any ideas to ban social media for young people in the EU? After all, a public forgejo instance is also “social media”, and surely they will find it too costly to implement an age check there? Riiiight?

I’ve expressed the same opinion a few times before. I’ve also read (even shared) this article that argues the opposite: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/yes-section-230-should-apply-equally-to-algorithmic-recommendations/

It’s something that needs careful thought and consideration, which isn’t something I trust current politicians to do. :(

arguing that the California lawsuit was a step in the wrong direction for Internet rights

Do you mean the one where it was found that there was liability for being “addictive”? (And wasn’t that in New Mexico, not California, or were there two of them, I don’t remember?) If so, then I definitely disagree with you on that, that was a bad decision. I shouldn’t be allowed to collect damages from my fediverse instance admin because I like to hang out here too much, which is basically what was decided there.

Right now I can access it. They seem to have a status page https://fhf-lemmyworld.instatus.com/ that says that earlier today there were some problems for approximately an hour? I don’t have more information than that.

If we’re going to wildly speculate, hey, isn’t this what we have AI for nowadays?

I asked ChatGPT: “give me ideas what the abbreviation WLBR might stand for if that is the name of a piece of image editing software”. Here’s the result:

🧠 Professional / technical-sounding

• Wide Layer Blending & Rendering
• Workflow Layer-Based Retoucher
• Weighted Light Balance Renderer
• Wavelet-Based Light & Blur Reconstruction
• White-Level Balance & Retouch

🎨 Creative / artistic branding

• We Love Better Retouching
• Wild Light & Bold Retouch
• Wavelength Brush
• Wonder Lens: Blur & Refine
• Whitelight Brush

⚡ Modern / software-product style

• WizLayer Build & Render
• WarpLab: Blend & Refine
• Web-Level Bitmap Renderer
• Workflow Lens & Brush Renderer
• WLB Renderer (treat WLBR as a stylized acronym)

🧩 Slightly abstract (like many real apps)

• Wavelength-Based Rasterizer
• Layered Bitmask Refinement
• Light Balance Reconstruction Engine
• Wideband Luminosity Brush & Retouch

🧠 If you want it to feel like real software naming

Most image tools (like Photoshop, GIMP, etc.) don’t strictly spell out acronyms anymore—they use:

• suggestive tech words (Layer, Light, Render, Brush)
• or abstract brand terms

So something like:

WLBR = “WaveLight Brush & Render”

feels believable without being overly literal.

(end of ChatGPT response)

Out of these, I think “Workflow Layer-Based Retoucher” works best. But interesting that ChatGPT thinks “GIMP” doesn’t “strictly spell out” an acronym anymore, or that “Photoshop” ever did?!

ok, “Kurzsichtigkeit” in German definitely has both meanings without this causing confusion in practice

Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?

I remember once meeting someone (a woman) on IRC who was over 40 or even 50, I don’t remember the exact age. I remember just being surprised that someone that age would be on the same part of the Internet I was hanging out on. But I don’t think that person was there for any bad purposes.

Mid 2000s. Web forums based on UBB, WBB, vBulletin, phpBB, etc.

Went on to discover wikis at age 11, IRC at age 12, most of my social contacts in my teen years were with people I met online because they were generally a lot nicer than people I met IRL.

I would see nothing wrong with people born after me doing the same, although admittedly those years would have been a lot better if my school hadn’t been full of people I had nothing in common with and I hadn’t needed to use the Internet to socialize.