JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @kbin.social

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Not kbin.social, but they have from a few of the smaller ones.

That's an AI generated image created in MidJourney by BoingBoing.

Following the trail of references (which is actually nice to see even exists) you end up here at Search Engine Roundtable.

Plastruct has a few different variations but at least the Bond-2 Bondene Cement is a mixture of Dichloromethane and Methyl acetate (MSDS report), and Dichloromethane is one of the best solvents for PLA. It is also absolutely horrible stuff and you really need to be quite careful when handling it.

"Save the rainforests, use plastic instead!" really didn't age well.

You would have gotten your answer by asking google that exact same question - yes.
But the way federation works is terrible for search engine optimization as it fragments the userbase to a million smaller sites - instead of whatever hundreds of thousands of overall lemmy users there is, Google will only see the few top ones as being anything relevant. For the kind of search where you add "Lemmy" at the end like you can with reddit, it is (currently) probably better to use "site:lemmy.world" as it is by far the largest one.

It's an investigation because they don't know every single thing yet, like if the boy even was alive or not when he got thrown overboard as there are eye witness reports saying he was slumped and unmoving in his wheelchair hours earlier.
What started the murder & suicide investigation that does not have any other suspects was surveillance video evidence that disproved the initial assumption that the mother jumped after him to save him. Not a lot of possibilities for who get the "murdered" and who the "murderer & suicide" labels there.

The boy was wheelchair bound and the whole thing is being investigated as a murder & suicide, so yes.

Now do "RIF is fun for reddit" and you'll get the joke.

And because what failed was the carbon fibre composite pressure vessel, it probably didn't even give any warnings to make them worried. It would be like squeezing a glass bottle, everything will be perfectly fine until it just instantly shatters.

why sell the company instead of enshittifying your platform yourself?

Because it's a lot easier to find someone who thinks they can do it than it is to actually successfully do it yourself - as we are currently seeing with how wonderfully incompetent Spez is with Reddit.
When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013 - only to sell it for $3 million in 2019 - was Tumblr bringing in millions and millions of profit? No. But Yahoo thought that they would be able to make it.
Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, it hasn't turned any profit either (and never will enough for him to get his moneys worth, but that's just because Musk is an idiot).

But yeah, quite often it does feel like a scam. Or kinda like... gambling? You hope someone will pay a lot for your company, while they hope they can make it turn wildly profitable, both may or may not come true.

A houses value is not theoretical though. You own land and a roof to live under

But that doesn't mean you can turn a profit from it, or even break even. If you want to do that you have to sell it to someone, and there are multiple reasons why you might not be able to - maybe you spent too much money renovating it and now nobody wants to pay that much. Maybe a bunch of new housing was built and the value crashed. Maybe Detroit happened and the location and land it sits in is literally worthless and nobody wants to live there. - until you actually find a buyer for it all houses have only a theoretical value, as do all companies.

If you buy a house with a loan and pay it back, you haven't turned a profit either - but you do now own a house that has a theoretical value. That's basically how these things work, investing everything on growing the company in the hopes that some day what they have built can start creating profit, or be sold to someone who thinks they can.

Hidden would be a more accurate word, as the way ActivityPub works means that data has to be sent to every instance so gaining access to it isn't very hard. It can never be truly anonymous or private.
The way it works in Kbin makes more sense if you think less of Reddit and more of Twitter instead - Boosts (original Kbin upvotes) are retweets and repost it to your followers, Favourites/Upvotes are likes.

Other than the harmful "prank" type thing where you start with one title, gather comments and then edit it to make those comments mean something completely different, there is still the problem of creating an external link, getting the post to the top of hot/active/whatever and editing the URL to point somewhere malicious.
The counterpoint which usually is "you can already do that with short url services", to which the answer is "That's why they were all banned on Reddit".

Especially as there is absolutely no indication on Kbin that the title has been edited anywhere, and on Lemmy it's only that tiny pencil next to the post age.

There is an userscript for it.

For more neat tweaks, see kbinStyles

Sadly probably not. The GDPR fine can be "up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater" which would be around 26 million based on their 2022 revenue. The company has gathered over $1.3 billion in funding and was "valued" at around $10 billion quite recently.

And that's only around what a year of API calls would have cost for Apollo so clearly by discontinuing the API they are going to save that amount back in no time!

Yup. I'm waiting for Reddit to come back with my GDPR data request (which has a time limit of 30 days, after which they can tell their excuses to extend it by another 30 days I believe), and assuming they have not reversed the API decision I'm ordering them to delete it all afterwards. And they even now have a handy list, the one they just gave me, of everything they have to purge - if they didn't, it wouldn't be on that list in the first place :)

They are meant to be warnings, to be escalated and repeated until you get the desired effect without causing too much trouble right from the start.

AFAIK they used a wireless controller so they wouldn't need to make holes in the pressure vessel, and the receiver was mounted on the outside with the rest of the control electronics.