Here you go. There are a number of ‘corrido de luigi’ songs out there.

I like mine. I have tinnitus and its important to me to be able to dial down loud music and movies, without the sound getting muffled and unintelligible. Mine are custom molded with removable 20db etymotics filters; they came with solid filters too that you can switch when you just want to block sound and don’t care about fidelity.

Before these I had some etymotics 30$ musician’s earplugs and they never worked very well. With them in I couldn’t make out the words a singer was singing, and always felt like I was missing out on the music.

My GF has a pair of 20$ musicians plugs she likes just fine (“downbeats”), and she doesn’t feel like they ruin the sound. So maybe custom molded isn’t as important as a good filter?

For sleeping, shooting, or settings where hearing isn’t important, the foam ones are fine.

I went back to work once (programming) after a couple of beers at the bar. Turns out not a job I can do while drinking.

less Teslas == less future revenue from chargers, subscriptions, and service.

Have you shamed a tesla driver today? : P

We live in a time where live action adaptations of classic sci-fi literature are now possible - both technically and financially. But now TBH I find most of it super boring. Been trying to plow through that Foundation series and got to say it just doesn’t hold my attention. Same with the William Gibson adaptation the Peripheral. I liked the books but just can’t hang with the vids.

There is stuff I like but its rare. Arrival, Raised by Wolves, the Dune movies, a few others.

So I guess ‘Nicole’ is a bot or something? Feeling FOMO

that looks just like me lol

Make a drain hole at the bottom of a lake, that comes out above it. Put in a water wheel, free energy.

I’ll add to this that when I first registered at mastodon.social, my default view was some fancied up multi-column monstrosity. I managed to turn most of that off, but it was super confusing at first. Start simple and let users add complexity.

Also agree about the empty feed. At least default to the explore tab. Way better would be a tool to help build your feed based on interests. There are various tools for that, but a user shouldn’t have to leave the app and google around to discover them.

A tool to read your phone contacts and search for corresponding mastodon accounts would be intrusive (some would even say unprincipled), but many users would welcome it.

I order stuff from ebay. Got a phone on the way from china right now. Ebay work-alike might not be a bad place to start.

Another issue might be, how do you deal with people selling illegal items/services? How do you avoid “Silk Road” style liability? Would there be a blacklist that someone running an instance could use so they don’t have to vet everyone they are federated with?

I wonder if you can ‘outsource’ trust by relying on payment systems? If a seller uses stripe and scams some users, stripe would freeze their account right?

I really like the idea of a grassroots Amazon competitor. That said,

You need to have a high level of trust. A federated network of shady scams that just take your money and send you nothing half the time is not going to fly. Is there a vetting process, who controls that process, how’s all that work. If its ‘good seller’ reviews, how are those stats protected from manipulation.

You need to have extreme ease of use. UI barriers that seem trivial to developers can sink a platform.

If there are problems solvable by centralization, maybe that could be done as a cooperative organization which devs and vendors can join and run democratically.

Not enough to actually do anything about it of course. Bless those furrowed brows of concern!

Some assholes gave congresscritters a bunch of money to get their businesses a cozy monopoly and special treatment. They were seeing AI as a profit center they could corner the market on thanks to govt-industry collusion. Looks like ginormous data centers and export controlled GPU cards may not be as essential to AI research as thought, and now the emergency is their stock is tanking.

Ok that’s pretty close! The reddit thing was about streaming your camera, and having a chat window where you could read comments from viewers.

The other key element was having a place where viewers could see what was currently streaming. That allows people to casually go see “what’s on” without needing to coordinate with livestreamers to set up a time to watch, keep track of streamer channels, etc.

I really liked the livestream feature that was on reddit a few years ago. Would be cool to have a fediverse version of that, where people could casually stream from their phones with just a peertube app.

Its talking about spiderman’s secret identity

Probably had a big fight with Jefferson Davis