Sorry to have to tell you this, but the tattoo artist made a terrible mistake - that’s a Romulan warbird.

I guess so, although I feel like “gringo” has kind of transcended being offensive?

It seems to be a term directed at white people, so no, probably not… I don’t speak Hindi, I just remember seeing the etymology of Ferengi a while back.

FERINGHEE - India, usually disparaging : a Eurasian especially of Portuguese-Indian descent

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Feringhee

Pretty odd name for a restaurant – it’s a derogatory term to describe foreigners, like a Greek restaurant named “Barbaros”.

Yes, I totally won’t be watching it either, because Paramount+ is definitely the only possible place to find it.

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The article is unclear but that’s my reading of it too. It’s obviously infeasible to sue everybody who does this (especially if you’re a public figure, it would be hundreds of lawsuits) so I think the endgame is that if the content doesn’t have a signature, we assume it’s fake.

Excellent move and a good step towards using signing keys to authenticate genuine content, something I think will become inevitable across the board.

That was such a good episode - I think the first episode during my first rewatch since it first aired when I realized this show had more of an edge than I remembered.

You really like metaphors.

I don’t get it either, beyond the Shakespeare connection (which has nothing to do with dead fish). Dos this relate to current events somehow?

Sounds pretty rapey to me.

Chad Romania vs Virgin Chad

If they do achieve decentralization in the future I’ll gladly call it decentralized, but “tangible plans” don’t warrant use of a descriptor like that. If someone is training in the hope of making their country’s Olympics team they don’t get to call themselves an Olympian. You have to have gone to the Olympics to justify that title. Working towards decentralization is the same thing. You don’t get to call yourself decentralized just because you wrote it down as a goal on your roadmap.

I don’t think that it’s accurate to say that bluesky is “completely” centralized (it is less centralized than most social media) as much as it’s de-facto centralized.

That’s like me calling myself a millionaire because I could theoretically be one at some point in the future. I am de facto not a millionaire, but I also have more than zero dollars. so I’m not completely a non-millionaire.

Also theres already another instance and relays running on a raspberry pi.

Oh yeah? I can join that second server right now and communicate with folks on the main server?

I stopped reading when the “journalist” asked this question:

How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform?

How little research must one do to credulously repeat that PR talking point for a platform that is in fact completely centralized?

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Obviously left, because you can still see the list of options when you have one selected.

No cjarsons in Friuli? Come on