COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political parties and organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive.

Linux has existed for 31 years.

Not Lemmy, but piefed.social was offline due to Cloudflare.

Drowning in the Digital Ocean.

I misread this as “I bought a BMX to escape the Fediverse”.

“The doctors did everything they could… and she’s gonna be okay!”

‘They used us to win votes’

Because he Khan-'t?

NTA, your graph your rules. Also, he dropped these: 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

• I’m part of the mod team at !movies@piefed.social (formerly !movies@lemm.ee), and PieFed is what users ended up voting on as to which instance we should move to. At first I was hesitant to go to another platform, but I’ve gotten totally used to it by now. I’d say the best part of PieFed is flairs, they’re so much better for sorting out posts!
• I use Postimages for image hosting.

I ended up switching to a number of instances. The account I’m on right now is lemmy.today, which claims to be financially stable with good uptime. But my main account is on piefed.social.

I can’t say I’ve missed the old lemm.ee communities, although I do regret that all the images I uploaded were deleted, I thought they’d somehow be spared by the other instances. I use external image hosts now.

This is how my younger brother already is. Whenever something goes wrong, his first instinct is to open the ChatGPT app and ask it what to do.

Car engine making weird noises? Ask ChatGPT. Botched dinner recipe? Ask ChatGPT how to fix it.

Evidently, he sees nothing wrong with this, and does not consider the fact that the answers regurgitated by the LLM may not even be relevant/correct/up-to-date. I imagine this is how most people today treat LLMs.

They try to beat me, but I always see right through their act.

They’re giving you a false sense of control so you don’t feel the need to block ads at all.

By Grabthar’s hammer…what an article.

Yes, without the “Episode IV” subtitle where Han shoots first.

Technically, you can already watch this version thanks to the 4K77 fan project, but this leak hints at an official release by Disney of the original Star Wars.

The entire conversation is just an endless string of Family Guy cutaways.

There’s planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.