Okay, you have issues. Or are a troll. Or are a troll with issues.

I consider Twitter a dead platform because it is a nazi hellhole and I strongly recommend everyone just stop using it.

At this point though I do genuinely believe Facebook is worse because they’ve had a direct hand in at least one ethnic cleansing during my lifetime. Elon may quack like a duck but Zuckerberg swims, flies and waddles like a duck. I strongly recommend everyone just stops using Facebook and Instagram as well.

BUT ANYWAY, let me ask this: What’s stopping Elon Musk from buying Bluesky, badging it as X2 and doing the whole thing over again? Bluesky is currently a private for-profit company operating mainly on venture capital, just like Twitter was when it was a startup. It’s never going to support itself on its own revenue, that venture capital will eventually run out, there will be an IPO, it will suddenly be open to the whims of shareholders who will demand dark patterns and engagement at all costs and everything that has made the rest of the internet suck and they won’t care if their algorithms boost genocidal messages that erupt in widespread violence as long as their dividends come in.

It’s just a nope from me, and everything you will ever say will further convince me.

Thing is everybody’s gramma has a cabinet full of china because it’s mass produced. Just like diamond engagement rings or high school proms people in the mid-20th century made up a tradition of gifting sets of china to young women because of all the fancy dinners every single middle class woman would be hosting throughout her life.

What happened is a bunch of fancy looking plates sat in cupboards in dining rooms for decades while actual meals were eaten off other also mass-produced but slightly cheaper plates that were stored in the kitchen cabinets.

In 40 years time there’s going to be a bunch of 30 year old Gen-Betas going “What the fuck am I supposed to do with all my grandmother’s Rae Dunn crap? All this tacky white porcelain, just huck it in the ocean and let it erode.”

How many ethnic cleansings has Facebook been instrumental in? I can think of at least one in Myanmar.

Large commercial platforms being absolutely evil is NOT unique to Twitter. Again I challenge you to name me a large social media platform that didn’t either rot into a wasteland of scam bots or start committing atrocities.

Very bad people own almost everything and their solution to any rising star is to buy and ruin it.

Hell, I don’t want to adopt a platform that’s doomed to get as bad as Youtube let alone Facebook or Twitter. You’ve got to show me some low level structure that says “Here is why it can’t fall the way the last ones did.”

I don’t give a shit about the Bluesky stock you bought. Bluesky is doomed, don’t adopt it.

“Less nazi than Twitter for the next few months” isn’t good enough for me to adopt it. I’m not going to board a doomed ship.

Let me be perfectly clear here: Fuck Elon Musk right in the aorta. I am NOT endorsing Twitter here. What I’m mostly doing is endorsing abandoning both microblogging and commercial for-profit social media as concepts.

Bluesky is gonna get worse. They’re in attract mode right now just like any tech startup; they’re burning venture capital money operating at a loss in too good to be true mode to gather users and when they hit a certain adoption rate or simultaneous active user base all the shit Twitter and Threads do is gonna get turned on.

“It’s got moderation.” It’s got thought police in potentia. Either they’re going to start using their moderation systems as a political cudgel or they’re going to start letting scammers and shit through because they profit from the traffic whatever that traffic is. You won’t be able to say the word “poop” but commercials for anorexia pills will make it through to teenagers. Can you name a commercial platform that didn’t eventually do one or both of those? The only one I can think of that didn’t just die young was MySpace, which continued to exist into its irrelevancy.

I foresee a cycle of instability that goes something like “New platform just dropped, it’s like Facebook but it isn’t Facebook. It’s like Facebook used to be before algorithms fucked it up.” Early adopters join it, there’s a period where you still have to have Facebook because three of your friends whose ability to understand things doesn’t work won’t make the switch, eventually people leave those friends, everyone is standardized on the new thing, new thing does exactly what Facebook did, it fucks the world up again, “New platform just dropped, it’s like Screechbox but isn’t Screechbox, it’s like Screechbox before algorithms fucked it up.”

I’m kicking that in the head right now.

Yet.

It’s a commercial platform, it’s going to enshittify because that’s what commercial platforms do.

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Are those in real or Australian dollars?

You will hear voices out there who will tell you it’s wrong or improper or lowly to use metal fasteners rather than traditional joinery in furniture projects. Those voices are dumb and bad and wrong. Pocket screw joinery–done correctly–is strong enough for projects like this, inexpensive and easy to make, and accessible without a lot of tools. If it holds the project you want together what’s the problem?

I don’t have a problem with phones having simple optics. What I think I’d like to reject is the notion that the one device is your cell phone, media player, web browser, camera, flashlight, fleshlight flishlight, floshlight and flushlight, all in one quarter inch thick slab of mostly touch screen.

Let me go back to having a 4 inch smart phone that can do some of that stuff, like I didn’t mind my Galaxy S4 Mini’s camera, it worked fine. If I’m going to be serious about photography I want a device that is mostly a camera with a good sensor and decent optics. If I’m gonna have a flashlight I want it to fit in my hand and have a properly bright LED with decent optics, if I’m gonna have a fleshlight I want a proper aperture with interesting texturing on the inside and decent optics. My S10e is the worst floshlight I’ve ever had. I might as well use my foot.

Lots of ways to cut a rabbet, they make router bits for it, you can do it with a table saw (Americans often use a dado blade but it can be done with a standard blade in two cuts) or you can accomplish it with nothing but a chisel.

The problem I see with BlueSky is, what’s the difference between Bluesky and Twitter?

Did any learning take place? “Okay, clean sheet design, let’s do it again but better this time” what did they do to keep Bluesky from going the exact same direction Twitter did?

Back when even the crap cameras for normies had decent optics on them. Smart phones…try.

Your English is certainly better than my French.

Google translates “sapine” to “fir” so I take it you either mean fir or cedar wood or softwood in general? “bar” you probably mean “board.”

Concerned about finding fir/cedar/softwood boards that are straight enough? I feel that. Softwoods don’t like to stay straight even when properly dried and milled. Perhaps a hardwood like birch or poplar (depending on availability in your part of the world) might be easier to work with.

In case you’re more used to British jargon, what us Americans call a “rabbet” the Brits call a “rebate.” A groove cut at the edge of the board.

The problem is there’s a lot of Jim Carey in his Riddler, and I’m trying to think how else he would play the Joker that wouldn’t just be his Riddler persona with different catch phrases.

It is one of my all-time favorite games. I have unfortunately played it to death; I’ve run out of stupid challenge runs. The game has a story and uniquely for survival games it has an ending, there’s a Win The Game button. But the game is as much about the story you’re going to create; the way you choose to go about things, the order you decide to explore in, the happenstances of your adventure are maybe more important than what the wiki says the story is. Savor that.

I will offer this hint. I don’t think it’s a spoiler; I think there is a strong possibility this hint will prevent you from alt-tabbing out to look up the wiki and accidentally encounter a spoiler. But I will tag it as a spoiler anyway.

That’s an exercise in frame-and-panel construction, possibly without the panels. Are you looking for the cloth to pass light/be translucent? If not the easy way to do that is to wrap the fabric over some thin plywood to make panels and set those panels into rabbets the way you’d build glass cabinet doors.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

It’s amazing to me how often they kicked in the sides of their computers.

Y’all too, huh?