The replies to this thread show a deep uniformed ignorance that’s frankly appalling and depressing.

You are simply factually incorrect. You need to read morecthsn just fanboy sources.

Based upon what, your feelings?

The beta emission is trivial and harmless. Alpha particles travel 7cm in air, glass absolutely stops it. A sheet of paper would.

Its perfectly safe to wear.

The paint on the watch hands contains radium and decay products but in tiny amounts. If the crystal broke wipe cup the dust with damp paper towel. Itsjust not that big a deal.

Itvwss most dangerous to the people whomade them, exposed daily during a career. Andcl the placecthst had gallons of thecshit laying around.

One old watch is harmless

Some numbers on Twitter traffic gleaned from reading posts my Twitter folk on fedi somewhere.

It’s merely curious anyway. I assume shitter is gonna die eventually, I try mainly to ignore it.

“actively inhibits our ability to form community” oh gimme a break. You need to back this is up with fact.

It’s nonsense assertion. They don’t give a shit about anyone not on Reddit.

Define mass… The giant Twitter exodus we can now know was maybe 10%, some to mastodon/fedi, the rest who knows. I’d assume the same for Reddit, pending any factual data.

And I suspect that many of those they left Reddit, reddit is better off without – super touchy argumentative people kinda made a noisy bro-ish pass through, may be starting to calm down now… I hope.

The thing is, to me, to not worry about what “other people” are doing and stfu and build community. Post what you want to read etc. We don’t need over 9000 million people we just need the right people who show and contribute and all that.

And so here we are!

In the old FidoNet, Ben Baker once uttered:

• Thou shalt not annoy;

• Thou shalt not be easily annoyed.

2nd rule as important as the first, maybe more so.

When I come across new people, my “judgement” if I need to make one is basically, are they kind. I’ve got some older friends who come across as “conservative” in some ways but they are kind and helpful.

Got facts and sources to back these assertions up? Yeah what they do sucks – but facts are required.

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Seriously it’s like no one knows how to use the internet (erm, to learn about teh innernets).

When in doubt, Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain?wprov=sfla1

This was all done decades ago…

No, 8 billion. Not 15. Lrn2search!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population?wprov=sfla1

Wow not my experience at all. Fkn amazing access to nearly anything I want and I’ve been a programmer electronics tech, car hacker whatever and the resources available to me is AWESOME! And I’ve posted 5000 pages onycown website.

Hmm … I think the point of this post, and comm, is being (righteously) annoyed. When leavened with humor, of the self-deprecating kind, it’s good.

But public indulgence of righteous indignation is kinda gross. Once in a while maybe…

I wonder how many complaining here actually read even this bland and uninformative article.

At issue I believe (because it is not stated, but discussed elsewhere in better venues) is that UK wants to be able to see inside encrypted comms and files, under the guise of CSAM detection. Apple is right to oppose it.

Arguments based on hypocrisy real or perceived in other venues (china) has nothing to do with this decision its just piss-taking. Give it a rest.

I wish everyone EVERYONE would stop saying “ai”. It is not in any way intelligence. These are large language models.

This is a bit long, but John Sayles says it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4z1UrPvZY

Wow that’s pretty good. Well structured code to work like this.

Figures. No surprise really. When you’ve maxed everything out the only path to growth is to squeeze existing customers.