Oh I’m aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it’s full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.

But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn’t just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.

Honestly coding a replacement wouldn’t be difficult, there’s a few alternatives out there, it’s the thousands of plugins you’d need to replace.

One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.

People choose Corporate Memphis for a reason

I always assumed that reason was that it was cheap.

One of the reasons I’m pretty neutral on AI art is that it mostly replaced even more soulless stuff like corporate Memphis.

Or you opposed roko’s Basilisk.

You forgot: can be mass produced using unskilled labour

Didn’t Amazon experiment with preemptive dispatch years ago?

The limiting factor with zoom is often stability. There’s no way to hold a phone steady enough for a long zoom, and I don’t think any phone has proper optical image stabilisation.

There’s a culture of being expected to wear any medals your father or grandfather earned. When you think about the kind of basic medals even western militaries give out, such as good conduct, long service, etc, three generations of those adds up quickly.

The DPRK also just really loves medals. It’s not just limited to the military, they have medals for distinguished service as a factory worker or construction worker. They will even give long service medals to inanimate objects like industrial machinery.

For a long time mirrorless cameras had terrible battery life and no phase detect autofocus.

A DSLR doesn’t need to keep a screen powered all the time you’re looking through it. Improvements in the battery life of MILCs has made that non-issue for most people though.

Damn, I didn’t notice, it was the first half decent looking source I found to post.

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden

Exactly, feed them sugar and they’ll happily stay

Guess I’m a bee.

I had to look up what that is.

If it’s any help, according to wiki 90% of cheese is made with artificial enzymes, because it’s cheaper.

https://mentraglass.com/

https://brilliant.xyz/

There’s already Chinese knockoffs on aliexpress for around that. Most seem to run the proprietary HeyCyan firmware.

I’ve said it before, but if these things weren’t hooked up to a corporate cloud they would be great for sousveillance of the police and other authorities.

There’re some out there from other manufacturers that have open source firmware, unfortunately they aren’t cheap.

A completely unenforceable idea driven by moral panic. We’re already seeing plenty of cheap ones on temu, and other more covert types of cameras have been available for years. (Look up pen cameras on Amazon, you’ll look at anyone with a pen in their shirt pocket very differently for the rest of your life)

Not to mention there’s already open source 3d printed smart glasses. Which means this would no doubt lead to calls for ID checks to buy a 3d printer.

Human cloning becoming common. That would be around the time Dolly the sheep died IIRC.

I’m taking this far too seriously for a meme, but I already looked it up out of curiosity so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infest

Interestingly (at least to me) it looks like it’s related to "manifest’.