meldroc

joined 1 year ago
[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, probably the Secret Service will enter a memorandum of understanding with the New York Department of Corrections, and negotiate who and what goes where. Probably means Trump will get a wing of Rikers to himself.

Don't worry, I have full confidence in the Secret Service's ability to keep Trump perfectly safe while he's making license plates!

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Indeed. We don't know the conditions of the test. Maybe it was running the engines through a simulated flight. Or they were testing the engine in different failure modes to see if it shuts itself down or takes care of the problem correctly. Or they were doing a deliberate test to failure where a RUD is the expected result.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Of course, because a forced arranged marriage to a narcissistic fuckwit would have made her life so much better... /s

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

About all this is doing is making me update my lists in UBO more often.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He's the reason I dumped Spotify - he was spouting horse-paste nonsense during the pandemic, and they're still writing him checks.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's Apartheid Boy for you.

Xitter is a Nazi bar because its owner is a Nazi.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (7 children)

And he'll call it something original like The Cyberphone.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I haven't seen any yet either, but I've been religiously updating my ublock Origin lists and keeping Revanced up to date.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.

In the late years, I've seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ah, let me guess, now Google's gonna get everyone and their sister to move all their content to apps...

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

She'll peel voters away from Trump, so I'm all for her running as a spoiler, obnoxious as she is. Assuming she peels votes from Trump, she said she won't do it if it helps Trump.

 

This is good for us, and for businesses, influencers and celebrities.

They need to be encouraged to operate their own instances, and not just an account in Threads or elsewhere in Meta.

  1. You get to have a "home base" for your presence on Threads and the Fediverse that's independent of Big Tech. Ah, the advantages of owning your online house instead of renting! That's why we have a Fediverse.
  2. You get to make the rules, not Meta. You're not getting your content taken down by a faceless corp because some AI software mistakenly concluded you violated TOS. You're not gonna get NSFW'd out of business so some CEO can make bucks with an IPO. And you can kick off the jerkwads that are harassing you when Meta won't.
  3. You get to structure communities/discussions on your instance the way you want.

AND, getting enough celebrities, influencers and businesses to operate their own instances will take power away from Meta. If there's a critical mass of in-demand people and content outside of Meta in the Fediverse, and Threads users get access to that content, Meta won't be able to wall up the garden without a riot from their users. Enough celebrities on Threads, but not on their servers, and Meta will be forced to keep things open and make EEE much harder for them.

Now all we need is for a few in-demand people to make that leap...

Thoughts?

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