Like, context, last month when I was on Mastodon and the great argument about whether to federate with Meta happened, I was very much on the "fuck no not ever" team. In terms of opening the federated door to them, I can think of many ways that ends horribly for us but not so many where it actually hurts them. So it's not that I discount the danger they represent to anyone who interfaces any part of themselves with their products.
But a Federation that directly competes with the constructive parts of Facebook's social infrastructure (mainly, connections to family/friends and groups for local communities/events), and tries to be as easy to use, with no interfacing directly with facebook, I don't see the risk, other than, they will obviously send their hooligans, but I don't see what they can do if we just say no.
I'm still gonna be watching the Threads plot unfold, they forced a good opening but apparently it's petered off, and they no longer have infinite capital to throw around for Ubering.
The Federation. Everyone who has made the choice to move away from silos and into a community-based paradigm. Like I said, I am pretty sure most of us over a certain age were there at one time.
I was introduced to remote debugging a few weeks ago. I had heard of it and it sounded neat, but it's so much better than I could possibly have imagined.
I'm a fanboy, I couldn't pick one of the first three, they go together like one seamless game if you ask me. Again, just pretend the series ends there. :>
You've basically elucidated my working hypothesis as to why there is not a prominent FB competitor already - someone already mentioned Friendica, and I had heard of that, and I think gnusocial is another one. But this absolutely is precisely why this will be the hardest to replace. Every other platform just needs users, this one needs to connect to the people you actually care about, and indeed, our grandparents and such are not gonna be enthusiastic about something that's more difficult to use.
Ironically, I'm speaking to you via Starlink, so his space company is the one that I have some use for, at least until the new Fibre company gets here and hooks us up. :>
It was the solar road tiles/solar roof tiles for me. I only know the barest tiny bit about solar panel design, but I do know that they are waaaaaaay more efficient when large, and also that anything a car drives over thousands of times a day/hour is gonna get clouded up fast. The road ones especially, no, what we do is, we build large panels that span the entire sky of the road, and as a bonus, riders get sunny day scenery to either side and a nice cool car/bus/train.
I didn't consider him stupid for having the idea, but we both know he ran it by his actual engineers and they either got fired telling him no or just said yep you're brilliant boss, and either way, he stuck his whole ass out that day. I had not looked into him up until then but I then did an assessment - my observation was that he looks like a billionaire simpleton, the opinion of the public was that he was a genius, so I went and looked for any sign of genius, or even basic intelligence, to balance the simpleton evidence, found none, and have been going with my assessment ever since. He has not let me down, I wish there had been a bet I could have placed.
Hi, currently three years into a job title that indicates I program for a living (it sounds more like I'm a manager). I do Python professionally and work on learning C. It... it kinds gets worse, if you go this far, but you're more able to handle it.
It was in one of the Iron Man movies, 2 I think - Tony Stark is arriving at a restaurant and Musk is there as himself. They shake hands as congenial colleagues, Musk proposes an electric jet cause he's king electricity (much like Edison was...) and Stark puckers up with "If you thought of it, we'll make it work."
I gleefully ride the wave of your disdain. At the same time, I do think that we need to provide a path for people to come back, even if only a very faint one. :>
Make sure to get one of the modernized version of Myst, I think they're up to about 27 or so revisions/redos.
Don't be afraid to try clues, but in all honesty the puzzles in Myst are pretty solvable by Adventure game standards.
Riven (II) and Exile (III) are both likewise excellent, with Brad Dourif as a bonus in the third. After that, different people took over and things got awful.
This is ultimately symbolic of how much electric transport is actually going to bring to the Solutions side of the board. The whole thing is a collective self-reassurance that no, we will never have to give up our personal cars. Cause unlike 10,000 years of ice age-surviving ancestors, we would perish under any such arrangement.
I literally quit watching Marvel movies at that scene when Tony Stark kisses his ass. I didn't realize that that was a breaking point in the moment, but I have never managed to get up even the slightest bit of interest in a Marvel movie since then.
They were his human bidet for years, and just zero loyalty from this guy.
Cooper has a nodding acquaintance with old time showbiz - you can see elements of Vaudeville as well as some of the more radical musical theatre in his stuff, and he's had excellent work ethics the whole time. I always found it amazing that the metal magazines used to write about him golfing with Bob Hope and totally approving. Alice can do no wrong.
These techsters are showing their whole ass these days.
The only claim they've got to being in any way necessary to our society is the illusion that people need to be on their platforms/devices. Their gambit here indicates that they have been eating way too much of their own dogfood. Humans got along just fine without so much as a pocket watch for millenia, we can handle losing Apple.
edit: I know nothing about the law this is responding to and I don't really care to bother understanding it; this is Brexit UK and there is nobody at the wheel, everyone is aware of this, so I'm sure the bill is just as toxic and ultimately self-destructive as their reaction to it.
Meta and Google are ceding the territory of serving news here in Canada based on a similar protest, and I am SO here for it.
What would the risks be?
Like, context, last month when I was on Mastodon and the great argument about whether to federate with Meta happened, I was very much on the "fuck no not ever" team. In terms of opening the federated door to them, I can think of many ways that ends horribly for us but not so many where it actually hurts them. So it's not that I discount the danger they represent to anyone who interfaces any part of themselves with their products.
But a Federation that directly competes with the constructive parts of Facebook's social infrastructure (mainly, connections to family/friends and groups for local communities/events), and tries to be as easy to use, with no interfacing directly with facebook, I don't see the risk, other than, they will obviously send their hooligans, but I don't see what they can do if we just say no.
I'm still gonna be watching the Threads plot unfold, they forced a good opening but apparently it's petered off, and they no longer have infinite capital to throw around for Ubering.