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Hey, if you can do it on a 4004.....

(Yes yes, you'd have to write an x86 emulator and it'd be slow as heck but I mean, you could.)

If you've never seen it, https://github.com/PeerConnect/peer-connect is a clever solution to p2p CDN stuff.

It's not Bittorrent for images, but it's still a shockingly elegant thing.

It's probably a dead project, but I ran across it and went 'why is this not how everything works'.

A vast majority of instance software will store all old remote non-media data (that could easily be re-fetched when needed) permanently, even if nobody has seen it in years.

Seriously, this is the most befuddling design decision. There's no reason to cache that data more than like, maybe a week.

Maybe it's because I'm a sysadmin background type and not a programmer, but the endless obsession that fedi-software has with caching everything at every stop along the route from the poster to the person reading the post is just the most weird thing to me.

Oh no. Where can I buy single-use trash and toxic waste now?

We all knew it was possible

I wouldn't bet on that, which is why I mentioned moderated groups at all. As you said, they're rare and even if you used usenet 20 or 25 or 30 years ago, the odds that you'd have ever seen one was shockingly low.

So even ex-usenet users might not have a clue that there was a method for doing that (let alone any of the people who aren't that old), which is why I brought it up.

Meh. The quality of this article is not... amazing.

They cite a 'new study' but do not say who did it, provide a link to it, or otherwise provide a way to validate their scores mean anything.

And then they immediately call a messaging app that's not fully E2E encrypted as 'private'.

I'm pretty sure F to doubt applies here.

The problem is basically this: if you're a knowledge worker, then yes, your ass is at risk.

If your job is to summarize policy documents and write corpo-speak documents and then sit in meetings for hours to talk about what you've been doing, and you're using the AI to do it, then your employer doesn't really need you. They could just use the AI to do that and save the money they're paying you.

Right now they probably won't be replacing anyone other than the bottom of the ladder support types, but 5 years? 10? 15?

If your job is typing on a keyboard and then talking to someone else about all the typing you've done, you're directly at risk, eventually.

Amazon

For as awful as Amazon is, I'll give them this one.

Cancelling prime is shockingly easy compared to what most places drag you through: account settings, prime, cancel, yes I'm sure, done.

Requiring that from everyone would be a huge step forward. Also let's make sure it forces gyms to do it, too.

You forgot both 'Don't send too much email' and 'Fail to send enough email' as qualifiers, as well.

Which I think is the big thing that hits more people than anything else, since 'too much traffic' and 'not enough traffic' are not defined and so you can easily be caught by one, then the other, then end up in purgatory.

(This is mostly a Microsoft problem rather than a Google problem, but still.)

Off the top of my head: Windsquid, Rockwhale, Waterclam.

convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple

There's a difference between 'technically simple' and 'understandable UX'.

Your mom doesn't need to know how ActivityPub works or the intricacies of federation. She just needs to know to log in and go to c/cutecats.

The early-adopter curse here is causing way too much technobabble to be involved in descriptions that just confuse people, and it's technical aspects that the nerd cohort here is fascinated by, but uh, nobody else is.

The real leap will be to resist the urge to pull out the PPT and spend 3 hours and 10,000 words explaining how Lemmy works vs the much more concise how-to-use-Lemmy details that people actually want.

There's a lot of assumptions being made by a lot of people that "normal" people are stupid and couldn't understand 'It's a conversation platform like Reddit, but it's run by it's users and that's why there's a lot of servers who all talk to each other' and so there's a lot of hand wringing about how you have to explain all the details and such, which really, isn't all that true.

Every non-technical person I've explained it to like that immediately understands what it is, how you'd use it, and what it's used for and I'll occasionally get a 'Oh, neat, how does all that work?' question I can then expand on, but that's like, maybe 1 out of 20.

TLDR: too many details is not helpful for most people, and nerds loooooove going into more detail than anyone could possibly care about

unmoderated

Fun fact: that's not strictly true.

You could have moderated groups, where a moderator/group of moderators would get sent every post via email, and they'd only be posted into the group if approved.

The vast, vast, vast majority of groups were not moderated, but that's not to say you couldn't do so.

Fennec being a delayed build has been a thing for years at this point: it's a pain in the ass to get built and in f-droid. I mean, just google 'fennec f-droid out of date' and you'll see people talking about this going back to 2020.

I didn't exactly find a stunning shocking unknown thing: Fennec is slow on builds, it got outdated, there was a zero-day in older Firefox versions, and so bam: there's a security issue in Fennec.

Might be worth adding the Firefox security RSS feed for anyone using Firefox or a derivative browser so that you've got the best information about issues like this.

the hybrid route of “Yea you can play as long as you want, but as soon as you give us money you will be required to give us money forever to play” route is counter productive

100%.

There's a couple of games I would probably be playing and spending money on that follow that monetization method and the problem is that... I don't play one game endlessly.

If you cancel and go away, you've made returning to the game a pretty substantial hurdle, and for me at least, I'm just... not going to.

(Also FFXIV's utterly incomprehensible login system that requires six logins on five thousand different pages under nine names doesn't help since every time I try to come back I can't remember how to even log in to anything.)

Also, uh, hasn't Google been dependent on user generated content since 1998?

Like how is that remotely news that a search engine indexes other people's data to, you know, provide search results?

You could have seeded nonsense into Google any time in the past nearly 3 decades because that's how all of this works, so how is this shocking other than some Job Creator somewhere made $3 less than they would have otherwise and now it's a catastrophe that must have new laws made?

keep people from playing their game

No, no. That's not it at all.

They want you to play, but they also want to make sure you lose.

I'm not deGoogled, so I just did the play store version, so I'm not sure where else you might grab it.

Oh look, a list of shitty companies everyone should avoid.

How nice of them to make it for us.

I just installed standard Firefox until they've sorted out their build issues.

I have both my TOTP and my Passwords in the same program

What're you using for this?

I'm using Bitwarden in a similar configuration but given they're being funky about their definition of 'open source', I'm maybe looking for an alternate.