Relatively recently, Google Hangouts shutdown (and was replaced with Google Chat)
Doesn't seem like a big thing, but Chat sucks compared to Hangouts, and at any time Google can just go "Nevermind, we're not doing a chat thing anymore"
It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, I realized that as long as I'm relying on the kindness of some global megacorp to keep maintaining my services, I can lose my services at any moment the companies decide it isn't profitable anymore.
Besides everything else, that was a huge impedus to start building my own services based on free and open source software, and the fact that so many are also federated is the best icing anyone could ask for.
Doesn't seem like a big thing, but Chat sucks compared to Hangouts, and at any time Google can just go "Nevermind, we're not doing a chat thing anymore"
It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, I realized that as long as I'm relying on the kindness of some global megacorp to keep maintaining my services, I can lose my services at any moment the companies decide it isn't profitable anymore.
Besides everything else, that was a huge impedus to start building my own services based on free and open source software, and the fact that so many are also federated is the best icing anyone could ask for.
meehow! I am america-jin and love fediverse and CCP is not so bad! They bring prosperity to the people unlike the wall street gang!
After fake tweets, companies lost billions of dollars.
Which to me shows that too much of the world's systems are uncritically taking Twitter as a gospel. This isn't a critism of Twitter, it's a criticism of it's users.
Which to me shows that too much of the world's systems are uncritically taking Twitter as a gospel. This isn't a critism of Twitter, it's a criticism of it's users.
Further to my last post, Iran has a solution, kings!
Nobody better criticize the Iranians for this, this is just a part of their culture, and anyone who opposes this is clearly islamophobic.
Yeah, but if you like 4 of them and there ends up being like 12 books in each series it gets complicated fast!
Yeah -- no shit?
All these platforms deciding they're publishers are signing their death warrants.
All these platforms deciding they're publishers are signing their death warrants.
Peertube and Lemmy aren't mastodon either.
Sorry, not every game console is a damn Nintendo!
Sorry, not every game console is a damn Nintendo!
I presently have an Isekai problem: too many damn Isekai series. So every time I'm like "ok, is this the series about the wimp who became strong through hard work and industriousness, or the one about the wimp who became strong through hard work and industriousness?"
This rememberance day, look and realize that we forgot.
I've written before about the story of my grandfather. He lied about his age to join the army, and fought fascists in Italy in world war 2. His body was damaged permanently by war wounds, and he watched his friends die sometimes without warning.
He came back and watched the freedoms he fought for slowly trickle away. It's a good thing he's dead, because a good God would never let him see what we did for the past 2 years.
We forgot their sacrifice and what they fought for. The only way to honor our brave and esteemed ancestors is to fight back against the establishment to get back the freedom they fought to protect.
I've written before about the story of my grandfather. He lied about his age to join the army, and fought fascists in Italy in world war 2. His body was damaged permanently by war wounds, and he watched his friends die sometimes without warning.
He came back and watched the freedoms he fought for slowly trickle away. It's a good thing he's dead, because a good God would never let him see what we did for the past 2 years.
We forgot their sacrifice and what they fought for. The only way to honor our brave and esteemed ancestors is to fight back against the establishment to get back the freedom they fought to protect.
Blafkpill take: what if a simple drug could make *everyone* so selfless that only a minority of unmedicated individuals could take advantage of that selflessness and take even more than they do now?
lol imagine unironically going along with the whole "all russians are bad because Putin is bad, so ban all russian things" thing.
"How do you fail at a sharepoint implementation?"
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"How do you succeed at a sharepoint implementation?"
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"How do you succeed at a sharepoint implementation?"
Great! It'll be just as effective as the covid lockdowns were!
At harming people for no reason!
At harming people for no reason!
The story of the 1000 year old loli isn't actually fiction. that's the Japanese people in general. After you've been married for over 9000 years it's time to go find fresh blood, someone who's only 60 or 70 years old.
This is the world the journalists wanted.
Shame it affects actual human beings in the process.
Shame it affects actual human beings in the process.
Never accept a drink from a politician period. Their entire existence is to find ways to screw you and make you think they're doing you a favor while doing it.
I dunno about you guys, but I work for money, not for fart sniffing intellectual superiority.
That's what I post on the Internet for!
That's what I post on the Internet for!