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[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 13 points 3 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 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] 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 12 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

These days, the only people still using this debunked wolf talk are douchebros, chuds, & incels.

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

Leopards ate tankies' faces!

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It's advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that's how they put together the beer aisle. I've seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Who am I to stop him from his Darwin Award? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Make them sort of like cartoon voices.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by meldroc@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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