Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic EEE strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). For example, take XMPP. It was a wonderful federated chat protocol. Google joined it with its Google Talk application. All was well. Until it wasn’t. You see, Google added some “new features” that could be used only with the Google talk app and account. So people flocked to it. All is still well. But then google decides to close the gates - Google Talk is its own thing now and you can’t talk to people on other servers or with other apps. Take what hapoened wit XMPP. Google embraces XMPP with Giogle Talk. Google add some shiny “new features” that are exclusive to Google Talk (extend). Google cuts off XMPP access to other domains other than the Google Talk domain, thus finishing the extinguish phase.

  Just replace Google with Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg, Google Talk with Threads and XMPP with ActivityPub/Mastodon/Lemmy and you can see how it could happen. The XMPP Wikipedia page has it covered very well, and there’s a dedicated Embrace, extend, extinguish page on Wikipedia if you want to read more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.1 History⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was just obsessed with cutting things in half

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget adjusting for inflation and real money being given back not some shitty gift card

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if it knows everything, it knows nothing. You cannot discern a lie from the truth. It’ll spit something out and it may seem true, but is it really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just make it a permanent cookie to reject so if the cookies get deleted (as they usually do) you’re back to being tracked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The overriding legitimate interest you speak of is so vaguely defined as to make a simple ‘yeah fuck you, that’s why’ pass the filter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine Nestle executives finding a time machine and going to all of history’s most famous persons’ mothers and telling them how they can’t breastfeed their kids.

  Someone should definitely write a book about that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uranus is so big!!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, “our years” sounds way better than “your anus”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you maybe thought about the fact that 99% of nice and thich winter jackets come in a full 3 colours: yellow-khaki, dark blue and black.

  Bonus points if you are speeding over a pedestrian crossing or if there’s nos sidrwalk so you have the choice of not going anywhere or using the only other option, i.e. the road

  Combine that woth the fact that headlights are exponentially more blinding to pedestrians, that cars zooming by produce very calming and enjoyable noises, especially if it’s a beefed up BMW louder than a jet engine.

  Oh and also if you’re in a car and hit a pothole you’ll just get a little shake. But if you’re a pedestrian and it’s raining, there’s a non-zero chance you’ll ebd up soaking wet and catch a cold

  TLDR: How the FUCK can someone be jaywalking if they have the right of way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate? Don’t want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2827: Brassica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention 99% of sites being ad-ridden bullshit while serious responses on forums tend to be short, sweet and more educational than searching