npz

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[–] npz@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Win or lose, I'm not worried about how it looks in hindsight. The way I see it is we're doing the best we can with the information we have at this time. It wasn't looking good for him.

The effects of this change will also be much bigger than this election alone. It's a jump-start in rebuilding the identity of the party into something that might actually interest voters.

[–] npz@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe in the distant pre-cloud past, when sysadmins were still a thing, you'd expect a bigger staff to be needed to manage a bigger datacenter.

But a few devs who know how to spin up a thing with auto-scaling can accomplish a lot

[–] npz@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I'm glad they're adding support, but I also feel like this is a hard one to sell to the general public. If it creates a better experience, word will get around about it, but going on stage and talking at length about how there's a new messaging protocol would have been a challenge for non-technical viewers

[–] npz@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I just read they decided to default it to off. They should remove it entirely imo, but with this move, it costs IT departments $0 and 0 hours of their time to worry about.

I think business + government + education usage is more important for them than personal, and as long as this costs them nothing, I doubt it makes a dent in anyone's plans. Could have been an apocalypse if defaulted to on though.

[–] npz@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think it shows some of the strengths of federated networks. If the owners of a small proprietary social network ghosted their project, it would take a huge effort to try to replace it, which would be insurmountable for many communities. But in this case, a community can fork onto a new server pretty quickly and seamlessly.

[–] npz@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They've raised over $80 million. Investor money is a poison, and the only antidote is enshittification.

[–] npz@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

200mg of caffeine makes me feel ill. 390mg in a lemonade is insane. wtf

[–] npz@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Different times. When I was growing up, a sex scene in a movie might be one of very few opportunities where you got to see a pair of boobs, unless you could get someone to buy you a porno magazine or VHS tape. These days, there are probably millions of options in this area, instantly accessible. And Hollywood-produced nude/sex scenes are all going to be fake and cringy in comparison.