Semperverus

Bluesky follows a model they’re more familiar and therefore more comfortable with, even if its the same model that got them where they are in the first place. Bluesky’s federation protocol doesnt matter so much as the fact that Bluesky is a singular silo that all Bluesky users can see all content and other users in does. Bluesky self-hosted sites will be a ‘nice addition’ that most users won’t have to care or think about.

I love lemmy and fediverse stuff, but even I am stressed out at the idea of having to make sure I have some kind of replication across different instances, having to keep track of who federates (or doesn’t) with who, and always wondering if my home instance is “the right one.”

Must be your region, all of the McDonalds here in my state and the two I travel to next to me seem to be able to get it right, actually talk to me, the screens almost always work (almost), and the orders are almost always right (almost). I’ve never had raw fries, those are usually the best part of the meal. I don’t usually eat it unless I am roadtripping, but that’s been happening a lot recently.

None of this is to invalidate your experience, mind you. What region are you in, so we know where not to get McDonalds at?

You got it backwards though. The root cause is not the change in work ethic. The change in work ethic is the symptom. People have to get nitpicky about breaks and such and show no loyalty entirely because companies stopped being loyal to their employees. This can be demarcated with the death of the pension.

Please stop using UserBenchmark, they are dishonest to the point where they started throwing Intel CPU models scores out of whack negatively just to skew AMD results.

Rat Race

Why does Lemmy not prevent duplicate links, at least within a time window?

Just your average NieR boss fight.

“The south shall rise (ahem) again!”

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Zero-party state let’s gooo

Who touched the boats?

How’d they taste?

Oh yea definitely, I know this pain very well

File headers, magic bits, all sorts of stuff. Plus you can (and they do) try to load common file types, so if a PNG isn’t loading correctly, it fails the test.

“Oh sorry, looks like we couldn’t decrypt that traffic, those packets went to the burn pile”

“Hey there customer, if you want internet access on our network (the only one available in your area), you have to install our intermediary certificate on your machine!”

What happens when their customers aren’t their users but instead are government or other corporate entities - or themselves?

Windows recall stores the data locally, but what telemetrically is it sending back? Or if its sending nothing today, what will they change it to send tomorrow? Fodder for AI training data? Sensitive secret or proprietary information?

The worst part about all of this is even if they are being absolutely and completely honest, there is no verifiable way for us to prove this because all of their code is closed source and I imagine to some capacity obfuscated.

So the natural assumption here is that, similar to free-as-in-beer products, we are the product and Windows is the platform by which we are being served.

Monkey’s paw curls

We bought KDE a small house!

Look into libaxolotl (AKA “OMEMO”), it is the same system Signal uses and is highly standardized.