Threads by Meta is on the fediverse. So by describing the fediverse as good, it sounds like Threads is just like Mastodon.

The topic is too complicated to quickly explain to a novice. Because now you have to explain FOSS, and why that’s sometimes good, but not always since bad actors have used FOSS .

So that’s impossible with the fediverse? No way a company like Meta could have a fediverse platform?

Okay. Now, explain the concept of enshitification. And do it using terms that regular folk won’t find crass.

You know how conservatives live in this bubble where they don’t even see their racism because it’s so normalized? We’re interacting within a bubble where everyone has a very high level of technical competence versus the average person, so we fail to understand just how tech illiterate others are.

Failing to preserve evidence is sacntionable, even if it isn’t willful destruction. The penalties generally aren’t as stiff, but if the judges accepted “Oopsie, we accidentally destroyed evidence we were required to preserve” as a defense, there would be an incentive to destroy evidence and claim it was an accident.

The fact that most companies still turn over evidence that’s damning to their own cases is the proof that it’s generally a bad idea to accidentally destroy evidence.

Look at it another way: If you’re speeding and get pulled over, would a judge let you off if you tell him you were only doing 70 in a 35 because you weren’t paying attention to the road?

Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?

Incompetence has a price.

Elon Musk

Some of them are still listed on the official D-link store on Amazon.

Supposedly, the full map is measured in petabytes.

This is actually a perfectly reasonable use of streaming assets for full-resolution, since almost no players will ever experience even 1 percent of the map.

What you’re saying is perfectly reasonable, but also doesn’t apply here because they’re still selling this router new on the D-link Amazon store.

If you’re going to stop supporting a product, you should also stop selling it.

Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.

“They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels.”

“The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren’t allowed to love.”

How the fuck did they let motherfucking Zoom take over. The video-call equivalent of “Googling” something was to “Skype.” When Covid hit, Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly.

My sister is super high ranking at Microsoft, and when she calls the family, she uses Zoom.

My biggest complaint is that you can’t save chat logs.

I work in government, and we do a LOT of stuff on Teams, and I’m just waiting for us to get sued because we can’t turn over Teams chat logs in Open Records requests.

Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.

It took about a year for it to get near-full compatibility with old games since it was emulated on the 360.

360 was absolutely backwards compatible with the OG Xbox.

While they’ve shut down online services for some of the older consoles, the backwards compatibility of the Xbox has always been excellent. I was playing Crimson Skies for the OG Xbox on my Series S a few weeks ago.

They’re not. The ship has 1 bad thruster, but need like a dozen to fail to make re-entry impossible. They could leave right now and everything would be just fine.

The thing is the module that’s malfunctioning doesn’t survive re-entry, so the only time to investigate the problem is before they head back.

The only person older than Trump to ever run in the general election is Biden.