skulblaka

Recently, eh?

You consider the 1800’s recent? Because there were news articles reporting on the issue back then.

Here’s an article from 1896 for you to read over, provided you care about learning how you’re wrong.

Yeah but I’m not out here paying $50 to put some pixels on someone else’s post. Cry more

Yeah but will you run my program that escalates to admin in order to function?

They want exactly the one on the website except with every measurement multiplied by 0.893, corner angles that would make Escher blush, and also they want it to stand 4 feet tall with no legs.

Get to work.

There are a multitude of reasons to recommend against using Brave.

Personally I refuse to install it because the CEO and creator, Brendan Eich, unapologetically donates to right wing and anti-gay establishments. Many people refuse to use it because it games the users and advertisers with a proprietary cryptocurrency that isn’t actually useful for anything except making money for Brave. Others refuse to use it because in 2020 Brave was caught adding their own affiliate codes and tracking data to websites in the url bar, even ones that were typed in by hand. That was eventually rolled back but it didn’t help me trust them any.

Vivaldi is a better browser option, in my opinion.

Maybe I’m just missing something here but I can’t think of what part of discord’s UI could be considered convoluted. It’s a list of servers with a list of channels in them. You also have a list of DMs. End of story. Everything you need is right there in front of you.

It’s miles better than any IRC client I ever used, which is the most direct comparison between Discord and “the good old days” of the internet. And I liked IRC a lot.

I understand having issues with Discord’s corporate backing or having issues with how it’s difficult to find files or specific posts. Because it isn’t a forum, it was never really intended for that. But I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say the UI is complex, convoluted and impractical, because it’s actually none of those things. Discord has done its best to keep up with people misusing their platform as a forum, as they should, because that’s what the userbase wants (even if they’re using the product “wrong”). But the core functionality of what it’s supposed to do is wide open right in front of you and is highly intuitive.

Do correct me if I’m wrong though, I’m curious to hear what people have to say about this. There’s always a possibility that I’m some savant who is the only person in the world to intuitively grok Discord. But I very much doubt that.

Firefox + uBlock Origin served me about 4 hours of video last night without an ad in sight.

Oh fuck yeah, funny turtle man dropped a new video? Brb, going to watch this and then question my entire existence for the 64th time

Burn corpo shit

Please do not ever apply to moderate anything. You will destroy the community. To be quite honest, with the attitude on display in this thread, you would be one of the first people to earn themselves a ban from somewhere I was in charge of.

Personally I’ve extremely rarely ever had the sorts of experiences you claim to have either on reddit or on the Fediverse. Especially not having groups of people hunt me down for my opinions. If everywhere you go smells like shit, you should check your own shoes - I find it difficult to believe that you haven’t been bringing this upon yourself with your behavior.

From a user front-end standpoint, just collate all posts with identical links and then make a tabbed system for comments. Lemmy.ml comments are on this tab, kbin.social comments are on this tab, etc etc. Seems like by far the easiest way to present it without (accidentally or otherwise) force-federating all of the source material. This could even pretty easily (“easily”, yeah I’ll get right on that) be done within the app if not done in the lemmy/kbin source code directly.

Forgot to mention the part where that democratic society is upheld by the fact that you can (and will, if you’re an asshole) be stabbed dead by nearly anyone you interact with. Your own crew, your “customers”, the law, rival pirates, all of them have a will and a way of removing you if you don’t play fair. This is great for ensuring a fair society, only at the constant imminent risk of death.

Although to be fair I suppose cowboys and samurai were also pretty frequently in deadly dangerous conditions.

I remember back in the day when I had apple devices where they would push updates for devices long past their capability to actually run the updated software. Rather than refuse the update or get a pruned patch with security fixes only, it would force updates and bloat your phone and grind it into unresponsive unusability after a few years.

I hear that’s not so much the case anymore, so that’s nice. But I remember. The main reason I upgraded my phone was because of that, the hardware was great, but I could hardly use the software anymore even after clean installs.

My point being, I guess, extended support is great if managed properly but it can also become a bludgeon with which to drive you toward the new generations of devices.

They almost certainly won’t follow it up. It was an excellent running gag for re-entry but I expect from here forward we will have more “regular” Futurama.

Honestly though, I thought it was great and would have been a little disappointed if they didn’t at least lampshade their 10 year absence. Making it such a central joke was unexpected but welcome and it didn’t wear out its welcome.

I think OP is missing the point that TV, most especially animated comedy, has always been “meta” and makes references to the trends and cultural shifts of their day. Just look at Simpsons or South Park or Family Guy and see how often they reference events that were current at the time of the episode. Futurama has always had its own plotlines but hasn’t been above poking fun at current events of the past.

That’s a bit more of a stretch, but barely. It’s in the same spirit, yes.

Please do note that I’m not necessarily agreeing with the ruling here, only trying to draw a more accurate analogy. The problem with equating those two though - the tor node ruling vs gun manufacturers being liable for deaths - fundamentally comes down to a few facts, that guns are sold with the intention of killing people, that guns are sold by corporations with lots of money and power, and that governments don’t want tor in the hands of citizens. Tor node keepers are easy to prosecute in many countries, as individuals hosting software that is frequently used for illegal action. Gun manufacturers are not.

But someone somewhere has to be an exit node. Not you, necessarily, in order to browse, but somebody has to be running them. Right?

It’s like being jailed for having your car stolen and being used to hit a pedestrian.

Exactly this, except that nobody stole your car. You are providing free and no-questions-asked open access to your car for any member of the public who needs to use it. Many other people also used the car that day for legitimate business or for fun, but then one guy got in it and ran over 32 people in a furious rampage.

Clearly the driver is at fault here, but a case can be made (and apparently, was) that this would not have been possible had you not provided access to the car to the perp in question.

Tinfoil hat theory: OG Lemmyheads are attacking the big centralized communities and taking them down in order to force all the new users to spread amongst the smaller instances like we’re supposed to, preventing inevitable corporate control of the ActivityPub platform

I doubt that’s anywhere close to the truth but I choose to believe it, crusty old hackers pulling the plug on their children for our own good

Bring back capes. I want a big fur cloak in the winter.

Thing is, they don’t have to do that. They can just wall the garden instead, and then anyone that wants to use Reddit will be forced to either use their garbage or just stay off reddit.

It doesn’t seem to be working out so well for them, but that was in fact one of several potential solutions to this problem. Why do any work, when you can just bully the alternatives into submission?