Refactoring for the EU region.

Reusing Terraform projects for the win.

Adding to the Nazi comment - substack is basically a long form blog format, very similar (AFAICT) to Medium.

How are we supposed to opt out? By deleting our accounts?

I agree, but it’s a hard pill to swallow that Meta is the best partner to grow the fediverse. There are real lessons to learn from Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (look at XMPP and Google), not to mention privacy concerns and content moderation issues that seem to be a “feature” for Meta products vs bugs.

I’m not sure what Zuck is up to, but for whatever it’s worth I think the best think the fediverse can do is be somewhat reactive to Meta’s movements.

If instances start getting overwhelmed with content, then block.

If Meta starts showing signs of EEE, then instances can block.

And us users can move to instances that we feel match our personal stances on things - hate Facebook like the plague? Look at one of the defederated/blocking instances. Do you miss interacting with a larger audience? Stay on instances that are embracing (or withholding judgment) the Meta federation.

It’s a complex topic to be sure, and the only way we’ll know the right way to deal with it is with the benefit of hindsight in a few years

Not the OP, but Eternal September references the massive culture impact on Usenet when ISPs started lowering the barrier to joining the then somewhat exclusive forum-esque part of the internet.

As I get older and the abuse I put my ears through starts showing up, I completely agree. After upgrading my music library to FLAC from VBR mp3s, I stopped having the, “Oh! There’s a subtle instrument going on in this part of the song!” moments.

It doesn’t stop me from trying to listen to the highest quality music formats that I can get my hands on, but I 100% know if I think there’s a difference to my mid-40s ears, it’s probably a placebo.

Seriously, make an effort. These took me 30 seconds and only a slight reprompt tweak.

“The new study adds significantly to the rising concern about an AMOC collapse in the not-too-distant future,” said one scientist. “We will ignore this at our peril.”

Narrator: And everyone who could actually affect change, or meaningfully prepare the population for the collapse ignored it.

The closest i have is Local H, Bound for the Floor. The staccato distortion throughout makes (to my ears) a sound very similar to a 1992 Ford Tempo’s “Your seatbelt isn’t latched” chime.

I would be driving like a madman to highschool after oversleeping and it would make me keep double checking my belt.

Documentary by the For-profit side of Noclip!

They’ve been hush-hush about this for months on their Patreon, it’s delightful to see what all the secrecy was about.

I just got into act 3 of Balder’s gate and took a break because I don’t want the game to end. Instead, I have fallen back on my old favorite on the steam deck, Dave the Diver.

Maybe. It’s also weird because ROG has their led control app, Aura which will auto adjust your RGB based on apps/profiles. She either had a profile set up to do the flashy-lid or it was triggered by an application.

Regardless, you would think a lawyer who requested such a device would know how to disable that profile and/or how to disable the light show without literally shutting the lid and covering it.

Well, it’s a ROG laptop, and they can go for north of $1000 USD fairly easily.

What I’m curious about is why does her law firm do byod? You’d want client files locked down with whole disk encryption - and probably domain joined. It’s much more likely that you get a Thinkpad or Dell something.

I always forget Patrick Stewart was in that film.

Well, I’m slight embarrassed. I think that was part of my confusion about Matrix - it seemed to me that it was both a protocol and a platform. That colored my memory of XMPP too. IIRC, Jabber was the client and protocol before the protocol was renamed to XMPP.

As for what I’m interested in - I’m not sure. I don’t really use discord save for a few Patreon follows; my friends use a group Signal chat. I think maybe I’m interested in recapturing the old IRC feeling of finding a chat room and just “hanging out”? I suppose I could always dig out my Irssi client config and just join Freenode again.

(Ye gods, wtf happened here to Freenode/Librachat?)

XMPP - now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I thought the woke Google chat federation and subsequent drop pretty much killed it off - but I’m glad to be wrong.

Are there XMPP based group chat/Matrix/Discord alternatives?

Does there tend to be logical groups for Matrix channels/servers? (Meaning you don’t really just join Matrix, you go to a Matrix instance for Jerjoba support, or other common interest like Hockey?)

Okay, help an old-timer out.

Lemmy :: Reddit

Mastodon :: Twitter (I refuse to call it “X”)

Matrix :: ???

Is it like discord? The olden days of AIM/ICQ/IRC?

There’s gotta be some essential episode watch list (like Let’s Watch Star Trek).

Gdi, so does this mean I finally need to sit down with my wife and watch both series before the live action Ashoka?

Or is there a shorter watch list?