Now that I’ve started playing around with my own lemmy instance I guess it’s fitting for possibly my last beehaw post to reflect my first.

I see discord’s business model is still burning cash trying to be the next slack steam zoom reddit patreon

Changed it to the oc source. Here is an archive as well

Yes we do have a monarch, but he isn’t involved in government except for pageantry.

This is not true. The Monarchy directly intervenes in government without transparency or accountability.

I hope this is the case. As much as I tempted to shrug off the possibility of losing my largely disused google accounts I can never be certain I will never need to recover some old account with gmail or google authenticator that I hadn’t deemed worth the effort to port into keepass.

Zuckerberg frequently talks about the “pivot to mobile” which is the successful big bet that he is clearly determined to recreate the conditions of. The article calls VR his idea of the next frontier but I think what he really is looking for is the next gold rush. Zuckerberg didn’t give marching orders but the only reason anyone was willing to walk out into the desert was because someone with a high profile was saying there’s gold out there.

Meta was intended to be a platform on which the objectionable stuff would be built or as the saying goes in a gold rush sell pickaxes. But in a wasteland the more apt metaphor is the one selling weapons while considering themself above the fray.

It is true that social media reflects our own society. However social media is much more than a mirror, it is both an engine that actively shapes society molding it into a more profitable one and itself a product of that society which already was increasingly atomized and profit driven.

It’s not enough to just ignore or silo the indecent, we have to build our own engine that encourages people to engage positively. Commercial social media is fundamentally incapable of this as it conflicts with their profit driven motive. We can’t blame people for getting on the train to the wasteland, we need to build the train to utopia and convince people to get on it.

Scan QR for price is the same as “call for quote”… if you feel the need to conceal your prices then they are obviously not good, I won’t waste my time confirming the obvious and simply go elsewhere.

Spy agencies have a long history of funding projects through proxies, both government and private, so it’s probably nearly impossible to prove the negative here. The positive remains unproven until there is a leak or declassification.

If you are using DuckDuckGo then you are using Bing.

I don’t know that they do perceive any advantages, some may only have heard of bluesky while others are indeed moving to mastodon. When a community is forced to leave, they fracture. As an example there already exists blacktwitter.io a mastodon instance with 1200 users compared to the 50,000 of bluesky (unknown how many of those are blacktwitter diaspora).

People leaving for bluesky however is brought to our attention because bluesky has the money for PR who probably pitched this story to NBC.

I got pay walled but I’d agree with the title alone on the basis that McKinsey and other consulting firms are often brought on as a sort of scapegoat to to come to the conclusions that the hiring firm has already made but knows will be contentious. I can easily imagine a future where layoffs and sunsettings are justified on the basis that the perfectly rational and unquestionable AI suggested it, just as it is already being used to justify blatantly racist sentencings.

I thought for a moment that the pixelated thumbnail image was a screenshot of the opening scene of Thimbleweed park.

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.

It’s not a very useful ratio in general. There are four times as many Chinese citizens than American to start off with. It’s pretty normal for criminals to outnumber the police. But most importantly is the factor that Chinese hackers do not exclusively target US assets and US cyber assets are not exclusively targeted by Chinese Hackers.

There is probably just no easy way to enumerate the number of combined public and private cyber staff necessary for a country to protect itself form all global cyber threats. This statement is just using a scary number and the name of a geopolitical rival to get funding. The funding is probably in all honesty needed but it’s a shame that the only way they can get it in this climate is through politically charged fear mongering.