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- Comment on nooki is a small, comfy corner of the internet built on AT Protocol. Share posts, stories, and ideas while keeping full control of your data 8 hours ago:
You can use your own PDS, but to my understanding, you’re still using the Bluesky maintained PLC which manages the DID identifiers. That still makes it very much centralized and while you technically can self-host, it’s still somewhat tied to the BS company.
- Comment on nooki is a small, comfy corner of the internet built on AT Protocol. Share posts, stories, and ideas while keeping full control of your data 10 hours ago:
Was kind of excited to see something using the AT protocol other than Bluesky but then saw the big… “Login with Bluesky” and rolled my eyes so fucking hard while hitting the back button.
Until AT is truly decentralized I can’t justify joining up.
- Comment on Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows? 15 hours ago:
Maybe I’ll go and pick their brains I have had numerous failures but maybe I need to be using something other than VMware or something.
- Comment on Skate Story launch date trailer OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹 15 hours ago:
Super hot.
- Comment on Can Mac apps be emulated and run on Windows? 15 hours ago:
I have tried and failed this too many times to count because I have an AMD processor.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 day ago:
Assassin’s Creed: Django Unchained
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 1 day ago:
Yeah, but it’s been a long long time coming for traditional television media.
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/…/04hulu.html
As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories.
“Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.
That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
“You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”
But she does not, actually. For 60 years, TV could be watched only one way: through the television set. Now, though, millions watch shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” on demand and online on network Web sites like Ms. Sweeney’s ABC.com and on the Internet’s most popular streaming hub, Hulu.com.
This is a story Sweeney was proud to tell at a media event, as though she was exuding strength by forcing her daughter to have a television. As if the sheer power of Disney’s wealth could make the dying industry last in it’s current form forever. Disney+ wouldn’t launch until ten years later, with Sweeney pissing away time and energy on losing prospects in the meantime until she stepped down from her position as Disney’s president in 2014.
Never forget how much money these dinosaurs have dumped into trying to legislate their business models as the only legal way to participate in any product or service they provide. They only ever come into the future kicking, screaming, and baying for the blood of those who are forcing them to change.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 day ago:
This property of water dates back to the story of Archimedes in the tub shouting “Eureka!”
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 3 days ago:
Pretty sure deleting interns is frowned upon anyway.
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 5 days ago:
I mean, Amazon makes the majority of it’s money from AWS at this point and the store is small potatoes in comparison.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 5 days ago:
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Further especially with powers granted from an injectable serum, the kind of people naturally drawn to it will already be the kind of people seeking power for their own ends.
- Comment on 'The Thing: The Game: The Remaster' - Civvie11 5 days ago:
Civvie11 and Warlockracy are about the only YouTube channels I consistently watch. Good old men times.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah but it’s hard for me to pass up my meangirl frog wife.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3: I can fix them all I swear!
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 6 days ago:
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety
Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification.
- Comment on Puppy paper 1 week ago:
Poopies.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
The thing about this shit is…
Microsoft, like Google, is now a user-data driven company and they have already made loss/profit ratio analysis on this long before they released the price increase. They’re absolutely banking on people cancelling but making up the difference and then some from the people who stay.
For a thought experiment lets consider how many subscribers they were reported to have in Feburary: 34 million. Let’s assume that everyone is paying for the highest tier to make the math easier. So current income would be 34 million x $20 a month and thats $680 million a month. 34 million x $30 a month is $1.02 billion. The difference is $340 million a month. Let’s divide that by $30 a month. That gets us about 11,333,333. So they can hemorage 11 million users and still break even.
The math doesn’t bode well for us who vote with our wallets.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
Look I know Bandcamp got a bad rap for being bought and sold a few times but they still have Bandcamp Fridays and that coupled with my own streaming server at home seems like the ticket to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean cartoon physics are totally in play here and this guy ain’t git no fuckin arms they’re just hanging on space so it seems reasonable (all things considered) that his reach is unreal.
- Comment on I am a solo developer creating a horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! Here is the new trailer for The 18th Attic! Let me know your feedback :) 1 week ago:
You had me at “pet the cat.”
- Comment on True staple of the format 1 week ago:
Counterpoint: A lot of people legitimately don’t know how to find out shit on their own and their learning style is rooted in having teachers and tutors help them along to understanding. Needing someone to teach them how to find out shit on their own might legitimately be part of the path that they need help with.
- Comment on True staple of the format 1 week ago:
If it’s not hard to find a source, it’s not hard to provide a source. You’re not doing other people’s work for them by being kind enough to provide evidence for your assertions. They’re less likely to hear what you have to say if you just brush them off and say “it’s common sense” or “it’s easy to find just search it yourself.”
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 1 week ago:
Alpaca.
- Comment on Remember, kids! 1 week ago:
But he won’t pay you back until Tuesday.
- Comment on Remember, kids! 1 week ago:
The hamburglar
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
We only get one ride in this rollercoaster and half of us want to make the ride living hell for the rest of us.
- Comment on Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund 1 week ago:
I never thought I’d see the day where PapEA itself would be the one being put in the mass grave along with all the studios it killed.
- Comment on Was it worth it? 1 week ago:
Marc Maron
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- Comment on Invest 🫘⤴️ 1 week ago:
To be fair, beans were actually a MetaFilter thing way way way back.
Was it worth it?