Replying again to say: that actually makes sense. You should have said that upfront! Suddenly being locked out of critical software is definitely a risk worth considering

Why?

It’s more about scale. Small open source projects might get one PR a month. Your average tech company is dealing with dozens of PR every single day. Review fatigue is real in these environments

It wasn’t about video length, it was about the Twitter leadership at that time being categorically incapable of monetizing any of their products.

Combine that with the orders-of-magnitude higher cost of running Vine compared to the bird, and it was always either going to be sold off or shut down.

It’s easy to forget that this was back in the time when these companies thought they were changing the planet for the better and drinking their own Kool aid by the gallon.

1. Mix with honey

2. Dip chipolata sausages

Plato’s Rust cave base

I use butterflies

Linux 🤝 DooM

Running on literally fucking anything

I’ve smoothed a schleem or two in my time

They said in their reply.

Are you for real? Everything you said reads like a tech bro caricature

Them: this is pretty good right? And affordable too!

Me: yeah it’s decent, don’t touch anything

Them: we’ve put in ads

Me: what? I don’t want ads, wtf

Them: bro, totally have you covered. No ads for $12.99 a month

Me: arr matey, don’t worry yerself 🦜🏴‍☠️

Honestly, the worst thing about Lemmy is Lemmy users thinking it’s better than Reddit simply by the virtue of it not being Reddit.

The platform? Yes, absolutely, a much better solution with built in checks and balances to stop one greedy company eating everyone’s lunch.

The content? It’s identical! (Bar a few cosplay communists that stir up drama occasionally). And some things are significantly worse like the quality of content curation and moderation.

For every person writing an “ugh you must be a Redditor”/“I thought I left this behind on Reddit” type comment,I bet there are many more people rolling their eyes and at least a few of them that end up abandoning the platform entirely.

Jesus that’s a lot of suffering the worst people in the known universe

Minesweeper

Historically people with the title “lord” have had it so hard.

What’s my name?

That’s not what “normalized” normalisation means in the context of databases.

Upstream costs are indeed going up as you implied, and Namecheap has razor thin margins.

Part of the deal with services providing bare-minimum prices is that the consumer takes on supplier costs when they arise. Same in all thin-margin businesses.

That Jessica’s name?

Albert Einstein

Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig

I love this book, warts and all. The rereads get harder as I see more flaws in both the text and Persig himself.

Regardless, I can’t deny the huge impact it had on my worldview. It helped me refine and improve the analytical mindset I take to the world around me and made me think routinely and deeply about what I value in my life and why.

I could see myself easily being obsessed with money and status at the point in my life where I am, and I’m grateful, in no short part to this book, that I’m not.

What is good? and what is bad? And who can tell us these things?

Persig does his best with these questions and gives you enough to put you on the same journey even if truly answering these questions is ultimately unachievable