It should say "fuck reddit" where they join hands.
I mourn what it was, yes.
There was a recent comment I read about how it's become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they'd receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.
And it's true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.
It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.
After hearing the call audio — and I am not defending spez here — I can actually understand how it might have been initially perceived as a "threat" given the context of the conversation. It was a mix of technical and financial negotiations (or really just spez saying "this is how it is, you can suck it") and Christian was speaking metaphorically about Apollo's API calls being "noisy" and (at least how I understood it) was suggesting perhaps "quiet" it down by optimizing the software.
I am not trying to victim blame here and it absolutely does not excuse spez turning around and publicly shit talking Christian, especially after spez immediately apologized on the call after admitting to misinterpreting what he heard ... anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that it's important to communicate clearly, directly, and unambiguously.
The headline is still that spez is a greedy sack of shit.
Particularly in the way that lemmy isn't finance bro bullshit
It's a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?
I'm feeling rather smug and justified telling my clients to keep files on a local server that they control rather than ~~"the cloud"~~ someone else's computer.
That's definitely my main concern I have with this federated infrastructure. It's basically the same as IMAP email: if the server goes down, your account and everything it's associated with goes down with it.
It's a neat idea and has some benefits, but there really needs to be some sort of backup system in place. Maybe something like mirror instances, where anyone could spin up an instance with the sole purpose of mirroring another instance in case it goes down.
Someone's face is about to match their jumpsuit.
I've been a loyal RiF user for years. RiF is reddit to me. This really sucks. So long, reddit.
Except when they clog up hospitals with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD en masse. Now it's everyone's problem.
Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour and they should stay home and suffocate like a real man. Then we're golden. Hey, Fox News, I have an idea for you...
Lemonade being fucking delicious isn't reason enough?
Well, I'm here, aren't I?