Fun fact: that lady has multiple nobel science prize winners in her family and lives on a national heritage site. Look her up on Wikipedia and it’s pretty obvious why she doesn’t want class war, lol.

Everyone can, technically. Votes are not private in any way and can’t be for federation to function properly.

Check out lemvotes.org to check votes by account, by post, or by comment.

Also, piefed stopped doing the vote obsfucation thing a while back anyway. So just make a nsfw alt account.

TL;DR- Drunk and with no experience I lead a small group in pretty big parade.

I once led a small marching band in a parade while incredibly drunk, with a flagpole effectively attached to my cock (yeah, just rest the end against your belt, it’s fine), and with only 45 minutes of training the weekend before. At the largest fife and drum muster in the US. I had no prior experience at anything remotely related. I had only been to one of the corp’s meetings previously. Later that night I kissed my future wife for the first time.

I’m sure there’s some wonderful psychoanalysis take away that I thought of the flag as an extension of my cock.

To this day I have no idea why they didn’t get the actual marching band member boyfriend of one of the members to lead, because apparently I was pretty awful at it. It got some minor news coverage, so there’s a chance a picture exists somewhere.

The point is that they do see all this, but it hasn’t died yet, which means it’s stronger than initially believed.

I feel like this is an incomplete setup to a joke where the eyes get bigger every panel until it’s just the black void.

The scale is a significant part of the problem though, which can’t just be hand waved away.

Yeah, didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but that detail was quite absent from the blog post.

Also his claim that email chains end up creating an extra copy of an attachment every time? That’s not how most email clients handle attachments. They usually only carry forward in forwards.

And even if his idea is true for his setup somehow, data deduplication at the storage level isn’t particularly difficult to set up, and I would argue is table stakes for any business doing self hosting.

Similar when it comes to data retention policies, quotas, auto deletion of spam after a shorter time window. It’s not fun and for some setups may not be easy, but it’s part of the bare minimum for email. So yeah, you absolutely do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you.

Edit: and if you pay someone to do it for you, you have to abide by whatever dumb hoops they make you jump through, or find someone else to pay.

Thank you, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but his setup seemed like a convoluted way to have Google handle the storage at no cost to himself. Glad I’m not the only one with that takeaway.

This is awful, but while I see the huge impact for personal users, I’m not sure I see the business case for his current setup. I’m sure this will inpact business setups, but his specific use case just seems off.

He really buries the lede about why the weird setup of why address@businessdomain.com (to my mind the professional business email) had to be accessible from businessname_address@gmail.com (to my mind a misused personal email) in the first place. It’s down in the comments:

You can’t be serious. Especially for a company he runs, this is silly. Just tell them they have to use the business domain for business email. The whole @gmail.com thing also opens up potential regulatory issues depending on the details of the business.

With his current setup Google is already accessing all his company mail data. I don’t really get his objection to having the MX record directly route to them at this point.

I’m probably missing some big detail, but I don’t get why he has his current setup to begin with.

Edit: Didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but I’m not the only one with the takeaway that this seems to be jwz trying to use google/gmail for email storage without paying for google workspaces for his employees. Maybe that isn’t the case, but it sure looks like it.

That’s a lot of words to willfully miss my point and respond to shit I definitively didn’t say.

I don’t use it and I don’t need it, but pretending that people only use it because they’re stupid is stupid. Doubling down with blatant lack of reading comprehension is even dumber.

Windows bad, Linux good! Haha, such meme!

The take away is that it isn’t $8bn. It’s only $190M, and even if it had been $8bn it would have only been a slap on the wrist. At $190M it’s the equivalent of a fancy meal out for two for Zuck. Not even a slap on the wrist.

It’s not the only thing that exists, but it is still one of the most reliable social media to find someone on, especially for millenial aged people and older.

The group and event functionality is still leagues better than anything else I’ve seen, so neighborhood groups, school groups, and some classroom groups still rely upon it. For neighborhoods especially, there’s no way in hell you’re going to convince the overehelming majority of the neighborhood into Discord, Slack, Telegram, or especially any sort of self hosted or federated options while also giving up functionality and convenience.

Let me be clear, Zuckerberg is the strongest argument for the lizard people conspiracy I’ve ever seen. I am certain thatbFacebook and the horrendous effects it has had on society will be studied for history books for a very long time. It needs to die.

That said, the issue is only so simple as “why do they keep using it, are they stupid?” if you haven’t been paying attention for the last 20 years. They’ve worked very hard to be just barely useful enough, bring enough separate functionality under one roof, and to be psychologically addicting enough to keep people on it.

At least they’ve rereleased ZOE at higher native res a couple of times. It was a long gap between 2 and the “HD remaster” where I wondered if I’d ever see it recognized again.

By the way, if anyone knows of any other games with similar gameplay/combat, please let me know. The closest I’ve found so far was Dissidia Duodecim for PSP, and that’s kind of a stretch.

If I recall correctly they had involvement with the harassment the drove byuu (another emulator dev) to suicide. There was also some supposed harassment of the Duckstation dev, and potentially some license violation when they forked Duckstation to make the “Swanstation” core. Ah, found the weird obsessed wordpress site, and it looks like most of the shit was around a decade ago, so I guess it’s not really even worth mentioning anymore.

I intentionally try to stay away from emulator dev drama. It takes a certain type of person to develop these things and they pretty frequently aren’t in a good headspace and aren’t particularly good at interacting with other people.

RetroArch for most stuff. The main devs aren’t good people but the tech of it is good, and most of the cores are by other people than the main devs. Dolphin standalone for GC and Wii. PPSSPP standalone for PSP. Both of those don’t run well through retroarch

Anything I’m not already familiar with in terms of what retroarch core to use, I’ll check https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

That’s the wiki for 4chans ongoing emulation threads.

That’s not desiring an apocalypse, that’s sparkling suicidal ideation.

Believe it or not, in the US I haven’t seen a gift card with an expiration in probably a decade, outside of the generic visa ones draining to zero over time due to maintenance fees.

Edit: Per another comment, this seems to differ by country, and might be an impossible “win” for the US, where I haven’t seen expiring ones in ages.

When is the last time you’ve used a gift card? I haven’t had to fuck with making an account for one in over a decade. I’m also seeing other people in the comments talk about expiration, which is another thing I haven’t had any of them due in quite a number of years (pretty sure some laws changed so they can’t anymore).

I’d totally prefer cash, but it’s not some horrible affront to the natural order of things anymore.

Outside of those psuedo-debit card monstrosities. I still see those with extra fees, registration, and expiration (technically maintenance fees down to a zero balance). Those are extra dumb as fuck. Just give me the cash.