when saturation had been reached the only way executives can demonstrate increased revenue is enshittification.

its the natural state when moral-lacking executives are forced to increase profits no matter what… a side effect of the complete joke that is the stock market

standardization breeds efficiency. efficiency is required for scaling.

bless your heart. i bet youve learned a lot!

i was curious about this also. seems like in the book they did have muskets, but they were rarely used as most of the book involved ‘close’ fighting in which swords were used while muskets were battlefield, long-range devices.

i found containers helpful… it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i’m not suddenly leaking my ip.

I remember something about the bj scene being left mostly on the cutting room floor… there was a whole dream sequence

im ok with that

Originating from French, the first name Sigourney carries a powerful and compelling meaning: The Conqueror.

ive met none less christ-like than those identifying as christians.

decentralized cloud storage

isnt that kind of an oxymoron?

i manage all files and metadata outside of jellyfin/kodi using mediaelch… it scrapes, renames and sets up all the local metadata files for ingestion perfectly into both my media services.

i dont get this… im technically still usin emby, but user management is beyond simple and requirs no upkeep. no one has asked me to reset their passwords and ive got a few dozen people usin my instance.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Clara-Hitler-marry-her-cousin

on a side note…

Important Note: In order to marry, Alois and Klara had to obtain a dispensation from the Church due to their close familial ties. This highlights the fact that they were indeed related and their marriage was considered unusual for the time.

yeah, but i only swim in technical circles and ive never, ever heard a general compute device referred to as ‘dummy’. ever. not even machines that only run an app that connects to a mainframe essentially turning into a dummy.

that said, im old. i had a rather technical coworker ask me for clarification when i made a napster reference. the young determine the language.

now get off my lawn.

i dont see it. ill never stop considering a dummy terminal ‘no local processing’.

many LLMs are moving to a locally processed version requiring far less memory usage/processor requirements than the bigger versions… thats not going to just evaporate. lots of people dont trust cloud compute.

i dont know of a single person, technical or non-technical that thought the metaverse would ever account for anything whatsoever. it was always a non-starter. a dead end. it is ridiculous just on premise, let alone any serious valuation.

K’s last job was working at a company focused on the metaverse

hahaha well, howd ya not see that coming

i personally know dozens of people self hosting email. tens of thousands of businesses have been hosting their own email for decades. i dont think you can take self-hosting away from email by pointing out the billion users are 17% on google (or whatever).

im not disagreeing with you that the big guys have big market share, but email is vast and ubiquitously self hosted.

email can be run using hundreds of servers on dozens of platforms even from your own house and interact with the email network.

youre not doing anything like that with bluesky. even with the domain thing, there is only a single bluesky router that everyone connects to.

no one is self hosting a bluesky router