[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 17 points 2 years ago

Vendor lock-in is 100 times worse today than it was 20 years ago. It’s vile, insidious and borderline cruel. Microsoft doesn’t want to work with anyone, they never have and they never will.

Any feelings of openness and cooperation you get from them is engineered, from the ground up, to ensure that they are in a position of control over you.

Their crack security team is not the result of some spontaneous and sudden desire to protect their customers. It’s a consequence of having to constantly triage the financial impacts of a never-ending stream of critical vulnerabilities.

Labelling this proprietary shit “ecosystems” is insulting to ecosystems. They mere notion that you should be using Microsoft software to monitor, secure and protect your Microsoft software is downright ridiculous.

Microsoft is not the only, and maybe not even the worst, in a long list of hand-wringing, life-sucking, progress-hindering companies who people will willingly defend because these companies have forced their way into becoming a part of our identities.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 17 points 2 years ago

And now the ENTIRE INSTANCE for lululemon, who’s bot posts 1000 times a minute.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 17 points 2 years ago

They defaced it with dicks and changed the federation list to be only threads.net. I don't think it was a state sponsored chinese hacking group. :)

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 16 points 2 years ago

That's fair. I shouldn't have said "replace reddit."

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 19 points 2 years ago

IMO, likes need to be handled with supreme prejudice by the Lemmy software. A lot of thought needs to go into this. There are so many cases where the software could reject a likely fake like that would have near zero chance of rejecting valid likes. Putting this policing on instance admins is a recipe for failure.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 18 points 2 years ago

Fuck you Winnipeg!

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 16 points 2 years ago

We probably won't find out because a majority of the fediverse will not want facebook a part of it.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 19 points 2 years ago

I’ve been in the business factory for 20 years now and Deloitte, as an employer, is widely regarded as hell-on-earth. Sus.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Canada here. Basically, everything I learned is from parodies. American history is not a big deal in K-12 curriculum. If i had to write a 2 paragraph essay to save my life:

It was a period in history where guns were loaded one ball at a time by stuffing it down the barrel with a stick. Wealthy white people who profited off slavery all lived in the southern states for some reason. This group started to hear that other people in the rest of the (northern) states were starting to talk about making slavery illegal. To protect their interests they formed a separate government, formed an army and attempted to overtake and rule all of the states.

Their army wore red, and the north's defending army wore blue. They shot at each other with cannons for a few years and many people died, mostly from shitty health-care and infections rather than acute death. The north won and now lots of people who were never in the war, pretend to have the war again to remind them to never have a civil war.

I'd say the impact was that slavery was abolished, but it was abolished in many other countries without a civil war so I guess the impact was a lot of parody material for pop culture.

And that is all I know about Paul Revere and the American Revolution.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 15 points 2 years ago

a revolution starts with a single bean

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 15 points 2 years ago

https://lemmymap.feddit.de/

It’s not great but it does have the data.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Being decentralized will make it harder to just use "search + reddit" because you don't know if it's "search + lemmy.world" or "search + beehaw" or "search + kbin." Also, each admin is in charge of their own Robots.txt.

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