LMAO I used to joke about the same thing, but the cannon was pointed upwards at a random trajectory instead. For the luls. 😂

Check your local library to see if they have access to the Kanopy streaming service. It’s a bit of everything, but lots of top-notch documentaries on there!

Lol! Source is like the second to last paragraph of “Prologue.”

A ton of Linux usage involves the direct or indirect management and commanding of daemons, too. <_<

I think we cracked it: Linux is free and open sourcery. XD

Lol I’m really curious about the etymology behind all these computing terms now!

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out something like “kernels and shells” was a historically common analogy though.

That IS a fun fact. Super cool!

Hah, reading the introduction to this book out of curiosity…

…And he through the council of a certain angel whose name was Hocroel, did write seven volumes of art magic, giving to us the kernel, and to others the shells.

👀

Oh we’ve got bots for every vice and deadly sin now, taking after their creators.

Kinda neat that for now, we’ve found a way to Dr. Strange mirror-dimension them for the time being. I hope those techniques proliferate quickly.

I don’t care what the “commercial net” does at this point. I just want the indie web to survive.

“You’re absolutely right! First, make sure the glue is all natural. You can also enjoy some very small rocks as well, to supplement essential minerals! Yum!”

Lol

Always fun when crafting time can be snacking time. XD

I dare say it, too. I really liked that era. Win7 was cool, the gaming division’s aesthetic and marketing were cool. Original X-Box? Man that was a JAM.

I mean, part of it was just being young and naive too I guess, because I have plenty of memes from the '95 era about how evil Gates was/is. (Internet Explorer was a hot button topic back then!)

But also I think the landscape was competing for favor of the users (however underhandedly as usual) rather than how the landscape is now: Where end users are more of an afterthought and now it’s all just about farming users while billionaires pass money back and forth.

EDIT: I was already maining Linux by then, but Microsoft definitely hit my shitlist when they decided to just paperweight WMR devices entirely. Screw them.

" We hear you. We see you. Best we can do is Three-Mile Island but stocked with all the world’s RAM so you can generate slop code and have lonely chats with a machine that tells you eating glue is a great idea."

–Microsoft

There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1.

I love how they earned this reputation, so rather than repair that reputation, the next move was to force update their users whether they like it or not.

I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever. . .

That’s…definitely a decision that puts a lot of trust in Microsoft’s security. Lol

Windows Update: Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.

Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit

We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol

Something something “Those the law binds but does not protect and those the law protects but does not bind.”

Reminds me of the guy in that show Silicon Valley who was basically a plant / spy (Jianyang?), and his grand visions for all his apps were creatively named:

“Chinese Facebook, Chinese Instagram, Chinese Twitter. . .”

Lol

Right on!

I don’t know if there’s a hardware trading community yet. I think one challenge is simply how lemmy seems to aim for more general anonymity than reddit, and the DM system isn’t really used to my understanding. (Except by “that fediverse girl” LOL)

Establishing a sense of reasonable trustworthiness to thwart bad actors might take some work.

YES!!

When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”

Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD

“Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”

closed source and VC backed

Basically a non-starter at this point.

Maybe used to be these startups would compete for user affections by being more benevolent.

But nowadays the bare basics of even being competitive in the business is having a plan for gaining critial mass and then rapidly enshittifying for revenue before selling your product users to some new private equity overlords.

Open source used to be more of just a preference, or a virtue. Now it’s basically the only way to not guarantee your exploitation.

they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment.

That’s…SO creepy.

Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.

Some people must have friends who have faces for radio. Lol

back in my day Ventrilo

Ahh “Vent.” My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.

“My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI…”

Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was “X-fire”? Haha

And thaaaat’s why it’s head/tailscale or nothing for me. I’m smart enough to know I don’t know enough to be absolutely confident I won’t get SHODAN’d and end up crying over a home network catastrophe, never feeling truly secure ever again.

Every now and then it’s tempting to get those fun features in containers like Nextcloud, like public links and federation, but it’s not worth the risk IMHO. Not when there’s state-class adversarial bots written by stupidly smart people roaming the landscape. <_<