I’d like to see their charging network survive in some way, maybe under someone else’s control. From what I’ve heard from EV owners the Tesla charging stations are the only ones that are readily available especially outside of cities (at least here in Australia).

Unpaid mod, with less “powers” than a normal mod.

Oh yeah no shade at all, it’s cheap and efficient

By servers I assume we mean the pile of Mac Minis.

Complete rumour and hearsay from Discord, but allegedly a current/former mod is claiming they’ll relaunch sometime on the 21st but only about 1/4 of the boards will be up due to a lack of jannies.

The vulnerabilities found in the codebase were… sizeable to say the least. I assume the extended downtime is to patch the ones they can, and disable features for the ones they can’t + needing to replace a big chunk of the mods and jannies.

The little theme tune he hums as he sprints towards the coffin is great.

“Willys, willys, I like willys!”

“It’s I LOVE willys”

It’s owned by Canva, so I’d be willing to bet their next release will we some kind of web version - in that case there would be no need to port it.

This translates to fewer Patreon subscribers which means less opportunity and funding to create high quality videos

If there’s an algorithm to game, and money to be made, I don’t see how that’s any different to self promotion. Boil it down and all that’s happening is you are performing an action, so that more people see you, in the hopes that some of them will give you money.

The lack of an algorithm is a feature, I don’t want content I havent explicitly asked for to be shown.

I doubt there’s any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that’s why so many archive sites exist.

Yep and even better than that; most if not all residential ISPs use Carrier-grade NAT so one IP (which changes), now represents hundreds if not tens of thousands of their customers.

At the very best, you could maybe narrow an IP to a very vague geographical area like several suburbs, or a specific town maybe.

Self promotion is a form of advertising, doubly so if it’s done for the purpose of attracting revenue via some means. People can opt into it if they want via subscribing/following but it’s still advertising.

So yes most “authentic” content is just people advertising themselves. I would prefer not to see that unless I have opted into it.

That’s still an ad, you want money for a product you’re offering. The only difference is in your case there’s an extra step between impression and conversion.

I’d prefer for my social media to not be full of ads for “content”.

For the 99.99% of people that don’t make software that can kill people, OPs post is true.

No one cares if “uber but for X” has some downtime because some dingus forgot what a linked list is.

Why would a gaming react andy get a TV deal? It doesn’t make any sense what are his credentials? Yelling? Catchphrases maybe?

I couldn’t see anyone in my family using a CLI, they’d either be scared of it or get annoyed that they have to remember things. They’d quite happily spend all day clicking around a GUI to avoid 5 seconds of scary terminal words.

Oh is that what we should be calling the dude from Saltburn?

It’s been viable for enthusiasts for a while, but the reason it’s not mainstream is most normal people just don’t want it. It’s clumsy, cumbersome, the content is generally poor, and it’s either a Meta product or very expensive for something that’s ultimately a gimmick at the moment. Not to mention the “metaverse” tarnishing VRs image.

Even Apple couldn’t make it successful with today’s tech. Best case scenario IMO; company’s starting long term VR moonshot projects right now might have something with mainstream appeal in the distant future.

VR won’t be viable until it’s transparent and unobtrusive; a contact lens, for example. A giant headset that you strap on to your face just isn’t appealing to most customers outside of the initial novelty factor.