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I disagree.

Yes companies have privatised profits and socialised losses since forever, thats not what I’m talking about.

Its not that long ago that you could talk to an actual person in customer service who at least had a supervisor with the authority to do provide an appropriate resolution.

Now the standard mode of operation is to simply close ranks, and make a PR statement like this… “we’re not going to do that simply because you can’t make us”.

That’s obvious, and it’s not what I’m talking about.

I really hate that companies being hostile to their customers has become normalised such that it’s really expected.

There’s very clearly a right and scrupulous thing to do. Not having an obligation to do that is not an excuse not to.

I mean the score from wonder woman was fucking amazing, but gadot wasn’t particularly special.

<great thing happens>

Moaners: this is terrible because there’s no guarantee it will remain this way in perpituity

A literal death sentence? Ok mate.

Ay? An exemption is not a loophole.

I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.

Even though most users don’t self host, the ability to still gives users more agency even if they choose not to.

Its a bit like using open source software even if you can’t understand the source code. The open source influences the behavior of the admins. That’s exactly what’s going on here really.

This drama wouldn’t exist on a closed source platform because we probably wouldn’t know about it.

The fediverse seems to have a real penchant for petty drama.

I’m not saying that’s what this is, just that when there’s a spat it tends to draw everyone in.

I’m not sure I really understand you.

One of the foundational concepts of opensource software, self hosting, and federated software, is that users have more equity and agency than they would if they were users or “consumers” on a corporate platform.

If you don’t want to support the behavior of a developer, you don’t have to.

That said, I’m aware that my instance is running piefed, which is at the centre of this drama.

Revenue model. If they have enterprise & community, then how good are the docs for community.

Cryopreservation refers to things which will be reanimated when thawed. That’s no more plausible than a star trek transporter.

Why do you hate cryopreservation?

You know cryo isn’t a thing right?

As in: I hate martians.

There’s this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.

I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it’s porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.

The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.

The study was authored in 2007. Since 2011 almost all new cars have had DRLs even though they’re not mandatory.

They’re not mandatory but I think it would be pretty tough to find a car less than 15 years old that doesn’t have them.

They’re relevant to safety ratings and so on, and all the cars sold here are sold in other jurisdictions where they’re mandatory.

Also relevant to safety ratings. It would be daft to sell cars without them.