Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.

Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.

Dude containers are often easier than running the underlying programs.

All the talk about Arnold Palmer’s dick size would suddenly make a lot more sense.

It is being run like a business: poorly. Exactly how most businesses run.

Why the fuck would anyone use a guid as a hostname?

My favorite I’ve seen in the category was when they had hostnames that were basically the IP address decorated with some bullshit. Like yeeeeeeeeah, that totally makes fucking sense. 😆

Is atlassian scum? Confluence was acting all kinds of fucking terrible today.

Stuff like this had to be killed as part of the corporate initiative to never allow anyone to have a moment of peace ever again.

I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?

I think what’s happening in the background here is these “Internet of Trash” devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.

If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don’t give a fuck about you as a customer, they plan poorly as a business, and they have no ability to produce well-engineered software, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, make it impossible to move to anything else, and then brick your shit.

This sounds very cool. I’m a programmer by profession but used to love drawing animations as a kid. I should try to make something like this.

This is a great idea for a project honestly.

I would definitely use those passwords! /s

While this is mostly true it’s certainly the case that publicly traded companies have strong incentives to grow.

Private companies mostly have the ownership, and/or the desire to go public to blame.

I stream but from my own server.

A victim of the good ol leveraged buyout which should be fucking illegal right alongside stock buybacks.

I’m thinking of buying 3 and making a small k8s cluster

Having everything everyone ever interacts with channeled through the same four fucking websites obviously sucks and doesn’t currently–and likely never can–scale.

You win the internet.

Who wants it at this point?

The problem with that is it limits the government’s ability to change in ways that have no correlate in industry or culture. This inevitably leads to the government being unable to respond to changes that have already occurred or are currently occurring, and in the case of change driven by industry (i.e., most societal change in the US) that invariably leads to regulatory capture.

Welcome to the club!

I’m there. I vote Democratic but there’s basically no representation for my views to be found.

EDIT: Have you really thought through your political philosophy beyond pleasant sounding notions though? While “conserving the present” sounds nice, taken a bit further you’re basically talking about fighting the Buddhist notion that “no man steps into the same river twice”. Things change and if the government doesn’t change along with them it gets eaten alive. That’s partially, I would argue, what happened with technology in the last thirty years.