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.

Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged as a reaction to the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords” (chosen by the market).

To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

The whole “left vs right” divide itself originates from this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectrum

I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (often in a USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians”. All this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.

If you think this is what conservative means and that’s what your politics are, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.

They just aren’t that hard to use.

As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.

They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…

The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.

It bears some similarity to “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.

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In semi-related news, I’ve become more pro-mask than I ever thought I would become. Because they fucking work and it’s great to not be sick twenty times a year. Now that everyone’s against them they’re less than a dollar a mask.

😷

Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.

Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”

I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.