Thank you!

Okay, but what does the duck mean?

I’m of that generation where the Internet meant that “information needs to be free” but I’ve come around to paying for, aka supporting, (what is IMO) quality journalism and opinion (I’m not necessarily just referring to the Atlantic), especially my local news.

Or you can try archive.ph to see if they have an archived version of the article.

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Good point.

It was a killer burrito.

You did what you had to.

1. Mastodon’s recommendation algorithm isn’t sufficiently addicting
2. Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.

Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.

Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.

And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.

Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.

What’s your enshittification timeline? (Order is approximate)

Mine: Broadcast TV > Arcade Games > Usenet > Yahoo > Saturday Morning Cartoons > Email (spam) > Yahoo Groups > AAA games > Cable TV > Game Consoles > Talk Radio > Graphics Cards > Google Search > Twitch > YouTube > Reddit > Pinball > America

Yay! Finally Boost finally gets an update! Thank you!!!

So like the Radio Shack TRS-80 “Trash 80” Model 100 from 1983… https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/316/1684

Azure is MS’s cloud computing. As long as you weren’t using MS OneDrive, or 365 Office, or something else that relied on MS cloud, you’re good.

Yes, I did try to install it on Windows.

Still, that really disqualifies it from being open source…

Like “free” software requiring installation of weird browser toolbars back in the day. I still have nightmares about those things.

Requires installation of weird undefined “CutoutPro” shit.

That’s a nope from me, dawg.

Thanks for taking a thankless job!

Yeah, what happened was weird…

Is there any chance of restoring the prior megathread of all Lemmy apps?

Here’s the last capture of that post on The Wayback Machine from 2024-01-18: https://web.archive.org/web/20240118071614/https://lemmy.world/post/465785

Nope, never heard of it! Thanks!

I’ll have to look up more about that.

This is the way.

To remove it entirely might sow confusion, and mistakenly give the impression that we’ve never heard of Liftoff.

Better to annotate Liftoff as abandoned as of Lemmy v0.19

Why would you want to make a Linux phone from scratch? Why not just hack the firmware for existing phones to install Linux?