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VPNs don’t help here, the website asks you for your driver’s license. Tbf giving your credit card to them is typically enough for them (big tech + govt) to construct a full profile of who you are anyway, and that was the original “age gate” – though there are some services that make CCs modestly privacy preserving – not the case for IDs

https://www.sketchup.com is pretty easy

What an era. Was kinda the most unbalanced moba, where a single high skill player could dominate both teams. Good time to be a mid ganker carry

The most interesting part of this take is that JD Vance is very much in the big tech friends circle with Thiel and Musk. But I’m sure they can run some antitrust against their enemies at Google or whatever

Damn dawgs, Trump campaigned saying that he would fix this as a mere president-elect. This is my “wow holy shit” face, actually seeing it happen maybe :O

Ok so he said same about Russia, let’s see it

Well, I took the time to read the whitepaper, and it’s yeah, pretty dumb sounding. The gist is that it’s p2p post sharing with lots of captchas & a crypto edge that it probably doesn’t need https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/eb02f20b-e787-4a02-b188-d0fcbc250ba1/pleb.tex-6d2e1bf.pdf

The similarities to Lemmy are substantial, it’s just not on activitypub, but rather its own pubsub thing. If you want to host data, you still have to keep a node running at all times, it’s not the case that “there are no instances”. Those instances can moderate the content, so it’s not the case that “there’s no moderation.” The whitepaper mentions that “its possible to delegate running a client to a centralized server…” rather than having to have a fat syncing client running on your own machine … in lemmy, it’s more like “its possible to run your own node if you want”. Plebbit doesn’t care about maintaining history of posts, it expects that servers will go down over time, and the data will be lost. Lemmy is pretty similar in that regard too, if all instances hosting the data go down, then it’s lost. The expected outcome is that there’s a handful of big nodes, as is the typical result of this form of “decentralization” - same as Lemmy, Email

Ultimately, I don’t see Plebbit doing anything particularly smarter/better, and having private/public key cryptography involved doesn’t really matter. They talk about blockchains and using coins as anti-spam mechanisms, but I don’t see why that’s relevant to the implementation

Reddit isn’t going anywhere, and they WILL prevent this kind of existential business threat, if it actually becomes one. It’s pretty easy for them to institute a policy like “no edits after a month” — or serving older content

Tech companies usually take backups y’know? There’s almost certainly older snapshots from before the AI craze, or at the first sign of trouble …

The main buyer is Google. Google actually ALREADY has all the data on Reddit, they scraped and cached it all long ago. Remember how Google used to offer mirrors of pretty much any site? Well, guess what, they probably will have all that valuable gold stashed. So it’s not like reddit is actually transferring terabytes to Google, it’s just a licensing deal, and the execs are having a fun chuckle about users trying to “delete their data”

Then I read that chat apps and YouTube would not be banned, and scoffed

Literally chat apps are social media. You can post stories and pump memes and news. You can even have bots that scrape and post content. YouTube is just a matter of checking a box whether it’s “for kids” and they already do that. Basically the whole thing is stupid

Y’know, you’re right & that’s wild. I guess I should have known, but didn’t assume that they have like 600m in unrelated investments. Though the burn rate is quite a lot too, so they probably would scale back browser dev a lot if it lost its profitability & become a pure VC kinda org

Not only does it need to do everything from memory management to job scheduling, it also has all of the UI and graphics driver complexity blended in. Usually that’s a different layer that the kernel historically didn’t worry about, it would be as if GTK is part of Linux, along with the programming language. Then there’s shit like WebAssembly and WebGL, databases, sandboxing, permissions, user management… A Brower is like a cross platform OS built to run on another OS

The thing is it’s never been more expensive and time consuming to write a browser, it’s bigger scope than a kernel in many ways. Stuff like Epiphany isn’t even close, despite relying on Apple’s webkit. Most distros just push people to Firefox now, despite a history of KHTML and all that. We would need something like the Linux Foundation to pick it up (which runs on corporate sponsorship for a shared resource)

Yeah but in the short term the company will literally go out of business

cries in his no longer useable projector mod

And somehow breaking even more sites than safari; missing many modern features

Welllll I mean technically webkit is totally separate from chromes blink fork for the last several years. I.e. browers like safari and gnome’s epiphany. That said, safari is mac/iOS only and epiphany sucks ass so…

Can’t you just go to WordPress.com, log in to their hosting, and install the plugin?

This is factually accurate by a several orders of magnitude

Hawaii for one

Idk I don’t miss anything. We got good software too, some of which is Linux specific or simply works best there. Get a PS5 and call it a day