So, start a few minutes before midnight, get in 50 laps, then 50 the next day.

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Completely agree.

The Wikipedia article itself has this to say:

Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors who are unable to support the new extensions.

By that logic Lemmy/Mastodon/fediverse are already extinguished. Those of us in the fediverse are already “marginalized” wrt Twitter/Threads/Facebook/whatever.

There are very good reasons to hate Meta, but personally, I think EEE isn’t the biggest issue.

Slack killed IRC integration mid 2018.

What exactly did Slack “allow” though? The continued existence of an ancient protocol with a niche but dedicated following of predominantly “old school” tech people?

Absolutely.

Maybe. Or this will play out like Slack and IRC.

Initially, Slack integrated with IRC. Which was great! It meant I could use xchat to talk with folks, and could set up simple bots using standard IRC tools.

And then Slack killed that feature…but it absolutely didn’t kill IRC, because die hard IRC users never cared about Slack in the first place.

My prediction is it’ll be the same — what sort of people will be attracted to Threads vs a smaller “proper” instance? Probably the sort of people who would never consider a federated platform in the first place.

Just speculation and I could certainly be wrong…

Other comment says there is a way from inside, just not outside (which doesn’t help with a young kid/toddler/baby is the inside passenger of course).

Either way, glad this is “only” a huge embarrassment, and not a dead kid.

Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn’t fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin’ chassis but they’re constantly tinkering with the internal bits?

Yeah, I feel like the right has such a black-and-white/zero nuance view of things. So then the left goes and does the same thing!

My sense is that these A*AB movements are really trying to say, “the institution of X is fundamentally flawed,” and that’s something I agree with definitely. But it’s worded provocatively, which is just…assinine. Like, the little old lady who would be priced out of her home if not for renting out a room to a college kid, below market value? Yeah total bastard…

with the ever present threat of hurricanes

That may be true for Florida, but that’s not really relevant for northern California/PNW/many, many other parts of the world…

If you can get to work on city streets, there’s a good chance you can bike or take public transportation. Nothing evil about that!

My company did it the right way — they gave us the day off.

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

“First they game for gay marriage, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and…fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won’t vote for these asshats.”

— some people, hopefully…

Nah that’s an Audi. Toyota Corollas are indestructible AFAIK (ok, maybe a Saturn V could do some damage…).

Especially “it’s” — it makes sense that “the thing that belongs to ‘it’” would be “it’s,” but of course, possession wrt pronouns is weird.

Is that for sure what happened? IIRC there was speculation about mechanical failure (lights we not out on ship, large plume of smoke…).

Though perhaps that doesn’t really matter as far as how much it sucks for the crew.

Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM — not Lenovo — ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!

I live in a very high CoL area, and the fact that you meet people in your neighborhood who are socioeconomically different — in large part due to very strong tenant protections — is really neat.

I think the thing is, at the top of a big corporation yeah they don’t care. But the boots on the ground people who apply for a DEI or outreach type job? My experience is that they absolutely do care.

I did bike to work one year. Big group of us all at different companies/school. We stopped at Oracle on the way, because they had a big bike to work party. Now, I suspect Larry E. doesn’t give a shit about me or my bike. But the people who put that on absolutely cared about the cause, about making people feel welcome, and overall, having a good time (I don’t/did not work for Oracle).

The corporation doesn’t care about you. But there might be some people who work there who do.

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