Walking away from Omelas?

Plus, people quit and get fired, all the time.

In one sense, there’s no point in getting attached to them, because they, like you and me and all of us, are expendable cogs in a capitalist machine.

On the other hand, those networks of “work friends” do tend to get each other jobs when they quit or get fired, so there’s some value in making those connections if you plan to stay in the business.

Racism and misogyny. That is all it is.

This is cool, though it reminds me of

It is also a bullshit highway, and bullshit can travel faster since it isn’t held back by understanding, logic, or even thought.

Only those who were not tight.

Most change happened with 20% supporting, 20% opposing, and the rest not giving a shit and waiting to get behind whomever wins

Very true, count dongulus.

Exactly this. This is their life’s work. It’s what they are good at and what they love. And often tbe only thing. They would not know what else to do.

Err, credit card companies have been doing this for decades

Pixelfed?

If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle

Who the fuck still used token ring in 2024.

I got PTSD from it even being mentioned.

Isnt this the premise of the matrix? Tech plateaued in 1999 and went downhill from there

This is the reason I love lemmy

Isnt that something you can break on a raspberry pi in like seconds?

I remember a oneliner from that year, from the TV show Maude:

“Everything is so confusing nowadays. Today I saw a Carter sticker on a Ford, a Ford sticker on a Chevy, and a Dole sticker on a banana.”

Power law

Thank you for this. Written by one of the AP designers to address privacy and security elegantly and natively. It is the best option for the future of networking and gets nowhere near enough adoption, funding, and developer resources.