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Cake day: November 9th, 2021

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  • I’m a sys admin/devops engineer, and yes, storage is far more expensive then people realize.

    This is the very definition of enshittification.

    EDIT: To those downvoting:

    Do you actually know what the definition of enshittification is? Apparently not.

    Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

    It doesn’t matter that the cost of storage is a real thing. They gave things of value away for free to grow their user base and to try and capture network effects. Now that they think they have that they are taking away ( or decreasing ) the free stuff of value they gave away.

    The fact that storage has value is literally an important part of enshitification.

    It wouldn’t be enshitification if they gave away free stuff that wasn’t valuable.


  • This is actually why I switched to xmpp for my chat server of about 200.

    The room being the atomic unit, and automatic caching of media from rooms that any user is a member of, even rooms hosted on other servers was too much of a legal liability.

    It became even worse when the CSAM users found my server that had open signups, but required a captcha and an email to signup.

    Deleting the users, banning the rooms, and deleting the cached media became a multiple times a day chore.

    Xmpp, so far, doesn’t have those issues. And it is so light on resources. I highly recommend the switch.

    EDIT: the moderation tools on xmpp are also far superior.









  • No, we’re not.

    The convention hasn’t happened yet.

    Finally, the logic is simple. Biden is a genocidal fascist. If you’re afraid that we will live in a fascist state if Trump is elected, then my answer is we already do.

    If Trump is elected and goes full fascist, what do you plan on doing? Whatever it is, you should already be doing it.

    Are we supposed to be so virtuous that we allow Republicans to kill all of us just so we die with the Palestinians that no matter who we elect will die!? It makes absolutely no sense.

    Resisting fascism and genocide isn’t about virtue. It’s about survival. You’ve been conned into believing that if you just vote for the lesser genocidal fascist, then you or whatever oppressed group you identify with will be fine. You will not.

    This well known poem

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist
    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist
    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist
    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me
    

    is about you.