originalucifer

youre right, the hardware will never go away… but there are many in the cloud-only corporate space where hardware is almost irrelevant as every single piece of software, including windows, is provisioned from the net. thats today. whats tomorrow going to look like for retail?

ive made super lucky charms. 80% marshmallows seems to be the sweet spot.

i just shut down a worlgroup server a few years ago… mostly up for majormud.

i with those asshats at the majorbbs restoration project would just release all the source code. they clutch those pearls like theyre valuable in some way

aol/prodigy were ‘the net’ to the general public by 94. i remember writing xmodem scripts to download boobie picks from single line bbs’ ~89.

dont overthink it… servers/workstations rsync to a nas, then sync that nas to another nas offsite.

i think discord started as an irc extension, which is why it still has a ton of hooks for it

3 of the top 4 results for me are fediverse related when searching for “lemmy”.

I don’t think its the signing up, its the lack of centralization/community. reddit was a singularity, the community is protesting en-masse because they felt they were all part of the same thing.

to me, the fediverse is a segmented… oddly connected group of overlapping communities. it lacks cohesion.

wont someone think of the chil…community!

this is obvious cover… a bot-generated paper trail for when they ‘are forced to act on behalf of the community’