One of the big turning points for Facebook for them to increase the difficulty of switching was cutting off RSS as a way to syndicate content into Facebook. After that, content had to be manually created in Facebook, instead of automatically imported from a third party source based on standard protocols. This forced people away from their chosen content authoring system into Facebook’s opinionated, inflexible, ad infested walled garden.

But here’s the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they’d never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.

The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.

What’s wrong with privacy badger?

“Does Big Brother exist?”

“Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.”

FWIW Brazil has the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora

Why on earth would they need to excavate a balloon?

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I was going to say Image & Form, the makers of the Steamworld games, but they’ve been assimilated into Thunderful, so that’s my answer.

They remind me of those two soda can looking robots in Tenchi Muyo.

Unless the switch has STP enabled.

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks.

Why would they blur his face but not his unique tattoo?

Reanimation is also still awesome.

I wasn’t implying the image was made with AI. I was telling people they can learn to do this without using AI. I assume this image was made with photoshop, but people who had never seen these before would probably assume it’s AI.

For those who want to learn how to make cars like this (without using AI): https://favouritephotoshoptutorials.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-make-mini-cars-in-photoshop.html

As a Samsung tab s owner where the OS was always >= 1 year behind in releases, this was my first question.

“I drank a fifth of Boone’s, dare me to scroll in private rooms?”

It was a joke. Dark humor is a coping mechanism that helps some of us avoid letting the existential dread creep in. Slaughterhouse 5 “so it goes” and all.

He was just tempting fate by leaving a town called Lucknow in an ambulance.