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davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in A Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors

Keep blaming Assange; I’m sure Hillary Clinton still does 😆

davel , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?

In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.

davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in US-Led Maritime Force Will Not Stop Yemen’s Houthis from Enforcing Blockade Against Israel

paper tiger says what

davel , 7 months ago to fediverse in Getting Tangled Up in Threads

If it’s whitelabel, what will Meta do? Start a new company? Inevitably, people would figure it out, and go with something else.

I think what’s more likely to happen than my maximalist argument, is that some existing instances will get direct or indirect funding or other forms of support from Meta, and start influencing their direction.

davel , 7 months ago to programmerhumor in It Be Like That

Yup! Basically everyone but employers, and cops, who are class traitors.

As long as you are a worker — not an employer — you can join the IWW. Members of other unions (except officers), students, retirees, the unemployed, the self-employed, those in informal professions, and those unable to work may also join.

davel , 7 months ago to fediverse in Getting Tangled Up in Threads

we’d just defederate them.

It’s true that we can always choose to defederate from them. What’s to worry about is their meddling with the ActivityPub standard using their incomparably vast resources, and them making their own extensions to the standard in efforts to suck users back into the Borg. Things like that.

Unfortunately, even if instance admins were to unanimously defederate, Meta—or any social media corporation—could create white-label instances to take their place, and we might be none the wiser of their control of them.

davel , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse in Getting Tangled Up in Threads

1. Meta is going to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish the Fediverse
Verdict: Unlikely

Thanks, now I know not to take you seriously.

Edit to add: My uBlock Origin extension is blocking “threads.net” on his site. Perhaps he’s got some skin in the game.

davel , 7 months ago to linux in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust

This is typical of when a language is the new hotness. It eventually dies down, either because the language becomes endemic or it fades away.

davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in Yemen’s Houthis Vow More Attacks on Ships in Red Sea Despite US Naval Force

Paywall bypass: archive.ph/N7420

Not calling them “rebels” or “Iran-backed.” Mission: Impossible

davel , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to linux in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust

It’s a system programming language that isn’t C or C++.

Edit to add: How did Go get on that page? That’s a stretch.

davel , 7 months ago to findacommunity in Cool pro-cop community

Perhaps, but then lem.ee ain’t hexbear.

davel , 7 months ago to findacommunity in Cool pro-cop community

acab-2

Good luck finding friends on Lemmy.ml, CopLover98.

davel , 7 months ago to asklemmy in why arent guitars made with 3.5mm jacks rather than quarter inch jacket

Telephone switchboards

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e0c11280-c707-4704-a5fc-f52423460e07.jpeg

davel , 7 months ago to fediverse in The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

This conversation will be off the record.

Ahaha, fuck no. If someone did go, please spill that tea.

davel OP , 7 months ago to fediverse in Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September

One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was, that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.