The benefit of AI is overblown for a majority of product tiers. Remember how everything was supposed to be block chain? And metaverse? And web 3.0? And dot.com? This is just the next tech trend for dumb VCs to throw money at.

Just wait till the advertisers find out the eyeballs they are paying for are also just AI sock puppets. Enshitification strikes again.

I’m pretty sure Windows is a key part of their “cloud stuff” strategy. You are right that consumers are not the direct focus of Windows, since they are not the direct paying audience, and that shows in the direction Windows is going, but getting consumers to use Windows is a big part of creating corporate buy in for Microsoft cloud services. Corporate environments will shun Microsoft cloud services if employees can’t use Windows, or Windows features run afoul of corporate policies (like blanket LLM bans).

Also… Hard wire. You need to run power to the camera, might as well send data back through the same cable.

You should perhaps skim through https://docs.docker.com/storage/ quickly. That document explains that docker containers only have very limited persistence (this is kind of the whole point of containers). The only persistence of note is volumes. This is normally how settings are saved between recreating containers.

As for dependencies, well it’s possible that one container depends on the service of another. Perhaps this is what you are describing?

Either way, for more detailed help, you will have to explain your setup with more specific technical details.

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

https://opensource.org/osd/

Paradoxically (or not), restrictions on selling software is a fundamental violation of freedom. When the OSS movement says free, it means freedom as in free to do what you want, not free as in free beer. Of course, that freedom also includes the freedom to give it away.

So in practice, that usually results in exactly what you lament: free software with a business model on top to support its development and pay programmers so they can eat.

To add to what has already been said about it taking a large effort, the follow up question is then, why don’t governments fund all this effort publicly through taxes, like what is done with roads, scientific research, education, healthcare?

Well the short answer is that high-performance computing specifically is a strategic resource. Publicly funding roads only benefits the country doing the funding, so that is an easy decision to make. Meanwhile, much of the publicly funded scientific research has minimal to no strategic value (or may only be of value in states capable of that investment in the first place), so this is also an easy decision to make. But giving away technological investments in strategic ressources to rival states is a pretty bad move.

There’s power in organizing and voting with your wallet collectively. Reject companies that trample your customer needs and convince others to do the same.

No one else uses the term “cloud” like that.

That part of this comic really stuck out like a sore thumb. I can’t tell if it’s an oversight, a comment about the challenges of self-hosting, or subtle mockery of self-hosting hypocrisy.

Support for old software is now the only reason to use windows.

This a 1/1000 likely outcome. Bankrupted companies will typically sell assets including IP and software to other companies to pay creditors (which excludes open sourcing them). And well before bankruptcy, any financial issues will cause Plex to be modified to support shitty monetization to the point that you won’t want the source code amyway.

Sorry for the bad outlook, better that you be ready than to hope for a unicorn.

I specifically tried the prewash thing after watching his video, it didn’t make a lick of difference for me.

There are stuff my younger self did in the real world that I am embarrassed about. Not bad, but not exemplary behaviour either. Guess what, there never was an edit/delete button for the real world. Why should we expect the online world to be any different? It’s a fiction. We live with our mistakes.

• Quoting people from the past against their present self to say “you’re a hypocrite” is moronic behaviour and needs to die. People can–and should be able to–change their opinions when presented with new facts and arguments.
• Teenagers (and some adults) are awkward and don’t have the life experience to always make great decisions. This is fine. Have some compassion and don’t judge them too harshly, especially when they come around to better decision making.
• Existing social media never really gave you a real edit/delete button anyway either. It’s all anonymity theater. The reality is that your data was always being scrapped and archived, somewhere by someone. This is just a reality created by digitization and virtually free recording/copying. No specific digital medium was ever going to protect you from this.
• In the early days of the internet, everyone knew to use pseudonyms and not share personal information. We seemed to have forgotten this lesson. Maybe it’s time to relearn this lesson. Life is full of lessons. Let this be just one more.

Acting like being forgotten on the internet is possible is not the solution. It never has been and it never will be.

Connect is pretty good. Stil missing some important features, like block, and the instance name is missing from usernames and communities, which is a pretty major oversight, but other than that it’s solid and being developped surprisingly fast.

OP, did you editorialize the title?

Here’s is the article’s actual title: Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?

The original title is accurate, but I wouldn’t say that your editorialized title is accurate. This is a piece about Mastadon almost exclusively (yes the author uses it as a shorthand, but most of the arguments are ultmalty Mastadon-specific).

I too had a Mastadon account and I too no longer use it. Why? The big problem with Mastadon (and with Twitter) is that most of the value is in fiollowing celebrities, and the celebritites want to reach the widest audience possible, which for now is still Twitter.

The value in reddit is in the community. That’s a fundamental difference and it is extremly portable.

Besides that, the author has some poor takes:

Decentralisation makes the user experience worse

Yes it does. As does monetization. However, unlike monetization, the worse user experience from decentralisation is temporary as it is merely a development problem and there is incentive for the community to make the experience better and they are doing just that. Corporate interests, however, have incentives to make the user experience on their traditional platforms worse. See: enshittification. Cory Doctrow said it better than anyone else will.

The people who accept these trade-offs are not normal, and they’re in charge

The author compares this to linux, but the analogy really is much closer to… the Internet. The internet was pioneered by nerds and social outcasts, and maybe the author is too young to know this but for a long time using the internet was very uncool. Arguably Twitter was very unpopular when it first hit the scene. Of course it changed quickly as the tide was already shifting towards online being the new trendy place by then.

I think the real benefits of Docker don’t become unquestionably obvious untill you’ve ever tried to manage more than one installation of some kind of server software in the same machine and inevitably learn the hard way that this comes with a lot of problems and downsides.

• From simple things like if the environment needs a restart, you can just restart the container, without rebooting the machine, interrupting other applications.
• To seriously dangerous and problematic things, like configuring your system to work with your new application only to realize that this configuration is breaking your other server software.

A discussion around tech is a distraction, and it’s a fallacy to think people are too illiterate to understand the problem. The problem is one of incentives, politics, and economic policies. The problem is that people have forgotten that a free market only serves the interests of paying customers–and while that’s fine for the paying customers, users of online platforms are not paying customers. They are slaves to a system that will treat them like dirt because they become addicted/dependant to it.

It’s going to take a cultural revolution for people to learn this, not so different than it took generations to learn about the dangers of mercury/asbestos/cigarettes/climate change/plastic pollution. You are right that the change doesn’t happen with discussions around FOSS/fediverse/UX. It starts with a realization of the dangers.

That’s nice and all, but before we get to any of this there’s a fundamental incentive schism to overcome first. People flock to the fediverse because they are tired of being treated like cattle. If you are not the paying customer, you are the product. And you will never–NEVER–be catered to. That’s the bottom line here.

Seconded. I logged in but the posts don’t show up. Also only my subscriptions on my main instance are listed, not subscriptions from other instances.

This app looks really promising. Reminds me of Boost.

Yes and no. We had TV before YouTube. And yet people still wanted YouTube. Now, YouTube is going full circle and turning into TV. At the end of the day, people just want a place where they can share some cat videos, and random funny clips and memes without all the monetisation, adds, regulation, political correctness, and sanitization. It’s just too out of touch for a lot of people.

I’m not sure if the next tube platform will have p2p or federation, but I do know that business models that don’t make the user the client always end up dieing from enshitification. People just get fed up of not being catered to. It’s just a matter of when, not if.