For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires' son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above)....
Just like people insulting the individuals inside. I hate billionaires as much as the next guy. But one of the guys was just doing his job and had been to the Titanic over 35 times in this thing. The operator was also an experienced diver just doing his job. Even one of the tourist was a consummate diver with experience on submarine operations. This seem to have been an unfortunate accident. Going so deep is inherently extremely risky, but these people knew what they were doing. It's off putting reading a bunch of people talking out of their asses about something they don't understand just to make morbid jokes.
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
Google successfully EEE the internet. They embraced chromium, extended such that they were the main (only) force that determines internet standads, now they extinguish all competition or obstacles in the ad space by setting the rules. This was done through free open source software.
Because they depend on it. The whole internet runs almost exclusively on Linux. To replace it would cost so much more money than just paying to the foundation to sit at the table and at least get a word in decisions. Trust me, Microsoft tried very hard, and burned billions of dollars, never got anywhere near to threatening Linux's supremacy.
Your three statements are not related logically. They creating Chromium as open software doesn't precludes an EEE strategy. A successful product says nothing about whether that product was part of an EEE strategy. MSN Messenger was a successful product. Both by being universally adopted on the internet and fulfilling its meta purpose. It was intentionally created for (and features were chosen and developed) to displace and kill AOL's IM. And it was later revealed to be 100% part of an EEE ploy. Just to bring the point home, Chromium is intentionally kneecapped and devs fight all the time about feature development because Google keeps it below-parity with Chrome, because Chrome's purpose is to create a de-facto control over browsers, Chromium's purpose is to wash Chrome's face. It already succeeded partially by displacing the competence. Now Google's implement features on Chrome first, even if those features were innovated or implemented before by other browsers, then makes the W3C board change the standards to create the illusion that Chromes was first and manufacturing the facade that it's the best browser. Thus ensuring their domination of the space. It's just basic corporate manipulation.
Both things are true at the same time. GNU/Linux existed for decades before Fuckerberg squirted Facebook out of his rear end. They're a part of it, because they depend on it. There's no alternative.
There is !adhd , but that seems like a more casual community with memes. Is there one that is more focused on information with tips, strategies, and personal stories? I feel like that would be a really important community to have on Lemmy, if not already made
I’ve also found that it’s extremely hard to find out whether a community already exists in another instance. You have to literally go there and search for it. Which I think is a technical hurdle. Federated instances should inform each other of this fact automatically. I just searched for a community for hours, found none so decided to create it myself here. When I shared it over on Reddit before the big blackout goes in full swing I was promptly informed that such a community already existed, but in another instance that I didn’t know existed. That community just has been death for 2 years inactive. Oh, well.
My advice is, whatever, just create the community you want to see and we’ll sort out fragmentation later. I get it if you don’t want to moderate yourself, but this is just the big challenge of federation. Maybe fragmentation is not that bad of a thing, we’ll see in time.
Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued? (lemmy.world)
For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires' son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above)....
Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days?
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
Any community like r/ADHD on Lemmy?
There is !adhd , but that seems like a more casual community with memes. Is there one that is more focused on information with tips, strategies, and personal stories? I feel like that would be a really important community to have on Lemmy, if not already made