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"almost 4000 meters of water" is "almost 400 atmospheres". About 2.7 tons per square inch. I find that that absolutely unimaginable. - I can't find any equivalence that my brain can make sense of.
So they're trying to register the mark previously owned by Apple Corps, within the scope of the original mark. I'm not sure where the actual conflict is then, unless Fruits Suisse are also in the music industry.
Edit: Now less sure of this statement. I just had more "come back", all in the same subreddit. So it now appears I'm seeing comments I couldn't previously see because that sub was still private. This makes me less sure the comments I saw previously "came back" rather than being the same issue.
I actually think a large problem with lemmy is that it's already too centralised. Each instance is trying to be a reddit. Which is all very nice, but it also means each instance is effectively in competition. I think each instance should be trying to be a subreddit.
The way it'd work in my head is that you'd have two types of instance. Front-end instances that are effectively curators/aggregators & identity providers. They effectively get to present you your front page and r/all. And this is entirely "if you don't like their curation choices, pick another". So here you'd get to pick if your instance is tech-focussed, foss-focussed, as-big-as-possible, family-friendly, politically charged, etc.
And honestly, the only thing stopping that instance from being an app that's not much more than an rss feed-reader, is that I've saddled them with being identity providers too. Which is not the world's biggest hurdle.
The second type of instance would be one subreddit. So moderators are instance administrators, you're trying to build one community in one place, etc. You're just trying to build one community in your one niche/topic, - and you're not trying to compete with other instances who are also trying to be everything to everyone.
I think this would present a lot of benefits. Front-end instances would naturally discover subreddits through the subscriptions their members make. For users, discovery would be through cross-posts, and curation amongst the subreddits their home instance already knows, etc. They can choose their own funding model, ad model, membership model, etc. And if they make choices that are wildly unpopular with their members, they can move to an instance with different ideas/ownership/spez without losing their communities in the process.
For subreddits, administrators can control their costs by, eg, choosing only to host text posts instead of images & media. Brand-owners can own their own communities/identities - ubuntu can run r/ubuntu on their own infrastructure with their own moderators, etc. And we should see a lot less pissing patches like the linked post, because subreddits aren't directly leaning on each other. Hell, there'd be nothing stopping youtube exposing their channels as pseudo-instances.
What I'd really love to see is a return to a world where one person can host their niche community on a $5 VPS - and still get all the benefits of being a subreddit. And at the same time, foss communities & company support forums can join right in without it being a huge risk to themselves, etc.
Asking for centralization is asking for another model where we put all our eggs in one basket, and then wonder why that basket has to kowtow to VC to pay for it all. What worries me is that right now, we're very focussed on breaking free from that, and no-one's exploring what we could actually gain from the alternatives.
And while this risks sounding incredibly hand-wavy - it's really just the forums we all grew up on, sharing a common API.
If you start out at $5/month. $2.50 goes to reddit. $1.50 goes to apple. That leaves a buck a user, 960k earnt. The first tax calculator I found for novia scotia estimates $489,203 tax owed on that. So that's $470k/year. (Ignoring the difference between CDN and USD, because it makes relatively little difference to the tax due.)
I'd be curious how many users you could keep migrating from $5-once to $5/month.
“ Reddit CEO, u/spez, will be here tomorrow to host an AMA about the latest API updates, including accessibility, mod bots, and third-party mod tools. “
Voat was almost destined to become a nasty place because of the audience that reddit was disenfranchising at the time. If losing /r/fatpeoplehate was enough to make you seek an alternative platform, then the community you wanted to create smelled a lot like /r/fatpeoplehate. And regardless of whether you think that's a community that should or shouldn't exist, I don't believe it's a solid foundation to attract a wide userbase to.
The communities currently being disenfranchised are power-users, community moderators, developers .. if (Voat equivalent) were to happen today, it might find itself with a much more productive community to build from.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/143sho8/admins_c...
I find it hard to believe that cables are a core part of their business. It just gets thrown out every chance it gets. They put usb-c on their laptops, everyone said it was to sell dongles. They didn't put usb-c on the phones, everyone said it was to sell dongles.
All reminds me of people saying what a huge mistake it was that the original imac didn't have a serial port or a floppy drive.
The entire Apollo program had a budget of $165.5 billion (in 2021 dollars), over a 10 year program. $16.5 billion per year. It's a big number, but it's absolutely dwarfed by things like a $600bn military.
And there's absolutely no reason for any of these networks to cross paths. The idea that everyone needs to be in one network, is just as logical as my mother reading my HN comments.
To put it less confrontationally - the books are banned from schools and public libraries. They're not banned from private purchase or private ownership. You can give these books, you can gift them, you can sell them, you can loan them. Just not anywhere that's publicly funded.
So there's really no difference between them being available from Brooklyn Library and being available from Amazon. As long as Texas isn't funding the BPL, there's no issue here.
So if I have a disk image that takes 1,000 blocks, and clone it - I now have two images that total 1,000 blocks. And if I modify one block in one image, I now have two different images that total 1,001 blocks. With a hardlink the modification would affect both images.
The way I visualise the difference, is that a directory entry points to a file entry, and a file entry points to a list of blocks. A hardlink is a new directory entry that points to an existing file entry. a linked clone is a new file entry that points to the same list of blocks.
It's probably for the best that they've been detached from their original meanings.
Just to keep things fun, that's the european convention. In the US it's "red right returning", the exact opposite.
Not much has changed since browsers had to remove the capability to create popup windows (and pop-unders, which only existed because users were getting too proficient at the game of whackamole). At every single step, the industry has shown it will only behave anywhere near reasonably when externally forced to do so.
DNT should have solved this problem, but the leopard couldn't change its spots, and used it to further its attacks on users instead.
And this is why we have over-reaching regulation. Not because we want it, but because we earned it.
So just going "what's that in dollars" either ignores the real discrepancy, or at the very least, misplaces the blame.
Also, fun fact - since I did that math 3 hours ago, SEK has changed enough to wipe out that $29. Right now, (33009 * 0.8) SEK in USD = US$2460.46, making the pre-tax price in Sweden cheaper than the pre-tax price in the US.
I just priced out an M2 MBA with ram & ssd maxed out. $2499 USD in the US and 33009kr in Sweden. $2499 is 26163kr, +25% VAT is 32705kr. So you're paying 304kr / $29 more than the US price.
The single largest issue we had was that customers would use their own email address as the Sender as it was the easiest way to have it accepted by their own network. And then if anything went wrong with our MX, customers would get thousands of bounces back to their address.
But the cause of a lot of issues is that mail does not have reliable delivery. The sending device cannot promise the email was delivered, only that its session with an smtp server ended without fault. It can't promise the message was forwarded or delivered (I have seen mailservers accept emails and disappear them), It can't interrogate the chain of custody from end to end. Receiving email is a near-unrelated second path that rarely exists in embedded applications, so the bounce/feedback mechanism is rarely a closed loop in these applications.
But I can easily see how it'd go wrong. If you spend your visits impersonating rabbits, what proof do you have? If you spend more time on snapchat than the phone, what proof do you have?
There's an old trope of "yes, I do have a girlfriend. you wouldn't know her, she's from another school." She lives in another city, she's from Canada, etc. How do you expect your friend to prove their claim? Now replace the playground with INS/USCIS.
It ends up being a very vague question because there's no set limit of what level of evidence you need to reach, you just need to "satisfy" whoever opens that file.
They've raised a tonne of capital, and it probably looked sane at the time. And now they're grasping at straws trying to figure out how else they can turn this into revenue.
A lot of the recent narrative has been worded like pivoting into a glorified webhost was their evil plan all along. It's not, it's an act of desperation.