Meldroc

I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.

In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.

Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)

Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.

Indeed! I think a lot of people here are getting wise to that.

No.

I think we understand the other side just fine. They’re a combination of malignant narcissists and complete idiots.

Exactly. The cancer may wear a swastika or a hammer-and-sickle. Either way, it’s authoritarian cancer.

Yep, they get bored when they don’t have people to bully after the rest of the planet tells them to fuck off.

Just ignore the genocides perpetuated by the Soviets…

Oh look, tankie horseshit. How many millions died as a result of “efforts to establish socialism”? So why don’t you shove that disingenuous bullshit up your ass.

Damned right. Fuck nazis and tankies. Fuck the bigots and fuck the authoritarian Putin-lovers.

Having multi-communities, akin to multireddits, would be handy.

Ah, the things we do to attempt to preserve our dignity when we think we’re getting something only entertainingly hot, but turns out to be Chicken à la Mace…

Exactly. Thus the spelling & grammar errors, the obviously far-fetched story. They want the people who don’t raise red flags when they see that nonsense.

They’re filtering for stupid.

Sooner or later, Vader was going to find someone that shares his fetish for black leather…

And despite security recommendations, too many IT depts still force password resets every 90 days…

And people confronted with this change their password from “p@55w0rd!1” to “p@55w0rd@2”. Yep extra-secure!

Lobbyists engineering bills in Congress to prohibit this and throw people in prison for it through additions to the DMCA in 3…2…1…

The thing I noticed right out of the gate when I went slumming on Threads is that the Android app package is 77MB. Compare that to Mastodon at 2.5MB.

Two apps that (from the user’s perspective) do pretty much the same thing - make queries to servers and display pieces of text on the screen, maybe with some pictures or videos. Not that hard.

So what does that extra 74MB of bloat in the Threads app do? Meta’s not telling us…

Oh, be nice to Stockton - his entire life imploded because of this incident!