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This is kind of amusing, because I know at least one engineer from college who got a big exit from his first startup and become a math teacher because he wanted to do something more noble than the startup grind.

Obvious troll is obvious

I mean you could see him recognize that he fucked up in real time. He definitely knew better. It was the ensuing “heated gamer moment” excuse which really made it a meme. He should have just immediately and unambiguously acknowledged that he fucked up and taken real action to show remorse. This is a pretty common pattern with this kind of thing. You can’t do the whole “soft apology with a side of justification” and expect things to go back to normal. And this is just a life lesson in general - when you fuck up, you need to really lean into making a change.

I have seen this cycle three times already. PewdiePie basically loses popularity for a few years when his audience ages out, and then he does some reboot or marketing push or something and a new generation or children start watching again.

He only fell a couple of feet.

The meals are fine, but they tend to be fairly basic and safe. If you can already cook then you will probably find most of the food pretty boring. If you can’t cook then it’s a good way to learn some basics.

Just to add that proper mesh systems are distinct from extenders as they will use separate mesh channels for back haul. They also have the “travel AP” things which act as extenders but form a new network on a different channel. You can actually do this with many Android phones as well.

What’s the point of anything you aren’t immediately good at?

And still somehow a thousand times more real than Limp fucking Bizkit

Fred Durst is and has always been a boot sucking poser. He has never protested anything beyond a groupie telling him “no.”

OP was born in 1991 and was too young to have lived through the proper grunge revolution, but was just the right age to experience the corporate grunge poser revolution.

Limp Bizkit does not deserve to be anywhere near this list. They are a piss stain on the seat of the limo Kurt Kobain’s brother rented for Prom.

Absolutely shocking that there are some power users and admins in here defending this because they are weirdly hostile to the idea of user privacy on the fediverse.

Well that is surely not my intent.

There is no privacy, or there can’t be privacy?

So your argument is that meaningless internet points are more important than user privacy? I just want to make sure we have that on record.

The quickest path to enshitification of the fediverse is precisely this kind of large scale scraping and data mining. There are extremely simple ways to avoid this but the collective admin cohort has decided they like this tiny bit of internet power over innovation, because innovation is a tiny bit more difficult.

Vote manipulation only matters if votes matter. Just make down votes placebo or get rid of them entirely. There are other engagement metrics to use for sorting. Just make votes a small portion of a bigger algorithm and it dilutes the problem away. On the other hand, it seems like a ton of people on here outright refuse to consider that this is a problem, and are I stead choosing to live with their head in the sand.

Either way, right now public voting does nothing to stop vote manipulation, it just gives the sockpuppet and astroturfing accounts great feedback to target certain demographics.

The piefed implementation was a great compromise imo, and the only reason it was abandoned was idiotic forum politics. It did exactly what it set out to do - provide a layer of protection against large scale data mining and long term storage, and added a significant barrier to vote stalking, while still leaving mechanisms to ban voting agents.

Definitely called this. Can we have private voting now? These people are scraping the fediverse and the current state of things is a privacy nightmare.

Luxury items, particularly watches and shoes and shit. Conspicuously ranking your wealth like that is cringe as fuck. “Ah yes, I see you can afford the DoucheKeeper 2121. That’s ok I guess, if you can’t afford the DoucheKeeper 2424.”

It makes far more sense to just dress well below your “status” imo. Real confidence is being above all that vanity, and real intrigue is keeping people guessing about your “status.” You want to know what I do and how much money I do or don’t have? Get to know me, and you’ll discover none of that shit matters.

At first, it will probably work. But you will likely lose access after a few days and your servers will be scanned for exploits, so make sure your shit it up to date.

Source: hosted an XMPP server which was summarily banned after 2 days of access from China and then probed/attacked repeatedly until I took it offline.