meldroc

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The real person in charge of SpaceX and keeping it successful is Gwynne Shotwell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The US law Musk violated would be the Logan Act...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A long time ago I read some cyberpunk novel, and one of the characters had an ocular implant that got infected with malware that flashed spam ads for Indian brothels in his vision 24/7, even with his eyes closed, until he went completely postal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what you're talking about! (packs a bowl...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thrill of transgression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, that flat beige stucco facade - gets him extra soullessness points!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't put it past him...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Looks like the work of some junior edgelord.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly. Lemmy might give you the warning "This may be incomplete, view on the original instance", but if the only posts missing are ones from defederated neo-Nazi instances, not seeing them is indeed a feature rather than a bug.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If things get big enough that hobbyist instance owners are getting overwhelmed, it might be a good idea to organize a nonprofit, under the NPR business model. Not collecting data or breaking your brain with advertisements, though periodically, they're gonna have to go hat in hand, and beg users to feed their Patreon. Hey, I'm more than happy to throw a little in!

Nice thing about this business model is that being a nonprofit, the point of its existence is to fulfill its mission (to help independent distributed social media thrive), instead of to make money for owners/shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's several clients in the works - I'll be looking at Sync for Lemmy, as I was a customer of Sync for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might get to the point where anti-DDOS measures have to be used against AI scrapers.

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