My name is Jess. I build and manage servers for both work and fun. I also occasionally make music.
There definitely are ones. Back when I worked at a smaller tech company, I had an old co-worker who was solely responsible for running our internal DNS. They periodically created new internal URLs that redirected to Rickrolls and shared hid them in random internal docs.
My favorite was one he gave to our CEO who put it in a PowerPoint without checking it first and he clicked it during a presentation! Everyone was a good sport about it.
Those were good times…
Haha 405 really dates lolcats, eh?
Saving this.
They even have my favorite: https://http.cat/418
That is how the rickroll came to be…
I actually shocked no one did that in this thread (yet).
This is great.
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Yeah, I noticed this, so I started using RSS feeds of my subscribed channels. I honestly think RSS (and other web 2.0 tech) is when the internet peaked from a user experience perspective.
RSS only faded away because it’s so convenient that it’s hard to monetize. When the goal became keeping people on your platform as long as possible, RSS was antithetical to that goal. So platforms either abandoned support for it or (like YouTube) stopped advertising its existence.
District 9 is the most plausible exploration of how humans would deal with aliens visiting Earth.
I like the awkward start. It makes it feel more improvised, building confidence as he gets going. It’s portrayed in the movie as him speaking from the heart, and him struggling to find the words in the beginning helps sell it imo.
Yeah, that’s what I mean by romantic. It’s an exciting thing to imagine, even if it did take an immediate, existential calamity to make it happen. Shared trauma can quickly form very powerful bonds in humans (veterans often attest to this).
However, in reality, humans still find the most petty shit to disagree on, even at their own expense. A real post-Independence Day would immediately start an arms race to savage and assimilate all that alien tech before other nations do; tyrants would use the weakness of the fallout to grab power and wealth; people would begin endlessly arguing about how to rebuild and/or prepare for another invasion, etc.
After a few generations of humans, people would form conspiracy theories straight up denying it even happened despite entire cities being reduced to rubble. With 8.2 billion people, complete consensus on literally anything, even reality, might just be impossible.
But it’s nice to imagine what we could accomplish if we did…
The president’s Independence Day (1996) speech gets me almost every time.
Especially when he crescendos, “…the day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight.”
The idea of every nation on Earth actually rallying behind a cause is such a romantic one.
I can’t imagine complaining about people getting credit for their work.
This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.
I’ve been periodically checking in with Revolt Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:
I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.
Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.
Smells like desperation. Still struggling to find a sustainable business model are we?
Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.
How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”
They keep your private key on their servers.
Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol
double grins in self-hosted Fedi instances
lol yeah I definitely have more downtime than AWS.
The main differences are:
Indirectly, this was. He said this was a bug in their recent tool that allows sites to block AI crawlers that caused the outages. It’s a relatively new tool released in the last few months, so it makes sense it might be buggy as the rush to stop the AI DoS attacks has been pertinent.