The article body originally had it in all caps and once I noticed that I rewrote my comment that way. The article now shows it as “Bluesky” (no capital S) which is apparently the correct way. I dunno wtf is going on.

Yep.

The main problem with BLUESKY is that it’s the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here’s the first 10 things in my feed:

1. Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
2. A picture of black hole (which is great!)
3. Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
4. Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
5. Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
6. Science / Astronomy content
7. Video Game Post
8. Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
9. Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
10. Boring US Political schlock defending Dr. Fauchi

So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I “fix” that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.

No idea what your talking about. I live at 6,000 feet in a place with low humidity and the popcorn button on my microwave works perfectly.

TLD is still a Sony Supporter and that’s all I need to say.

1. Open powershell
2. Type Winget upgrade --all
3. Hit enter.

It’s the same as most Linux distros, just different commands / syntax.

Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion.

No they won’t, Reddit killed Internet Forums, Threads has over 200 million active monthly users, and BlueSky already has double the number of users of Mastadon and is adding 10 new ones PER SECOND . Mastadon will be entirely irrelevant by the end of Q1 2025.

What we’re watching right now is the exact same fight that the chat platforms had back in the early 2000s. AOL chat vs IRC vs Yahoo Chat vs Microsoft Messenger. That was temporarily addressed by using multi-service clients like Trillian…and then Facebook rolled in and squashed them all. BTW there are several multi-platform clients out there right now that will allow you to interact with Xitter, Threads, BlueSky, and Mastadon simultaneously just like the Trillian of old.

I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.

Generally speaking if you aren’t the customer then you are the product. Individual Lemmy and Mastadon instances are getting around this for now because they are small enough that their operational costs can be covered by the ideologically motivated instance admins and users. If Lemmy or Mastadon ever gains wide popularity this will change.

Community search could be improved.

This isn’t a community search problem. I absolutely should NOT have to intentionally visit every single niche community that I am already subscribed too.

The USER needs a way to control their feed, either by throttling large communities or boosting smaller ones.

Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news.

I have this exact problem and it’s maddening. Fucking “news”, which is mostly just political posts about how shitty Republicans are completely drowns out all of my smaller niche communities!

I don’t know how to fix the problem but the USER needs some way to control their feed. We either need to be able to throttle the larger communities or boost the smaller ones.

Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.

The Biden Administration was “Round Two”, the return of Trump will bring Round Three.

50s / M / North America and I lived “Ye Old Days” when A/S/L was created.

Another vote for Reolink, especially the models with ONVIF support.

That’s what THIS fight is about. Qualcomm bought Nuvia and in a nutshell they believe that they acquired Nuvia’s ARM license with that purchase, now they’re starting to sell chip designs that were done by Nuvia using their ARM license. ARM disagrees that Nuvia’s license transferred to Qualcomm and so here we are.

The reason ARM is freaking out about this is because ARM sells functional designs and that’s what Qualcomm is starting to do with what they bought from Nuvia. Historically ARM has sold designs and Qualcomm sold chips but now ARM wants to start selling chips and Qualcomm wants to start selling designs.

ARM may still be the good guy but they are not what / who they used to be. Softbank, the Japanese owner of ARM, has been losing its ass on tech investments and they want $$$. This is why ARM did their IPO last fall.

Both ARM and Qualcomm now have the same fiscal pressures so they’re going to start acting in a similar fashion.

Head to Vegas and bet all 100 Million that the Earth will be destroyed by an Asteroid in the next 25 days.

Earth not destroyed? 100 Million is gone and the Billion is yours. Earth IS destroyed? You aren’t alive to know that you won the bet but lost the Billion.

You literally cannot lose.

Not yet but they’re working on it.

Uhhh they do. Defender for Endpoint. It’s available as both P1 and P2 depending on what you need.

It’s a PITA but you can restore a backup from last Wednesday or earlier into a VM, boot it up, and then retrieve the key for one of your regular ADCs.

Also, why are all your ADCs using BitLocker? I get that you want data encrypted at rest but why not use your RAID controller instead?

It’s 80% of web servers but not 80% of ALL servers.