Would you be willing to take over?

If so, I can transfer the community to you and you can have a crack at it.

Thanks for the heads up. It’s fixed now.

Lots going on in this episode.

Home Secretary is annoying as fuck.

The layers of this shadow organization seem to run very deep.
Makes me wonder if there’s more to it than to have a criminal be set free, just because it seems rather overkill to incur so much more criminal liability by hijacking a plane.
Also makes me wonder if there’s more to leaking it to the press other than putting pressure on the government, perhaps they’re also looking to make out like bandits on the stock market as was hinted.

Getting out of the car out of sight is a typical trope, but didn’t annoy me that much.

Having backup hijackers was something I had expected early on, but they kept that keg of powder dry long enough that I had forgotten about it, so I was blind-sighted by it in a pleasant way.

Wonder what the point was of specifically killing the pilot and locking herself into the cockpit.

Good ad for Apple products 😜.
Can’t get into the Mac, and if you pay close attention you can notice it taking longer for the password to be checked with each attempt just like in real life.

Kid should’ve had an Apple Watch, then he could’ve remotely put his phone on Do Not Disturb (just to be safe) and call/text for help from the closet, instead of that gambit with the landline (also who stores away a landline phone but keeps the service?).

For me personally they manage to stop just short of the point of annoyance with the blue balling.

First with the realization of the blank rounds being negated by switching to live rounds and now with the uprising being foiled by the discovery/backup hijacker.

All in all very enjoyable episode.

It was definitely gripping, discussion thread is up.

Sorry for the delay, feel free to create one yourself next time if there isn’t one yet.

Yes Lemmy has an editing option for titles.

Yikes.

I guess there was no way it wouldn’t be affected by the strikes.
Thanks for sharing the article.

It’s still on my list of things to watch, because it looks so good. Just so busy lately.

I guess the silver lining is that I can at least binge it in one go.

Seems like everything is coming to a head now.

Shame the knowledge about the blanks seems to end up being useless, because they wasted so much time verifying.

I can only assume the end was a fake out and the guy shooting the gun missed in the chaos of getting to the back.

It’s pretty ok @sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz.
It creates a community on this instance with posts from Reddit, allowing you to easily crosspost.

Only issue is if your own instance is buckling under the weight of traffic, then it can be a bit slow and cumbersome.

You also need to remember to quickly subscribe to the newly created community on this instance from your own instance because federation doesn’t pull old posts from prior to the first person on an instance subscribing to a community on another instance.

Have you seen !rust@programming.dev?

Not a Rust dev but it looks pretty active to me.

It’s not out of solidarity, advertisers are worried they’ll turn into lightning rods: https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-reddit-as-advertisers-weather-moderators-strike/

Reddit is antsy to effectuate their exit strategy.

Or to put it more simply: everyone with a stake in Reddit, from pigboy Huffman, to institutional investors like Fidelity, to employees who earned equity is eager for Reddit to have their IPO so they can offload their shares on the public stock market.

Their valuation will be an important factor, if not the most important factor, that will determine for which price those stocks will initially be put on the market.

So while slashing the valuation in half will not directly lose them money, it could translate into the initial stock price being half of what they anticipated, causing them to get half of what they would’ve gotten had the valuation not be slashed in half.

There is no way in hell that people with equity in Reddit are not pissed about the slashing of the valuation, since they now anticipate getting a haircut as much as half of what they initially expected to get.

You can listen to the song on his YouTube channel as well: https://youtu.be/KOFChFxsJ3I

What most people missed, much less understood, from that interaction is that Reddit justified the API cost based on “opportunity cost”.

This means that Reddit was saying that they weren’t trying to kill off third party apps but that they simply were trying to charge $20MM/y to recoup the earnings they’re losing out on by virtue of people using Apollo instead of Reddit’s own offerings.

So yeah, like you said, he clearly tried to call BS on the price motivation by essentially saying “if my mere existence is causing you to lose out on $20MM/y of earnings, why don’t you cut a check for $10MM to buy Apollo”.

Because logically if it really was about opportunity cost and the pricing of $20MM/y would accurately reflect that, then a one time $10MM purchase would be such a steal compared to losing $20MM/y, it would have any CEO scrambling to sign a check the moment the option was even so much as whispered.

Instead the API pricing was simply a ploy to kill off third party apps and the “opportunity cost” nonsense was mere pretext to be able to maintain that it wasn’t about killing off third party apps.

Not to mention that outside of the vacuum of this specific matter, the whole ordeal was littered with duplicitous lies, like how it would be a fair and reasonable price when every other comparable API is multiple orders of magnitude cheaper, safe for Muskrat’s.

Imgur for example would charge $166/50 million request, compared to Reddit’s $12,000 for the same amount. Or put it differently, Imgur charges $276,666/y compared to Reddit’s $20MM/y.

Yeah, how dare he, after almost a decade of work, refuse to get back into the code mines at your whim and repurpose the app super easy in “a few hours”.

/s

Get a grip.

Not only would it take far more than “a few hours”, he owes you jack all.

Even if he would be interested in making a Lemmy app, he’d be well within his right to take a break from things.

She tripped over the sheriff’s corpse, she placed the badge on the sheriff to honor him and a minor consequence of that is that the VR simulation can’t account for that so it slightly glitches.

The clue is that they’ve been using shitty tape to ensure all the cleaners will succumb to the toxic air within a few minutes.
Walk however arranged that the Supply department would deliver the better tape from Mechanical, this went unnoticed because they look very similar and ensured Jules would be able to survive.

There is PeerTube, which is kind of the Fediverse’s answer to YouTube.

It doesn’t really fit to YouTube the same way Mastodon fits Twitter and Lemmy fits Reddit, but it’s relatively well used outside of the West, due to local governments blocking YouTube etc.

In short: money.

Long story is that a lot of these tech companies started as startups funded by VCs.
Borrowing money was cheap so they got dumped buckets of money onto them to burn in an effort to try to get a foothold and/or kill off competition by undercutting them.

Now that they’ve gained a foothold and in some cases have a near monopoly or duopoly and now that borrowing money isn’t cheap anymore, they need to start cutting cost if not outright turn a profit.

And so the enshittification begins.

Specifically for Twitter, Musk needs to cut cost because he bought Twitter at a severe premium and has made it less valuable by the minute ever since he took over. This to the point that he is leaving bills unpaid.

Specifically for Reddit, they’ve burned through all that VC money and have been eying a juicy exit in the form of an IPO. An IPO would be a payday for everyone who initially invested into Reddit because now they can sell their shares for more than what they invested (or at least that’s their hope). In order to get a good price once they go public they want to cut cost and increase revenue to seem as valuable as possible.

Specifically for YouTube, the ad game has been generating less and less revenue over time and advertisers have been burned in the past by having their ads placed next to objectionable content.
So the knee-jerk reaction is to severely tighten the rules for content, lest they be demonetized.
This however made creators realize that their livelihood in the form of the pittance that’s called AdSense payout is very fragile, so they started moving to doing sponsorships, soliciting Patreon donations and partnering with Nebula.

Now YouTube is missing out on those revenue streams and often ad revenue as well as creators often turn off ads on their video when they have sponsor deals etc. So what does YouTube do? They started monetizing videos of creators who are not eligible for their partner program (i.e. place ads on videos and not share it with creators) and not give those creators the option to turn off ads, they started severely increasing the amount of ads on videos that do run ads, they started severely pushing YouTube Premium and now they’re cracking down on adblockers.

You’re fine, it’s OP that seems to misunderstand how things work.

The community they talk about is on another instance (lemmy.ml), the beauty of federation is that any instance can have any community and user, and people can choose which one they subscribe to (or sub to both).

That’s the neat part, there is no “official” on Lemmy.

Subscribe to whichever you like best, or better yet: both.