I saw an ad for Oura that made me chuckle the other day. It said “Oura - the original and most trusted ring” or something like that, and I thought “oh there are other ones to choose from, that are likely just as good and cheaper? Thanks for letting me know!”

Yay Lemmy.world, you kicked yourself in the dick, congrats.

Dude I was away on vacation chill. :-)

Aye great read and very illuminating. We gotta protect the fediverse from corporate insidious destruction. This quote stood out to me:

And because there were far more Google talk users than “true XMPP” users, there was little room for “not caring about Google talk users”. Newcomers discovering XMPP and not being Google talk users themselves had very frustrating experience because most of their contact were Google Talk users. They thought they could communicate easily with them but it was basically a degraded version of what they had while using Google talk itself. A typical XMPP roster was mainly composed of Google Talk users with a few geeks.

In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore. And started a long quest to create a messenger, starting with Hangout (which was followed by Allo, Duo. I lost count after that).

All I can say is Slavi Ukraine! Stay strong and I hope you persevere.

Could they also use Seth Myers please? He, of the famed Corrections and target of the Jackals attention is also a worthy public figure.

Maybe it’s a bad community but not a whole bad instance?

Now they think it? Nice, how about back when they invaded a country who was sitting there peacefully for no f’ing reason?

Interesting, will check it out :-)

Humans can do that, but I would guess they more often tried trapping, fishing, and stealthy hunting? Running after an animal over long distances isn’t ideal. It’s a great way to get hurt, animals are very fast and you can lose the trail or they go where you can’t follow, and not to mention exhausting.

More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!

Aye thank you for the info on the lacking end to end encryption at Google Authenticator - I didn’t realize that. Big weak point there in the system.

Awesome! I’ll join. Can you make a Star Wars community too please? That would be fun, just kidding ha

Oh wow that’s cool. In case anyone is looking to spread out and take load off of the most popular instances, we made a new instance on a very robust server at Lemmy.pro - registration is open to come try it out :-)

Howdy, another “new instance” admin just cruising by your instance to check it out, looks cool and a great focus! If you have Experienced Devs probably good to have Junior Devs too, or one focused on learning resources.

Damn, impressive and creative hacking there.