Chozo

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?

Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it’s a school day.

Why?

A lot of the affected services seem to be partially functional right now. It looks like the AWS network that went offline is one managing real-time analytics data, mostly.

Whatever you do, you shouldn’t accidentally spill saltwater on it. That could destroy a very expensive piece of spying equipment, and would be a terrible, tragic accident that could interfere with the advance of nazism.

Good idea! How do I get past the boarded-up doors, though?

If they promoted it on another FOSS platform, nobody would see it.

Remember: ICE are not people.

So… it’s a custom wrapper for Bluesky?

No shit, Big Tech is going to kowtow to whoever is in charge.

Remove Apple’s restrictions from the equation and just make it a PWA. This isn’t the sort of app that needs to run natively on your device, anyway.

Unless you like seminars about GNU, there’s not really a lot of original media on the Fediverse that the average person would be interested in.

The Fediverse is a niche within a niche.

Yes, you’re correct. I just checked the TSA site as I’m about to take a flight tonight, and there’s a similar banner at the top of their page, too.

That’s an example of it specifically not working.

If one day YT sets a “minimum requirements” page on their website to access their content, they’ve immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.

This all incorrectly assumes that there exists any viable competition to switch to. YouTube ran at a net loss for over a decade to get the reach they currently have, only because Google was one of the very few companies who could feasibly afford to do so. Nobody else with the resources to compete with YouTube is willing to compete with YouTube, because of the massive cost required to get even a fraction of that user base, let alone a critical mass.

And most of the content people access YouTube for is only found on YouTube, so those hypothetical users aren’t going to switch to a new platform, they’re going to either just flat-out stop watching or will replace their devices.

Those are fantastic solutions if you don’t want anybody to watch your content.

You said it on live TV, jackass. We all saw and heard you.

The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET. Even IF Meta weren’t going to use the photos for advertising purposes, that shit is still public. Even if you set it to “friends only”, you don’t know everybody on your friend list as well as you’d like to think.

The use of “real jobs” already tells me that you don’t respect artists, which is likely the real reason why you don’t want to pay them.

Because, you’d find this hard to believe, that there are people who want to enjoy a hobby without feeling like selling out.

Hobbyists have bills to pay, too.

That’s an awfully defeatist way of looking at it, IMO.

I feel like “not paying artists” makes as much for a better world as “not tipping waitstaff”.