Corgana

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Step 2 of enshittification:

First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.

Corgana , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

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Corgana , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter

...Not... kick them out? Discord doesn't kick out extremist groups. This seems comparatively mild. I think they had a reasonable expectation to be left alone. Nintendo got a court injunction but Discord didn't fight it.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

I heard Neeva was amazing too, but it ultimately couldn't find enough people willing to pay for a search engine.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

Well said, private companies are incentivized to make their customers happy. Corporations are incentivized to make their shareholders happy. Sometimes those goals align, but they are not the same.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Privacy in Google Pixel alternatives?

I didn't know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

Corgana , 2 months ago to Privacy in Google Pixel alternatives?

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn't feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

Corgana , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Technology in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

How would blocking yourself from the ability to follow Threads accounts stop them from... anything? It's not two-way if one of the two parties doesn't want it to be, and Meta can't be trusted.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Technology in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

Can you explain how defederating prevents Meta from extending open standards (ActivityPub) with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage Threads competitors?

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Photopea offline

Very cool!

Corgana , 3 months ago to Privacy in The Kids Who Hacked The CIA

I don't really think it's what most people want or expect from this community, that said I watched this this the other day and it was a very entertaining and well told story!

Corgana , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

Jay Graber is a woman

Corgana , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Next step on my self-hosting journey

The greenest/cheapest way is to recycle an old laptop. They're pretty efficient and unless you're transcribing video anything in the past 10 years will be plenty powerful. Also the built-in battery is great in case of a power outage.

Then, just get one of those multi-disk USB HDD enclosure and pop some drives in.

For an OS, I like CasaOS which runs on top of Debain. It is a single-line install, and makes running docker apps very easy, for the services you mentioned and many others it can be set up entirely using the GUI.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Looking for a good photoshop alternate

I could never get photogimp to work. Like literally it would appear to install OK but just nothing would happen, Couldn't figure it out.

Also holy crap Photopea is actually impressive I did not expect it to be that advanced. Thanks for sharing.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?

That looks like they're going for a Slack-like interface which is awesome.