Capricorn_Geriatric

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Basic EEE strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). For example, take XMPP. It was a wonderful federated chat protocol. Google joined it with its Google Talk application. All was well. Until it wasn't. You see, Google added some "new features" that could be used only with the Google talk app and account. So people flocked to it. All is still well. But then google decides to close the gates - Google Talk is its own thing now and you can't talk to people on other servers or with other apps. Take what hapoened wit XMPP. Google embraces XMPP with Giogle Talk. Google add some shiny "new features" that are exclusive to Google Talk (extend). Google cuts off XMPP access to other domains other than the Google Talk domain, thus finishing the extinguish phase.

Just replace Google with Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg, Google Talk with Threads and XMPP with ActivityPub/Mastodon/Lemmy and you can see how it could happen. The XMPP Wikipedia page has it covered very well, and there's a dedicated Embrace, extend, extinguish page on Wikipedia if you want to read more.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mind giving a rundown of how you do it? I tried it many, many times and never accomplished much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

He was just obsessed with cutting things in half

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Don't forget adjusting for inflation and real money being given back not some shitty gift card

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And yet they shit on Halloween

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't preaching (i.e. telling people how to think) the basis of all religion, especially christianity and especially catholicism?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

But if it knows everything, it knows nothing. You cannot discern a lie from the truth. It'll spit something out and it may seem true, but is it really?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No, just make it a permanent cookie to reject so if the cookies get deleted (as they usually do) you're back to being tracked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The overriding legitimate interest you speak of is so vaguely defined as to make a simple 'yeah fuck you, that's why' pass the filter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Imagine Nestle executives finding a time machine and going to all of history's most famous persons' mothers and telling them how they can't breastfeed their kids.

Someone should definitely write a book about that

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