bugbear

Yes. And again, patches aren’t a finite commodity.

Dibs on the patches? They are not finite.

Colour me shocked.

Janet from The Good Place: “Not a girl”

“If the bad guys have guns, we need good guys with guns as well”

Okay, I’ll bite. What?

LibreOffice?

I’m sorry, I don’t see the problem. They had to manually renew them before as well. Yes, it’s annoying to do it more often, but other than that there wouldn’t be much change

Boo

Roleplaying, are we?

So eventually also useless for people like me who don’t have an account.

Yes, searchability is an issue. It’s partly how the big web search engines work, but I think it’s also partly that many people actively want to be excluded from web search (which is fine on the microblogging side of fedi, but it makes less sense here)

The Plague: Someone didn’t bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and…

Margo: [glares at The Plague]

The Plague: god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?

(Hackers 1995)

So much knowledge is going to be lost, honestly. And before people point out lemmy/kbin (and other Reddit-like fedi software), it’s still not comparable.

Well, that’s upsetting.

Edit: and the public API as well, I guess this might be the end of alternative frontends for Reddit (my only way to access Reddit these days)

Oh, yes. I am sure the original point of making this information available in the first place is following some legislation. It’s just interesting how suddenly everyone’s talking about flat butt and other tidbits, (of course they are, it’s funny) so I wonder whether that was engineered to get this kind of response. Maybe I’m just too cynical these days.

Services other people rely on

Low effort trolling

Maybe not the best examples for the crowds around here. You might have a difficult time looking for someone who admires either of those two.

This kind of inferred information is useful for them (in some cases), of course. But I can’t help myself wondering if those more ridiculous tidbits are meant for viral marketing. They made everyone talk about Amazon (in somewhat non-negative way) again, right?