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  • Yeah, this is pretty much my take.

    The web sites that are interested in this tool never wanted to be actual web sites. They wanted to be closed client-server systems with proprietary, opaque protocols… HTTP was just a convenient implementation to leverage.

    What WEI does is basically allow all of these wanna-be walled gardens to become actual walled gardens.

    They never wanted to be interoperable in the first place, so what are we losing? Good riddance.

    Maybe with this in place, we’ll be able to start rebuilding the interoperable web that we had before VC money took it over.

    We just need a compelling business model for it. “Free” ad-supported is toxic for open discourse, and now it’s functionally deprecated on the open web. I think that’s a good thing, but good changes are not necessarily easy to endure.

    I’m not sure how we’ll do it. Attention tokens and all that crypto stuff seems like garbage, but having a thousand different subscriptions to get past paywalls is not great either.


  • Thank you for contacting technical support.

    It appears you’re having a problem with HUMOR.EXE.

    You seem to have enabled LIP (Laughter Integrity Protection) Service.

    You should know that LIP Service does not apply to built-in protocols such as TAB/00, and will cause compatibility issues in certain deployment environments such as EARTH.ENV.

    To solve your particular issue, you’ll want to navigate to the /ASS directory, right-click on HEAD.ZIP and select “Extract”.


  • kibiz0r@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy are folks so anti-capitalist?
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    Capitalism is a tool. Being pro-capitalism is like being pro-circular saw.

    What you see as “anti-capitalism” is people pointing out that using one tool for everything is, at best, inefficient… and, at worst, dangerous.

    Insisting that everything must be quantifiable and min/maxed according to market demands is nonsense, and hurts people.

    There are things we value which are not profitable. There are things that are profitable but not valuable.





  • Looks like that’s based on an outdated TOS. Even then, those terms are pretty tame except for the one about transferable license for uploaded content, which has thankfully been narrowed by a lot in the current TOS. (Now it just means: We’re allowed to store your images on S3, resize them, and show them to people you specifically selected to send them to.)

    For a company that’s worried about 230 safe harbor, GDPR, CCPA, and wants to promote their first-party products at you, this is all standard.

    Also:

    This service does not sell your personal data


  • They learned their lesson with the old Visual Studio. Spending all of that money to maintain an IDE where the core 90% of it was no better than any open source or shareware alternative.

    The only reasons people needed VS specifically were all features that could easily be turned into self-contained plugins.

    And with everything turning into cloud services, there’s pretty much no point in trying to sell installable local apps that are impossible to fully DRM and have no justifiable subscription fees.

    And when an enterprise goes to pick a cloud repo service, cloud code workspace, cloud hosting, devops system, AI development assistant, etc… Who are they gonna pick? Maybe the one from the same company that makes “that one app all our devs rave about”?


  • Their privacy policy says they don’t sell your data.

    Not that you should automatically trust any communication platform (present Lemmies excluded), but exchange of data for services is at least not the business model on paper.

    In a sense, you still “are the product”, because people won’t buy Nitro if there’s noone to talk to.

    But that’s different from like… tracking micro-motions of your mouse to categorize your personality traits and increase ad conversions.