Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Typing in a box on a website provided by someone else can be done by practically anyone, even the boss themselves at a pinch. Heck, some of them love doing that.
Maintaining a server (or a service on a server) requires someone with more skills, which generally costs more money.
Yeah, but then they have to pay someone to maintain it. And low though that cost may be, it’s precisely the sort of thing that C-levels like to cut when they feel like pretending that they actually do something.
It’s a hard thing for a C-level’s ego to set something up that they know someone else is going to cut later, or worse that they might be the one to “have to” cut it.
As slurs go it’s pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English “rosbifs”, if they even still do that.
They should be using tablets. Wax tablets. It was good enough for my great-to-the-nth-grandfather, so it’s good enough for kids today.
Geolocation is done by IP address if nothing else is available. It’s not exact, but if, for example, you use a US-based internet provider, all their customer IP exit points will already be marked as US-based, and any access from one of those to a Google service will get the new name.
Me: “Oh no, that wtf means it’s gonna be a LiveLeak site isn’t it?”
platform for general use
Me: “Ah, so maybe not so bad then.”
Every topic is welcome.
Me: “… and yet…”
Seriously though, I’m all for the Fediverse in all its many forms, and without people like you it wouldn’t exist. Thank you.
For those interested in getting into listening to internet radio, see also: https://dir.xiph.org/ (Icecast network) and https://directory.shoutcast.com/ (Shoutcast network), both of which have been around for ~25 years at this point if the domain registry is anything to go by. Definitely in their current forms for over a decade.
Caveat: Lots of commercial content and stations, which is, of course, antithetical to Fediverse ideology. Still worth a look if you can’t (yet) find what you want in the Fediverse.
(There’s also http://radio.garden/ which has a very pretty interface but has multiple negative points: in-browser only, needs a lot of JavaScript access to station-associated domains on a per-station basis, is HTTP(no S)-only and may not work for stations outside your own country.)
I can imagine that works well. Once.