its an interesting difference in perspective for sure. here you join as a matter of course because you can push back against changes that are bad.

it’s not really about the type of data, it’s more about how you get it. web browsers could open gopher URIs for a long time, it was just a separate access method.

but the thing is, it doesn’t really make a difference today, because we’ve decided that http is some sort of base protocol.

someone decided to try making a custom matrix:// scheme (it’s called a scheme btw) for matrix clients and it’s just been a nightmare. clients don’t know what to do with the url, servers block it, we had to patch it out to get it to properly encrypt messages to our local homeserver. and matrix just uses http on top anyway.

no, i think they should be reserved for protocols that are important enough to be in the <1000 range of ports. like SSH, or Doom multiplayer.

i mean i don’t go

well, if we’re going by the original definition of meme as a concept or idea that spreads and mutates like a social version of a gene through a population (Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976), then unfortunately image macros are indeed a form of meme.

also, that’s not an image macro. a macro is shorthand; image macros are memetic images, e.g. they have a culturally understood meaning that requires no extra context after learning of it, optionally with attached text that plays off of that cultural understanding. examples of image macros are “foul bachelor frog”, “good guy joegreg”, “hide the pain harold”, “this is fine”, “all the things”, and so on. a comic that sets up a scenario is not shorthand, unless it’s “loss” or “sweet bro and hella jeff”.

Edit: yes, i’m fun at parties.

i have only ever made one meme. it was more than 15 years ago, in a specific thread on the facepunch studios forums. it broke containment and is now one of the featured examples for the thing it is about on knowyourmeme (i just checked this because i wanted to see if it was in the gallery). and of course, i have no way to prove this. it was a hastily made gif i lost like eight computers ago.

this goes against the new NIST recommendations for password policy.

naughty.

you know, that seems to be to exact same reason the article talks about.

what i mean with extra work is partially the weight thing, partially the fact that here there’s usually 15-20 checkout things in larger stores, and no dedicated staff member at all unless it’s busy.

collecting wood for heating.

i use trekarta. you can load in custom maps for satellite data, and you can get the map to always point north.

i’ve never even seen a self checkout that does this… it feels like it would be an enormous hassle for the store.

also we’ve had the little hand scanners you bring with you through the store for something like 20 years so i don’t really ever go through the checkout unless it fails to scan my card.

…that’s just shipping cost? you already pay extra for that.

mold walk

what i’m seeing is that bobby kotick is way overdue

it was just an example :P

this makes me nostalgic… people were saying this about fallout 3.

i think i have seen multiple of them, some even in theater, but the only one i remember is the first iron man one.

so my hot take is that they’re… not very interesting.

well the important distinction is who is bound, right? your examples are all true of open source as well. the main difference between the two concepts is that if i withhold my changes to gpl-licensed code from you, you can sue me for breaching the license. if the software is mit, i am in my full right to deny you access. that’s not what i got from your wording.

so, what your first post describes is open source. this quote from the fsf also describes open source, but the important stuff is in the nuances of the wording. open source allows you to share your changes. free software forces it through legal means. sorry for being so curt at first, i elaborated in my other reply.