a post on twitter.com
@jackyalcine The hardest "Meta" app to ditch for me and my family will be WhatsApp - it's the only thing my parents in law are accepting right now as chat app. We have about 7GB worth of picture files in our family group. I backed these up, but still will be hard to replace with anything else.
Yeah, after successfully getting a good chunk of my family off of it—it looks like people have migrated back. Network effects are like mental shackles for people nowadays, and it's very hard to break.
Now I have even more reason to delete Instagram. https://www.engadget.com/mark-zuckerberg-confirms-nf-ts-are-coming-to-instagram-204435805.html. I have a backup of what I want, just need to backfeed.
Not the warmongering nation running out of money! They need to stop buying Starbucks coffees and shopping at Whole Foods! https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086653838/the-white-house-says-its-running-out-of-money-to-cover-covid-tests-and-vaccines
When I turn 40, I'm going to see something about the death of this forest. And it won't matter to society until everyone's choking on dust. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/07/climate-crisis-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point
Tried to directly like a post from a Plemora instance and Koype couldn't handle it. I guess that's one of the downsides of a site employing js;dr methodologies.
A question that still needs an answer (that we already know the answer to). https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1439287564385468420
Nah, but real talk—this is something that's been happening for too long (and it kind of makes that whole "more of us in the decision room" moot, since change only happens in those coffers).
What was that about the free market? Lol, tbh, do the fuck you want. Nothing's getting better and the efforts in trying to do so are being drowned out by the majority of people who don't want to know what's going on, don't give a fuck or don't want it to mess up their comfort. https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/georgia-man-who-spent-50k-on-pokemon-card-with-covid-funds-sentenced-to-prison/AT5QOWSBGZBV5HP5S55QC7ZSCE/
Every time I need to serialize something, I try using URL encoding because “the Web”! But then storing things like enumerations get hard, so I give up and use JSON. Sigh.
tl;dr: fuck your backyard, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI