NomadJones

Hello Sweden! My part of the Midwest has seen power and internet outages from thunderstorms the last couple of days, so it’s been rough over here.

PS: Hope that Turkey & Hungary get over themselves soon!

What is the consensus on the etiquette of creating new communities/magazines with the names of the still extant old subreddits (particularly when you’re not a mod of the old subreddit)?

Some of us remember one of the first smartphones, the VisorPhone introduced in late 2000. Consisted of a Visor (basically a Palm Pilot knockoff by Handspring) that had a Springboard slot that you could slide a phone attachment into. I have fond memories of using it to bid on an AOL auction while driving down the highway with my ex-wife yelling at me that we were going to be killed…

Truly a product ahead of its time.

RIP RIF. You helped me keep my sanity at the office.

I didn’t watch Discovery at all, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything important in Strange New Worlds.

I see the drop in quality over there as the more technical (the best?) people migrate to the Fediverse. As others have noted, I’m not looking forward to all Redditors coming here and dropping the quality.

Old timers like me remember the quality of Usenet prior to ISPs making it available during the Eternal September. Before then, people on Usenet were largely college students or higher. Quality on Usenet really declined when it opened up to the masses, especially after AOL made Usenet available to its subscribers.

They will get rid of old.reddit sooner or later to force you to look at their ads and thus make the platform more appealing to IPO investors who will see a higher revenue stream from ads. That will be the last straw for me. Meanwhile, I’m getting used to the Fediverse, trying to participate here more, and reducing my dependence on Reddit.

Fantastic modern take on Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son”!

If you’re not going to hook it up to the internet (bridging, access point, etc.), name it something funny or provocative for the neighbors.

For example, I live in a college student neighborhood with a lot of Chinese students. I have an old router that I’m going to use the network name 六四屠殺 which is Chinese for the June Fourth Massacre (the Tiananmen Square Massacre). It’s a term banned on the Chinese internet.

You can’t be serious that Belarus has control of the nukes on its territory. It’s all controlled by Russia.

ETA: If unrest occurs in Belarus, Russia will use the alleged vulnerability of the nukes to sweep in and take the country over.