@augustus I don't think it's going to happen, but rejecting the offer will hurt Twitter a lot. Some of the funds are going to have lawsuits up their asses, and just the possibility of it is making the mainstream media pump out some completely batshit insane articles that even the normiest of normies is going to find perplexing (the "free speech is the best ally of tyrants" bit is extremely egregious).
Musk can then swoop in with his alternative. And before you dismiss it as Gab or Truth.social 2.0, remember Musk's specialty is turning "impossible businesses" into success stories.
@augustus I suspect it's just that; they are not the right kind of company to do a "principled" purchase of Twitter, and I would not be too surprised if they voted for Musk's offer. They have a fiduciary duty to their investors to make the best financial decision and once Twitter's shares tank after the offer fails their own investors will be pissed. Musk's offer has the benefit of tying the hands of the investment groups.
@lain The web 20 years ago was relying on the monstrosity that was Java applets, so no, it was not better. But I do bemoan that we're still doing the same mistake are using heavy technological stacks where they are unneeded.
I think what ultimately convinced me to get the Miyoo instead is finding out it has a replaceable battery. It's even in the "battery compartment", no need for even a screwdriver. Even though I'm sometimes forced to anyway, I hate buying devices with non-user replaceable batteries, because it's a guarantee that one's time with a device has a finite lifespan. I like old electronics, I don't want them to die. I keep using them whenever possible. If the old stuff from the 80s, 90s and 00s I collect and use were all using non-standard and/or non-replaceable sealed batteries, most of it would just be in a landfill now.
Got my ClockworkPi Gameshell order cancelled, even though it was almost ready to ship. It's a neat looking device and if it's like the DevTerm, building it would be fun, but it took so long, and there are much better alternatives now. It has long boot times, and more importantly it doesn't have shoulder buttons unless you have the ugly "LEGO" back plate with the extra module that juts out and makes it not pocketable. Ultimately, mulling over it as the shipping dates kept slipping over and over again, these became deal-breakers.
@rhiaro Assuming functionality was exactly the same, it's hard to imagine how decentralization could have positive impact on a per-user basis, on a purely technical level. There's a lot of overhead that's replicated that would not be on centralized systems, and a lot less efficient use of idle resources.
But of course, there's the question of what effect on the world in general (including environment) centralization and decentralization both have, and I suspect the impact of saner politics that can bloom from decentralization easily dwarfs the technical inefficiencies.
@cjd@atomicpoet Ummm, I wonder what kind of people journalists are... I'll refer to Hunter S. Thompson's, a noted expert on journalism:
>The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.
@tk There's plates/shields you can buy to put to restrict access to it, it's not complete protection but it's usually enough that thieves will instead target an easier one. That's what my friend got after the second time.
@tk It was in the city, but a few months back my friend's girlfriend had hers stolen. They replaced it with the insurance money, and within one week it was stolen again. Apparently there's just specific models these thieves target.
@lnxw37a2@liw I don't see mention of de-anonymizing crypto that's gone through a mixer though, which I would expect to be the first step of any smart launderer. Not that I don't think it can also be analyzed, severing the link between the money and its provenance is the start of the game of cat and mouse, not its end.
@lain Shitposting aside, it's kinda true, the TVs my parents had when I was a kid were not precise enough for prominent scanlines to be visible, especially not on a composite signal going through an RF adapter.