boilingpenguin

joined 1 year ago
[–] boilingpenguin 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Brilliant move to help sell more ads on the platform: limit how many people will even be able to see those ads

[–] boilingpenguin 6 points 1 year ago

Mildly Illegal

[–] boilingpenguin 20 points 1 year ago

If there's one thing I've learned from my history classes it's that power vacuums (or even perceived power vacuums) and the ensuing instability always end well for everyone involved....

/s

[–] boilingpenguin 2 points 1 year ago

They're really putting a ton of thought and time into the skill design, and I am really excited about the potential. But I can't shake the feeling that by the time we get to the greenlight poll there's still going to be a huge "vote no no matter what" group - I hope I'm wrong about his

[–] boilingpenguin 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 2024 election is going to be a contentious one, and followed by people throughout the world. There's going to be lots of talk of serious candidates, joke candidates, and things like this question—thought experiments about completely outlandish outcomes for the 2024 election. And let's be honest, even though it's the 2024 election, the campaign has really been going on since at least 2021, and possibly even earlier but absolutely don't let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

[–] boilingpenguin 14 points 1 year ago

I was largely a lurker over there, and my immediate instinct is to do the same here. But also a new website will only work if there's content and activity...

[–] boilingpenguin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've thought about rolling my own email service, but I'm hesitant given the risk of it inadvertently nuking the rest of my network. There's a lot of work needed to keep the thing secure, and even if you do everything right there's a good chance you get SMTP traffic blocked because other services are worried about unknown accidentally hosting spammer networks.

Plus given my prior track record, there is a $1000% chance I screw up the DNS entries for any mail servers I set up.