Seems entirely reasonable to me, depending on the country it costs them extra to route your calls overseas to another network.

How long did it take for them to turn it off?

“Virtue signaling” is just having morals that other people find out about. Be better.

Not Chernobyl?

Yes it does, and wait until you hear about literally every other industry.

This is just the beginning. Two centuries? More like 20 years, the technology is improving at an exponential rate.

As a society we need a plan.

There are always jobs to do for the people who can get them. However, if robots and AI take all the jobs, then people can’t get jobs.

And, in a “post scarcity” world, do the people who control the robots and AI get to keep all of the money and food, or do you have a plan for that?

Eventually there will not be jobs left to do. Then what?

Hard to be a force for good when “Open” AI is not even available for download.

Sure, but all of those things could have been done by extending the existing protocol.

Also, fwiw, it has had media sends, presence and support for encryption for a very long time. The rest could be added. All of those things could have very well been an IRC client with a couple of extra features and a server upgrade to queue messages.

And those developers get told what to do. The wheel also gets reinvented by PMs and entrepreneurs who think they can do it better. Sounds like someone is salty about their software maintenance job.

I suppose that applies more to XMPP, but not everything has to be a business, and you don’t have to be an ass about it.

fwiw, XMPP/Slack/Discord/etc basically solve the same problem that IRC already solved. Software Engineers just reinvent the wheel again and again as everyone loves a green field.

That said, Meta cannot be trusted. They’re going to do a year or two of embrace and extend, pretending to be good citizens. Then they will invent some crisis that causes them to want to de-federate, likely that content on other servers is not moderated to their standards or that convoluted features of their extended protocol are not being met. This take seems pretty spot on to me.

Do you send the actors and production staff a few cents each for every rip? I understand big studios evil, etc, etc, but piracy is not without cost.

Odd, I figured him as (Subaru) Ascent guy.

Guess they’re not wired for puns. Time to switch the conversation to something light so you don’t run up the meter with their resistance.

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