For those who don't know, the strategy is called Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. The phase comes from Microsoft who used this to (try to) crush competing document editors, Java implementations, browsers, and operating systems. Other big tech companies employ similar strategies.

Facebook coming to the Fediverse is the Embrace phase of this process and that makes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Misskey, and Akkoma the competitors.

The men can only move 1 square in any direction, while women can move anywhere on their row/column/diagonal. Clearly this biological difference is why they have separate men's and women's chess tournaments. Also, I hear trans people can double jump.

Why does the thumbnail say "Can = 10 years in prison" while the description says "10 months in prison for stealing a can"? This youtuber does not strike me as a particularly trustworthy source of news lol

Britain paid reparations to the slaveowners and their descendants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
The last check went out in 2015. So yes, people alive today benefited from this. directly.
If they want to make it fair, they should pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people and/or take back the money they gave to slaveowners.

Yup. From the article:

Payments of the bonds to the descendants of creditors was only finalised in 2015 when the British Government decided to modernise the gilt portfolio by redeeming all remaining undated gilts.

Since 2018, numerous Freedom of Information Act requests have been sent to the British government and Bank of England for the names of those who were paid with the bonds, of which all were denied.

Oh great. A new flavour of regex, but it's less portable and more verbose. https://xkcd.com/927/

db2 can't tell whether this post is satire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

No. The death penalty is never the correct punishment. If restorative justice isn't possible, then life in prison is the worst punishment you should have.

In extreme cases like this, you want to keep these people alive in order to investigate earlier crimes. I doubt this is the first time these cops did this kind of shit.

@XOrgFoundation what are your thoughts on X corp using the X11 logo?

Nope. The Business Source License isn't an open source license. https://opensource.org/licenses/ (not to be confused with the Boost Source License, which is open source).

Owncast, a live video streaming platform, has fediverse integration.

Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann did not cheat at chess with a vibrator up his ass in order to be called "that one guy". Use Hans Niemann's name with respect.

I haven't heard of WireMin until now. Looking at their FAQs, they have a lot of promises and not much to back them up. There's a lot of red flags here

• Closed source. It appears to be totally proprietary, so you can't look at the source code to ensure that they aren't lying about their product
• They will be introducing microtransactions into their chat app; likely using cryptocurrency.
• It's full of web3 crypto nonsense. It seems to me the only real plan to fund development is to be bought out by a large investor in the future.

Mindustry - a tower defense game
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - roguelike dungeon crawler
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - A collection of logic puzzles

It's a meme. This image shows a lemmy user asking a highly technical question and a caption saying that that is the least technical user, implying that all other lemmy users are even more technical.

They're right; it is propaganda. It's corporate propaganda aimed at getting you to buy their garbage. Also known as advertising.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted for this, so I'll clarify: I don't think the movie is "demonic" or anything. But it is advertising and advertising is a type of propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda#Advertising

it's more like suspending someone who has engaged in bad behaviour in the past and is likely/promising to do it again. if you own your own fediverse site, you decide what the rules are and how to enforce them.

the difference between the fediverse and the corporate-controlled social media sites is that you can actually enforce your rules against larger companies on your own corner of the internet.

the things you like about Reddit didn't exist when Reddit was the new alternative to the enshittification of Digg. KBin is brand new and Lemmy was not much more than a tankie hub until recently.

KBin and Lemmy will build the communities you're looking for over time. The question is: do you want those communities to develop under the shadow of the same algorithms, bots, and content you see on corporate social media, or do you want something new?

other parts of the fediverse have emoji reactions already. you can emoji react to kbin posts from elsewhere, but it doesn't show up on kbin.

this means that kbin may eventually get something like Awards, but if they use the same APIs as emoji reactions, they won't be paid.

Do you drink beer, senator?