Those 4kb only held a fraction of the computation needed to fly to the moon though. All the complicated heavy stuff was done by humans and bigger computers down on earth.

Wdym I can find all manner of dangerous shit by googling for five minutes

You mean to say the first person to ever bump dat boi

I’m a theoretical physicist and I can predict most dropped objects will fall to the floor

“here’s how to tell which one” so this guy has solved VC investment. Got it.

You know the company and the users are completely divorced when you read something like that. Redditors have spent years telling each other that awards are useless and a waste of money - then the admins touch it and everybody flips their lid. I for one am glad I’m no longer part of that toxic relationship.

“Damn, I thought mental illness was in the knees”

Also digg peaked at maybe 8 million users which is a much more manageable migration.

I love that because it’s such a cautionary tale about bad leadership. He was toxic towards Twitter for years then bought them and doubled down on shitting on them and calling them incompetent… Of course they hate his guts and maliciously comply now.

It’s the time between masters that is interesting and unpredictable and just fun

I think it might be the opposite. If extreme content is kind of “default” when the algorithm doesn’t know what to give you, them starving it off history might push it into that default more often. I have a very used YouTube account with a metric ton of history and honestly I very rarely see that kind of content. (From Europe though so it might be different)

But America is like the most right wing developed country 🤔

Based and you-can’t-propagandize-with-a-mouthful-of -broken-teeth pilled

Idk it’s pretty common. Where i live, most people above 35 have gotten at least once in a fight with skinheads, and some did it every weekend for the giggles.

Exactly. I paid 15 bucks 12 years ago and got god knows how many thousands of hours out of it

I’m right there with you. I can already foresee that their apps will be prioritizing monetized users like content creators and everything in there will be a transaction of some sort. Who cares, you just have to block their instances and go about your merry way.

Actually i found a phone number to the new studio so i might just give them a ring and ask about !

It’s a French series called “Sacrées Coquines”, volume 17 :D i doubt anybody’s heard of it

Kind of shameful but there is this one porn movie I used to have on a CDR that got lost between apartments. It’s stupid cause it’s #17 of a 20+ series and you can find #16 and #18 in like 2 minutes, but this one has disappeared from the face of the internet. The studio stopped listing it some time ago then they were bought out and the new owners never listed that one. Believe it or not I literally sent an email to the male star of the movie, but he never responded. There goes my holy grail. It must have gone out of stock and maybe the masters got lost or something. I know one rip was made at some point cause I found a filename in a listing, but it is long lost. Farewell lost porn 🙋‍♂️ farewell…

Un truc que je comprends pas avec U&R, c’est qu’ils continuent d’avoir une page Facebook (forcément j’imagine), et dessus y’a QUE des boomers qui pigent rien à leurs sujets et font que les insulter en commentaires. C’est un phénomène magique, U&R poste un article et t’as 25 abrutis qui leur répondent "Ah ouais eh et le vrai journalisme c’est pour quand Usbek et Rica ? ".

D’où ma question, pourquoi ces gens sont abonnés à cette page, et pourquoi U&R maintient cette page à jour ? Parceque sinon je suis d’accord ils sont intéressants ils ont une ligne éditoriale originale et de bons sujets.

I don’t understand. Of course your normie family hasn’t heard of the big social app of 30 years ago, how is that even relevant ?

The scale of Usenet popularity was enormous for the time, roughly 15% of internet users were on usenet. In terms of today’s internet population that would be around 800M. That’s not niche, and that’s definitely in the ballpark of modern social media (double the size of reddit). There were a million different groups on a million different subjects, it was not for techies only you had active groups about gardening, ancient greek philosophy, writing, etc…

But most of all it was not clunky or difficult to use. The reason AOL “won” is because they shipped a quadrillion of those CD-Roms with free internet hours around the world, prompting people to try the internet out and those new users could discover chatrooms in one click. I’ll agree with you that the fediverse in its current state is clunky but usenet back in the day was far from it. It had fewer functionalities but was very straightforward to use.