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#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

  • And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

The #Atari 1200XL was a 8bit #homecomputer running a #MOS 6502 #CPU at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... https://youtu.be/JyA5tA5mmYY

$omehow, in the #8bitwar the #C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in #BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by #Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/

#retrocomputer #vector #graphics #vintage #Atari1200XL #8bit #computer #vectorgraphics #svgART #svg #cgi #art #illustration made by #gfkDSGN with #GPL #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware instead of #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #SaaS #BS

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#DataScience #Compression #SaaS #CloudComputing #BetaProgram

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One cool thing about using #software every day that you wrote yourself: If you want a feature, just add it. The one I added today only took me a few hours, and now I can use it from here on.

Oh, and no software-as-a-service #SAAS extortion fees.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Nigel_Purchase

Yeah #saas was a clever thing

And I keep talking to people who regret getting rid of their albums and CDs and DVDs, because the intellectual property holders or the streamers or the publishing companies or whatever, they are under no obligation to allow the things to be available online all the time. I threw out a bunch of VHS and DVDs that I really regret too. But I have all my CDs and LPS, and these days, no way am I getting rid of those.

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@NMBA @dan613 I don’t necessarily disagree with this but at the same time, I know that SO many small businesses don’t have the skills, resources or time to find a viable alternative without putting their businesses at risk. In the age of #SaaS no platform is safe because they all collect subscription fees, transaction fees, processing fees that the business must pay to use it. Paying those fees gets interpreted as implicit support. I totally understand why but …but I don’t know. I feel trapped.

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@bert_hubert TBH, even shit like #aws isn't selling furniture, but demand a premium every step of the way for every tool used to turn wood into some furniture - in perpetuality and with no good means to control costs.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZzI9JE0i6Lc

  • And that's why "#Cloud" and "#SaaS" are shit and buzzwords 99% of the time.

Just like "#serverless" is just a #lie...
youtube.com/watch?v=qQk94CjRvIs