Looks cool! Having some trouble trying to sign in using my Lemmy, however. It keeps saying “Could not connect to your Fediverse server” when I plug in https://sh.itjust.works/. Is this a thing where Bubbles needs to fix something, SJW needs to fix something, or I just need to make a new account on it?

Wait, it did? Do you have a link? All I can find are links to older articles.

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don’t get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I’m pretty sure that in this specific context, it’s actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I’m also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

Had me going until “Could you crack a Linux?”

“Hey, can you Duck around and find out?”

This is brilliant.

Are you thinking of this?

Aw, that’s a way more mundane answer than I was hoping for, but I appreciate you explaining. (And I find myself doubting that it does much to AI scrapers, yes.)

Hang on, you have successfully thorn-baited me. Are you typing them manually or do you have a macro or something swapping them in? For what purpose are you doing this? Give me your villain monologue.

Okay but is no one going to take a moment to ask about this person and someone he knows both doing self drilled dental work though? Is this some “yeah dental care in the US sucks even more than you think” thing or??

I am a big believer in regulation, and some governments right now are in a position where they can be pressured to take anti-monopoly action against Amazon, which I want very much to see. Being in the U.S. as I am right now, though… There are some state governments I would like to see act (and shout-out to California for doing so here), but I am also brainstorming other nonviolent disruptive action which could be taken, because the federal government right now is actual fascists and Amazon is in league with them.

I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.

Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

Why is “(most favored nation status)” in parentheses?

I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.

The other commenters here are right about Amazon’s initial methods, but I’m also going to highly recommend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification for a detailed explanation of how this happens (including a breakdown on Amazon specifically) and what to do about it.

It’s not quite the movie/documentary you are looking for, but I have seen https://leavingmaga.org/ spread around.