Oh. Of course they would. Federation respects freedom and privacy!

“Worst bot ever.”

(In the voice of comic shop guy.)

(I’m not complaining. You gave the best answer here to the question asked!)

And we will also have Pete’s drunk group texts!

I don’t have the organizational skills for infinite space. I would never be able to find anything.

I hope there’s early warning when Oracle goes bankrupt. I need time to go buy enough party supplies.

That’s probably not a viable economic decision though

Should still be a good deal for Motorola. There’s a bunch of folks now who buy whatever phone runs GrapheneOS best. Whichever company courts us gets our business.

I’m sure we’re not a landslide, but sometimes niche communities can still make a huge difference for a company.

Oh no!

I hope all the details are shared so that we can all carefully avoid doing the same to those music industry bas…s-fishing executives.

“Good enough for these clowns.” is the key phrase. But I try to leave off the last three words if I say it out loud.

Even if you ARE irreplaceable and crucial to success, the company will only realize it a month after you’re gone.

So true.

But it is still fucking hilarious, to watch go down.

Pro tip: Make sure some colleagues have your contact info, so you can enjoy the news right away when your former boss gets fired for incompetence. It doesn’t fix anything, but it feels nice.

I did that once, and I discovered that I had been effectively self medicating, and I had my doses pretty much figured out.

Now I try to stay on my substances, and I take care to treat them with respect - neither over or under using them.

Google Talk used XMPP under the hood, so it worked perfectly with Trillian and many other clients.

Except, over time, Google extended Google Talk with features outside the open XMPP specification, and didn’t contribute them back.

Eventually, Google pushed an update that caused alternate clients like Trillian to no longer work with Google Talk.

Google intentionally embraced, extended and did their damnedest to extinguish XMPP, directly causing the largest drop in other Trillian users to connect with - the day that the entire Google Talk network became unavailable to Trillian users.

I’ve learned there are no mundane things, only things I haven’t learned much about, yet.

Good point. But there should be a protocol to prevent innocent victims. Perhaps some way to clearly advertise that the bunker is free of infection by any original Epstein class owners…

In your shoes, I would run a Matrix server, and set up bridges for each platform I need a chat presence on.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

Nice. Matrix has so many bridges available.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

Trillian was amazing. I blame Google for killing it with Embrace, Extent, Extinguish.

Yes. Every one in awhile someone marvels at a particularly good AI answer.

Even back in the days when the scam was the first chess robot, those moments were a sign that the “secret backdoor to let a real human take control” was in effect.

But nobody reads history, so they’re just amazed.

That output is from this guy named Sandeep. His work situation is stupid now. But yes, he’s a great programmer. (Edit: Evidence that the scam is alive, today.)

And no, sharing company secrets with him wasn’t wise.

But if I had to choose between some company’s well being, and Sandeep’s, I’m rooting for Sandeep, anyway.

Go sell some trade secrets, Sandeep. You’ve earned it.

Edit: Links added for those unfamiliar with the trick.

Holy shit. Stop building the Torment Nexus.

Yes. The best scene in one of the cube movies is when one of the characters admits he thoughtlessly helped build the thing.

That’s true, but they can still charge double by taking longer to fix the problem.

There’s going to be a lot of “# decrement this wait counter every time the boss demands a performance improvement” code in the near future.

Open class warfare isn’t a sustainable way to build infrastructure.

We’re on track to reach a point where nothing produced by the FANG companies ever works right.

Then we’ll see how long the public tolerates it for the comfort of the familiar.

Yes. Epstein taught us it’s also about running a large scale kidnapping and rape organization.

I sound like a broken record, but today, we need to be wary that very few of the Epstein class are proven to be innocent of being complicit in child abduction and rape.

Maybe that’s always been the case? I know the history of the ultra rich has never been nice.

Anyway I find it an important perspective when deciding how much to trust the rest of the messages out of the Epstein class.