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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/
Kris Hyre
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Dad, husband, software engineer, miniature painter, and tabletop wargamer in the Pacific Northwest.
Tim AlbersI declare my Grand Moff Tarkin finished! Huzzah! #StarWarsLegion Enjoy the slippers! 8)
Almost done with Grand Moff Tarkin for #StarWarsLegion Only thing left to do is varnish.
HolyfirethemThird Streamiversary Kitbash 3/3.
Moros requested "hydra and/or clown" flavor. I bashed this three-headed reptile weirdo from a kroxigor kit and painted it to match a lizard called a Clown Agama. I like to think this is some kind of guardian spirit with a brutal sense of humor
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Moros requested "hydra and/or clown" flavor. I bashed this three-headed reptile weirdo from a kroxigor kit and painted it to match a lizard called a Clown Agama. I like to think this is some kind of guardian spirit with a brutal sense of humor
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#HolyFireMinis #MiniPainting #Kitbash #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings
JA Westenberg
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)I would like the mastodon.social admins to be a bit more thorough with accepting anyone in their server because of the fucking #spam attack that's been going on the past two days
Tinker ☀️@jerry @pivot @Viss - XMPP wasn't that large when Google did their EEE on them. OOXML wasn't that large when MS did their EEE on Open/LibreOffice.
You have to realize the idea of "too small to spend a fuck ton of money on" has no meaning to a company as astronomically large as Meta. They'll toss millions at a bad idea just to see what sticks.
Right now they can say "Hey, you know that Mastodon thing? We do that too! Join us" and it's a differentiator to BlueSky. They can say "you know how a lot of folks joined Mastodon but you can't figure it out? Join Threads and talk with them!"
ActivityPub has already kicked off and is working - right now. Its succeeding.
Corporations want monopolies. For money, for power, and because that's the natural end goal. Any situation where you have varying degrees of competition is not good for a FAANG corp.
The Fediverse is large enough, right now, to be on their radar. That is enough justification to address it and kill it. Even if it's just another entry on their quarterly kanban board.
chutten (he/him)
Electric GremlinThe last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.
This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.
The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.
That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.
This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.
The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.
That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.