@sebastian @pluralistic As others have said, it installed a root kit which hid files based on name from Windows. Of course malware took advantage of that. I didn’t buy Sony products for 10 years in protest.

@djlink Those NEWS systems were not cheap, but I suppose Sony was trying to compete with Sun and SGI. Because the audio subsystem on the SNES was made but Sony, the official audio editing tools were also on the NEWS system, including the tool to compress samples into the custom format. It took for ever to run, and I wrote a compressor that ran on the SNES hardware in under a second for a typical sample.

@falsafa @wonkothesane @ak474000 @tchambers @thisismissem @Vivaldi @jeffjarvis The problem is that if even a small % of Microsoft/Google users took up a potential Mastodon offer they would dwarf Mastodon’s current user base and these companies would gain a lot of power. We don’t want it to become like email where it is impossible to run your own server as the big boys just block you as spam.

@mmasnick It sounds so much like a perky waitress. Is it expecting to be tipped?

@MurHerself We know that it’s been a tough month for you and that you are only just coming up for air. Don’t beat yourself up about it.

@davidribes @Michele @kathygriffin @jeffjarvis @timbray Part of the problem of that is that people don’t like to curate. The decision to follow/not follow is the most that the majority are willing to do. If you create a tuneable algorithm then there needs to be some defaults and those defaults would have to be set to give the best general experience, as very few will ever change those defaults. Who then picks those defaults?

Adding @MurHerself