You've reinvented the portative!

"Ok, I clicked 100 times, but I just did it with the mouse pointer on my desktop."

"Did I stutter?"

> Why is everyone so eager to move from one centralized platform to another?

There's good content there. Distributed is better than centralized, but it doesn't matter if the people I'm interested in talking to and hearing from aren't there.

Canada also has private copying (and pays a levy on blank media to pay for it, although at this point we're pretty firmly out of the blank media era).

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strategic-policy-sector/en/...

(What a classic Canadian government URL that is.)

> make youtube great again

I wish we would all just stop doing this. At least fora bit.

if you don't get the sarcasm, I can't help you.

And is firmly Generation X, too.

Yes, it's been replaced by an LLM.

Their status page still says "Uptime for the current quarter: 99.996%".

It really didn't -- we (Slack customer and integration) had our first internal reports of issues at 09:59 ET and the status page was updated at 10:27. For this broad an impact, that's a long time.

At a previous company that focused on small-business finance, we had an error page that said something like "We couldn't process your request, but we're working on it! In the meantime, here's a video of a puppy." with a link to a Youtube video of a puppy.

PEOPLE HATED THE PUPPY.

"I can't process SALES, i'm losing MONEY and you want to give me a VIDEO of a PUPPY?"

We removed the puppy.