504

submitted 10 months ago by TheFool@infosec.pub to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

48 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 159 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Now Sauron's lust and pride increased, until he knew no bounds, and he determined to make himself master of all things in Middle-earth, and to destroy the Elves, and to compass if he might, the downfall of Númenor. He brooked no freedom nor any rivalry, and he named himself Lord of the Earth. A mask he still could wear so that if he wished he might deceive the eyes of Men, seeming to them wise and fair. But he ruled rather by force and fear, if they might avail; and those who perceived his shadow spreading over the world called him the Dark Lord and named him the Enemy; and he gathered under his government all the evil things of the days of Morgoth that remained on earth or beneath it, and the Orcs were at his command and multiplied like flies.

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 10 months ago

i swear to god i have read this at some point but kept falling asleep trying

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

Right??? I’ve loved Tolkien since I was a kid. I’ve tried to read silmarillion several times and I swear my eyes just glaze over due to how pervasively stilted and baroque the language is.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

If it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Serkis reading it to you helps a lot, all of his readings are top tier

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

most of the time i fall asleep when being read to too.

also, i made it through (with the occasional nap with the book in my face), i just cant recall much of it but i cant really either from having read the first book of the old testament...

it's a good thing i started with lotr instead

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's a little treat for you

The BBC radio dramatization of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

I myself like that they kept most of the things the Peter Jackson movies left out, like the absurd amount of musical loredumps in the text.

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

my dude, the lord of the ring doesnt require watering it down with dramatization.

the silmarillion, on the other hand, could become much more accessible

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I don't feel that it is watering anything down. They are very faithful to the books

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 points 10 months ago

Especially apt since Zuckerberg calls himself "the Eye of Sauron"

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Accurate lol

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago

Cool can the big instances stop pretending the federation won't be faced with the same strategy as past technologies? This happens literally every time.

[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Does anyone know if lemmy.world changed their stance on it?

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I dont think so. That would seem to be sticky worthy like they do with other announcements.

[-] xor@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

what past technologies?
email is federated... every corporation eventually joined in and runs an email server, email is still independent....

i would really like some examples because i've seen the claim before.

[-] sushibowl@feddit.nl 61 points 10 months ago

Email is kind of an oligopoly though, if you're not one of the big guys it can get pretty frustrating to run an email server. Even if you do everything right, sometimes you just get randomly blacklisted anyway, you're at the mercy of the big email providers.

[-] xor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

makes sense...
personally, i see this as a flaw in federation in general. Even diaspora's end goal, originally, was everyone running their own instances.

the biggest hurdle though, is getting people to care. Which happens temporarily, every once in a while... like when reddit fucked everyone over with api changes.

i tried to get everyone i know on diaspora when that was happening... got one person to try it for a second. At least with lemmy i don't have to know anyone else on here, so it just feels like the better og reddit anyways...

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

XMPP, Browsers (early days and why Internet Explorer is so widely known), Microsoft broke Java compatibility with non windows systems by replacing the native interface with their J/Direct breaking programs for other opwrating systems, MAPI has been accused of doing this to IMAP and POP3 (tho not to the same degree). Its mostly Microsoft, keep in mind even my own mother was born before the personal computer so this has all evolved within the last 50 or so years and completely pertains to software as far as I am aware. Here is a quick wikipedia page if you want to update yourself. There are plenty of battles to fight today, too. Its understandable to not have the will or want to get into it.

[-] misanthropy@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Email is not independent and hasn't been for a while. Go ahead. Try to run a mail server of your own. If you aren't paying one of the big companies, your email won't get delivered.

[-] xor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

it's not that bad, really

[-] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

like 80% of US ISPs block port 25 outbound. you're not gonna be sending emails without going through some additional commercial entity forwarding that traffic.

sure, find a VPN provider that provisions PTR records correctly, and it's not too hard to get your mail delivered if you read the docs. it's also true that that's notably more restrictive than any other "open" communications protocol i'm accustomed to.

[-] trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 10 months ago

Zuck I'll gut you if you ever interact with me rule

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 82 points 10 months ago

So he likes being insulted? What a freak.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Was going to say not to kink shame but then I'd have been whooshed.

[-] grunge_fox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 10 months ago

"warm welcome" ...with flamethrowers

[-] Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 10 months ago

Threads will be the test on whether the Fediverse can resist corporate greed or if the technology is just a nice gimmick.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 10 months ago

Embrace, Extend, Exsanguinate.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 56 points 10 months ago

Threads is obviously not trying to Embrace, Extend and Extinguish the fediverse

The first step is to Embrace, but they are already Extending. How can they Extinguish if they havent Embraced yet?

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 56 points 10 months ago

Defed

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago

Warm deez nuts, Zuck. Fuck all the way off, please and thank you.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Go work on your metauniverse or whatever

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

While we are on the federal universe or something

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 34 points 10 months ago

Has this man used his own platform

[-] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

Never, he knows what he does💀

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago

embrace extend extinguish,

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 33 points 10 months ago

Fuck you in the neck, fuckerberg-zuckerfuck

[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago

Can't he write it in a less "I wear human flesh to hide my reptilian scales" kind of way.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 23 points 10 months ago

Is this real?

Everything has to be labeled these days, even videos.

[-] zaphod@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Given his account isn't even federating yet, and there's no evidence of this post on Threads: yeah, I'm gonna guess it's fake ragebait.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Welp, I am off Mastodon then :(

[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 64 points 10 months ago

Don‘t worry, many mastodon servers are blocking threads out of principle, infosec.space for example

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Is there a list of blockers and non-blockers?

[-] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah there was a website floating around that had the names of all the instances protesting the federation of threads. Ill see if i can dig it up, or maybe someone else will be quicker than me to post a link

Edited to add link: https://fedipact.online/