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@volpeon Which brings us to:
A6 - no longer a DNS record
Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS) (RFC 3363, )
IETF Datatracker (datatracker.ietf.org)
@mardor The first orbit (including launch and orbital insertion) is hard. The last orbit (including deorbit and controlled braking) is hard. The ones in between are much easier.
So hold off on the first and last ones until they figure it out, and focus on the remainder of the spaceflight? After all, you can easily get to >95% success that way.
@0xabad1dea What is it people say? The journey is the goal? Sounds like Odin has internalized that mindset perfectly!
@funambolo Also similarly, how little it *really* takes on a per-user basis to make a huge difference for a free software project with any sort of wide appeal.
There are people who are genuinely going to be strapped for cash. Fine. But if someone can afford to pay ~ €10/month for Microsoft's offering, and switch to LibreOffice instead, they probably *can* afford to pay € 2-3/month for that even though it's not required. If lots of people do that, it'll add up.
@fluffywolfjasper Careful; that smoke's not healthy. Get upwind!
Borrowing the thread briefly but https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/microsoft-365-switch-donate/ (which I wrote about a year ago) goes into a little more depth about that, and I think shows just how little value we're getting out of the deal compared to what we *could* get if all of the money paid actually went toward developing the software, by example of LibreOffice.
Office 365 / Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Copilot / whatever they are calling it this week has some 400-450 million users worldwide, give or take. I don't know what the *average* price per seat is for that, but listed prices in Europe are around €10/month/user. That'd be some 50-55 billion euros per year.
I would argue that we collectively are *not* getting several tens of billions of euros per year of added value over alternatives out of the deal.
There are a lot of technical advantages (and some disadvantages), but for a single point about free expression:
There is no singular entity that decides what is acceptable to say, what gets promoted, what gets demoted ("shadow banning"), or causes your account to be deleted.
(Sure, there's a lot of abhorrent stuff you can post that will likely get your account or instance widely shunned, blocked and/or defederated. But it's not the decision of any *one* individual or company.)
@firefoxwebdevs Thank you!
I know you'll likely get a whole bunch of negative feedback on Fedi for not going even further, but at least this appears to *clearly and unambiguously* put the user in control in a way that does not require digging through about:config settings and worrying about what an upgrade will do. So I am cautiously optimistic about this.
Can you say anything about when those of us who are on the ESR update track can expect to see this? Will there be a policy setting to control this?
