Haha good for you! Our guy got the nickname Loopmaster for a couple of weeks. ๐
Nowadays the proper network switches used commercially can tell there's a loop and isolate the ports until the loop is gone. Another loophole closed (pun very much intended).
You don't need TikTok to do dumb shit, but I can see how it can be an inspiration. However, people have been poking things into holes since the dawn of time. And I don't mean sexually, although that's also true, but it belongs on another instance.
Back in the days of dumb switches, a bored colleague managed to take down the network in the whole building. While in a meeting, he played around with an Ethernet patch cable and inserted it in two adjacent network ports on the table, thus creating a loop. Good times.
Reminds me of an oldie dirty joke: a bastard is a guy who pokes her all night with a 2 inch penis and then kisses her goodbye with a 5 inch tongue.
That's... surprisingly accurate. Every time he sees her, that's a new instance of the abstract Wife in his head, which is different from the previous instance in small, but interesting ways.
For instance, current_wife.HasFood() returns true.
Are you owning libs, son?
Which fucker moved the garlic rope and opened the coffin of Nazi eugenics theory?
Ah, the "don't be evil days". I'm old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn't we? Technologically speaking, I'm not getting political.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I'm not giving up on Lemmy either.
Looks like OneDrive is next.
I'm not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it's not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.
Let's do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won't be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.
As context: I'm one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!
Surely that's a bit unfair to BlueSky.
From my brief lecture of the underlying protocol, public instances could exist and federate, it's only that they become quite expensive to run if done right.
Not to mention that the "more and better teachers" mantra should be applied all the way down to primary education.
Unfortunately our societies prioritise these things differently.
Inside of you there are two wolves. One looks like a fox with owl makeup and the other like a puck-nosed shepherd dog with strabism.