javiwhite

My only regret is that I have boneitis

Enshittification, in my kitchen?!

You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what's in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.

Conversely, I'd imagine there are babysitters out there who at times wish they could just throw the baby away.

Congrats! Out of the usual suspects, (nginx, traefik & caddy), id say nginx has the steepest learning curve, so it's definitely something to crow about mate! I know professionals in the tech industry that have a hard time with nginx config, so an enthusiast getting it down is a bigger deal than you're giving yourself credit for.

I host various services for friends and family; and here are a couple I think will be of particular interest to you:

• matrix server with element clients. (Self hosted discord/WhatsApp alternative which is open source unlike TS).
• Drop server and client setup (self hosted steam like experience).

Another thing I would strongly suggest doing, is setting up a single sign on Auth server. Something that will allow your friends and family to have one login for anything you setup. Personally I use keycloak. But there are other options like authentik and voidauth that are worth looking at too!

Congrats again on the progress mate! You're smashing it so far.

I agree completely. Yet the spelling in each of those scenarios is still identical, which is what I was driving at originally. Colour and color do not denote a difference in pronunciation; and this is backed up by the phonetics listed for the respective words in American and English dictionaries... The phonetics are identical.

Accents muddy this, which is why they should be disregarded when comparing the phonetics between variations of English words.

Otherwise we'd need at least 3 pages for each word in the dictionary just to list the phonetics for each accent in the UK. Let alone the rest of the English speaking nations.

Accent <> pronunciation.

You perceive colour/color and catalogue/catalog to be pronounced differently?

I'd have to disagree with that, and it seems American grammar is still aligned with British in that they're still identical phonetically. I think it's important to disregard accent in this discussion, as it isn't relevant to the spelling. An Indian man saying colour will sound different to an Irishman saying colour for example, but that has nothing to do with the spelling; just the respective accent.

The difference in spelling was an act of defiance by the Americans during the British empire days. In many cases it has nothing to do with a difference in pronunciation . It's an interesting slice of history, and I'd recommend anyone who isn't aware to read up on the subject it really ruffled some feathers on this side of the pond, and some 200 years later, people still aren't over it. It was some of the highest quality trolling in recent history (one that I believe trumps the Boston tea party; but I guess that's a matter of opinion).

Are you saying that miaow and meow sound different phonetically to you?

Its not cockney rhyming slang, but rather a simple variance in spelling. Do colour Vs color/ catalogue Vs catalog etc... sound different phonetically to you also?

I'm a native English speaker, so maybe that's why they seem identical; but I could see how a different mother tongue would change that perspective.

Edit: removed aluminium because I momentarily forgot that Americans say 'aloomanum' and that one isn't an example of a spelling variance with identical phonetics.

Did you read the article? Your final sentence pretty much sums up what happened.

Yeah I can appreciate that take mate. The level of audacity they would need to think something like this wouldn't be noticed is almost unimaginable. Lying by omission does feel like the best comparison to make regarding this.

Rest easy friend; there will be plenty more corporate nonsense for us all to jawdrop over tomorrow!

If you give a letter to a postman, and the recipient asks why you put "P.S: I love you" on an official piece of documentation, your first thought wouldn't be "that damn postman, opening my mail to try and enhance it".

The same is true for YouTube. People have been uploading videos for decades with them ending up on the platform the way they are uploaded, so it stands to reason that longtime users would expect this behaviour to continue, especially if there have been no Comms around any changes.

Of course Google isn't to be trusted, and anyone trusting YouTube to be ethical clearly isn't paying attention to anything. But that doesn't change the fact that youtube have intentionally hidden this change from their user base. Sure, the result was public facing, but the cause was kept secret; and that's the nuance you're overlooking.

Anecdotally, the story that springs to mind for me is the lack of drinkable water near one of metas datacentres..

As for compatible data for statistical analysis. Statista is my usual go-to for American metrics. Closest I could find to this subject seems to be to do with the power side of sustainability, rather than climate focused... But maybe you'll have better luck than I poking around.

Statista - Data Centre sustainability