Extinguishing rule

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.

i swear to god i have read this at some point but kept falling asleep trying
- 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.
- Serkis reading it to you helps a lot, all of his readings are top tier
- 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.
Especially apt since Zuckerberg calls himself "the Eye of Sauron"
Accurate lol

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.

Does anyone know if lemmy.world changed their stance on it?
- I dont think so. That would seem to be sticky worthy like they do with other announcements.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.