A polêmica ao perguntar se n*zism* é de direita ou de esquerda é só cortina de fumaça. O que subjaz às grandes tragédias do século XX é o coletivismo. Regimes que viam o indíviduo como meras engrenagens que só servem para trabalhar a favor do estado. Ainda hoje esse coletivismo subsiste com a ideia de que o estado seria como uma família ou uma empresa em que todos seriam sócios. Nada mais equivocado. O estado é como um espremedor de laranjas que para garantir seu funcionamento (salário e benesses para seus membros) não tem o menor pudor em espremer dos cidadãos produtivos o máximo que puder de suas rendas. Como se fossem apenas laranjas.

O coletivismo está presente em maior grau na esquerda, mas também se observa no que chamamos de direita. O coletivismo, sim, é um dos grandes problemas do nosso tempo.

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OSgrid has announced a scheduled downtime from Wednesday, January 10th, to Saturday, January 13th.

Given OSgrid's track record, I could impossibly not meme it. Here's the link. Content warning: eye contact, hence no embedding the image in the post itself. Sorry for having you open another webpage.

Image description

The linked image macro is based on the "For the better, right?" meme, also known as "Anakin and Padmé".

It consists of four still captures from the film Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, cropped to squares around one character each and arranged in two rows of two images. The two images on the left show young Anakin Skywalker in a spring meadow inmidst high grass and various blooming flowers, the two images on the right show young Padmé Amidala in the same meadow.

The caption at the bottom of the top left image has Anakin say, "OSgrid will have a scheduled three-day downtime, starting on Wednesday, January 10th."

The top right image shows Padmé happy with a caption at the bottom that has her say, "Oh, no problem, it'll be back online on Saturday."

The bottom left image does not have a caption, implying that Anakin doesn't say anything.

In the bottom right image, Padmé's expression has changed to sceptical, and the caption at the bottom has her say, "It will be back online on Saturday, right?"

Padmé's scepticism refers to OSgrid's track record of maintenance downtimes always taking a lot longer than scheduled or expected.

OSgrid is a 3-D virtual world, a so-called "grid", based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of the technology of Second Life.

Second Life is a commercial 3-D virtual world created by Philip Rosedale, also known as Philip Linden, of Linden Labs and launched in 2003. It is a so-called "pancake" virtual world which is accessed through desktop or laptop computers using standard 2-D screens rather than virtual reality headsets. Second Life had its heyday in 2007 and 2008. It is often believed to have shut down in late 2008 or early 2009 when the constant stream of news about it broke away, but in fact, it celebrated its 20th birthday in 2023, and it is still evolving.

OpenSimulator, OpenSim in short, was first published in January, 2007. Unlike Second Life, it is not one monolithic, centralised world. It is rather a server application for worlds or "grids" like Second Life which anyone could run on either rented Web space or at home, given a sufficiently powerful computer and a sufficiently fast and reliable land-line Internet connection. This makes OpenSim as decentralised as the Fediverse. The introduction of the Hypergrid in 2008 made it possible for avatars registered on one OpenSim grid to travel to most other OpenSim grids.

Second Life and the OpenSim-based worlds are called "grids" because they are flat worlds divided into square areas of 256 by 256 metres each which is roughly 280 by 280 yards. These areas are called "regions".

OSgrid is the oldest OpenSim grid. Launched in summer 2007, about half a year after the initial release of OpenSim, it was the first public OpenSim grid. It is also the largest OpenSim grid by registered users, active users including Hypergrid visitors and landmass. Since 2023, OpenSim has had a bigger landmass than Second Life.

At the same time, OSgrid has always been a testbed for new developments in OpenSim instead of running a stable release of OpenSim. This, together with its sheer size and its age, still carrying over lots of contents from over a decade and a half ago, made it hard to maintain. Especially the asset server which handles the contents both in-world and in the avatars' inventories tends to cause trouble and downtimes which, while expected to be a day or two, might last for over two weeks.

Thus, Padmé's reaction symbolises the scepticism that when OSgrid announces to be offline for three days due to a server migration, it will actually be back online after these three days.

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