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You can opt out of the redesign in settings. I don't know how long that will last. Sometimes it shows the new one, but it's rare.

>> "Knowledge should be free at our point in time and supposed evolutional stage. But it's not." We only evolved technologically. Our economic systems are still stuck in the 19th c…

>> "I've also enjoyed the organic explosion of low carb cooking that has happened online. I have been witness to the community growing from its very beginnings less than a decade a…

Site searching Reddit can at least give some ideas for different words to try. Most of my problems finding things on Google stem from its declining ability to make a reasonable gue…

https://devdocs.io/ isn't exactly equivalent to manpages, but works well enough. You can even download documentation for offline use.

I didn't put them on a timeline. The neonazi invasion happened around when both tended to show up in the same discussions. More people know about punks than skinheads, so I used on…

Skinheads were a punk-adjacent subculture that got overrun with neonazis. They never did shake the association.

I'm going to pass on the browser part owned by the chairman and cofounder of Palantir. I don't trust it for that and other reasons. I don't have the skills or interest to audit and…

ARM and Intel/AMD represent two timelines that started to converge in the 2000s.

That probably factors in the infrastructure it takes to deliver the data.

You can frame a critique in a way that doesn't make the subject feel targeted. Some tips: * Rather than call their way atrocious, try something like "Use $(CC) instead of hard codi…

On the plus side, Google at least tells you when it omits words and offers to put them back in now. Not that it does much good. Something about Google the search engine changed and…

There's a whole Wikipedia page for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

GMail was different in a number of ways. 1. Exponentially more space in a market where single or double digit megabytes was the norm. GMail's original pitch was that you never had …

ActivityPub (AP) has the advantage of running on top of HTTP. You don't have to convince people to install a new browser. All the tools that communicate over AP run on familiar tec…

ActivityPub shows a lot of promise.

Spammers call this article spinning or content spinning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

>> " It was historically used to either refer to a person of unknown gender, or to optionally refer to a person of a known gender. so your options for singular pronouns might be ei…

It's mainly used by nonbinary (enby) people of Latin descent in the US who feel like both Latino and Latina are a poor fit. These threads always have the same look as the ones wher…

Climate refugees are going to be the big issue, not where to choose to move if you have that freedom. Any question of where to go has to somehow answer "What happens when everyone …