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Add the details of the Docker image to the home page.

Your scroll-to-death user interface made me close the window before the end of the second page. Did you ask an LLM to recommend the most user-friendly UI to you?

It's your email and web content cocktail shaker – you decide what goes in, and it keeps your text fresh without losing the flavor. Layer content pieces for extra zing. No subscript…

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/industr/modern/myth.htm

The new Act does NOT affect podcasts.

I use a unique email address for each substack author that I subscribe to. That is incompatible with Notes.

If you subscribe to someone’s Notes you also subscribe to their email articles. No thank you, especially if aal their articles are behind a paywall. Not sure why Musk is so freaked…

The FDIC $250,000 insurance is there to protect the depositors. The amount is not a secret. If you keep more than that in cash in a bank account, you take a known risk and must def…

Exactly.

Why would that merit a recurring charge? In other words, what ongoing expense is incurred by the company to display a particular icon next to your name?

What about the verified status can change, that merits a recurring charge versus a once-off charge? Can you suddenly morph into “not you”?

Any alien race with technology to reach Sol will also have superior technology to defend themselves. Only start worrying when the “balloon” shot down the F-18s and F35s that were s…

The biggest weakness of ChatGPT is that you do not know the source of the information that it presents to you. With Google, you can apply human assessment and judgment on the verac…

From the article: “The chairman of FBH is Jean Chalopin, who, along with being a co-creator of cartoon cop Inspector Gadget in the 1980s, is the chairman of Deltec Bank, which, lik…

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-fraudulent-king

This is the correct take. Without the staff and institutional knowledge of a 16 year old service, no amount of hand waving will keep the service healthy. It’s a stunning display of…

Their website still has a yellow notice at the top: > “We have limited platform activity, including pausing client withdrawals as allowed under our Terms. We request that clients n…

The months you’re referring to was spent trying to get out of the deal. It was not spent preparing for it to close.

Kara Swisher said some advertisers had told her, after a meeting with Musk last week in NY, that either he came to the meeting totally unprepared or he actually had no plan. He cou…

Having too many servers (many thousands) could be a big drawback for onboarding. Choice paralysis, and difficulty / time consumption of picking a suitable server to join.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/18153

The Mastodon software is not horizontally scalable. So, each instance is forced to be relatively small. One instance will not be able to handle millions of users.

If average Jane, who is not a raving Tesla fan, wants to spend circa $140K on an EV, and she has to choose between the Mercedes EQS 580 and the Tesla Model X, which one would you s…

No. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352602

> The entire point of Tether is that you can absolutely trust them with $100K, $1M, $10M, or whatever. It's backed, it's robust, it's tethered, and they guarantee payout. No, they …