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It's more centralised now after several decades because monopolistic companies saw commercial value in squeezing out the competition. Plenty of technical folk have given up their o…

Fediverse isn't VC funded and isn't a 'product' in the sense that Twitter is. Obsession with eternal growth is a function of the funding model. Those putting money or time into thi…

If a poster wants their posts searchable then they hash tag key words. Those who don't want randos searching for vulnerable people they can dogpile onto can have that relative anon…

If that's their take, needing a news feed, then they wouldn't benefit from a social media service. One way comms isn't very social.

It's trivially easy to move your profile and followers list to another instance, if you want to. But you aren't restricted to following users from your instance anyway. Follow one …

Want to join Email? First you have to choose a server ... No wonder email failed to thrive as an open protocol, distributed communication system. It's just too darned hard and unfa…

You can put images links in fine, between lines. Stick your svgs in and publish.

O365 works cross platform in the browser well enough for most windows-centric corps. I've got by happily for years with Vivaldi and Libreoffice, without Windows installed.

Thanks, it seems that I have been interpreting the term pro-choice incorrectly.

Your link shows 81% in favour of abortion, with or without some restrictions, with 19% against abortion. Wanting abortion rights is not synonymous with being pro-choice, which carr…

> If you go to your uBlock origin plugin settings > filter lists > annoyances > checkmark "fanboy's annoyances", "adguard annoyances", and "uBlock annoyances" This ^^ hits the spot…

Google has grown by using ad revenue to buy comoetitors or companies that do something interesting, then squeeze them for every penny of profit or dump them. Google has a dominant …

Austria is a simple train-ride away for the Dutch - it doesn't cost a long haul flight's worth of CO₂ to go skiing.

It seems that I get hit with the negative first order effects, and VCs benefit from the putative positive second order ones. No, I'm happy to have the legal eagles stop this withou…

It is the most powerful tools that I want restricted. the milli-second bidding auctions for ad placements and the tracking that goes on to enable that is unethical and illegal. The…

I'd be wary of taking a pilot's subjective impressions as superior to a technical analysis of the optical system. Pilots may be competent users of these systems, but they are not e…

Is economic 'high achievement' the key sign of success, or a sign that wider indicators of a successful upbringing have been ignored?

Capitalist tech investor with piles of cash and political influence, yes. But is Musk a genius? That case really hasn't been made yet.

Trees don't absorb any more sunlight than an equivalent area of grassland, so I'd be surprised if mature woods sequestered any more CO₂ than grasslands did.

Just be glad that the EU managed to unify the dates across the (then) 28 countries.

Rather than just dis, could you be specific? It works for me, and I know a number of people who use it since they find it is better for them than the official client.

> It's also slower, heavier, thicker, The Framework and M1 Macbook Air weight the same at 1.3 kg, and are both 16 mm thick, according to the specs that I can find. Did it really _s…

This is the guy who was photographed wearing a $30 000 watch, which was Photoshopped out by the authorities? Unfortunately, the watch was still visible in the table-top reflection.…

Finland's policy has always been to have a strong military to deter, and non-alignment to avoid provocation. It seems the value of non-alignment has been questioned now.

A trillion dollars of Russian assets have already been frozen by the US alone. Across the whole world, there will be plenty of funds if only a fraction ends up getting confiscated.…