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I'm not a legislator, but I'd like to be able to run an app store of my choosing. I'd like to be able to use my general purpose computing device as a general purpose computer, inst…

Mastodon already exists; it's just unpopular outside of small circles. People have already spoken with their time that they prefer hosted, "easy" solutions regardless of the evil t…

Anti-monopoly legislation seems like a good starting place. Game console app stores are, at least in my opinion, equally exploitative, but Apple is one of the most problematic publ…

I can imagine the headline now. "Rite-aid banned me because I "look like a shoplifter"".

That came out of left field.

Being on unix =/= Unix philosophy. It seems like the perceived irony is drawn from conflating the two.

My comcast connection has a static IP not behind NAT.

But the parent comment was about neither genocide nor systemic racism. It was about corruption and how, despite it taking different paths in the US, it's equally reprehensible.

No, technical debt is a very general category that includes deliberate hacks, structural flaws, and small mistake bugs. It's anything that over time will damage the code base, dupl…

Sounds exactly like an Amazon warehouse or Uber. The gig economy is Manna.

The components in modern electronics are interchangeable and have interfaces about as complex as a gear at worst but usually solderable components. The number of transistors is com…