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I think free software was more about that about that. Open source always was about getting financially motivated companies onboard.

And I thought the rest of the thread was anxiety-inducing. Thanks for the nightmares lol.

A decent chunk of the users who bothered installing an adblock would also be bothered enough to install a FF fork with adblock, so I doubt the revenue increase would be much. As fo…

There are some people who feel the hobby is meaningless if they know the machine is better at it. And well, I entered the field professionally because I liked it, and I feel sort o…

I just tried it, I was able to use it without login. But the thinking model isn't available.

Your contacts could still end up messaging the new owner of the number inadvertently if you don't warn them before losing the number or out of band through. It seems WhatsApp doesn…

NixOS only has /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh.

I think false negatives (i.e. it rains when it's not supposed to) are both more bothersome and noticeable, so your weather person won't be very popular.

The native windows application comes for free as a result of the Windows Phon... oh right. Now it makes sense why Microsoft would get concerned that losing mobile might lead to los…

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

If it's called telepathy it's sci-fi, if it's called magic it's fantasy. Learn the rules! On a more serious note, yeah scifi and fantasy can usually be distinguished, I get why it …

The dining experience depends on your feelings and home, and you have to pay for transportation for the entire party to the restaurant.

Maybe we should call it "conflict", and include non-state actors.

Also North Korea with its state sponsored internet privateering.

Or Ireland with the nominally headquartered multinationals there.

There are countries that count illegal activities in their GDP estimates. And should their state sponsored criminal activities count for North Korean GDP for example?

Yeah WP:NOTNEWS is policy, and it starts with > In principle, all Wikipedia articles should contain up-to-date information. Editors are also encouraged to develop stand-alone artic…

I find the source collating of Wikipedia helpful for recent events. That's when you're going to get most editor interest to improve the page and readers to consume it. Yeah basing …

I believe homicide rate is frequently cited simply because it's the only crime rate that is remotely reliable. Other crimes get underreported but it's hard for the police to ignore…

Yeah it is annoying on principle having everything on WP but it's not the worst piece of software (yet). I think I would rather have it than the American system and their blue bubb…

I think the big thing will be FOSS solutions. That way the Europeans, Chinese, contrarian Americans, Russian, etc can use the same code and share capital costs without actually hav…

Yeah. I'd say open source won in the basic infrastructure of the tech world, but actual political free software is just barely holding on. I want users to be free not some base sha…

Speaking for myself, but I would my game saves and config in the cloud if I were using OneDrive. That is however a separate issue from whether those files should be in the hidden a…

It's called banner blindness. The brain ends up trained to do the adblocking itself.

Early investors and IPO participants put their money in expecting that 20 years later you would buy the stock off their hands. It feels weird to call it causation when it's traveli…