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or the go one: $ go run github.com/eliben/static-server@latest

JSX and PHP are actually seriously different. When you break out of PHP, you're just outputting text to standard output. When you're using JSX syntax, you're constructing Javascrip…

Firefox on iPhone is Firefox on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Gecko. Chrome on iPhone is Chrome on iPhone, but it uses WebKit instead of Blink. The reason this is important…

Nix is also generally run as a daemon. It doesn't have a dependency on systemd and it does run on MacOS. I think also it runs on FreeBSD in principle. The parent poster was probabl…

The change in discussion quality has occurred because old Twitter had an objective to cultivate one particular quality of discussion, and Musk Twitter has an objective to cultivate…

It's much easier to label buttons when you work for a small company, because you know exactly who does what and exactly who is responsible for labelling the buttons and you know ex…

How is this not a breach of the constitutional protection for the right to freedom of assembly? A caucus, in particular, is literally an assembly. Surely for elections to be free a…

"Tire" and "curb" were once the normal spellings in the UK; "kerb" is an innovation whereas "tyre" is either an innovation that is coincidentally the same as an archaic spelling, o…

I don't think they're concerned so much by the people who don't know what a flat is, but by the people who do. There's more than a handful of bookreaders out there who are very pro…

How can you trust any company you pay to stay up even if you are their customer? I've used discontinued products before. Paid subscriptions to companies that merge with others and …

Me too, I wish the companies would obey the law without putting in the consent banner. It's not like there's any law obliging them to put in the consent banners. They freely chose …

Generally speaking ink printers are regarded as a decent option for someone whose printing is predictable. Its the people who print a bunch this week and then nothing for a month o…

Instead of directly exposing the server to the internet, you could keep it behind a VPN. That way you only need to keep the VPN secure, the VPN serves as a whitelist.

> Permanently losing access to an account sucks a lot. But mostly that's all. Usually it's a minor inconvenience. Occasionally it sucks a bit. Rarely it sucks a lot. Almost never i…

It's completely correct. You can follow say @EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu from an account on say mastodon.nz.

Time didn't stop in the pandemic. The 2007 election was fought on the topic of a carbon transition. It's at least a decade and a half, and the anti-transition side hasn't given up …

Why does Canada report information for so few provinces/territories? Are they unwilling or unable to collect the information?

People aren't mass-leaving Twitter because Twitter owns their data. They were happy with someone else owning their data to the extent that they were users of Twitter. They're mass-…

> to normies actually Gmail does equal Email and such I'd love to hear of some evidence for that. I've never encountered anyone assuming that the bit after the @ has to be gmail.co…

"Planes should not fall out of the sky. Aviation experts please fix this." "Also, lawmakers, ensure the aviation experts fix this." "Having regard to our advisors, we, the US lawma…

So why not just reinterpret the original comment so it survives, and take it to highlight the difference between a rule-of-law legal system that punishes rich companies who break t…

The UK has one or two state religions, bishops ex officio have seats in (the less powerful house of) parliament, and the upcoming coronation of their king will be a church service …

That doesn't make Facebook like a government though. If twenty years ago the government chose to advertise a job in the three largest newspapers in a city, and not in the Dah00n Ti…

This is a case for regulation* and for promoting competition and diversity in the marketplace. It's not a case for treating them as governments. If they're governments, who chooses…

If they're defacto governments, then they should be nationalised. If government is government, that extends to elected leaders or appointments by elected or responsible members of …