Nicklin's colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was "infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet."

We've been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don't, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.

Maybe it's just Microsoft doing a bad job.

The hell you say.

Four former employees said the staff cuts could delay response time to client questions, reduce the ability to update the software and slow the ability to address glitches.

“There’s a pattern in Democratic software of creating a tool and then you stop updating it, you stop working on it, you stop developing and creating new releases for it.”

Use. Open. Source. Software.

JFC, people.

If you're using products that are FOSS, it doesn't matter if a single company goes under. You can just take the code to somebody else.

Windows 11 may be the king of operating systems

In what world? I've just started using it at work, and I swear the other day it tried to sell me an XBox controller. Not like I was on the Web and an ad popped up, no. It was part of the operating system!

Can you imagine going back in time 10 years and telling somebody "In the future, Microsoft is going to put pop-up ads in Windows." People would think you were crazy!

You could also ask: "Why are there so many audio formats? Why are there so many video formats?" And so on.

The reason is different people have different ideas on what is the best way to do things.

I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.

What a bunch of assholes.

Yeah, it's really surprising that an ethical, upstanding company like Meta would pull a dick move like that. It's so out of character.

Did you watch the movie? Because the experiments showed that the earth was round, they decided that there must have been something wrong with the experiments.

That's only the tip of the iceberg.

Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring?

"Human trafficking" sounds so much nicer than "rape and enslavement" which is what he's specifically charged with.

Programmers who care about best practices. Here are a couple of scenarios where not using a semicolon will bite you in the ass.

I've never not heard it said sarcastically.

The writer is proposing Vivaldi, a closed-source browser, as an alternative to Brave, which is free and open-source. I think a better alternative would be Ungoogled Chromium.

Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page

And that is, of course, what it was designed for.

JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.

I think they want to replace psychiatry with exorcism.

I feel sympathy for the people who are required to use it for work. Most users could quit it and replace it with Mastodon, though.

I went vegan. It was the best decision I've ever made. I'm healthier, happier, and I'm helping animals and the environment. I also eat better, because it forces me to be aware of what's in my food and make more creative meal choices.

I don't understand what you wrote about the WHO and plutonium.

I'm sure if we ignore him, he'll just go away. That's how this works, right?

John Mastodon would never allow that.

So, Mastodon has this same problem?

He's a "free speech absolutist". Unless the speech offends him.

There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.

I disagree. There is much about it that is very surprising, which is why we're still talking about it. Maybe he meant "There's very little that people should be surprised about, because this shit has been going on for a year now, and it just keeps getting dumber and dumber."

which Yaccarino tweeted about on Wednesday.

Are we still calling it that? Wouldn't she have Xed it?

This post feels like elitism and gatekeeping to me, as someone who thinks Windows sucks and prefers Linux.

I think it's the opposite. There are, of course, Linux elitists, but they don't want normies using Linux. They love to talk about how Linux isn't ready for mainstream usage, and it's so difficult and only super-smart people like them can use it. They're like those hipsters that don't want their favorite band to become popular because then they wouldn't be underground and cool to listen to anymore. If ordinary folks were using Linux, then they wouldn't feel so smart and special.

It is gatekeeping and elitist to say that Linux is hard to use, you wouldn't understand it, and you should stay on Windows.

People don’t want to learn more because for most people not knowing more doesn’t impact their fucking life. Just like me not knowing more about my car doesn’t generally impact my fucking life. Because I’ve never had trouble finding someone to pay to fix it for me.

Surprise, we’re the people who are paid to fix computers for the people who are just using them as simple tools. Maybe we shouldn’t be so upset about that.

It isn't about every computer user becoming a computer engineer. It's about learned helplessness. It's about being afraid to try anything new, even something that's only slightly different.

To use the car analogy, it's like somebody who will only drive Fords, and is terrified of the prospect of getting behind the wheel of a car made by any other manufacturer.

Boycotts can work. Leave, and let people know why you're leaving. (The second part is important!)

I'm sure if we just ignore rich and powerful people, they'll go away.

To me, updates and DLC serve different purposes. Updates are for bugfixes, new features, feature enhancements, etc. DLC is new game stuff, like additional characters and levels and so on.

I sometimes wonder how much it would take to get people to leave X en masse. Maybe if Elon was posting Nazi propaganda?

I'm surprised it took this long.

Imagine you're trying to organize people to throw a party, and you have somebody come in who wants to argue that parties are evil because they distract people from glorifying God. Should you hear this person out and engage them in conversation? Or just block them?

That sounds rude, though. Like "you people".

I used to think that wobbly windows were silly, but Garuda has then as default, and now I love them. I don't usually drag windows, though, because I just full-screen everything and then alt-Tab between them.

The boot on the neck is fine, as long as you're the one wearing the boot. But you can't be sure that will always be true, can you?

It also takes a different sort of person to say that there shouldn't be a boot in the first place.

That's why they should give people the option to work from home. You can choose which one is best for you.

That's how social media works. All it takes is one person to find it and post it to their network.

Lots of people come have a choice in who their ISP is. I don't. For my area, there's one provider. If I want to change that, I have to move.

I remember back in the day, Linux users couldn't shut up about that damn cube. It was the coolest thing on Linux, apparently. I've been using Linux for almost 20 years now, and I've never seen it.

It was a cost-cutting measure to save money on tapes by reusing the old ones.

The number of powerful politicians on the left I can count on one hand.

What you're talking about isn't cowardice. It's complicity. They want Trump to be the nominee, because they think they can beat him. Worst case scenario, he wins, and they get to fundraise like hell and benefit from his tax cuts.

You're mixing up facts with ideological stances, but I don't think you're doing it on purpose. I think that you just don't understand what a fact is.

If you're trying to fight malaria and one person believes that malaria is caused by a protozoan and another person thinks it's caused by demons, you shouldn't give those points of view equal weight.

Pratchett's just using real-world (albeit archaic) terms: widdershins and deosil.