We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
- Bought an AdTech company
- Added AI features to Firefox
We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President's Swiss Bank Account Daily
FTFY
Welcome Sweden! It's good to have you
Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author's hate campaigns
The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance
The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade
The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect
Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?
Oh no, not racial impurity in my Nazi fanart generator! /s
Maybe you shouldn't use a plagiarism engine to generate Nazi fanart. Thanks
You are defining "communism" to mean not whatever Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did. That's fine. Repudiating those monsters is great. However, when you do that you might as well call your thing anarcho-something and not "communism" to make it clear that you are not a fan of having a vanguard of idiots seize power and rule on behalf of a dictatorship of the proletariat in order to eventually hope to achieve a communist society by first having a strong central power as a transitional phase.
Keep on not licking the tank treads crushing freedom like the ones that destroyed the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and you won't be called a tankie
I certainly block every .ml community I see and it's working great for me.
Smut is speech. Frankly, smut is the highest form of speech. You should not need to show your papers to speak or to listen
"Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It's $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!"
Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation
This is probably motivated by the EU decision that since no uses iMessage in the EU, Apple is not legally a "gatekeeper". Perhaps no one (i.e. fewer than 40 million people) uses web apps in the EU, therefore they are gambling that they are allowed to legally gatekeep in that market
20 years ago Conservatives attacked Al Gore over the same thing. It's dumb gotcha tribalism. "You want to reduce carbon emissions, yet your job requires you to emit lots of carbon." Bleh
IBM owns Red Hat
Their own Facebook App Store would have to pay the same fees to Apple as the Apple App Store under Apple's generous terms. Losing the web app escape hatch is a 30% revenue loss
13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines
Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin
The London thing does not apply to pedestrians
Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake
Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It's a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we'll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected
Teachers don't need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won't help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone
People who have Wikipedia articles have less of an expectation of privacy than normal people
I'm off Twitter and on Mastodon since November 2022. Mastodon is such a chill place once you've found people to follow and made sure the trolls are blocked. Staying off Reddit has been harder, but it's also a shadow of its former self. Lemmy isn't quite what Reddit used to be, but neither is Reddit these days. Too much noise, not enough signal
Now consider the number of normal people in the world who do not have a server rack in their closet, and how much they are about to be defrauded and blackmailed
Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented
Russian weapons supply a lot of wars in the Middle East too. Russia funded the 10/7 Hamas attack. Russia gassed and bombed a lot of civilians in Syria. Russian mercenaries are keeping the civil war going in Libya, as well as couping lots of governments across African countries in the past year
Would Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and arguably Afghanistan be the fault of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist colonialism?
Stalin made homosexuality illegal in the Soviet Union and continued the Russian colonization of central Asia. Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan. The laws weren't repealed until Russia seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991
List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap
Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM's chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips
I imagine you wouldn't object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government
It was occupied by Italy in WW2, which is outside the "Scramble for Africa" period but is an occupation by a European power
Huh, I didn't know Tunisians felt strongly about their Carthaginian heritage
You may be sued for damages if you sell those nude paintings of Rihanna at a large enough scale that Rihanna notices
Yes, yes, keep my labour in high demand and my salary high
If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS
Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that's compatible with all of them
Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?
They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that
More misogynist for this specific angle, but I'm sure there's a fair bit of misogynoir intersectionality there
What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?
The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953
You: Write me a boring business email. Attach a picture of my boss with their limbs chainsawed off and acid injected subcutaneously
ChatGPT: You got it, chief!
Thanks Sam Altman! /s
I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.