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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Sure, but if you’re trying to make money off of this technology and it openly starts criticizing you, there isn’t really an explanation where you look good.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Better BlueSky than Twitter, but I hope everyone understands by now that there’s literally no reason to take a business’s word for anything unless they somehow have legally obligated themselves to doing that thing forever. Otherwise you can only trust them to keep doing it for as long as it’s worth it from an economic perspective. I’m not saying that it can’t ever happen that a business acts out of pure goodwill, but only a fool would count on it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago

“…are you really asking me that while you’re smoking a cigarette? I don’t think you need to worry about me…”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Opinion: trying to teach tens of millions of people enough basic statistics and economics so that they understand that Joe Biden wasn’t actually as bad as they think is not actually a serious strategy for defeating conservative populism in elections

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago

It’s called selling out. I doubt they have any illusions about the future of these platforms, they just don’t care as long as they can cash out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree that Donald Trump is much worse for the situation in Palestine and that it was a mistake for anybody to sit out because of what’s happening. But I think it also needs to be said that the Democrats didn’t really offer any alternative besides plausible deniability, and so it seems strange to me to pin the responsibility on the disengaged

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

She’s actually the techbro mage

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I notice a book on dash. I wonder if it’s the dash that is the default shell on Debian. I always had a historical curiosity about the original author of the shell that would become dash, Kenneth Almquist. It’s just such a ubiquitous piece of software and yet there’s basically no information about the person who wrote it. All I’ve ever been able to find is his original Usenet post announcing his Almquist Shell. I think it would be cool if somehow in her world, the techno mage is the one who figures out what happened to Kenneth Almquist, who somehow winds up playing a role in her journey.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to clarify to anybody who who might be confused. It’s going to be on PlayStation store not on the PlayStation console which came out almost 30 years ago

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

When you organize a nonprofit, you dedicate it to the public benefit. it’s not supposed to ever have owners, everything it does it supposed to be for me and you. as far as I’m concerned, this is a multi billion dollar larceny against the general public and we really need better laws that preserve our nonprofit institutions. Just even trying to plan this out is a crime against humanity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m just here to spread contempt for companies that rely on manipulative business tactics to function and encourage people not to buy one for that reason alone.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

why do you think the Mozilla corporation losing 86% of their revenue wouldn’t hurt the Firefox browser?

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