Having the same sample of one civilization, it has never been particularly deterred by threats of evil and curses on those who enter. If anything, that only increases its curiosity.

What does that have to do with Russia and Ukraine?

The concern is that without true federation Bluesky is still for all intents and purposes a corporation-controlled social media, just like Twitter, and therefore subject to the exact same enshittification cycle.

I’ll believe they’ll add true federation when it happens. Color me sceptical, but I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

As far as I’m aware, you can host your own Bluesky server, but the main servers don’t federate with anybody else so it’s a moot point.

I feel like Facebook is much worse for that, but I haven’t touched Facebook in many years so I couldn’t tell you why I feel that way.

Wait what, Syncthing is dead? But it’s what I use!

I’ll keep running W10 on my current machine, but when I build the next one I’m very seriously considering going Linux. My only concern is that many of the software I use regularly don’t have Linux versions.

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It’s good for when you want to keep up with what people or organizations you’re interested in are up to. Artists, authors, game developers, etc.

It sucks for any kind of in-depth content or conversation, including politics.

I know, I was making a joke

Because Queue<T> is typically read “queue of T”

“You’re a Queue of T”? I don’t get it

Because the bird was originally named after the country, I have decided to update what I call the bird as well to match.

As a linguist, I’d just shrug.

I first thought this was a bad idea by Paypal but you opened my eyes

Sounds to me it would be more like outlawing grand pianos because of all of the dead elephants - while some people are claiming that it is possible to make a grand piano without killing elephants.

Yeah, to paraphrase something I once read on the other site, “unknown” doesn’t mean “I don’t know”.

Coming from a country bordering Russia and having had to deal with their bullshit for my entire life, the most frustrating thing about Russian bullshit is that if they could just be normal, they could be an actually wealthy and significant European country in a few decades. But no, they have always had this HUGE inferiority complex, which means that they need to continuously prove that they’re great, powerful and important. And the only way they know how to prove their greatness and importance is to flex their “power” on their neighbors, including by militarily expanding their borders, while most of their “peer” countries (most importantly pretty much all of Europe) have moved on from this sort of view of being “powerful” after WW2 by the latest.

This is called the etymological fallacy

And I expect the browser is none of those things.

Japan has various earthquake notification systems. Tweets are just one more way to get the information to the people on a platform they use.