wait i’m privacy-averse but i know nearly all of this?? 😵‍💫😬

It is or at least should be a library’s right to buy and lend books.

And The Great Gatsby was brought to you by a library—your school’s.

That’s nice. But why? Do you not miss out on e.g. The Great Gatsby?

How many books have you paid for, and how many does a library have?

It’s called property. You buy a book. You don’t get to copy it, but you get to show it to anyone you want.

You claimed it was piracy. Piracy is not when you go to a library and listen to something the label doesn’t sell anymore. Piracy is downloading the latest Imagine Dragons slop without paying.

No, but they definitely could file one.

Luckily there’s another shitty move that could force MS to close down the fork: Patenting.

Yes, promotion and awareness of a service is necessary for its continuation. I’ve agreed with that. But again, without the technological resources and money, there is no service to promote and nothing to continue because it hadn’t even started.

That’s not contradictory. Most would rather offload hardware and security costs, running one’s own hardware is time intensive nevermind power and equipment costs, and you can indeed add advertising and awareness costs to that list. But you do also need the resource investments for a service to start with before advertising it.

plus sometimes they only allocate two characters

sounds topical

The idea of federation is that you have multiple instances of the same medium of social network; of the same lexicon. The same ATProto relay/firehose is the same instance of a social network. As explored in the link I gave you, ATProto does not make mastodon-scale self-hosting of relays easy, nor does it intend to, emphasis on “mastodon-scale”; instead, it makes centralized monolith self-hosting of existing/exported exoduses easy.

That’s a different type of social network, which is also good, but the point is you are heavily incentivized to make another microblog relay.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I support what they wanna do with a credible exit, but claiming that their goal is to or that they do make it easy for multiple different social networks (your PDS is not a new network, it’s data locally stored for the existing network) to communicate with each other is just false

Next I hope Thunderbird’ll restore the GTK/Qt theming support they removed two years ago…

You can read https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/1700#issuecomment-645466148 for the decision to switch to Jawg. TL;DR: It was just the best: most up-to-date and lightweight.

NYT publishes a ton of opinion pieces, especially since back then not everybody could own a press. They just published whatever opinion pieces that fit the page and they found moderately interesting. It could’ve just been a slow month. Plus the writer was chief of the Washington Bureau.

tbf, they did put “LEADER A REACTIONARY Is Anti Red and Anti-Semitic” and “Blackjacks Silence Opposition”, but at the same time “But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idca that Hitler’s unti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semfitie propaganda as a bait to catch mesges of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his orgzanlzation {s porfected and sufficiently powerful to be emiployed effectively for political pur- poses,”

Taiwan isn’t the only Taiwanese land