I wasn’t a bad person in my 20s, but I was stupid and thought I was smart. There’s a lot to learn that you learn after a few years as an adult: you learn what’s important, and what’s just a waste of time. As you get older, you have fewer and fewer fucks to spare for the waste of time stuff.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word “proxy”, “host”, or “hub” is simpler...
A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate...
Roe, Affirmative Action, LGBTQ protections, this is why you should vote in every election, including (perhaps especially) midterm elections. It’s the composition of Congress that makes these things happen, and you can’t pass on voting if you want to prevent it.
...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails. (telegra.ph)
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Has life gotten better as you've gotten older?
Mine certainly hasn’t. I feel like I’ve had 27 years of downward spiral....
Please, do not use Brave.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?
or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word “proxy”, “host”, or “hub” is simpler...
Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized (www.neowin.net)
Meta's Threads in the attempted gentrification of the Fediverse (todon.nl)
A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate...
The Supreme Court rejects Biden's plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt (apnews.com)