Fuck, I missed the two best times to start

How the fuck was Uber supposed to help traffic? That’s the most American take on solving traffic issues I’ve read in a while.

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Either you innovate or you pay that company $32M every summer forever

demand living wage

Sir, this is the US

6 GHz is around 50mm iirc

Yes, a faraday cage does work. But note that modern wifi uses high frequencies, which means fairly small waves (edit: of about 5cm). That means your faraday cage needs a meshing of maximum ~2cm 1.25cm. The tighter the less signals it will let through.

Essentially, any mesh storage box should do the trick.

Products of Chinese companies aren’t really a good alternative for different reasons

Must be really hard to resist the urge to sue Musk over this branding, force him to cease using it, and then directly rebrand Threads as X. Just to rub it in.

Or maybe better, create a new payment platform that is tightly coupled to their social media platforms and call that X.

I think some of us also had hopes that the new CEO would put a leash on Musk and steer Twitter into calmer waters again, but this was just proof that Musk is still doing wtf he wants and the CEO is just there for show. So people have now abandoned their last bit of hope and therefore abandoned T…I mean X as well.

While I haven’t been an active user in a longer time, I’ve still been a very active lurker until Musk took over. By now, I’ve only checked Twitter every now and then when bored, to see what happened (as I mostly used Twitter as some kind of news feeds for stuff I couldn’t easily follow in any other way). But today I started migrating off completely - going through my follow list one by one and finding ways to follow those things (like local police, local town, local zoo, etc.) in other ways.

For some that means slower news, or only the most important news - which kinda sucks, as e.g. local police info were good to have in real time during major events or when there was some protest going on. For some this even means mailing lists, ugh.

And a few I couldn’t replace at all, so I’ll miss out on those news. Sucks, but hopefully those people/entities will provide their news feed through some better means sometime now.

There actually was a short-lived attempt to create a Y window system as a successor to X (before Wayland).

Funnily enough the website is still live, despite no progress in almost 20 years: y-windows.org

Xikes*

But you can do a proper uninstall. And the package manager can also give you a list of all files a package will install / installed, so you’ll find stuff even in random places.

It’s why package managers are so popular

You’re paranoid, mate

Matrix is the federated alternative to XMPP and IRC first and foremost, imho

Reddit Premium gave me 700 per month while also enabling premium users to use a bunch of fancy awards for cheap. So I never used most of the monthly coins and they accumulated over time.

Yea, my 29.1k coins aren’t happy about this change

First you need mkfol, otherwise you can’t cf anywhere

Anyone can set up a Lemmy instance, write a small script/bot to find and follow all the communities on all the instances in the Fediverse and store all that data. It’s not even hard, maybe a day of work for a proof of concept if you start from zero. (Then you have to figure out how to scale it properly, how to detect you’re getting defederated and how to change domains to restart without the defederations. Maybe a week’s worth of effort.)

Threads would be way overkill to achieve this goal. You don’t need any users. You don’t want any users. Just your one account that follows everything.

Edit: or you can just set up a web crawler like Google Search uses to find and store all the data you’re looking for, you don’t necessarily to be federated / use ActivityPub