I give my brother shit because he’s far left progressive but still spends all day on Xitter. His excuse is that Xitter isnt making a profit so he’s hurting Musk a tiny bit every time he uses it…Yeah, I didnt buy it either.

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Eh. That seems like wishful thinking. He just blamed it on “the other guy” because his base is gullible and ill-informed.

That… seems like a poor design.

Also Fennec, iirc.

Thunderbird really is terrible, but for some reason it never occurred to me to find an alternative. Just commenting here so I remember to look into Betterbird.

Or we could just talk about it. Like we are right now. That’s clearly doing Something about it, just not stopping it.

Oh I’m definitely cynical, sometimes too much so, but its often warranted.

You’re right, though, just because the (vast) majority are money grabs doesnt mean they all are. Lots of businesses are started by someone trying to figure out how to make a living doing something they love. Or genuinely trying to solve a problem, money being secondary. I’ve never had that drive, but I do know e.g. artists who are “in business” for themselves and quite happy at it.

My PC was HAL_9000 for over a decade. It got tedious to type, so it’s now just “box.”

I skimmed that article but didnt get the joke until I came back. BRB, making a new gmail account.

Very German of you.

My first computer job was at a college that used names from ancient history and mythology. So I mostly still do that. Medea is my plex server. Zeus and Hera are the hosts for docker and VMs. Heimdall is the router.

The only break in the pattern is my storage, which is currently NASC and NASD…

Oh and my personal machine used to be HAL_9000 (complete with wallpaper and theme sounds) but now I just name it “box.”

Iirc, Orban blocked some. They are also at least somewhat justifiably concerned about Putin’s nukes.

That said, there were restrictions on spending borrowed money for defense. Annnd why not let the US foot the bill if they were willing? Well this is why.

The US can no longer be trusted as a reliable defense partner, much as it pains me to admit it. I bet there are a lot of F-35 purchasers doing some serious soul-searching right about now. Macron sure seemed pretty (justifiably) smug about being able to offer to extend their nuclear umbrella.

They always had their own interests. If you thought otherwise, you’re naive. People generally start a business to make money.

Text explaination. My ADHD brain doesnt have the patience for a video when I just want to know the answer and move on.

https://machaddr.substack.com/p/the-tildeverse-a-brief-overview

The https://tildeverse.org/ is an online community comprising several servers, known as tilde communities, where users can engage in a wide variety of activities that harken back to the early days of the internet. The term “tilde” refers to the Unix/Linux tradition of using ~ (the tilde symbol) as shorthand for a user’s home directory. Each tilde community is typically hosted on a Unix-based system, and these servers provide access to shell accounts and a range of tools to help users communicate, collaborate, and explore computing in a text-based, terminal-driven environment.