anlumo @ anlumo @feddit.de

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I'm using Hyprland as well, but I didn't intentionally uninstall anything from Gnome. I don't know how it happens.

Isn’t the “correct” way (using that term very loosely here) to create a new community and move the stuff over there? Then people who are interested in that topic can just subscribe that one. You could call it /c/eloncirclejerk or something like that.

Conceptually, a megathread is like a community, but within the hierarchy of another community.

The reason is that they know people with money, and those people listen. For example, Musk only had to post about his attempt to buy Twitter in a groupchat, and he got Billions of Dollars from them to do it, unchecked. Regular people don't get their ear, and even if they do for some unfathomable reason, everything is checked meticulously.

That's why I'm not in favor of completely abolishing copyright. It should protect for a much shorter time, like 10 years, though. For example, companies would be free to use a ten years old Linux version (3.10 would be the newest affected version) and do whatever they want with it, but for newer ones the GPL protections would still apply.

Yes, 10 years of copyright protection would be plenty enough for software. After 10 years your code is legacy anyways, and it'd help with preserving old software like classic games.

Most open source software also relies on copyright. The GPL doesn’t work without it.

It was a bad name back when this project was created, and it’s a bad name now.

I've experienced it twice that my Ubuntu system uninstalled xwayland while updating packages. The UI doesn’t start any more in this case, because the login screen still uses it.

Well, last time around, the CIA intervened and installed a conservative government when Iran had too much freedom.

So it's a trademark for a logo that doesn't resemble the one Musk uses now that happens to use the same letter. It's is a complete nothingburger.

For me, a few communities are just still there and aren’t looking like they’re going to move somewhere else. For the rest I’m already here.

If he'd just shut it down, he probably would have been personally liable for Twitter's debt, because he didn't even try.

It should also block out all of the Us congress then, since those are also fairly rich people.

Did that guy actually take back his job? Since he already got the firing in writing, I'd totally have run with it.

There was a method behind these things, which are the exception I mentioned. He removed the moderation staff, because he wanted to encourage Nazi content on the platform, and moderators are bad for that. The paid verified program meant that only fans of him and Nazis would pay money and thus be verified, so he could legitimately amplify their voice on the platform.

The problem he ran into is that advertisers don't like their ads next to Nazi propaganda, so now revenue is down.

if I take out a mortgage for a property before I buy it and I destroy the house; the bank still comes after me for the value.

Only if it was destroyed intentionally.

Of course, it could be argued that Musk is destroying Twitter intentionally, but that's for a court to decide.

He fired everyone who tried to question him on the spot, sometimes even by public tweets.

No, the reason it’s not going to break him is that Twitter took on the loan, not himself.

No, once purchased, the problems were already insurmountable. The company was bought on company debt, meaning that it was in deep shit on day 1 of him owning it. It wasn’t profitable before that move, and adding a ton of debt didn’t improve the situation.

All moves Musk did are essentially cost-cutting measures (except for the ones where he's trying to establish it as a social network for Nazis).

This one works.