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[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads?

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  • No

    • It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch

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  • Thanks, will give it a try!

    • It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch

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  • Best thing about Evernote was its web clipping extensions... anyone use one that's as good or better..?

    • Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media

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  • Do we have a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook yet..?

    • Everquest 2's former creative director has a bleak vision of gaming's future

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  • Nice ad hominem...

    He was also creative director for the original Ultima Online game and Star Wars Galaxies... both awesome and innovative MMOs at the time...

    • McLaren | New World Record Holders! 1.80s, the fastest ever Formula 1 pit-stop!

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  • It wasn't a requirement, they made changes with the intention that it would always take at least two seconds.

    The teams just adapted and got better again.

    • Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News

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  • I mean I guess it could happen... so I guess why trust anyone? May as well just switch it all off!

    • Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News

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  • This article is a pretty good summary of why, by Google's own words, an ad driven search experience will be rubbish:

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

    Not only does Kagi produce great search results, as good as "old Google" IMO, its business model means the above cannot (or at least, shouldn't) happen. If it ever changed its model to include ads etc it would collapse so fast.

    So for me, unlike the other poster, I'd recommend it to everyone who's finding the existing search engines are rubbish and full of useless Etsy and SEO etc links.

    • What book(s) should replace the popularity of Quran/bible?

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  • Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World

    • Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

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  • Playing devil's advocate, I'd argue the in the wild community testing is more likely to uncover an edge case that the formal testing didn't envisage..? 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

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  • The idea is it gives enough time for competition to establish and then everyone completes on an even footing without fettering the original monopoly after it's no longer a monopoly in that space... arguably it worked as Chrome took over but all that's happened it it made a new monopoly 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • Btw, I'm..

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  • And what happens if they're a pilot as well???

    • What is the biggest animal you think you can take on with your bare hands?

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  • You can it's just unlikely you'd win

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  • ios autocorrect was already pretty dreadful

    • Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

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  • Market cap of Nintendo - 50 billion Market cap of Microsoft - 2.4 trillion

    • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • Unity - "hold my beer"

    • [@ChrisMedlandF1] Reprimand for Sargeant for impeding Stroll in Q1, with a €5,000 fine for Williams as it failed to inform him of an approaching car

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  • Two reprimands with a five grand fine, what a joke

    • [@ChrisMedlandF1] Reprimand for Sargeant for impeding Stroll in Q1, with a €5,000 fine for Williams as it failed to inform him of an approaching car

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  • Probably trying to set early precedent for this track so they don't have to penalise Wahhhstappen

    • The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp]

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  • Unless I've missed something I don't see how this makes WhatsApp worse...? Just don't sign up to the people's channels if you don't want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • If you were immortal and your lover wasn't (or roles reversed), would you still wanna experience the happieness and joy of love despite the inievtable happening in time?

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  • Highlander, as well as being a great fantasy movie, explores these themes a little.

    If you haven't seen it, I'd strongly suggest watching it.