In the thread it looks like in the US you can't copyright the shapes, but in the UK, you can for 25 years. Also the .ttf file that contains the code to make the font render correctly at low DPI is copyrightable in the US.
To me that's so cringe because I've tried it out for explaining concepts and when I take that information and try to use it, it is confidently wrong so much of the time.
The one thing it has helped me with is when I'm trying to do some system administration task, where traditional search engine results are old forum entries or out of date documentation, llms can suggest a way to do the task, and then I can follow those breadcrumbs and do real research on how to do what I need to do.
These are the true points, however the 4th reason to use a VPN is if you are using a fingerprint-resistant browser and lots of other people are too, it's harder to track who is going where, since the exit IP is shared.
I'm sad that bots in space had to spin down, but there are still bots on Mastodon. One server quitting didn't take everything down.
The part where if a mastodon post gets popular, it has to serve that to everyone makes sense because it's kind of like a website. Maybe there could be a CDN like Cloudflare that a mastodon server could use to cache responses?
The part about Bluesky that doesn't sound good to me is "to send a message to one user is to send it to all". Wouldn't this be crazy with even 100 servers for 10000 users, vs 2 servers with 5000 each? Not sure how the math works but it doesn't look good if they have to duplicate so much traffic.
I could never figure out NFS ... ( it only works with unix usernames??) But since I have smb servers I can use that with Android