taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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Mozilla stubbornly refuses to allow people to donate to Firefox specifically (as opposed to Firefox and their other random projects they pull out of the hat every other quarter or so to be used for any of them at their discretion). I would have set up a monthly donation to Firefox long ago if only they allowed donations just to Firefox. I have read many others complain about the same issue over the years.

Yeah, but in many, many more words than necessary to be honest.

That seems like a feature designed for people who have phone calls so long that their calls get disconnected from reaching some sort of maximum time limit? I don't think that would ever be a problem for me.

Originally there also wasn't any name-based virtual hosting, especially in SSL/TLS-based services like HTTPS so you needed one IP per name if you wanted to host multiple websites.

And part of the disappearance of www. now is probably that strange decision by Chrome to hide it.

Ideally you want to do one or the other unless you really like the redirect loop error page in your browser.

Originally the idea was that you would have a domain and then have a host under that domain for each service (e.g. mail.example.net, ftp.example.net, www.example.net,...). Of course eventually the web was used by a lot more people this directly than any other service so the main domain was also configured to point at the web server and then people added a redirect either in one direction (add www.) or the other (remove www.) on the first request.

What does any of this have to do with network effects? Network effects are the effects that lead to everyone using the same tech or product just because others are using it too. That might be useful with something like a system of measurement but in our modern technology society that actually causes a lot of harm because it turns systems into quasi-monopolies just because "everyone else is using it".

a bear minimum.

I always felt that was too much of a burden to put on people, carrying multiple bears everywhere they go to meet bear minimums.

Well, obviously there are still bugs in hardware drivers on Linux, the point was more that those bugs are not any more common than on any other OS and that Linux probably supports more hardware than some of the Windows operating system versions now.

Apple level of hardware support is hard for Linux because Apple provides that by limiting supported hardware to a tiny, tiny subset of available hardware they produce themselves.

I started using Linux maybe 10 years earlier than that and stopped using Windows at all around Windows 7 (at which point it was just the occasional dual-boot into Windows for a few games every couple of months) and at no point can I remember a time when Windows was good in that time period.

When I was a child I was trying to type QBASIC code from a magazine called DOS into my (inherited) Atari 1024ST with Omikron Basic and tried to figure out why that didn't work so well.

To me tablets feel like the most useless devices ever invented. Too large to carry around with you but just as stupidly limited as a phone compared to a real computer where you can actually automate some of your tasks and type on a decent keyboard and have a decent sized screen that doesn't ruin your wrists with the weight of holding it up.

You are assuming they can't when in reality it is more that this is learned helplessness, they have been told over and over that they wouldn't understand anyway so they aren't even trying.

I never liked the "don't believe anything you read on the internet" line, it focuses too much on the internet without considering that you shouldn't believe anything you read or hear elsewhere either, especially on divisive topics like politics.

You should evaluate information you receive from any source with critical thinking, consider how easy it is to make false claims (e.g. probably much harder for a single source if someone claims that the US president has been assassinated than if someone claims their local bus was late that one unspecified day at their unspecified location), who benefits from convincing you of the truth of a statement, is the statement consistent with other things you know about the world,...

If they were personalized wouldn't that mean they shouldn't really receive that many upvotes other than maybe from the person they were personalized for?

Mainly I didn't really expect that since the old methods of propaganda before AI use worked so well for the US conservatives' self-destructive agenda that it didn't seem necessary.

He is the messiah of his own cult, wouldn't you call that a religious leader?

Anything containing allegations of antisemitism when it comes to an Israel-specific issue can basically be dismissed immediately, they have overplayed that card for too long, even many Jewish organizations in other parts of the world are fed up with that line.

The times when you couldn't get PCs with 100% hardware support on Linux were 15+ years ago. You can still find the occasional one today that doesn't have it but it is not hard to get 100% support.

My point was more that while parts of the population might have been progressive there were very few political figures on the progressive end of the spectrum and very few political actions.

In fact in 2016 the very slightly more progressive of the two major parties in the US felt so strongly that they needed to stop progressive movements that they nominated an extremely establishment candidate (Hillary Clinton) in an election that was clearly shaping up to be an anti-establishment election despite having a popular anti-establishment progressive candidate dropped in their lap (Bernie Sanders).