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Carl Sagan talks about this in the first episode of Cosmos. Eratosthenes proved the Earth was round centuries ago. It's really cool. I recommend checking this clip out.

Police were more likely to be killed by violence than most other positions (which are almost always accident/negligence related), although somewhat ironically their most likely cause of death in 2021 was covid

Just...WOW. In case anyone was wondering about how fucked the US police are.

Are you a farmer? Because you have an awful lot of straw!

Her issue was all the child rape.

They're much more powerful than a corporation, though. Can you imagine any ordinary corporation surviving a child molestation scandal like that?

I'm kind of happy as long as big tech is not running it

Wait for it. It's coming. That's why Meta is doing this. We're in the "embrace" phase of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

I don't see how to avoid it, unless the courts step in. The only reason why we're using the World Wide Web instead of the Microsoft Wide Web is because the US sued Microsoft and won.

The solution is donate them. Don't send them to a landfill. Give poor students a free laptop with Linux installed, etc. There are probably thousands of uses for an old computer that are better than sending it to a landfill.

This is the UK.

They don't.

So if I potato, you can ottoman?

The meaning of a word doesn't change just because you use it incorrectly.

I couldn't have even guessed that they were trying to draw a swastika with that one.

If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here.

It's not about pulling the plug. It's about introducing proprietary features that break communication, forcing people off of an independent server and onto Threads.

If most of your IRL friends are on Threads and your experience with them has gotten janky due to Meta fucking with the protocol, it's going to be very difficult to not switch over to Threads.

Oh, and good luck trying to get your friends to switch over to some indie server they've never heard of. If you can do that, then you should run for president.

I've always had a password. One of the biggest benefits of Linux is security. Why would you undermine that by not using a password?

Both are open protocols for communication over the Internet. Both have been adopted by a large corporate interest.

Now, how are they different?

Could somebody explain what "fedipact" means?

"The flood of crap" isn't what people should be worried about. They should be worried about Meta embracing, extending, and extinguishing the Fediverse. There's a good article about this here. People are worried about the wrong things and don't realize what's at stake.

Yeah, I wish I had a wife, too.