runefehay

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Mozilla wouldn't be struggling if another monopoly (Microsoft) hadn't destroyed their company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As I recall, the guy who makes Pixelfed (dansup?) is also working on a vine clone called loops. It looks like the site is https://loops.video/ Doesn't appear to be operational yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The moon is made of cheese. Are these blocks from the moon? They are, aren't they. Wow! The Egyptians took giant blocks of cheese from the moon and made pyramids!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but Meta/Facebook is essentially positioning itself as a monopolistic utility by buying out all its smaller competitors and leveraging itself as one of the few players in the market. There are a lot of people, who if you want to talk to them or see what they have to say, you have to get a Facebook account. This includes politicians and small businesses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And in the early days of the telephone, switchboard operators would listen in on conversations and cut off anyone they didn't like. Then in civilized countries, they required phone companies to be common carriers and required police to get warrants if there was anything illegal suspected, to listen in on someone.

Similar thing with the postal service.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (11 children)

The phones are run by private companies. Should they be allowed to restrict what you say over the phone (or sms)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Isn't the phrase they use "up to" the promised speed? So if it is 300bps, that is not above 5Mbps, so they technically met their promise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If they are LVM volumes, it would be possible. Otherwise, you can move the directories you want to the new partition and use symbolic links to point to the new places. Then again some things aren't correctly designed, so they may have problems with symbolic links and YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Isn't there an infamous Usenet post where someone did that to the creator of Perl?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

It is part of the SSSCA / CBDTPA / "Trusted" computing initiative. The large corporations want to control what you are allowed to do with your computer. This is where the phrase "digital rights management" comes from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I have a Sceptre tv. I use it as a TV and computer monitor. I don't remember exactly when I bought it, but it has been at least several years-maybe a decade, and it works great.

The only issue is I think I damaged the screen slightly a year or two ago while cleaning. Most of the time the damage isn't visible and is very small, so I don't worry about it. Well...and I had to replace the remote once as some buttons stopped working properly. Otherwise I have been using it without problem.

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