Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.
Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…
There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bot in their name.
There are a few others more sneaky.
How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?
I use zerotier for that kind of stuff, mostly because it runs native on my router (mikrotik) and is zero config so easy to run on a random mobile device I might have on me.
TBH that doesn’t surprise me… I had a minor spat over the existence of a local supermarket, of all the stupid things… Wiki said it had been refused planning permission and never built. I had shopped in there many times, and could link to many articles about the fully built existing supermarket. I gave up after the second revert because it’s just not worth it.
It goes deeper than that. They encouraged Hamas.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
I’m in my mid 50s now and I haven’t got more racist… I’ve got angrier that things that were wrong in my youth are still wrong now, angrier at politicians that claim to represent me spouting racist bullshit. But if anything I’m more left wing than I was, and I’m definitely more liberal than I was 10 years ago.
I made mine deliberately incompatible by disabling the fTPM but started getting the upgrade prompts recently.
They’re getting there with windows 11… first it was ‘hey you’re compatible with windows 11’ now they’ve stepped up to a full screen non-skippable screen a big ‘upgrade to windows 11’ but still with a button to stay on windows 10 hidden in the corner. It’s only a matter of time before that button disappears.
“If you ever use containers to self-host, do you prefer manual or automatic updates?” “Yes”
Fiction tends to get more from the apocrypha and similar spurces… things like the rebellion, Lilith etc. More meat on the bones when you want to write an interesting character.
If you had to base it on a couple of lines in the old testament you’d have very little. Certainly not a netflix series worth 😁
Rewording it doesn’t really help.
Old adage…People don’t want choices, they want what they want.
Every time you ask a question you lose a chunk of your audience. With something like lemmy, they want to look at messages and respond. Let them do that. Encourage them to choose an instance later, when they’re equipped to make that choice.
Yes that’s a hard problem with federation… mastodon went for a default instance as a solution. There are likely better ones but that’s a problem lots of people are working on.
The current system is in part because the rich got there by taking it from the previous leaders - every country has it’s revolution story, sometimes multiple ones - and they don’t want it to happen to them.
So more likely the new system would be even more efficient.
It’s only illegal in the UK in London (wierd exception, imo). On other places it’s down to local byelaws (our local council states that a car must allow enough space for a wheelchair to pass for example, although it’s rarely enforced).
You just need to setup webfinger to do it I think. I couldn’t get it to work properly though… possibly it’s broken.
The Outer Limits ‘Think Like a Dinosaur’ covered this rather creepily… https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ved5j
Concision is a word, but most people use the term brevity.
Routing would be the hard bit I expect… if the person you were communicating was 10 hops away how to find the route? Things like BGP do that naturally, but really you don’t want to burden potentially nontechnical users with BGP…
Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).