phi1997

Every platform wants to be every other platform nowadays

In a sense, it’s the only way

Even if they would, look what at happened to Bleem. They successfully argued in court that the PS1 emulator they were selling was legal, but Sony kept suing them until Bleem went bankrupt paying legal fees. That was an actual corporation, too. What hope does an individual artist have?

Or, more accurately, they aren’t prepared for the legal battle that would ensue

For those who take this seriously: don’t. Security by obscurity does not work.

They’ve been sucking for longer than they’ve been losing

Because it’s not the AI that’s taking away jobs, but the executives hoping to cut costs regardless of creativity, quality, or ethics.

Not surprising, considering Musk used it back then too.

Defederation is an important tool to protect communities. It helps prevent the Fediverse from being overrun with bad actors.

Or just stealing someone’s phone, doing whatever they want to do, toss it in a river, and not have anything traced back to them

You’re talking about the AI that provides accurate-sounding results but can’t fact-check and is also used to generate the kind of spam that’s constantly being pushed by search engines, right?

Definitely less. IIRC it’s about 40% of Linux gaming

DuckDuckGo even has an onion URL

The problem with iHeartRadio is that they own way too many radio channels

Pihole blocks ad domains. YouTube ads are still from youtube.com, so you have to block them on the browser level with something like Ublock Origin

After using RSS feeds for a while on my phone, I switched to using them exclusively on my laptop. Having them on something not as easy to whip out as my phone makes me less inclined to compulsively check them.

Getting enough servers ready in 48 hours notice does not d=sound trivial, I expect the outages will be worse than they were today

I’m sure they’ll force it to reopen with a new, handpicked mod team that won’t do nearly as good of a job.