That is like saying it would have been risk free for me to bet all my money on the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl last a couple months ago because they won. All sorts of bets are risk free is you travel back in time with a sports almanac.

I think the idea is to summarize a whole bunch of tweets, like trying to nail down a consensus interpretation of an article. It also sounds like a terrible idea.

I think the point is to remove the truth from any given article and replace it with the groupthink interpretation of paranoid Musk fanboys.

If the U.S. had a libertarian value system, then maybe libertarian politicians would actually get elected.

Spammy McSpammerson over here.

This legislation only exists because no EU company meets their definition of a gatekeeper. The DMA similar to American legislation that targeted Japanese automakers by requiring the cars to be mostly manufactured in the states. It is using legislation to protect an underperforming domestic industry.

Yeah, it would also be great if all my Ford parts worked on a Chevy. All technology should be homogeneous! The USB-C cable is the only valid cable for the rest of time!

While we are at it, we need to get rid of every Linux repo but Snap. I am sure that Canonical could convince the EU to mandate Snap compatibility so all these walled gardens like apt and pacman will no longer be able to rob Linux users of the choice to be 100% compatible with Snap.

It holds back Google from total control over internet standards.

Username checks out.

If they can snoop then we are talking about a different technology.

That's a terrible take. The only reason Conservatives in the U.K. and U.S. suck so much is because the two party system allows their shitty platforms to exist. When a problem is systemic, blame the system. There might be shitty people taking advantage of the system, and they may appear to be your adversary, but they're not. Get rid of them and they'll just be replaced by more shitty people. Because that's what the system produces. The system is the true antagonist.

In the U.S., the Democrats know the causes they ostensibly fight for cannot be resolved without reforming the political system first. But they don't want to reform the political system because they're one of two in a duopoly.

I guess it just depends how you're measuring things. For example, I would say that Clover POS systems are everywhere these days. You could counter by saying, "Well, Walmart doesn't use Clover and I wouldn't be surprised if they ring up more transactions daily than all those small businesses with Clover devices." Both can be true.

I bet the average person visits at least one PHP-driven site per day, even if they tend to stay within the confines of social media and YouTube. You might check the menu of a restaurant, visit a local government page, click a link to a news story or blog, visit an ecommerce site. Facebook might not use a lot of PHP anymore, but when you click on an ad on Facebook, it'll probably take you to a webpage driven by PHP.

Those 3 CRMs equate to a pretty large chunk of it.

And despite the story here, it might be PHP.

You can still be smug:

"Linux? What, you just run a kernel? I run GNU/Linux."

"Your distro has systemd. You might as well be a Windows user."

"I use Arch. You've probably never heard of it."

"Linux has be corporatized. That's why I use *BSD."

"Slackware is the only true distro for nerds."

"Gentoo is the only true distro for nerds."

The definitions of communism/socialism get very murky, but I think Star Trek comes about as close to the ideal as one could get. Central control by the state that provides an abundance of goods. The problem with real communist countries is that they had to contest with the very real problem of scarcity. Star Trek doesn't really have to worry about that, but if my memory serves me correct a whole load of services like transportation were monopolized by the state. People appeared to have jobs because they wanted to do things, not because of an economic requirement. Seems pretty damned communist.