He's long gone. Left the board earlier this year after throwing his weight behind the Nostr protocal. Bluesky is putting a lot of emphasis on specifically being ad free and not monetizing user data so it would be quite a betrayal if they went back on that. Not saying that 100% won't happen, the tech world is rife with that kind of double crossing (looking at you google), but it's a far cry from the open rapacious pilfering that goes on over at Meta's properties.

I wonder if this will be when Bluesky rally takes off.

Hmm, This seems like the sort of thing that would be standard practice for any company of their size. Microsoft, are you just trying to put out PR that makes it look like you care about security after the whole CrowdStrike debacle and the State Department email hack?

If the desalination equipment uses 100% of the electricity created by the panels what would be the advantage of adding batteries? Why make water later with efficiency losses if you can make it now without them? And then of course, like others have mentioned, batteries are a lot cheaper than they used to be but they sure aren't free. On the note of trucking the equipment around, that could potentially be useful in some specific scenarios like natural disasters (Actually probably not now that I think about it because you need access to that brackish water but let's say for the sake of argument that's not an issue) but would probably not be a super useful for what it is intended for: rural communities In poor countries. These places often already have centralized communal water. Also Americans are disgustingly wasteful. The rest of the world, particularly in poor countries, use a tiny, tiny fraction of what Americans do.

Is this even a real question? Here's some real answers: So that my documents can be device agnostic. So that I can access them from work and home and when I'm on the road. So I can access them from my laptop, desktop, phone or tablet. So I don't have to worry about backing up documents. So I don't have to worry about syncing documents between devices and which one is the latest version. So that I can share documents with coworkers and friends and my weekly writing group. So that I can collaborate on documents with said coworkers and friends. Did you even take 3.5 seconds and maybe think huh, I wonder why google docs is so popular. Turns out that not only are there reasons but they are good ones.

I'm sure this new plastic contains no phthalates, parabens, bisphenols, other plastic softeners, or novel horrors we don't even know about yet and absolutely under no circumstances does it create an abundance of microplastics in your food.

I totally agree with your sentiment; a deal with the financial elite is always a deal with the devil. Unfortunately your example is a little bit funny given that Bolt Bus is created and owned by... Greyhound. It was created because Chinatown buses was handing them their ass when traveling between the major cities in the NE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A different article I was reading seemed to indicate that the problem is not the efficiency of the blades as a function of size but rather the speed they top out at. The idea being larger turbines have a max speed that they can't exceed no mater how fast the wind blows. The theoretical advantage of these smaller blades is that when the wind really gets going their top speed is much higher and they can then take advantage of the additional available energy. I do wonder how much that would actually add to the power output of one of these installments though. Like how often do winds exceed the maximum rotational speed of the bigger turbines and by how much?

is exactly why we need fucking unions.

I'm assuming there is a big technological rock in the way of just adapting ntfs-3g into the kernel. Any insight from those who have a deeper understand of filesystems?

Pffft. This has nothing to do with sexual content and everything to do with anything on their platform looking like prostitution.

It is an unfortunate conservative miss-truth that there is anything that is not political. What you eat is political, whether or not you drive to work is political, using parks or libraries is political, what language you use is political, your position on vaccines is political and, yes, what your code does is political. It always has been; that fact is just becoming a lot clearer these days.

This is just what our warming planet needs. Rich people finding a stupid way to send even more CO2 into our atmosphere. Gods, I don't even want to think about the embedded carbon for a trip to space.

Wow, calm down. As several people have pointed out all speech everywhere has limits. But more importantly the caricature that you use as an example would certainly, and justifiably, have limits put on their rights and liberties. Specifically being a child rapist and having committed genocide (and I guess insider trading?) would hopefully get you some pretty serious legal consequences which would limit just about all of your rights.

pffft Yes, all those salaried academics and NSA employees that are itching to work 12 hour days for $15 an hour. I totally forgot about the massive influx of white collar tech workers that are flooding the blue collar warehouse industry. /s Those workers trying to unionize are nothing like you. There's shills and then there's shills and then there's a comment like yours.