All the stories I've heard from friends, family members and colleagues that worked with or interacted with him professionally boil down to, "he was a dick to me" or "he was a dick to me but less of a dick than he was to other people and this makes me blind to his dickishness"

France already does this. And Air France gives you an option to pay extra to subsidize further use of SAF. They will give you an estimate of carbon emissions of your trip, and offer various choices to pay for SAF to offset it. Funding SAF for the whole trip costs about 25% of your ticket pricr.

That does not feel right. It's like being an European and going to NYC and witness the omnipresent tip culture. Now the airlines expect a tip too?

hate to break it to you but /. does all of those things. maybe not as effectively as tiktok but still

With Threads we're now pushing a hundred million users. As big as twitter during arab spring.

Delete your slashdot account and put your phone down and never pick it up.

The real world includes the world of human social interaction, and that has always been mediated as long as we've been communicating with groups outside of our little hamlets and demes

wrote up a comment but it was deleted. tl;dr free speech exists on the fediverse, and if you choose to value it you can have it. whether or not the fediverse is "about" free speech is almost irrelevant. The parts of the fediverse that have free speech are "about" it and there will be those of us who connect the rest of the network to freedom whether or not the prudes and the censors want to try to wall themselves off.

'Multi-server but all under control by an unaccountable central point of failure' you mean

Search is way easier in centralized systems, obviously.
As far as algorithmic filtering of content, you can do that already on the fediverse, you just have to do it manually on your own database of posts. The UI isn't quite there yet on servers like pleroma, but it will get there if it's seen to be a useful feature.

good thing disney's priorities is making their service more defective by design, and harder to use for their paying customers and not fixing their buggy-AF UI or producing more content

it makes it easier to compete with them and an easier sell for a cartoon producing entity to replace them

Since you can't distribute modified versions, this is effectively locked within microsoft's walled garden, just like winamp always was. It should be considered a dead project, since no one should be touching github in the first place.

Did you submit these as bug reports to the audacious/other projects?

Ya cheap bastards

Can highly recommend it, worth a read even if you don't follow all of it. He comes up with tools to measure your progress that will work with any diet you choose.

Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.

Looks like they are jelly of Alexa's driving features and care more about upselling their AI in cars than selling consumer AI speakers.

I fully expect Google to sunset all their home automation eventually. It is what they do best.

Yep, never trust Google with your time or data.