I've read that dropping X11 in favor of Wayland goes beyond GNOME and reaches all of GTK. This means developers of other GTK-based desktop environments (particularly Xfce) and users of distributions built around those environments (I have Xubuntu and Debian Xfce in mind) will have to make hard decisions.

I think what happened with FOSTA is that some of the more conservative states or the federal government redefined "sex trafficking" to include not only sexually-oriented human trafficking but also all other sexually-oriented commerce.

True, higher-priced prepaid mobile phone plans have unlimited text. Lower-priced plans do not. SMS-based 2-factor authentication is not cost effective for a subscriber making do with a lower-priced plan.

Then you must not have followed FOSTA, a 2018 US law weakened the protections of Telecommunications Act section 230 with respect to sexually explicit material. This made it easier for acquiring banks to get away with debanking sellers of erotica.

How do minors (children and teens not yet old enough for a bank account in their own name) pay for things in Sweden?

When did these advantages of "a locked down hardware BOM" go away?

- Easier for the audience to compare a game's system requirements to a particular device model
- Console maker's imprimatur makes it easier to sort through Theodore Sturgeon's 90 percent crap that fills more open online app stores
- Restriction against software modding reduces likelihood of cheating in online ranked play against strangers
- Restriction against software from unidentified publishers eliminates need for intrusive real-time anti-malware
- Console game discs and cartridges can be resold and used even if you are stuck on slow satellite or cellular Internet with its low monthly cap
- A GPU for a desktop PC costs as much as a console, and then you still need to buy all the other parts of the PC if you want to be able to use the console for something else while someone else in the household is using a PC for gaming
- Consoles have historically had more couch multiplayer games than PC

As for tablets and phones, how many people carry a Bluetooth controller with them? A virtual gamepad on a flat sheet of glass offers no tactile feedback as to where the player's thumbs are. Not all games adapt well to that.

GTK began as the GIMP toolkit (hence the name). What's the Qt based replacement for GIMP, including editing pixel art in indexed mode? Last I checked, Krita didn't support indexed mode, instead expecting all images to be in RGBA.

Or unless they live in a country where carriers charge their prepaid customers for incoming text messages (such as Slashdot's home country) and they're out of texts for the month.

What Rust lets you do is confine the "unsafe" parts so that you do most of the logic with full safety on and then pass the results to a much smaller "unsafe" part that interacts directly with the hardware.

Assuming Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit multilib, how would a 64-bit Steam client run 32-bit games whose (non-Valve) publishers have not released a 64-bit executable?

The summary sounds like a district-scale counterpart to Cloud&Heat, a German firm that colocates server racks running OpenStack in businesses needing heating. See "Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud" from November 2014. Interestingly enough, the summary of the Cloud&Heat story mentions Qarnot as well.

Capitalism has failure modes where "Private property" makes "Competition" and "Freedom of choice" irrelevant. Some of these failure modes are called monopoly and cartel.

The problem I've had with Mastodon, assuming it's representative of fediverse microblogging, is that its search relies almost completely on hashtags. Full-text search is opt-in per post, and very few users have bothered to hunt for the switch to opt in and turn it on. Posts made before the introduction can't be found at all except through tags. And the users of Mastodon think that's a good thing because it protects vulnerable members of marginalized groups from abusive bigots searching for them.

This leaves users like me to play "guess the hashtag" all the time. I search for what I think is the right tag for a topic, and all the posts I find are my own. Or I write a post and nobody else engages with it because nobody else is searching for the tags I used. What am I supposed to do to get my posts seen?

That and we need to accept that nothing will bring Kurt Cobain back. Cutting pollution now buys us time to cut pollution further later.