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I think free software was more about that about that. Open source always was about getting financially motivated companies onboard.

And I thought the rest of the thread was anxiety-inducing. Thanks for the nightmares lol.

A decent chunk of the users who bothered installing an adblock would also be bothered enough to install a FF fork with adblock, so I doubt the revenue increase would be much.

As for calling it "off-mission": yes, what's even the point of FF if that's the route it goes on?

There are some people who feel the hobby is meaningless if they know the machine is better at it.

And well, I entered the field professionally because I liked it, and I feel sort of like the rug was pulled under me. Sucks to be one of us I guess.

I just tried it, I was able to use it without login. But the thinking model isn't available.

Your contacts could still end up messaging the new owner of the number inadvertently if you don't warn them before losing the number or out of band through. It seems WhatsApp doesn't has no warning if such a owner change happened. I believe the new owner would inherit your group memberships too, but not the group chat history.

NixOS only has /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh.

I think false negatives (i.e. it rains when it's not supposed to) are both more bothersome and noticeable, so your weather person won't be very popular.

The native windows application comes for free as a result of the Windows Phon... oh right.

Now it makes sense why Microsoft would get concerned that losing mobile might lead to losing the desktop.

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

If it's called telepathy it's sci-fi, if it's called magic it's fantasy. Learn the rules!

On a more serious note, yeah scifi and fantasy can usually be distinguished, I get why it so often gets lumped in together as speculative fiction, even though it annoys me when I'm looking for one and have to sift through the other.

The dining experience depends on your feelings and home, and you have to pay for transportation for the entire party to the restaurant.

Maybe we should call it "conflict", and include non-state actors.

Also North Korea with its state sponsored internet privateering.

Or Ireland with the nominally headquartered multinationals there.

There are countries that count illegal activities in their GDP estimates.

And should their state sponsored criminal activities count for North Korean GDP for example?

Yeah WP:NOTNEWS is policy, and it starts with

In principle, all Wikipedia articles should contain up-to-date information. Editors are also encouraged to develop stand-alone articles on significant current events.

There clearly is editor and reader interest in making decent quality articles on major current events. Yes they may contain errors that the history book on topic won't contain, but I still think it's worth having. Just mind the things to avoid listed in WP:NOTNEWS and I think we will be fine

And I don't think everything will ever be covered in a book. There is not an infinite amount of scholars studying every random significant event. And those will probably use the same news articles as one of their sources anyway.

I find the source collating of Wikipedia helpful for recent events. That's when you're going to get most editor interest to improve the page and readers to consume it.

Yeah basing articles on scholarly books is good, but not every topic will be covered and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AThe_deadline_is_no...

I believe homicide rate is frequently cited simply because it's the only crime rate that is remotely reliable. Other crimes get underreported but it's hard for the police to ignore a body with a gunshot wound.

Although it would be an interesting chart. But the distinction between what is noteworthy/newsworthy and what actually kills is precisely the point of investigating this topic.

Yeah it is annoying on principle having everything on WP but it's not the worst piece of software (yet). I think I would rather have it than the American system and their blue bubbles vs green bubbles or fragmentation between multiple incompatible and shitty proprietary messaging systems.

I think the big thing will be FOSS solutions. That way the Europeans, Chinese, contrarian Americans, Russian, etc can use the same code and share capital costs without actually having to trust each other.

Yeah. I'd say open source won in the basic infrastructure of the tech world, but actual political free software is just barely holding on. I want users to be free not some base shared code you can't actually modify running somewhere in the stack of a closed source SASS.

Speaking for myself, but I would my game saves and config in the cloud if I were using OneDrive. That is however a separate issue from whether those files should be in the hidden appdata or in the visible my documents.

It's called banner blindness. The brain ends up trained to do the adblocking itself.

Early investors and IPO participants put their money in expecting that 20 years later you would buy the stock off their hands. It feels weird to call it causation when it's traveling back in time, but in a way buying the stock contributes to investment.

Is it gambling if it has a +EV?

I can't use telegram web over IPv6, never figured out why.

Nah gardening would be if they were improving the platform. They be walling.

Some people do though

A bit of devil's advocate here but the current situation is that there's sideloadable malware around.