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Mozilla wouldn’t be struggling if another monopoly (Microsoft) hadn’t destroyed their company.

As I recall, the guy who makes Pixelfed (dansup?) is also working on a vine clone called loops. It looks like the site is https://loops.video/ Doesn’t appear to be operational yet.

The moon is made of cheese. Are these blocks from the moon? They are, aren’t they. Wow! The Egyptians took giant blocks of cheese from the moon and made pyramids!

Yes, but Meta/Facebook is essentially positioning itself as a monopolistic utility by buying out all its smaller competitors and leveraging itself as one of the few players in the market. There are a lot of people, who if you want to talk to them or see what they have to say, you have to get a Facebook account. This includes politicians and small businesses.

And in the early days of the telephone, switchboard operators would listen in on conversations and cut off anyone they didn’t like. Then in civilized countries, they required phone companies to be common carriers and required police to get warrants if there was anything illegal suspected, to listen in on someone.

Similar thing with the postal service.

The phones are run by private companies. Should they be allowed to restrict what you say over the phone (or sms)?

Isn’t the phrase they use “up to” the promised speed? So if it is 300bps, that is not above 5Mbps, so they technically met their promise.

If they are LVM volumes, it would be possible. Otherwise, you can move the directories you want to the new partition and use symbolic links to point to the new places. Then again some things aren’t correctly designed, so they may have problems with symbolic links and YMMV.

Isn’t there an infamous Usenet post where someone did that to the creator of Perl?

It is part of the SSSCA / CBDTPA / “Trusted” computing initiative. The large corporations want to control what you are allowed to do with your computer. This is where the phrase “digital rights management” comes from.

I have a Sceptre tv. I use it as a TV and computer monitor. I don’t remember exactly when I bought it, but it has been at least several years-maybe a decade, and it works great.

The only issue is I think I damaged the screen slightly a year or two ago while cleaning. Most of the time the damage isn’t visible and is very small, so I don’t worry about it. Well…and I had to replace the remote once as some buttons stopped working properly. Otherwise I have been using it without problem.

This was started over two decades ago, but never came about because the copyright cartel destroyed it. It was called peer to peer (p2p) tech.

The cartel even tried to pass laws which would allow them to control what media you could have on your computer. (The SSSCA and later CBDTPA) This is where the term Digital Rights Management came from.

180 users/server seems high to me, but it is probably the huge instances (such as mastodon.social) driving up the average. There are countless small instances, but users on the big servers mostly don’t notice them.

AntennaPod allows streaming podcasts. I don’t think it shows that option by default though. You have to view the individual podcast or change the default in the settings for streaming.

It isn’t very accurate. I live in Idaho, and my phone’s geoip shows up all over the United States. Currently it says Utah, last time I checked.