What a coincidence! I’m the fediverse dude!

Not sure if you’re asking for advice, but if appeals to reason doesn’t work “I’m your fucking parent and you’re going to do it or you’re grounded until you do” should work nicely.

Not the OP, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I do think it’s a little odd given that the security is at the client and not in the protocol. As others have mentioned already, if you use skyview.social, you can see the posts anyway.

Always Be Closing

This is top level enshittification. You’re showing the user an ad that is, as OP says, the opposite of what they want, and then charging Truth Social for the impression. Magnificent!

Pretty much. They’ve made some changes but it’s unclear if has changed enough to not be able to federate.

Being a harder worker isn’t something to be proud of, friend.

Of course you can fork it, but you can’t call it Mastodon. That’s trademarked. Just like how you can fork Firefox but have to call it Waterfox or Iceweasel or Librewolf.

The confusion here is between Mastodon the company and Mastodon the software and instances of the running software. Eugen Rochko owns the first two. He also owns the instances mastodon.social and mastodon.online. Everything else is outside of his control.

It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

The computer program called Mastodon was (and still is for now) completely controlled by Eugen Rochko. In the future it will be controlled by a non-profit.

See this and this for more info.

You can see exactly what he made in 2023. The report is available here.

€60k

the retailer is generally considered oblivious to the situation until proven otherwise they have zero incentive to vet the product.

In fact they are willfully ignorant because selling counterfeit merchandise helps line go up.

I work with plenty of people from India. They’re pretty good at their jobs. They should be paid the same as us in the USA.

I don’t mind that they work on the other side of the world. I don’t mind them at all. I mind that the main reason why they’re hired is that my employer can pay them peanuts. They deserve better.

Don’t forget to multiply that value!

The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they’d rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.

They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don’t need to “pick the biggest guy.” Just ask someone “may I sit here, please?” That works 99% of the time.

What happened, he ended up vacating the seat and like a preschooler wanted to know why him and not everybody else.

That’s because some person yelled at him for what should have been a very civil and simple conversation.

In some states they simply reuse the picture they have on file when you get a replacement card. Depends on how old the picture is.

I’ve heard that Debbie is the best thing to do in Dallas.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That’s not to say that upstream isn’t important. It absolutely is! It’s just that derivatives are generally better.

There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.

It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.