They do let other people host; it’s just that they’re not going to be federated and one has to clone quite a lot of data. And there’s people mirroring Bluesky’s servers.

That’s exactly what Bluesky was designed for: so that anyone can clone their qubibytes of data and start a new central platform anytime without any account loss (though this mechanism relies on user domain owners staying the same). You can read more at https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ from the ‘Bluesky is centralized, but “credible exit” is a worthy pursuit’ section on.

You mean the Dorsey-endorsed crypto platform that has spam waves conducted against Bluesky and ActivityPub?

1. that’s just ageism gatekeeping /hj
2. Assuming you mean video chat: I think it’s very reasonable for someone to turn down a PII (personally-identifiable information) reveal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_199#c-Dilettante-20241204211400-EEng-20241204232600

By that point you may as well be an LLM. ChatGPT is pretty good at emulating writing styles.

username checks out

that’s a very normal bio

Finally, Linux is popular enough to get targeted by malware!

moar virus onn windows

okay

is it that bad

Can’t watch the video right now, what does Ohanian have to do with New Digg?

name change

In February 2004, MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as mandrakelinux, and its logo changed accordingly. Similarly, MandrakeMove (a Live CD version) became Mandrakemove.

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian-based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking (Brazil) and Spanish-speaking Latin America. As a result of this acquisition and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, Mandrakesoft announced that the company was changing its name to Mandriva, and that their Linux distribution Mandrake Linux would henceforward be known as Mandriva Linux.

While I also hate Wikiwand, its corporatism, and its “features”, I’m confused about the last part. They’re bad because they were founded by Israelis?

that’s effectively be a more low-level reskin of whatever browser engine your system bundles, which would be chromium’s on non-apple systems

The DuckDuckGo browser and search engine have been free to use since day one. We make money from privacy-respecting ads, not by exploiting your data. When you search for “car” we show you a car ad — it’s that simple.

i fw that tbh

it’s not like anyone who cares hasn’t pulled up stakes tbh

I meant good as in the opposite of garbage lol

It’s not garbage, though. It’s otherwise-good code containing security vulnerabilities.

I’ve been trying to find Legcord’s OpenASAR settings… any idea where they are?