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>one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

Based on what I've read, there will be a short summary then you are given the login page. Not unlike a paywalled news website. Still an improvement, but it does not fully address this criticism.

FTA:

>The project ran from 2014 to 2020 and received more than $4.2m in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding

But they've just announced exclusive GTA VI streaming rights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49987245
Re:Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:25PM (#49376812)
Xorg has had releases for years and will continue to do so. But as you can see in the announcement, enterprise users are the driving factor.
Re:JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:40PM (#49039146)
You can install Linux on the hardware and get full x86_64 support again.
Re:Thunderbird Littering My Home on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:48PM (#48451778)
There's a patch in the bug report and it appears to be tagged for Thunderbird 153 release.

While I'm here I got to say, it's worrying seeing people not calling out what a bad solution the OP has suggested. Implementing a blind removal of a folder is not good practice. You will forget about this script/unit file. One day you may copy all your Thunderbird data to ~/thunderbird, think you're safe, then boom, it's gone.

Edit: Forgot a key point

Re:At long last, InfoWars is ours on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:55PM (#47838926)
The reason InfoWars is being sold is because of the bankruptcy proceedings. This is money owed to Sandy Hook families [1], who were the target of the harmful conspiracy theories that caused them further pain and suffering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...

Re:TDF ejects its core developers on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:54AM (#47627358)
They already have their version, it's called Collabora Online/Office.
Re:Facebook is cooked on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:09PM (#47092416)
Your local library? Mine has a bulletin board where anyone can pin something (like Pinterest, but in real life) and numerous events. If yours doesn't, start one?
Re:YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:55PM (#47080895)
Alternatively if you're interested in paying, YouTube Music has a subscription option, or YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music.
Re:Fun With Pinball on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:05PM (#46977560)
Although it was some years ago, this writeup of creating a pinball machine from scratch is a good read: https://www.benheck.com/bill-paxton-pinball-making-of/
Re:The Great Unwind on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:10PM (#46890233)
On the hand at one point the emulation layer becomes the target. Hopefully game developers will realise this and start using native Linux technologies before they are tied to a single companies abstraction layer. Again.
Re:OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:57PM (#46827599)
Runescape boss "Clawdia" [1] predates Anthropic use by several years.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Clawdia

Same with Firefox Focus on Android.
Re:Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat (2023) [video] on Saturday December 27, 2025 @11:40AM (#46402995)
Re:CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:18PM (#46101925)
I believe that user is referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199511
Can you list examples where the PSF has "gone too far?"
Re:U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:51PM (#44991400)
"Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)

As I understand it from reading the original post, they are leaving the third party apps default icon. They're not overiding with monochrome icons. Bad title by a probable AI rewrite, please read the original KDE blog post linked elsewhere in the thread.

This is KDE's decision on their Breeze theme. Distributions can ship the icon set with third party icons if they want.

Steam by Valve, the gaming company.
Couldn't imagine what Mozilla would be like today if he stayed around and tried to integrate crypto. At the end of the day, main post shows Firefox engineering is keeping up with Chrome which is a feat no other browser has accomplished.
I present the evidence of Family Guy episode _Fifteen Minutes of Shame_ airdate April 25, 2000 which had a Bob Ross bit. Bob Ross was part of the cultural zeitgeist long before the 2010s Internet memes. That has brought a new generation to him, but that's just bringing GenZ in line with the others.
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:12PM (#38534723)
For those trying it out or if it does get banned, here's the iMessage unregistration link:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

Re:Blender 4.0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:50AM (#38265839)
That instance was from one of the mods, they posted about it here on HN a couple days ago too. They got roasted hard on r/3dprinting, but it's "official" as it can be. Personally moving to an instance that doesn't involve the mods (of any subreddit) is a benefit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/14a7sh5/join_us...

The 3dprinting communities on other Lemmy instances are plenty active though.

You can also follow Kbin Magazines and Lemmy Communities (subreddit) from Mastodon. They are Groups on Mastodon. I am not sure about posting a top level, but I can comment.
All three use federated groups:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/groups-implementation/...

There are groups on Mastodon that you can join and follow.

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