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Re:A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:31PM (#34073677)
Call it what it is: blackmail.
"making sure that creators had a limited time where they could exclusively profit" sounds like "protection of profit" to me.
Too old, fat, physically disabled people, etc. can have a job and turn that job into petrol to feed their cars. OTOH they can't drive a bicycle. That's not very egalitarian.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)? on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:11AM (#34064814)
This guy's shtick has always been "I am a shithead", it's funny to see people disappointed that they found out he's a shithead.
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:15PM (#34046900)
Makes me like him even more.
Re:Spacekaren.sucks on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:35AM (#34037126)
The fediverse to which the most popular instances, such as mastodon.social, belong.

All the instances in the main fediverse have practically the same moderation rules and if you don't apply them to your instance they ban you and stop federating with you.

Re:Spacekaren.sucks on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:48AM (#34036830)
Funny to see Mastodonites complain about free speech when the main fediverse has one of the most strict speech policies I've seen online.
Re:R/ElonJetTracker on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:24AM (#34036714)
No they don't
Re:R/ElonJetTracker on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:14AM (#34036651)
Spot on, but to me it's rather sad, and I wish I didn't have to read about it here, since I have no interest in celebrity gossip
Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:23AM (#34027980)
When you pet the dog after he brings you your journal he probably feels the same thing as when you thank a human.
Still waiting for them to allow me to move the taskbar to the side.

(Not to mention my computer works perfectly well but since it doesn't have a TPM it can't run 11 at all)

Re:WordPress testing official SQLite Support on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:19PM (#34023137)
How will this work considering sqlite databases cannot be accessed concurrently from several processes or even threads?