Toph went around shoeless because she was blind and sensed vibrations to “see,” not because she was an earthbender.

As if they were looking for an excuse to ignore them before?!

A comedy, sure, but nevertheless it’s one of the best ones too.

Yeah, but it’s still way better than plastic.

Meanwhile, Corelle enjoyers:

It’s a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.

But downside of a M series is either you run macOS or Asahi Linux and nothing else yet.

I’m OOTL; what is it about Apple Silicon Macs that apparently make them such trouble to support? If one distro can manage it, what’s stopping that code from being upstreamed to the mainline kernel etc.?

Because antitrust law is a joke these days.

He said “sub $300” \s

MICROS~1

LOL

Also, “oh shit a leopard!”

And who TF is using Amazon Linux? I’ve never even heard of it before.

AWS nodes, maybe?

Also, shouldn’t you be spelling that “ÞF”?

Do you never research a product before purchasing or do you just work with whatever is available in your local store? If you’re buying a car, is it just whatever is on the side of the road or do you search for expert reviews or reliability data?

I, for one, actively search out the reviews from entities that go out of their way to not be sponsored by the makers of the products they’re reviewing.

I’ve just had an epiphany (or maybe a half-baked showerthought) reading this thread.

All marketers are trying to sell people stuff, but if you think about it, what’s the one thing in common that they’re all trying to sell, and that they’re presumably best at?

Their own services.

So who knows if this “advertising value” has any relationship with reality, or if it’s just inflated bullshit marketers make up to sell themselves.

Go read the comment I initially replied to.

Ah, thanks. I figured that, like the US, it was some kind of other policy that had a side effect of artificially skewing the numbers.

But why do you love helping Google control web standards, when you could just be using a Mozilla-based browser instead?

But maybe you’re imagining a world where that question is moot—in a world where there’s no separation of users and [providers].

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m imagining. (Any tips on how I could’ve made that clearer from my first comment?)

Why is France also an outlier?

That’s how federation works with[out] requiring a direct connection from every instance to every other instance. My instance can connect to yours to get your content, but also the content from all other instances that you federate with. And vice-versa.

So what? That’s like saying ISPs should require Section 230 to avoid liability because they route packets. We’re talking about legality: it’s stuff like intent and responsibility that matters, not the technical details. Each instance owner still gets to decide which other instances they want to federate with; some ‘middle hop’ in that connection is irrelevant.

The fundamental issue that Section 230 is designed to address is the separation between the users posting the content and the platform owners who control who sees it, and the moral hazard that creates. If you eliminate the separation, there’s nowhere left for the moral hazard to exist.