I’m no expert, but some examples I know of are:

Tribler: a bittorrent-based app with built-in search and some extra security compared to regular bittorrent.

Nicotine+ and similar apps: clients for the Soulseek network, where you download an entire file from a single peer. Also searchable.

There’s no need to use a website for either of these.

At a guess, tariffs. “Tariffs” is also the answer to all the other questions.

Grammar is for sheeps.

Can’t tell if joke.

Genericide refers to the gradual process of a trademarked term becoming generic through use by the common individual. When a term becomes generic, the term cannot receive a trademark nor can current trademarks be enforced.

This case isn’t that though. The term “bnb” or “BnB” was common before Airbnb incorporated it into their company name. So this is a company taking an already common term and trying to trademark it and make it their own.

When you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.

The other part is that DHH has a reputation as a fascist. The fact that he, of all people, is receiving a ton of money for his half-assed Linux distro makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Republican fools.

There just aren’t any good deals any more. Prices for everything have gone crazy in the last few months. For coding LLMs the cloud services may now be the least worst value, by design, until they hike the prices.

That said, I still just paid way too much for a used graphics card so I could do many things locally, because I just don’t want to give the likes of Sam Altman a single penny.

Yes, but they’ll rule that using free open-source software is terrorism.

As long as you keep it below 88 miles per hour you’ll be fine.

Elon Musk’s satellites are currently re-destroying the ozone layer as they burn up on re-entry. And he plans to launch many tens of thousands more of them.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-elon-musks-dying-satellites-could-hurt-the-ozone-layer

approx 3 hrs.

I’m done for if they ever come after me. My battery lasts about 2 minutes on a good day.

Climate change is real and catastrophic, demands radical and urgent change, and has been globally recognized by scientists for decades. The ways many corporations and governments have framed it, and the non-action disguised as action they have promoted, are self-serving bullshit. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It’s no coincidence that capitalism comes along with an emphasis on individualism and “expressing yourself” through consumption. It’s designed to train people out of collective thinking (class consciousness) and collective action, and it has been very effective.

You can if the laptop is extremely expensive. But the laptop is extremely expensive.

With enough users on the Fediverse, the astroturfing will come. It’s not really inherently resistant to brand placements etc. It’s just not big enough to get corporate attention.

For the latter, could I suggest building a very large fridge and putting the universe inside it? We can attach it to a drone if that helps.

Why not just build a star-destroyer drone and aim it at the sun? Then Flock can’t just wait it out and rebuild.

Not sure if EMP is practical, but a small drone with a laser requires much less power and wouldn’t do the camera’s sensor any good. A drone with a can of spray paint could also cause problems. So I hope no one does either of these.