Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
>You'd anyway likely need an app like WhatsApp or Telegram to keep track of everybody and everything - and those technically ARE considered social media right?... Are they? I don't consider WhatsApp, Telegram and the l
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>By all means, continue to read Slashdot, Hackernews, but pay attention to world news... I guess you missed the bit where I counted how many times the Musk/Twitter story had featured on BBC News and The Guardian?
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You could have a point there. I think Musk is a bit of a dickwad. But a part of me has a grudging admiration for him. I think he epitomises the 'bit of a dickwad' inside all of us that [probably fortunately] most of us never get t
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I posted this elsewhere but worth mentioning again: If you use Telegram, you can use the Zlib bot to search for and get books sent to you over Telegram: https://t.me/firstlibrarybot [Max size <50MB] Also, the website is
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Is Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter the News Event of the Year?
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>Gab isn't an instance of Mastodon. It was in the past. Hence why I said [using past tense]... >Anyone remember when Gab had the biggest Mastodon instance by far... As far as I remember the details, Gab forked Mas
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This is a bit vague, as I can't remember which site it was. I think either eBay or PayPal. But... a while back I visited one of those 'send a 2FA code to you via SMS' websites and, not noticing the SMS bit, I entered a 2FA co
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>In the same way, forcing any website to list Gab would not be free speech... I think you're being a bit disingenuous talking about "forcing" sites to list Gab. If individual instances wanted to de-link from it th
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>it's generally seen as an imposition on people's time to ask a question that could be readily answered by clicking through to the site in question and having a look That's not going to help anyone know if there ar
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And, to continue the email analogy [in response to all the "Just change servers if you don't like the one you signed up for"] If you don't like your email provider, just change to a different one... Oh yeah. And you&#x27
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If you use Telegram, you can use the Zlib bot to search for and get books sent to you over Telegram: https://t.me/firstlibrarybot [Max size <50MB]
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>Priced at under 200 euro... For a bit of flower-pot with a tealight inside. The phrase "more money than sense" springs to mind.
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You're not alone. A lot of native English speakers get it wrong too. And the other way round as well... "Will you borrow me ten quid?" "No. But I'll lend you it"
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The thing that surprises me most about these stories is that Twitter had 7000 employees. Anyone who's ever tried to get hold of a human being at one of these online behemoths and been given the runaround with 'un-monitored' e
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>I regularly lend e-books from my city's public library... No. You 'borrow'. The library 'lends'
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Never seen that concept before. I've done similar in the past using aliases in my ~/.zshrc alias taskname='echo "blah. blah... instructions for task..."' Of course, then I have to remember what nemonni
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Another happy long-term Duplicacy user here. My only problem with it is; on the rare occasions I need to restore something from backup, I can never remember the correct syntax and always have to look it up again.
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I really didn't come here to have a go at you, as you seem to think. But as you keep responding in a fairly combative way, I feel compelled to return the favour: >You were complaining the other day that there was no explore page
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Bang! --Ouch, my foot!
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>...praying it lands in Siberia and not NYC. or vice versa.
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>Personally I run into interesting things all the time, and it seems great to be able to have a place to store them so I don’t forget about them. >I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note
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Seems to me that; if US car companies are giving up on the idea [Didn't Tesla recently announce similar?] then the idea is pretty much dead for now. I could just about see self-driving vehicles working in US cities with their straight
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Now I can see why you were so reluctant to let us 'peep behind the curtain' before. From that 'Explore' page, it looks like you only have 4 members. One of whom posts about 90% of the content.
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Bang! --Ouch. My foot!
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Bang! --Ouch. My foot!
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Good to see the froth-lipped Daily Fail leaping to the conclusion it was those nasty Russians. Which is odd, given we've been told for the past few months that they're so technologically backward they're stripping down washin
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I think you mean "blue collar"
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>Go to Twitter logged out, what do you see? How about Facebook? With respect to the dev; most people have a pretty good idea what Facebook and Twitter are about and some idea of the huge numbers of people using each site. It&#x27
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It really doesn't matter a fig to me and [I presume] the millions of other people who have no interest in using Twitter or any other social media. Of course, if you're part of one of the echo chambers that does, it's probab
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People join social networks to socialise --there's a clue in the name. If said network respects their privacy, doesn't shove ads in their face and doesn't annoy them, those are all welcome additional bonus points. But the pri

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