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by toyg 1y ago
> Who is using Bluesky in the US? A lot of writers and creatives who could not stomach X.com anymore (and were then likely burned by Mastodon's geekiness). > Is it just my friends? If your friends are in the right-wing sphere
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by toyg 1y ago
The discussion over X is always the same: "It's gone to hell" "No, it just reflects your tastes" "That's objectively false: create a new account and see what happens." "..."
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by toyg 1y ago
> our endless appeal system Mr Naylor's clearly never got involved with Italian justice, where the average criminal trial takes 4 and a half years as it goes through 3 judgement levels (the first sentence alone is likely to ta
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by toyg 1y ago
> It's just not part of their world takeover plan anymore That's because they don't have a world takeover plan anymore. That plan failed, so they came up with other ones (mobile! Subscriptions!) and those failed too - so
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by toyg 1y ago
> can't talk to anyone for off-the-record stuff Obviously this rule would apply only to real journalists. Members of the party will get free roam. They will stay. Just another day in the life of a regime.
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by toyg 1y ago
It could have maybe gone a bit differently if the US government had resisted the urge to interfere, like in the bad old days of the cold war. They isolated Chavez and then Maduro, which backfired just enough to justify the slide into full-o
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by toyg 1y ago
The fact that it's not listening to you does not mean it's not listening to anyone . Our MPs are listening to the faith-based organizations bankrolled by American interests. They are listening to the Catholic Church, the Church o
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by toyg 1y ago
Ofcom does what the government tells it to do. And the government does what people tell them to do. You underestimate the popular support for censorship laws in the UK - the country still had a legally-empowered "Board of Film Censors&
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by toyg 1y ago
Yes, but we pay for their VPN: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/nordvpn-is-the-most...
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by toyg 1y ago
Better than "falling under a bridge" like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi
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by toyg 1y ago
The legal system, in Italy, has been fundamentally bankrupt for a long time. It's one of the reasons a lot of foreign companies don't invest over there - if anything goes wrong, the legal system is unlikely to be of any help.
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by toyg 1y ago
Plus, any court proceedings in Italy can routinely take decades , destroying one's life even if they are completely innocent, even if the complaint is trivial, even if the complainant is obviously malicious.
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by toyg 1y ago
I don't need to imagine anything, it's just another day in the Belpaese : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
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by toyg 1y ago
The minefield is just the reality of the Italian business landscape. In a country dominated by small companies run by families and friends, this sort of thing happens every other day. In that particular story, if true, I bet the writer is a
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by toyg 1y ago
My experience is with enterprise software, where most products were born as shrinkwrap and slowly moved to other models, and I agree, it's not an easy problem to solve. Even if you size lifetime costs correctly (and very few people can
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by toyg 1y ago
> It would represent no change to their burden to continue But it actually is: because sales must keep growing, so the support burden typically increases linearly - while hiring does not, more often than not. I've seen this at a f
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by toyg 1y ago
Unrelated, but: if you are a fan of comics/graphic novels, Ken Parker by Berardi & Milazzo [1] is an awesome Western. It's a series of short stories bound by a coherent but loose continuity, following the eponymous character
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by toyg 1y ago
Has the LDP ever not been "in crisis", since the end of the real estate bubble last century?
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by toyg 1y ago
The reskin of File Explorer in win11 was the most unnecessary thing. Someone's need to justify their job is bringing misery to the masses.
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by toyg 1y ago
He has always been somewhat on the right of the American political spectrum, mostly rooted there because (people thought) of his maximalist views over the right to own guns. When he (co)started OSI, he was one of the most business-friendly
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by toyg 1y ago
> People were totally fine when they had zero ownership or agency over media Disagree. The punk phenomenon was largely about reclaiming that ownership and agency over cultural output, and it was massive in the 70s/80s/90s. Th
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by toyg 1y ago
That's something I came to accept as well - deeper understanding will only come from challenge. Unfortunately, there isn't always the opportunity to let people fail, and that opportunity is definitely not in a set of reference d
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by toyg 1y ago
This. Contractors in UK are fundamentally considered at risk from a work perspective, which makes it harder for them to do things like having a mortgage. This is probably another one of those things.
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by toyg 1y ago
> UK banks [...] used to be the scum of the earth They still had chip&pin before US banks, and dropped unsafe cheques before US banks. The US banking system, afaik, did one thing better: credit cards. But since the '00s, Europ
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by toyg 1y ago
C++ might have been developed by architecture astronauts, but it's used to build a ton of valuable software - KDE, Windows, Spotify, etc etc...
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by toyg 1y ago
Have you seen Windows 11? It's like they copied random ideas out of KDE 4 and bolted them on top of Windows, badly. My theory is that big companies like to compress salaries. To compress salaries, you hire young and fire old, which mea
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Probably because he didn't have the capital. He's been doing KDE work for ages behind the scenes, but I don't think that made him much money. He hints at the fact that his professional condition hampered his attempt to keep h
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by toyg 1y ago
I think Jonathan was disappointed because he honestly thought he was among like-minded friends, people he'd known and worked with for so long; he clearly didn't expect to be rebuffed so hard. I've been in similar situations,
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I don't know the science, but my experience is that my brain is simply able to process and retain information so much better with eInk than with LCD screens. I started as a teenager with cathodic tubes, which were killing my eyes and b
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by toyg 1y ago
Electrolux has existed for almost 100 years, and on its way it acquired a lot of other companies. The chances that none of those companies ever developed any sort of in-house assistance, over that time, are close to zero.

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