thehatfox

joined 1 year ago
[–] thehatfox 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As he speaks English, does Donald talk like a duck though?

[–] thehatfox 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a gross assumption that people care about any of this.

For any form of federated community to be sustainable, its users have to care about that. Otherwise those communities will eventually be consumed by whichever instance gains the critical mass to close itself off and become another Twitter or Reddit.

To achieve the benefits of federation, users must be educated on principles of federation, not be obfuscated from them. The question is how the Fediverse can do that.

[–] thehatfox 2 points 2 weeks ago

I drew the outline on with a pen, cut out the holes first, then carefully cut the pumpkin skin with a scalpel, and scraped it off.

 

Give him some candy or he'll eat your dreams tonight!

[–] thehatfox 1 points 2 weeks ago

Functionally it’s harder to accidentally press on the bottom.

Although it’s also now harder to intentionally press too. It looks like a finger can fit under there, otherwise you’ll be flipping it over to power on.

[–] thehatfox 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I expect (at least) one party will eventually adopt Rejoin as a distinguishing policy, and maybe sooner rather later.

But the appetite for Rejoin will probably depend on the shape of the UK economy and the political direction of the EU in 10+ years. If the Starmer project really has been delivering tangible growth by then, people may feel Brexit has (inadvertently) “worked” in the end. If the EU achieves greater and greater integration in the UK’s absence it may seem less palatable to enough voters.

Both of those are also going to be influenced by external factors like the direction of a possible Trump second term, the outcome of the war in Ukraine etc.

[–] thehatfox 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think it’s the first time for Amazon either.

[–] thehatfox 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Prague had a large pneumatic post system which operated for 100+ years.

Prague pneumatic post.

[–] thehatfox 34 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I honestly don’t know how they do it. Whenever I get handed someone else’s device without an adblocker I find it almost painful to try and use.

[–] thehatfox 45 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Years ago a Microsoft breakup was also once on the table, but it never happened.

I wouldn’t get too excited that regulators will follow through with this for Google either.

[–] thehatfox 2 points 1 month ago

Mostly at the dining table, meals are social and family time.

Very occasionally I will eat the desk if I’m in the house alone or working late etc, but it’s something I try and avoid generally.

[–] thehatfox 2 points 1 month ago

So I’ve heard they have already switched eBay in Germany to this no-fee system. It proved more profitable for eBay because private sellers who accrue an eBay balance from sales were in turn more likely to spend it on eBay.

[–] thehatfox 1 points 1 month ago

Presumably this adds more cost and complexity to buying and installing appliances though if they have to integrate into these systems, which I’m guessing aren’t currently well standardised.

It’s an interesting idea nonetheless. I’ve heard of other projects using excess heat from large data centres to provide energy for district heating systems.

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