halfempty

joined 1 year ago
[–] halfempty@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Edge is based on the Chrome codebase, so it will get the baked in ad mechanism.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Every implant legal agreement must include a clause allowing the patient to keep the device in the event of company bankruptcy.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Our schools are looking more and more like prisons.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Do these numbers include kbin?

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 112 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Ubuntu is massively overrated. It's a bloated distro owned by a greedy corporation.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never intend to use a flatpak or snap, and avoid them like the plague. The whole concept is incredibly ugly to me, and wasteful of computer resources.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

As others have said, most people don't install operating systems. They just buy a system, likely a laptop and run whatever OS is on it. Hardly any laptops come with Linux preinstalled unless you look pretty hard, or are searching specifically for one.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The salient piece of info I got from the article is that players of Women's soccer currently get 1/4 of the pay that players of men's soccer get.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So let's say someone is harassing and abusing somebody on the platform. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Let's say someone with an extreme ideology, such as a Nazi anti-semite, consistently posts hate at a jewish person. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Blocking is an essential feature of social media, and Musk is a complete idiot.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Far right media considers "Fact Based" to be a "Liberal Bias".

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (25 children)

By refusing to let the protestors exit the freeway, the police caused the blockage of traffic to be over 3 hours longer, during the handling of all the arrests.

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