That’s because Ace Hardware is franchised. It’s essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.

Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.

Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.

It seems high as Lemm.ee had 1k daily active users for the last week.

What’s the count from the week before the shutdown announcement?

Yeah, it’s only anecdotal but I feel like hobbyists like us, who do slightly unusual things without nefarious intent, who are the ones who get hit with these sorts of issues the most. For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

Check the part about misinformation.

What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?

Package database mirrors (i.e. the things you’re downloading from when you install new software).

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Unless there’s a miracle, it would be:

4 consumer are relegated to DRM’d-to-Hell-and-back smartphones

And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!

It’s stupid that this thing apparently can’t record from a computer or line-in onto cassette.

It’s also unclear whether it can digitize music from cassette onto a computer with high quality, and if it can’t do that that would also be stupid.

To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.

https://youtu.be/wk7fYBw6PfQ?t=42

I’m disappointed that Pornhub is apparently capitulating instead of blocking access entirely in protest, like they’ve done in other jurisdictions.

Yeah, this would be a stupid plan based on a defective understanding of how LLMs work even before taking the blatant ulterior motives into account.

Musk’s fascist ass.

Your question is like asking how to convert a cake into flour, sugar, milk, butter and (unbroken!) eggs.

To be fair, the attitude at the time was…

…so they didn’t really know any better.

Totally couldn’t be an old man yells at cloud situation

It literally couldn’t, because I was a teenager at the time.

There are 2 issues here that are being mixed.

One is women not being allowed to positions of power. The other is with women being underrepresented in certain fields (e.g., stem).

I think it’s fair to mix them, to an extent, because I think the degree of underrepresentation is often directly proportional to the prestige/pay/power of the field. Both are symptoms of the same underlying issue, which is bigots discounting women’s competency and refusing to entrust them with things of importance.