It doesn’t have traffic data, which is probably the biggest disadvantage. The maps are user contributed, so the quality varies widely. Depending on where you are, it’ll be ridiculously detailed with individual bushes in a park, or it’s incorrect or outdated and you can’t find your destination. I usually use this or OSMand, but I still keep google maps on another profile as a backup.

I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

At least in the case I remember it wasn’t a bot network. They would just put them on popular playlists so it’d end up with tons of listens. They were basically fake bands created as a way to get around paying licensing fees. If there’s no real band there’s no royalties to pay.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

It happens sometimes. Depending on the details, you can report them as spam, just remove the follow, or ignore it.

In some cases it could also be people that genuinely want to follow you. People often talk about one topic but still care about other stuff.

The big one is W11 now requires a TPM chip, so tons of computers will stop getting updates soon, with no way to upgrade.

And they keep getting worse with a bunch of annoyances, like more ads, trying to force ai, making it harder to avoid a microsoft account, and getting rid of ways to customize the desktop layout.

They separated pretty far back, so they’re about equally related to jackals, dogs, wild dogs, various wolf species, and coyotes.

Ancient DNA is pretty degraded, so it’s hard to get an exact number. It’s estimated they diverged more than 5 million years ago, so it’s probably hundreds or thousands of different genes.

wikipedia article

Scientists rewrote 14 key genes in gray wolf EPC cells to express 20 dire wolf traits meaning that “no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome.”

It’s still impressive, but they only changed 14 genes. These are much more wolf than dire wolf.

They’re not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there’s Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there’s lem.el.

There’s also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.

I’m pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I’d generally recommend against doing this.

I haven’t seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there’s bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There’s a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn’t suprise me if there’s something out there.

For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don’t think they’ve said whether they’ll use that going forward.

Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it’s still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it’s done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.

It was a term for modded crappy japanese motorcycles and cars, that derived from a slur for asian people.

A lot of people like to think that everything will work out okay. It’s easier to think everything will be fine than to focus on the terrible things that are happening.

Then on the other side you have people that know things are bad, but give up because they don’t know how to fix things.

I think eventually we’ll make it through this, but you can’t just be passively hopeful.

Things are bad and will get worse. But tons of people are actively working together to prevent as much damage as possible, supporting each other, and working towards a better world. As things get worse, more people will try to find ways to help each other.

We need spiteful hope and stubborn optimism. There are always ways to make things better, no matter how bad they get.

There’s the federated wiki software ibis started by lemmy’s developers.