There are several links in the article. Otherwise that is what we have web search engines for.

that may have been even more relevant for https://xkcd.com/2957/

What is the stereotype about dbzero? Out of the loop on that.

I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.

I used to read RSS feeds from Thunderbird a long time ago, but that required me to set them up again on every reinstallation and every device, so I eventually stopped doing that.

Nowadays I read RSS feeds on Mastodon. There’s a service https://rss-parrot.net/ that converts any RSS feed into a fediverse account, so you get RSS feed updates into your feed along with everything else you follow there. Of course it would be even better if blogs and news sites just posted directly on the fediverse, but not all of them do.

Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.

It does? Rich people or companies they own might want to produce things that infringe on patents too; not obvious that this has anything to do with “rich people” one way or the other.

This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.

I only comment when I feel I am adding something to the conversation that nobody else has added. On many contentious topics, nearly everything that can be said has already been said by someone, so I usually don’t comment on them.

I only downvote when something is blatantly factually false or posted in bad faith (i.e. obviously trolling and I can’t think of a good-faith reason why someone would post this).

If I merely disagree with something, I write an answer explaining why, or if there already is one that I agree with, I upvote that.

Some people might still be subscribed to it, so you will reach an audience. I never check whether moderators are active before posting.

My understanding is instance admins can change moderators, so depends on the instance the community is hosted on.

Why would you not want to post there?

Literally anybody who thought about the idea for more than ten seconds already realized this a long time ago; apparently this blog post needed to be written for the people who didn’t do even that…

Yes. Here’s what it looks like for your example website on my end:

“How to Clean Leather Sandals”

I don’t own leather sandals and am not sure I know anyone who does, so that is very unlikely any time soon.

That’s not an act.

Most code I write is Java and I use IntelliJ for that. When I write Python I use PyCharm, anything else, Visual Studio Code or VSCodium.

All of these have plugins for vim keybindings which are always the first thing I install. I almost never disable them.

Charged, sure he can; convicted is a different story.

What acts exactly do you think meet those criteria?

weaknesspays

(extra money in SimCity 4)