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I think free software was more about that about that. Open source always was about getting financially motivated companies onboard.

And I thought the rest of the thread was anxiety-inducing. Thanks for the nightmares lol.

A decent chunk of the users who bothered installing an adblock would also be bothered enough to install a FF fork with adblock, so I doubt the revenue increase would be much.

As for calling it "off-mission": yes, what's even the point of FF if that's the route it goes on?

There are some people who feel the hobby is meaningless if they know the machine is better at it.

And well, I entered the field professionally because I liked it, and I feel sort of like the rug was pulled under me. Sucks to be one of us I guess.

I just tried it, I was able to use it without login. But the thinking model isn't available.

Your contacts could still end up messaging the new owner of the number inadvertently if you don't warn them before losing the number or out of band through. It seems WhatsApp doesn't has no warning if such a owner change happened. I believe the new owner would inherit your group memberships too, but not the group chat history.

NixOS only has /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh.

I think false negatives (i.e. it rains when it's not supposed to) are both more bothersome and noticeable, so your weather person won't be very popular.

The native windows application comes for free as a result of the Windows Phon... oh right.

Now it makes sense why Microsoft would get concerned that losing mobile might lead to losing the desktop.

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

If it's called telepathy it's sci-fi, if it's called magic it's fantasy. Learn the rules!

On a more serious note, yeah scifi and fantasy can usually be distinguished, I get why it so often gets lumped in together as speculative fiction, even though it annoys me when I'm looking for one and have to sift through the other.

The dining experience depends on your feelings and home, and you have to pay for transportation for the entire party to the restaurant.

Maybe we should call it "conflict", and include non-state actors.

Also North Korea with its state sponsored internet privateering.

Or Ireland with the nominally headquartered multinationals there.