tech-no-logical

for years I had this in my .muttrc. it's been commented out since it stopped working...

#set signature="cat ~/.signature && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -n3|"

getting the message

    No WebGPU available. Please use Chrome.

on chrome (Version 129.0.6668.29 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)) , under windows

zmodem... that brings be back to my BBS days when I had a fido node 2:281/909.4. why do I still know that by heart ? playing glorious BBS door-games over 2400 baud :)

seems it craps out on the monospaced bits of text ?

> I'm sure a lot of the actions come from a place of wanting to do good

although wholeheartedly I agree with your sentiment, that's where our opinions diverge... none of the parties mentioned in the original issue are 'wanting to do good' in my opinion, even thoug it _is_, as you say, understandable that they do what they do.

the negative publicity regarding Evil Corp A is certainly a good thing, agreed. and like I said in another reply, I tend to try to support the smaller businesses _outside_ of the stores, knowing they would benefit that much more.

now _this_ is something I can agree with. which is why I try to support Small Corp D and E outside of any store, by directly buying from them (if at all possible)

personally, knowing the cuts that either app/play store take, I would _never_ subscribe to a service through either of them, that's luckily still an option. netflix raising prices _because_ of a store tax, even for users subscribing outside of them, would be worrying, but your link has no evidence of that, right ?

I get your point. still, in this case B and C are, in my opinion, equally evil in exploiting their workers. so having them raise their optimal price to something the consumer would not buy their service would be, in essence, a good thing.

true. in general I would agree any party taking a 30% cut (whether app store or play store or whatever) would be the supreme evil. but since all three parties involved in this instance are of the same caliber, I don't care, and I choose to use none of them.