Someone’s concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they’re driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.

Same here. The learning curve is higher on Vespucci, but once you’re familiar with it it’s extremely capable!

• Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
• Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
• Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
• Slowly importing stuff I’ve posted on various social media to my website.
• Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
• Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
• Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
• Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
• Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I’ve been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don’t want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

[citation needed]

…decided what they want the outcome to be, and formulates some kind of argument that results in that outcome

You might say his results were…predetermined

I’ve gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

^&@% Private equity again…

Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn’t be owned by this kind of firm.

(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating “business” as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)

OK, I like the comment here wondering about the thermometer’s range: “things with an interesting temperature are generally uncomfortable to hold your hand next to. I’m sure there will be at least one support call because someone tries to measure fire from 1 inch away.”

When someone named Kafka says it’s the “weirdest”…that says something!

I learned the term “glass cliff” when she was hired.

The rest of the page? Probably. I stopped reading after the comic.

So the $140/year subscription they’re already collecting isn’t enough for them?

I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I’m actually using Prime for these days.

Examples of this might include prioritizing mutual followers on Mastodon, or prioritizing low-traffic subscribed communities on Lemmy so that they don’t get lost in the 50 posts from the busier communities.

Also:

3. A open, customizable algorithm that lets the user set their own priorities, and if it does any “learning” based on user actions, it’s geared toward the user’s priorities and easy for the user to see and correct what it’s learned.

Again, key factors being: open, customizable, correctable, and serving the user, not serving the platform.

They don’t really use the major.minor.bugfix scheme anymore. If they did, they wouldn’t be at version 117.

I tend to think of them all as minor updates that add up over time, like a rolling release with numbers.

And even when you can, saving files one by one from Wayback is a lot slower than re-uploading your local copy to a new server

I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.

The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.

Even better: the one-star review on the pre-order page complaining that it’s not out yet!

Assuming you mean the save-to-read-later functionality, I hear good things about Wallabag. You can even self-host it if you want.

A backpack solves both problems!