Well…I dunno. I don’t think you’re crazy or anything, I’m sure there are some who absolutely do want to do that. But they’ve been trying to get rid of digital piracy for thirty years and haven’t made any headway, so I’m dubious about how well that would work.

You mean, like…rounding up every computer and burning them?

I really don’t know what you mean by this.

including Linux

How would they enforce that on an open-source platform?

I’ve always said I’ll listen to music more when I get through my podcast backlog and audiobook backlog. Neither of those seem particularly…imminent, lol.

Well, I stand corrected. Even less reason to not switch to Graphene.

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.

I think of myself as a data hog also, but only on my computer; I’m mostly a minimalist on my phone.

I can’t accept the fact that there is no external sd card support.

OK, this is going to sound dismissive, and I really don’t mean it to be. But why?

For data transfer, you can still use the USB port (I do it all the time). Other than that, there’s more than enough storage available onboard for any reasonable amount of usage. I don’t even really keep anything critical on my device at all, so what there is is kind of overkill already.

I just don’t understand the need for an SD card with storage being as plentiful now as it is. I want to understand.

(Edit: Maybe) You can’t do mobile deposit, but surely you can still just use the bank’s website.

We’ve got several months of evidence as to how hard.

I’m not getting any meaningful results searching for that project. What is it?

It’s an airstrip in a warzone. Every departure is newsworthy.

You could alias sudo to just for a little more rudeness.

Fair enough. I guess I’m just overly sensitive to the broad-strokes assumption that any given thing is an AI “smoking gun” since I’m an em dash user.

(“it’s not just x, it’s y”, etc.)

Keep in mind, the AIs learned from us. So that’s a thing in AI responses because humans use that structure. Same with em dashes.

AI can do that. At least well enough to not help, and it would make actual human-generated code harder.

Not even kidding, I think the fediverse is how message boards work on starships in Trek. Each ship has their own server, and as they pass within subspace range of one another, they federate. Probably most people even think it’s called “fediverse” because it’s how the Federation chats.

Fifty years ago, it would be because a trial takes time. A trial this big, with repercussions this big and a defendant list this large, will take months or even years to play out.

Fifteen years ago, it would be because, with people this rich who have this much money to pay the best lawyers, the pre-trial work needed to get the prosecution started takes a huge amount of time to do right, because any attempt to speed it up in a way that isn’t very, very careful, with every i dotted and every t crossed, could end up in a mistrial and the person walking free.

Five years ago, it would be because the DOJ was absolutely mortified by the fear of being “politically motivated.”

But right now, it’s because the DOJ is explicitly no longer independent, and the guy in charge of it doesn’t want anyone listed in the files to be prosecuted because he’s in there, and if anyone gets prosecuted, he has to be.

That’s a good one. I was thinking, stop trying to make it seem like you’re helping agents improve, and just go with something like “HOLD THE LINE.”

I mean, it’s an odious slogan for an odious government org, but at least it’s better than suggesting the opposite of their stated mission.

Wait-- their slogan is “go beyond?” That’s so parodic I can’t believe it’s true…

… WHAT.

NOPE, IT’S TRUE.

How is this government so completely and entirely inept?

Sorry, I left out the part where most RSS fetchers are not hosted by the user. Of course it is self-hostable, but that’s by far the less common use case.

Images and CSS aren’t natively a part of RSS, though (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen an RSS feed or reader that tries to do any CSS rendering at all). Assuming you have a third party downloading your RSS XML, all of the tracking capabilities are outside of the RSS spec itself, and dependent on you clicking on a link or something after you get the RSS feed.