"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," Ballmer said, back before Linux had metastasized into the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Nice writing.

Bit mage

And the software? It's complicated.

There have been so many tweaks and changes over the years that working out the exact revision of every part of Voyager's code is tricky.

Gee that sounds familiar...

“All platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established,”

I think that's standard on mastodon and pleroma instances.

Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as “very large online platforms” and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commission’s supervision.

Clearly defined rules? How interesting... but moderation is a thing on the fediverse so, meh... maybe mastodon.social has to worry about it.

Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. That’s so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.

And yet they're not decentralized yet... if ever. Anyway, servers are physical.

A while back i was looking for instances in the EU and while a few claimed to be from a few different countries, their servers were all in Helsinki...

XMPP is very old

Seriously? That's your argument? So is the wheel.

Requirement of permanent tcp ip connection doesn’t work well for mobile

I was under the impression PubSub was created for that.

Still, it's an open extensible protocol.

robo-convoys

You mean like trains?

Gentoo's USE flags are fuckin' amazing.

The consensus seems to be: go for it for the learning experience.

I'm the drop one and disappear type.

Haven't seen ads it a while, uBlock Origin rocks.

Exception Segfault Binary

The RedHat and Canonical oligarchs are well underway in achieving their windows-like linux desktop through systemd and flatpaks and what not, so we may see a small but highly deployed number of immutable distros becoming the forced de-facto standard.

Microsoft continues their new approach at EEEing linux through WSL Azure, and everyone's happy about it.

Torvalds will eventually die, as will Stallman, so all that'll be left are the communities, which unfortunately don't have that much strength/voice.