Platforms like Mastodon don’t quite fit the bill so they fail to gain traction.

They may fail to impress VC, but i wouldn't say they fail to gain traction... especially while commenting in one of them.

It has quite a few repos: mingw32, mingw63, ucrt64, clang32, clang64, msys...

AnySoft Keyboard, Heliboard doesn't support esperanto.

May be client-dependent I guess.

All the banks here use an inter-banking system that allows for virtual credit cards, they can be use once or periodic, always single-merchant and always capped.

Power corrupts.

It's not like MS coined EEE or anything...

Signal is designed for and by a bunch of old men.

Interesting bullet point for excluding an app.

It clearly serves a purpose and is good at that, but it doesn’t lend itself to being a good messenger for people that want more than privacy.

Maaaaybe because it's focus is privacy, not bells and whistles.

What, and have non-US anti.virus companies flag USGov's malware?!

(How/) Do you access your private stuff from outside your home?

I'd say paying money is not as effective at influencing a project as embedding developers is.

The meaning of titles varies wildly from company to company. Most companies tend to define climbing the tech ladder as moving to a management position, which is something i abhorr. For be it's better pay, more autonomy, less bullshit from management. Not less coding. But alas, they're threatening disciplinary action if people don't start going to the office at least twice per week starting next month, from the current twice per month.