[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 week ago

That is literally what browser bookmarks are meant for.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 week ago

That isn't shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 week ago

How were you "not able to post anything"? If you noticed you weren't able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 week ago

On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell

wot

the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here

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The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

https://explainxkcd.com/2987/

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Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

https://explainxkcd.com/2986

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It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.

https://explainxkcd.com/2985/

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My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!

https://explainxkcd.com/2983/

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 month ago

The Internet used to be a common resource and information system.

Now it is a propaganda warzone.

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In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.

https://explainxkcd.com/2981/

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Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.

https://explainxkcd.com/2980/

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During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.

https://explainxkcd.com/2979/

PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.

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At least they're not alone down there.

https://explainxkcd.com/2978/

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

https://explainxkcd.com/2976/

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Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.

https://explainxkcd.com/2975/

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We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.

https://explainxkcd.com/2974/

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 months ago

Buying lots of identical pairs of socks massively reduces the amount of time you need to find matching pairs after drying them.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 3 months ago

2004: The Internet will lead to a utopian society without gatekeepers, without censorship, where we get our information from each other and primary sources, not media companies!

2024: The Internet is based on algorithmic attention. Those who control the algorithms control what parts of the immeasurably large pile of data will get attention and which not. Yet they are protected by the same intermediary liability laws as if they were traditional web forums, blog hosters, wikis with no personalized algorithm (for which those laws are very good and necessary).

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 4 months ago

Stallman was right

I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 4 months ago

Does the average voter just not care at all about anything actually important? What is even going on here?

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 7 months ago

It appears I am getting bored with the entire Internet.

When we had web forums with thread bumping, I got an endless stream of interesting and entertaining things to react to despite there being relatively few users.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 1 year ago

Linus Torvalds is a "full-blown woke communist"? Citation needed.

I have been a FOSS enthusiast since my preteen or early teenage years (mid-to-late 2000s), yet I am not in any sense a communist.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 year ago

Firefox/LibreWolf

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