I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it’d still be nice to try.

before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner

You’re about [current year minus year you installed Win10] years too late for that. That said, if you intend to come over to Linux, it’s probably best to set time-bounded goals for yourself instead of vaguely putting it off until MS does something that crosses some poorly defined line, else you risk having to chaotically abandon ship at the last minute and making the transition much harder.

And more expensive while you’re at it, thanks.

Luigi did the unambiguously correct thing.

Lmfao, no clue why you’re being downvoted so much. It’s absolutely true that the camel-case here looks like a clusterfuck, even when it’s easily explained.

You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?

The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.

What a bunch of complete dipshits. That being said, there are ways to request yourself to be allowed to use a VPN when editing if these fascist threats intimidate you.

(Adjusting for inflation in the US, $550 in 2014 would be $730 today. Thus, approximately the 5070 Ti price.)

7-Zip is better and isn’t shitty nagware

I’m not sure what LGBTQ Nation is on about separating 10 people from 50, but the SCMP is pretty clear that dozens were arrested for publishing danmei. They do also mention that publishing erotic materials in general is prohibited, though.

I’ve been using Amaze for quite a long time and found it works well.

It isn’t known if Epicurius actually said this.

Who in their right mind would use this bootleg piece of shit when uBO exists?

The innovation is in new ways to screw over the consumer.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Hemsley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Witty

I’m so sorry for your loss. Restraining orders in this country are a joke.

For context, in 2023, the US had 19,252 cases of murder or voluntary manslaughter. The US is projected to have a 16% nationwide drop in homicides in 2024 (“homicide” includes involuntary manslaughter, so it’s not technically one-to-one).

We’ll be really generous to murder and voluntary manslaughter and assume that those actually dropped by what would be a substantial 20% (even though it could be lower than 16% too). Then we have about 15,400 of these cases. Under that assumption (which I think is pretty reasonable as most likely a very conservative undercount), this represents about 4.5% of intentional killings in the US. To my understanding, the overwhelming majority is male-on-male. After that, I have no clue where female-on-female and female-on-male land.

(EDIT: That being said, it’s entirely possible and likely that this linked database is an undercount. Although overall, it seems pretty scrupulous; I doubt the size would increase by more than maybe 10% if it were to be complete.)

It absolutely has to suffer from the network effect. (By the way, researching this made me realize their site is slow as shit. It died on me within 2 minutes, and I had to switch to the Wayback Machine.) Their statistics say they have 56,229 articles as of writing, which could plausibly be sustainable given: 1) they’re less of a target for vandalism than Wikipedia so things are more stable, 2) the English Wikipedia alone has around 125x that number, and 3) ironically they have Wikipedia to fall back on for information whenever they want. However, even within those boundaries, it’s clear they’re a bunch of colossal dipshits who don’t know how to write beyond a high school essay. Take a quick look at our article on the Nineteenth Amendment (this was picked 100% at random from an article I found on Conservapedia first), and now compare it to Conservapedia’s. There are obvious giveaways here (I’m even ignoring the stances themselves being braindead, like taking a dig at women voting at least twice in the article):

• The article itself is titled ‘Nineteenth Amendment’ despite multiple other countries having such an amendment, indicating they’re insular morons who can’t be fucked with learning about anything outside the US.
• The article has a single source in the form of a dead link to ‘tennesseeencyclopedia.net’ which has been dead since 2010. An archive of this shows it’s titled ‘Woman Suffrage Movement’ (excellent) and earnestly feels like it’s targeted at 6th graders in a social studies class.
• The article is two short paragraphs long and nearly completely unsourced, instead written like an essay. Meanwhile, their linked article on the Equal Rights Amendment (despite being far less notable and consequential) is far longer at over a dozen paragraphs and multiple sections, indicating they aren’t seriously interested in researching and documenting history or anything else typical of an encyclopedia as much as they are in publishing their barely filtered rants about current events under the guise of an encyclopedia.

So you’re correct: in addition to suffering from the network effect and having fewer subjects they can cover, it just so happens that even within the potentially sustainable boundaries they set for themselves by having fewer articles, they’re a bunch of complete assclowns who have no business writing an encyclopedia (or at least they need to be reeled in in order to bother to learn how to write one, but they never will be on that hell site). They’re trapped in like c. 2004–2006 Wikipedia where nobody cares about being serious reference material, except they’re also too stupid to ever move past that (unlike Wikipedia whose userbase was still very smart during that Wild West era but just hadn’t developed a culture of taking what they wrote seriously).

Edit: I forgot to mention that thus, they’ll never actually be a replacement for Wikipedia and in no way threaten it, because genuinely the only thing they make a serious effort to cover is current events (even then it’s trash, but we’ll assume you have low standards). If I want to learn about absolutely anything else, I’m boned. Because literally everything else is completely surface-level (or whatever kind of slop this is), or it just doesn’t exist at all. Exhibit A: I’ll turn your attention to our article on algebra versus their article on algebra. Ours is comprehensive while not being extraneous: it actually goes into sufficient detail about what algebra is and its many facets, and if you want more information on any of those aspects, it houses links to dozens upon dozens of more relevant articles. Theirs is a brief introduction to the kind of algebra you learn in 7th or 8th grade with literally zero understanding that algebra is a broader field than this. They literally don’t even go into functions; it’s specifically just Algebra I. And it’s like fucking tutorializing these things. It’s not even like they don’t care: they genuinely just don’t know. I’m both stunned and completely unsurprised.

Trust me, as a regular editor at Wikipedia, I’m all too aware of this bootleg. Mercifully I’ve never seen it come up organically on Wikipedia; literally no one cares about it.