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Let us know what you go with!

users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time

And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.

You’re on kbin though, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

@DeepFriedDresden Kissinger also approved the genocide of Timorese and Chinese in East Timor, helped cover it up, and provided weaponry.

Despite being ethnically Jewish, Kissinger was known to be pretty antisemitic and was sometimes called out for it by Jewish people.

This is just Downpunxx’s latest copypasta though. He has been posting it all over the place since Kissinger died.

I just use HereWeGo or whatever it’s called - used to be Ovi maps. Not quite as good as it was but still way better than google.

This is the problem:

Exactly how the rest of the world feels about this is not necessarily relevant, though. Google owns the world’s most popular web browser, the world’s largest advertising network, the world’s biggest search engine, the world’s most popular operating system, and some of the world’s most popular websites. So really, Google can do whatever it wants. Other projects like Chrome’s “Privacy Sandbox” ad platform and the adblock-limiting manifest V3 have been universally panned, but Google has kept right on trucking with the projects. There have been some small project tweaks and delays, but Google keeps marching forward.

If the theory that consumers are rational actors were true, then the world would simply switch to a new “most popular web browser” etc anf Google’s hegemony would end.

Unfortunately that’s not how the world really works and plenty of people will sit there obediently being milked of their data and influenced in their behaviour.

Sorry, remembered wrong.

Stands to reason, you guys like .com.au instead of .co.wherever as well.

I’d forgotten that detail. IANA couldn’t have sold it to a British businessman without the permission of the Brits as they ruled over the territory.

Chagos Islanders want it but I doubt they will ever get it.

Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.

Basically Mali took management of it back off Frenom.

At least Montenegro profits from .me

The Chagos Islanders get nothing from .io which is controlled by their oppressive colonizers.

No, it’s Mali.

The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean “marxist leninist” but I think it’s more likely they wanted a free domain name.

If I understand correctly, legislative capture by tax prep companies is why Americans can’t have simple, one click online tax filing like most of us.

I think these companies should be satisfied with that. Data sharing on top of it seems like they’re just being egregious for the hell of it.