The register is out of the UK and the bulk of their readership is in the US, in both places apple has above 50% market share.

You’re infantalizing people by assuming everyone who doesn’t know how the internet works lacks critical thinking skills. Do you ever interact with non nerdy people? Additionally, some people do genuinely lack the capacity to understand how systems like the internet work, are we supposed to just let them get taken advantage of or exclude them from society?

I’m ignoring your last sentence because its entirely irrelevant to the situation, the data that Google was collecting from people using incognito mode is not data that they needed to make their services work.

I understand how the internet works but you apparently don’t understand how people work. Normal people have absolutely no concept of how the internet works, they don’t understand what data servers need about them to function, or what a packet is. They need to be explicitly told that even though they’re using a privacy mode Google is still collecting data on them, especially since they’re collecting data even if you are not going to google hosted sites.

I’m seeing a lot of people make arguments like this and I just don’t get it. Is your point that its okay for tech companies to prey on the ignorance of nontechnical users? We can’t expect everyone to know everything about every service they interact with.

Lmao at people not being able to read that.

By then GNU/Hurd will be ready lmao

Every time I get a new computer I still come back to see how fast it can emerge world.

I’ve used Linux exclusively since '06 when I was the nerdiest kid in junior high, I ran Gentoo and various tiling wms until KDE plasma 5 got good.

I’m a coffee roaster now, and my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

Those are like the only people I would trust less.

Whatever meaning it had originally is gone and it’s basically just a way to discredit anyone vaguely on the left you don’t like.

Every single person who actively used Twitter?

I mean Firefox is mostly funded by a deal with Google to have them as the default engine. I don’t like it but I understand why it is the way it is.

Liferea was the first project I contributed to almost a decade ago. I use RSS Guard now but I’m glad to see it’s still kicking.

It’s wild that there aren’t any FOSS Tetris games for Android that have been updated this decade.

Crazy that they make you pay in pounds in the US though.

In mainstream culture, I feel like it had its original meaning from like 2014 until maybe 2021. Before that it was a part of black culture since like the 1930s. At least that’s what a cursory googling got me.

I would like the word “woke” back.

I am also a communist but I don’t want to be on a widely defederated server.

I just set up Tumbleweed recently with a similar card and can confirm that all you have to do is enable the repo.

I’m absolutely shocked that someone with an account on a crypto-themed instance is equivocating being a communist and egregious homophobia. Lmao.