For the record, you’ve used en-dash here, not em-dash. These are used mostly for number/date ranges. Em-dash is even longer: — vs – vs -

As a person that has been using en-dash and em-dash for years, this is annoying me as hell that they are used as a telltale sign of AI slop. I’m just a typography nerd, not AI!

What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!

This really needs some timestamps.

It has nothing to do with immigration, the native citizens can do this all the same, and some probably do.

It’s too hard to change anything if one believes in laws, rules and the general idea of a fair justice. They don’t have this limitation.

One of the problems that annoyed me in the past is the complexity and ambiguity of deleting an email over IMAP. Depending on whether it’s the last label of the deleted email, deleting an email from a label’s directory either removes a label from this email, or actually deletes the email.

Considering labels are very non-standard, which caused trouble over IMAP since forever, I wouldn’t count on that part.

We want other options to be allowed to exist. This is “you just want everyone to be gay/trans/whatever” all over again.

Same. Most news sites treating this change as a “Kindle issue” is borderline disinformation. This is an “Amazon issue”. Kindle the device isn’t changing and there is no reason to switch if you already own one (just please don’t buy a new one).

There you go, mate. https://archive.is/2025.01.30-220414/https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/

Not even necessarily end-to-end, just encryption. And possibly encapsulation within an already allowed protocol, like it’s extremely common with HTTP these days.

That was my point too, I guess I wasn’t clear enough so thanks for elaborating. The protocol isn’t at fault, but something being a protocol (and not just a proprietary service) isn’t enough if the vast majority of the market share is being held by a few corporations.

Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you’re not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.

The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.

It depends. What’s your estimated net worth?

I don’t think so. It’s probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it’s potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it’s reasonable to block the inviter too.

I’m not arguing one way or another (that’s not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.

You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/

You also can’t play the socom games from PS2, because of the idea of glorifying terrorists. Since if they win, the announcer says “terrorists win”.

Wouldn’t the same apply to Counter-Strike? Did they change it since the last time I played ages ago?

Incidentally the same labels make Gmail fundamentally incompatible with the way IMAP works causing lots of weirdness whenever you use any standard email client not specifically designed for Gmail.

Probably no, not in this specific form, that being said I don’t want to compare one tragedy to another. There are lots of disgusting parts of the human history, and that’s certainly one of them.