ryan

You've eloquently stated what I came in to reply. To hell with this unequal system that all but forces people to steal basic necessities to survive. I'm certainly not gonna say "oh boy let's shoplift for fun" but I'm also not going to condemn someone who's doing what they think they need to do to help them and their family get by.

We desperately need not only better healthcare (physical, mental, and dental), but a revamped welfare system (maybe to the level of UBI), a better low-income housing strategy, etc etc.

Very few kids say "oh boy, I'm going to be a petty criminal when I grow up." Society fails kids and they become desperate and jaded adults.

Oh boy, I'm looking forward to going all in on Google Home only for it to be deprecated in three years!

(Hey folks, Home Assistant is pretty cool and you can run it locally on an old laptop.)

I've been using the Microsoft launcher for a while now and it's nice, but laggy. And I had to finally uninstall the Bing browser app because it just wouldn't stop crashing.

Ricardo's just out here doing his best. Good job, Ricardo. Your notification test was successful.

Did you know that Reddit's newest chat function technically uses Matrix? Boom, the capacity for interoperability should the EU come down on them. That's just one example of the background ways companies are preparing for this.

To learn more, the EU has put together a helpful site at this link.

They absolutely will. The EU's Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between social messaging services. ActivityPub is an easy way to comply because they are "technically" interoperable but can still choose to only federate with instances that abide by their rules.

At my old job we had a system of first initial + last name, or if that was already taken then the first two characters of first name + last name, etc. A ticket came into us from an Lo[...] Li who had some concerns about being [email protected]. We obviously gave him an alias.